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I would love to up my graphical (and folding at home) Preformance by buying a GTX 980 Ti. But I told myself to wait for Pascal and see how everything is going to preform. But since my friend bought a new computer with a 980 ti Im so temped.. Could anyone give me any advice?

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I would love to up my graphical (and folding at home) Preformance by buying a GTX 980 Ti. But I told myself to wait for Pascal and see how everything is going to preform. But since my friend bought a new computer with a 980 ti Im so temped.. Could anyone give me any advice?

 

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I thought it was Q2 2016 but I saw Q3 2016 somewhere aswell

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You can get a very big boost from your current gtx 770, but if it's worth it it's down to you. If you can get 60+fps on the games you play then keep it. No point getting to be future proof or what ever. Replaced my 380 with a 390x gets way more tearing and vSync is annoying so I keep it off.
Don't even like some of the games that requires mass horse power. The heaviest game I have and play is BSI and that is considered light.

If you think getting a better GPU is worth it for folding then sure. If you can play comfortably right now and have no need for mass horsepower (content creation ext.) just keep your current GPU.

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You can get a very big boost from your current gtx 770, but if it's worth it it's down to you. If you can get 60+fps on the games you play then keep it. No point getting to be future proof or what ever. Replaced my 380 with a 390x gets way more tearing and vSync is annoying so I keep it off.

Don't even like some of the games that requires mass horse power. The heaviest game I have and play is BSI and that is considered light.

If you think getting a better GPU is worth it for folding then sure. If you can play comfortably right now and have no need for mass horsepower (content creation ext.) just keep your current GPU.

I will eventually upgrade but I think my real question really is, now that I think about it, is it worth waiting for pascal. And yes at the moment I can rjn my games just fine although not at the highest settings (not a huge deal for my) but the folding will be more of a focus for me.
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I would love to up my graphical (and folding at home) Preformance by buying a GTX 980 Ti. But I told myself to wait for Pascal and see how everything is going to preform. But since my friend bought a new computer with a 980 ti Im so temped.. Could anyone give me any advice?

Get a 980 ti and wait until cards have display port 1.3 then upgrade again.

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unless pascal is new ground breaking tech (which i highly doubt) 

just get the 980 ti

Pascal has a complete new architecture, die shrink to 16nm and will in its big chip iterations feature HBM2.0... I think it is safe to say it is a pretty dramatical change. Same counts for AMD´s Greenland in 14nm.

 

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You can buy a 980ti, save yourself from self inflicted torture for waiting and just resell the 980ti when Pascal comes out. EZ.

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I will eventually upgrade but I think my real question really is, now that I think about it, is it worth waiting for pascal. And yes at the moment I can rjn my games just fine although not at the highest settings (not a huge deal for my) but the folding will be more of a focus for me.

keep what you have as long s it does what you want it to do and,and when new card comes out you will be the one whith new cool graphics card

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