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Not overkill at all. Everyone seems to forget about the DSR/VSR feature which can allow the card to render the game at a higher resolution, downsampled to 1080p, requiring less AA which can not only improve visual quality/fidelity, but also improve performance. ;) 

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Not overkill at all. Everyone seems to forget about the DSR/VSR feature which can allow the card to render the game at a higher resolution, downsampled to 1080p, requiring less AA which can not only improve visual quality/fidelity, but also improve performance. ;) 

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Not overkill at all. Everyone seems to forget about the DSR/VSR feature which can allow the card to render the game at a higher resolution, downsampled to 1080p, requiring less AA which can not only improve visual quality/fidelity, but also improve performance. ;)

DSR is one if not the main reason im not a AMD fan.  (not saying amd is garbage, just peronally am not a fan)

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DSR is one if not the main reason im not a AMD fan.  (not saying amd is garbage, just peronally am not a fan)

 

I don't follow what you mean. VSR is AMD's version of DSR and it works great. ;)

 

I'm running two 290's in crossfire and run most games at 1440p high settings with VSR on a 1080p display. Games look and run awesome. :)

 

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I don't follow what you mean. VSR is AMD's version of DSR and it works great. ;)

 

I'm running two 290's in crossfire and run most games at 1440p high settings with VSR on a 1080p display. Games look and run awesome. :)

 

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oh... i thought amd did not have that... suddenly dont hate on amd that much or am just shocked... thank you for telling me that.

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I actually got 2x 980's for my 144hz 1080p monitor, I love being able to play Witcher 3 with full details AND full hairworks/hairworks aa turned all the way up and still stay around 80-90FPS.  GTA5 also stays over 100 pretty easily.  So as has already been said I believe, depending on the games you're playing there is no such thing as overkill if you're trying to hit that 144fps mark consistantly, or get as close to it as possible (obviously source games like CS:GO, TF2, most moba's, etc. it is overkill).

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Because playing at 60 FPS on a regular 144Hz monitor is really stuttery and bad. Hence why I really wouldn't recommend it (again unless you choose to keep swapping your monitor refresh rates manually every game you play.)

 

But a free-sync or g-sync option would work very nicely.

Errrr, I have no issues playing 60 FPS games on my 144Hz monitor.

"Really stuttery" is exaggerated.

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Errrr, I have no issues playing 60 FPS games on my 144Hz monitor.

"Really stuttery" is exaggerated.

Or I have different expectations... It does work much better when you downclock the monitor to 120hz. But having to change settings all the time is such a killjoy

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Or I have different expectations... It does work much better when you downclock the monitor to 120hz. But having to change settings all the time is such a killjoy

Ah, right. Mine's set to 120 because otherwise my GPUs wouldn't clock to 2D and the fans stayed on.

Still, I don't remember any stuttering, and I'd been using it in 144Hz mode for a while. And it's not like I only play games at 144FPS, I usually unlock the framerate and let it render as many frames as it can. Never had an issue with that.

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I use a 980 on a 1080P 60Hz panel.

 

I would actually say it is not as overkill as many people think it is. Right now I am over 60FPS in pretty much everything with sliders maxed out, but I am not as confident that this will continue to be the story for the foreseeable future.

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way overkill, the 970 is overkill

Not for the time that he wants it, if he wants to play on high settings of course. I'm going to use the GTX 660, which is just over 3 years old I believe. This card can still run games on decent settings. I could play Battlefield 4 on Med-High settings, and even ultra on some smaller maps, rarely going under 60 FPS. I just sold it about 6 months ago too, meaning people are still willing to "upgrade" to that card. I don't think the 980 will be overkill on 1080p since games will start to be a lot more demanding, and even if it is a little overkill then it will last a little longer than the other card, meaning you don't need to upgrade as soon. 

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Not for the time that he wants it, if he wants to play on high settings of course. I'm going to use the GTX 660, which is just over 3 years old I believe. This card can still run games on decent settings. I could play Battlefield 4 on Med-High settings, and even ultra on some smaller maps, rarely going under 60 FPS. I just sold it about 6 months ago too, meaning people are still willing to "upgrade" to that card. I don't think the 980 will be overkill on 1080p since games will start to be a lot more demanding, and even if it is a little overkill then it will last a little longer than the other card, meaning you don't need to upgrade as soon. 

why is this post still going? someone already told me that 970 is not overkill, so whatever. I dont care

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why is this post still going? someone already told me that 970 is not overkill, so whatever. I dont care

No need to get all hostile, just giving the poster another view point, which is what he asked for in the post.

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