Should I buy pascal?

[Overkilled]

So ive got a 970 HoF and they're pretty rare cards. Now that ive got a 144hz 1440p monitor and I need a extra punch.If I bought another 970 HoF its still £320 and thats a little hard to swallow considering the 390x is literally £10 more and most 970s are lower than £280. Do you think the price of the HoF will go down and when pascal comes out lets say I have £350 to spend on a GPU should I get the pascal equivalent of the 970 or should I get another one or maybe the 980TI HoF will be like 350-400 after last gen price drops.  

[Guest]

No the prices won't go down.

It rarely ever does.

[Enderman]

wait for pascal, sell the 970 and buy one high end GPU

like the 1080ti or whatever

[007agentHP]

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last gen prices dont drop that much. be lucky to see it at $500 new

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just sell your 970 HOF and get a 980 TI HOF

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pascal wont be that big of a difference for gaming. it will be like almost every generational leap except maybe a little big more cause of HBM 2.0 at higher resolutions

[App4that]

I bought a Vapor 290 in August for 300us, after the 390 hit the price jumped to 400us. Even now they're around 400us new.

 

I don't see the price dropping other than maybe used prices.

[Overkilled]

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last gen prices dont drop that much. be lucky to see it at $500 new

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just sell your 970 HOF and get a 980 TI HOF

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pascal wont be that big of a difference for gaming. it will be like almost every generational leap except maybe a little big more cause of HBM 2.0 at higher resolutions

Is HBM only for the higher end cards or will they use it on the 970 equivalent 

[App4that]

Nvidia's press conference is tonight. Check the tech news tomorrow. AMD already announced Polaris hitting mid 2016.

[crystal6tak]

So ive got a 970 HoF and they're pretty rare cards. Now that ive got a 144hz 1440p monitor and I need a extra punch.If I bought another 970 HoF its still £320 and thats a little hard to swallow considering the 390x is literally £10 more and most 970s are lower than £280. Do you think the price of the HoF will go down and when pascal comes out lets say I have £350 to spend on a GPU should I get the pascal equivalent of the 970 or should I get another one or maybe the 980TI HoF will be like 350-400 after last gen price drops.  

I'm willing to bet a 980 Ti successor (1080 Ti possibly) won't come out until late-Q4 2016. 

 

Guess you could try to return the 970 HoF and get a 980 Ti instead? 980 Ti basically performs same as 970 SLI.

 

Although if you can't return it for full price, selling it would mean you lose quite the cash... So that's a no go.

 

As to price dropping, it's possible. Assuming NVIDIA rebrands the maxwell lineup and continues mass producing them like what happened to Hawaii chips. Although if they refresh the entire lineup with pascal you'll see maxwell cards slowly phasing out and price not changing much (or even going up)

 

Example of Hawaii chip where price drop happened cause they were still being produced:

290X launch price: $549, Now: $330