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I can't decide to buy a cheaper 970 or get the 980. The problem with the RAM on the 970s kind of scared me to buy one. I know that most people won't really see a difference but I just want to steer clear of it and avoid it all together. If I were to buy a 980, is there thought to be a price drop anytime soon?

 

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I can't decide to buy a cheaper 970 or get the 980. The problem with the RAM on the 970s kind of scared me to buy one. I know that most people won't really see a difference but I just want to steer clear of it and avoid it all together. If I were to buy a 980, is there thought to be a price drop anytime soon?

 

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980's price isn't moving. Get 2 970s, that's what I did.

 

To note though, even at 4K, maxed out on everything, those 2 cards only stuttered (and minor stutter) with the ultra textures on SoM

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I only forsee a pricedrop during AMD's 300 series release, or possibly a retailer sale.

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I only forsee a pricedrop during AMD's 300 series release, or possibly a retailer sale.

It's gonna be hard to convince Nvidia to let retailers drop prices since they just so happen to have a sale event. Nvidia controls the price floor for the cards as far as I can remember

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Are you going for 1080p, 1440p or 4K? Also budget?

I could probably budget both :) 2 970s or 980. Probably 1080p but not for sure yet, the 4k monitors are so pretty but still too expensive :(

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I could probably budget both :) 2 970s or 980. Probably 1080p but not for sure yet, the 4k monitors are so pretty but still too expensive :(

 

Either of those is overkill for 1080p honestly. One 970 would be plenty for that.

 

Edit: and @Regank you can always add another one! I run at 4K with both of my cards.

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Either of those is overkill for 1080p honestly. One 970 would be plenty for that.

I was probably only going to get one 970 but plan on upgrading in the future, if I added a 970 in the future would it make a very big difference? Also, would a 980 be worth it now to get but upgrade in the future too? 

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I was probably only going to get one 970 but plan on upgrading in the future, if I added a 970 in the future would it make a very big difference? Also, would a 980 be worth it now to get but upgrade in the future too? 

 

Depends. If you want to blow money, sure, a 980 is nice. I'd recommend a 970 and add another later is great. The scaling works pretty dang well in most games.

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Don't worry about the VRAM debacle on the 970. The issue was more about false advertisement and not the card itself. Remember the 780ti (last gen's top tier card) had only 3 gigs initially and nobody thinks that card is useless now even on high end gaming.

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I could probably budget both :) 2 970s or 980. Probably 1080p but not for sure yet, the 4k monitors are so pretty but still too expensive :(

I'd rather see you get two 970  or  two 290x's

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Honestly the 980 isn't THAT much better than the 970, but it's SO much more. The VRAM isn't an issue and I have no idea why people are still talking about this, but I never go over 3gb of VRAM and I play on 5760x1080p and I Do SLI 970. Get SLI 970

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