Buy now or wait for Pascal?

[RhysMusique]

Hey, so at the moment I have a GTX 760 GPU. It's okay for what I use it for, but I think I'm due an upgrade, definitely for the VRAM.

Now, my question is, do I buy a GTX 970, the 'sweet spot' card for the time being? Or do I wait until Pascal hits, and buy a brand new card that's in the price range of the GTX 970?

Thanks!

[HKZeroFive]

I'd wait. That GTX 760 is perfectly capable for the time being.

[Guest]

pascal is literally right around the corner 

[Flowey]

3 minutes ago, RhysMusique said:

Hey, so at the moment I have a GTX 760 GPU. It's okay for what I use it for, but I think I'm due an upgrade, definitely for the VRAM.

Now, my question is, do I buy a GTX 970, the 'sweet spot' card for the time being? Or do I wait until Pascal hits, and buy a brand new card that's in the price range of the GTX 970?

Thanks!

pascal as well as polaris are like two months away, so definitly wait and then, if you can't afford a flagship card, with the price drops, get a r9 390/gtx 970. If you want more VRAM do gtx 970 is a nono

[Guest]

pascal is almost coming be patient my child

[Dabasepc]

R9 380 over 970

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, Dabasepc said:

R9 380 over 970

Really? I know over VR performance r9 380 is definitly better then gtx 970, but overall I still thing the gtx 970's better over a r9 380

[RhysMusique]

12 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

I'd wait. That GTX 760 is perfectly capable for the time being.

 

9 minutes ago, Ronnie76 said:

pascal is literally right around the corner 

 

8 minutes ago, Flowey said:

pascal as well as polaris are like two months away, so definitly wait and then, if you can't afford a flagship card, with the price drops, get a r9 390/gtx 970. If you want more VRAM do gtx 970 is a nono

Thanks alot! Guess I'm waiting for Pascal!

[RhysMusique]

2 minutes ago, Dabasepc said:

R9 380 over 970

 

1 minute ago, Flowey said:

Really? I know over VR performance r9 380 is definitly better then gtx 970, but overall I still thing the gtx 970's better over a r9 380

I'm not a fanboy, and I'm open to everything, but after watching a few AMD cards fry, I'm afraid my trust is faltering a bit with AMD atm.

[Dabasepc]

1 minute ago, Flowey said:

Really? I know over VR performance r9 380 is definitly better then gtx 970, but overall I still thing the gtx 970's better over a r9 380

I meant to say 390* not 380. 

390 and 970 same price range.

It's 3,5 usable VRAM vs 8 also.

[RhysMusique]

1 minute ago, Dabasepc said:

I meant to say 390* not 380. 

390 and 970 same price range.

It's 3,5 usable VRAM vs 8 also.

 

4 minutes ago, Flowey said:

Really? I know over VR performance r9 380 is definitly better then gtx 970, but overall I still thing the gtx 970's better over a r9 380

I know PassMark is nowhere near the holy grail, but GTX 970 flat out just beats the 390X even by 1500 points.. 

[Flowey]

6 minutes ago, Dabasepc said:

I meant to say 390* not 380. 

390 and 970 same price range.

It's 3,5 usable VRAM vs 8 also.

 

7 minutes ago, RhysMusique said:

 

I'm not a fanboy, and I'm open to everything, but after watching a few AMD cards fry, I'm afraid my trust is faltering a bit with AMD atm.

nothin' like a good old personal experience to fuck up your relation with a company, am I right?

[RhysMusique]

Just now, Flowey said:

nothin' like a good old personal experience to fuck up your relation with a company, am I right?

Definitely! AMD are in my bad books, and so are Amazon at the moment. Their UK Logistics service is terrible. Over the past few months, 4 Parcels havent been delivered/lost.

[Flowey]

Just now, RhysMusique said:

Definitely! AMD are in my bad books, and so are Amazon at the moment. Their UK Logistics service is terrible. Over the past few months, 4 Parcels havent been delivered/lost.

been there myself, fuck Purolator...(canadian delivery service)

[SteveGrabowski0]

I'd wait, the 970 and 390 are both overpriced. The 970 still basically sells for what it launched at a year and a half ago. I'd expect the Pascal 70 series and Polaris 90 series to both be really nice upgrades over the 970/390.

[RhysMusique]

1 minute ago, Flowey said:

been there myself, fuck Purolator...(canadian delivery service)

My problem is actually with 'Amazon Logistics', not sure if you have it in the Great White North, but over in the UK, it's the primary way Amazon deliver. It's easy to complain to Amazon, and it's nice to be able to deal with one company instead of a supplier and a carrier.

[Flowey]

Just now, RhysMusique said:

My problem is actually with 'Amazon Logistics', not sure if you have it in the Great White North, but over in the UK, it's the primary way Amazon deliver. It's easy to complain to Amazon, and it's nice to be able to deal with one company instead of a supplier and a carrier.

I try to stay away from amazon to be honnest, I don't like dealing with huge company's customer service. Take a look at steam for exemple, if you've got issues with Steam you can send a ticket, take a full year to learn stuff and how to solve the issue yourself before they answer, IF they answer.

[RhysMusique]

7 minutes ago, Flowey said:

I try to stay away from amazon to be honnest, I don't like dealing with huge company's customer service. Take a look at steam for exemple, if you've got issues with Steam you can send a ticket, take a full year to learn stuff and how to solve the issue yourself before they answer, IF they answer.

I agree, Steam customer service is terrible, but I find that large companies generally have a better structure in place, whereas (definitely in the UK) some companies, PC component companies in particular, are reviewed as untrustworthy, rude and generally expensive as compared to large companies.

Anyway, I think we better stop ranting about companies on a GPU thread

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, RhysMusique said:

I agree, Steam customer service is terrible, but I find that large companies generally have a better structure in place, whereas (definitely in the UK) some companies, PC component companies in particular, are reviewed as untrustworthy, rude and generally expensive as compared to large companies.

Anyway, I think we better stop ranting about companies on a GPU thread

HAHAHA that went far from the subject, sure did!

 

[Columbo]

760 is still a good card. I would wait for the Frenchmen blaise Pascal. Most of you are idiots who do not study the classics. I was forced to myself. I usually have a few Voltaire quotes handy.