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I have $700 to spend on a GPU to replace my XFX 7770. I'm going to be playing on a 1080p monitor for at least a year, and I was wondering whether I should buy a GTX 980 Ti or GTX 970's SLI? 

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980ti, sli sucks and always will suck

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980ti so you don't run into issues with things not supporting SLI, and the added vram will be a nice bonus in case you move up to 1440p or 4K in the future.

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980ti, sli sucks and always will suck

Yet people recommended 970 sli over a 980. So...

 

 

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I have $700 to spend on a GPU to replace my XFX 7770. I'm going to be playing on a 1080p monitor for at least a year, and I was wondering whether I should buy a GTX 980 Ti or GTX 970's SLI? 

You should buy a new monitor IMO. Then buy a 980ti for, say, 1440p with a little money saved up.

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980ti, SLI is not worth it price/performance
 

 

Yet people recommended 970 sli over a 980. So...

 

because 970 will be within 100$ of the 980 non reference gpu. 980ti is just better then going sli in this situation because the performance gap isn't as big.

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I would get this ersion of the 980ti:

 

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980ti so you don't run into issues with things not supporting SLI, and the added vram will be a nice bonus in case you move up to 144p or 4K in the future.

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I have $700 to spend on a GPU to replace my XFX 7770. I'm going to be playing on a 1080p monitor for at least a year, and I was wondering whether I should buy a GTX 980 Ti or GTX 970's SLI? 

get a 980ti and when it starts to struggle with games in the far future, get a second one

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Neither is a good option if you mean a 60Hz 1920x1080 monitor; they're both massive overkill. Buy a single 970 and find a smarter use for the other $385. If you're running a 120Hz or 144Hz monitor I'd recommend the 980 Ti.

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980ti, sli sucks and always will suck

You apparently haven't recently used SLI or you're doing it completely wrong.

Anyways OP, I'd go with a 980Ti.

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980Ti, after my own experience with it i wouldn't suggest sli

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Neither is a good option if you mean a 60Hz 1920x1080 monitor; they're both massive overkill. Buy a single 970 and find a smarter use for the other $385. If you're running a 120Hz or 144Hz monitor I'd recommend the 980 Ti.

disagree.. 970 is no longer enough to keep 60Hz at 1080p on latest titles, in fact in a few of the latest titles a 980 isn't even enough. 980ti for 1080p will see you vsync for atleast 1.5 years

 

If you can afford it go with 980ti

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disagree.. 970 is no longer enough to keep 60Hz at 1080p on latest titles, in fact in a few of the latest titles a 980 isn't even enough. 980ti for 1080p will see you vsync for atleast 1.5 years

 

If you can afford it go with 980ti

 

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You apparently haven't recently used SLI or you're doing it completely wrong.

Anyways OP, I'd go with a 980Ti.

Lol, noob much?

 

Sli has always had problems when gaming. Eaithe radded frame latency or poor support. There will always be a problem when trying to get the comunication between to gpus 100% without latency and other issues. 

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Lol, noob much?

 

Sli has always had problems when gaming. Eaithe radded frame latency or poor support. There will always be a problem when trying to get the comunication between to gpus 100% without latency and other issues.

The only games that have poor support are games that aren't even demanding or broken games in general that don't work for anyone.

For the time I had SLI 970s I had zero problems with any game.

Also, do you know what noob means? Actually I guess the better question would be are you 10?

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The only games that have poor support are games that aren't even demanding or broken games in general that don't work for anyone.

For the time I had SLI 970s I had zero problems with any game.

Also, do you know what noob means? Actually I guess the better question would be are you 10?

 

You might not experience any issues with your games, but that doesn't mean that there isn't issues with SLI, most new titles when first release almost always has SLI problems. That you only play safe games should affect your judgement. There is also problem with SLI and lots of professional applicationns. So SLI, is not the way to go unless you are 100% sure that your senario is sertficated for SLI.

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You might not experience any issues with your games, but that doesn't mean that there isn't issues with SLI, most new titles when first release almost always has SLI problems. That you only play safe games should affect your judgement. There is also problem with SLI and lots of professional applicationns. So SLI, is not the way to go unless you are 100% sure that your senario is sertficated for SLI.

Most new titles are broken anyways. Even if I weren't running SLI (which I'm not now) I wouldn't immediately buy a new title--specifically AAA because apparently AAA companies can't make working games by their release date so they just release something that doesn't work with any GPU period. Lol.

Anyways, I'm going off of my experience with SLI. With that being said, there isn't a GPU that I would recommend SLI currently now that the 980Ti is out because I think it's terrific value.

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Dual 970s for me if I had that sort of cash!

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Yet people recommended 970 sli over a 980. So...

Well the 980ti is priced more appropriate and actually gives a performance boost. A 980 is more like an overclocked 970 without the f***ed up memory.

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Get a new monitor ... You won't notice the difference if you use a 1080p 60Hz monitor ...

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