Nvidia Pascal What To Do?

[PCTechNoob]

I'm looking to build my new PC soon but upon hearing that Pascal could be releasing soon I am undecicive of what to do.

Sould I buy a more expencive graphics card like the GTX 970 now but I will miss out on performance when the new Pascal GPUs release.

Or I could buy cheap graphics card like the 750 ti and upgrade later.

I want to start gaming now but if I bought a cheap card it might be hard to sell it if everyone is trying to seek there old cards to buy the new ones.

What do you suggest I do?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[Godlygamer23]

Thread moved to Graphics Cards.

[Guest Kloaked]

Up to you mate. We don't know what kind of performance Pascal will have, but it's speculated to be a way larger jump than Kepler was to Maxwell since 4k and VR is starting to become a thing.

 

If it were me I would just get a used, working GPU.

[PCTechNoob]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Thread moved to Graphics Cards.

sorry wrong section my bad

[PCTechNoob]

5 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

Up to you mate. We don't know what kind of performance Pascal will have, but it's speculated to be a way larger jump than Kepler was to Maxwell since 4k and VR is starting to become a thing.

 

If it were me I would just get a used, working GPU.

That sounds like a GREAT idea thanks. I'll defiantly look at some cheap GPU's

[Guest]

for one, buy a 390 over the 970  

[Kaita]

14 minutes ago, PCTechNoob said:

I'm looking to build my new PC soon but upon hearing that Pascal could be releasing soon I am undecicive of what to do.

Sould I buy a more expencive graphics card like the GTX 970 now but I will miss out on performance when the new Pascal GPUs release.

Or I could buy cheap graphics card like the 750 ti and upgrade later.

I want to start gaming now but if I bought a cheap card it might be hard to sell it if everyone is trying to seek there old cards to buy the new ones.

What do you suggest I do?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

If you're not going to game much , or play games that are not graphically intensive then go with a cheap used graphics card. That's what I did. 

[Dzzope]

If you want bang for buck.. look used... a 290 now used will be MUCH better value than anything else new... Especially if you WANT to upgrade come pascal... personally I'd stay used top end last gen... So 290 / 780ti, then bump when you need to the current version..

[App4that]

12 minutes ago, Ronnie76 said:

for one, buy a 390 over the 970  

Why? Because on this forum that's the culturally accepted thing to do? Nothing wrong with a 970 and in some instances the 970 is a better choice than the 390.

 

Back on topic.

 

We don't know anything for sure about Pascal yet. I wouldn't worry too much. But if you're concerned get a EVGA. Comes with 90 days of upgrade protection where you can trade your card in for what you paid for it towards the new card.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, App4that said:

Why? Because on this forum that's the culturally accepted thing to do? Nothing wrong with a 970 and in some instances the 970 is a better choice than the 390.

 

Back on topic.

 

We don't know anything for sure about Pascal yet. I wouldn't worry too much. But if you're concerned get a EVGA. Comes with 90 days of upgrade protection where you can trade your card in for what you paid for it towards the new card.

I don't deny that but the price difference still justifies the performance. a +10 or +20 core clock would surpass the 970 easily and vise versa, but the 390 has the 970 beat by price.  

 

 

[PCTechNoob]

16 minutes ago, Dzzope said:

If you want bang for buck.. look used... a 290 now used will be MUCH better value than anything else new... Especially if you WANT to upgrade come pascal... personally I'd stay used top end last gen... So 290 / 780ti, then bump when you need to the current version..

I'll buy some cheap card used so I can start gaming then upgrade when Pascal releases. 

[App4that]

9 minutes ago, Ronnie76 said:

I don't deny that but the price difference still justifies the performance. a +10 or +20 core clock would surpass the 970 easily and vise versa, but the 390 has the 970 beat by price.  

 

 

Three cherry picked benchmarks huh? Have you seen my status update?

 

Back on topic.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, App4that said:

Three cherry picked benchmarks huh? Have you seen my status update?

 

Back on topic.

No I haven't and 390 benchmarks are hard to come by, I look for 390, don't see it? pass by

How many 390x benchmarks have you seen, literally. There are no 300 series out there

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-970-04G-P4-3973-KR-4GB-Graphics-Card-/151973865442?hash=item23625927e2:g:ax0AAOSwX~dWsAPk

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-xfx-r9-390-/291678832048?hash=item43e969c5b0:g:KS0AAOSwoydWmk7J

[App4that]

1 minute ago, Ronnie76 said:

No I haven't and 390 benchmarks are hard to come by, I look for 390, don't see it? pass by

How many 390x benchmarks have you seen, literally. There are no 300 series out there

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-970-04G-P4-3973-KR-4GB-Graphics-Card-/151973865442?hash=item23625927e2:g:ax0AAOSwX~dWsAPk

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-xfx-r9-390-/291678832048?hash=item43e969c5b0:g:KS0AAOSwoydWmk7J

Wait, are you using Ebay to show pricing?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

Wait, are you using Ebay to show pricing?

Yeah lemme go to my local craigslist real fast.

Its a joke.

No one buys computer components around here .-.