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Upgrade 980 ti or wait

The Afro Samurai
By The Afro Samurai
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I currently have two 980's and I'm itching to upgrade but some of the early thoughts on Pascal are kinda meh. I know it doesn't mean anything until someone gets their hands on a card and benchmarks it. Should I just contain my eagerness to upgrade and hold out since my cards work ok and I'm only using a ROG swift 1440 monitor so I can play pretty much everything I play maxed anyway. I've always had buyers remorse on my 980
's as the TI came out 6 weeks after I got them but it's just me wanting a new card. They've done well.


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wait

even if pascal is meh you will find a ton of people selling their 980ti for cheap

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1 minute ago, The Afro Samurai said:

 I can play pretty much everything I play maxed anyway

Then there is no point upgrading, spend your money on something else maybe

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There is really no need to upgrade, but if you want to upgrade, wait for pascal or polaris. Two 970's in SLI perform about the same as a 980 Ti. You would see a performance decrease if you upgraded to only one 980 Ti.

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41 minutes ago, Enderman said:

wait

even if pascal is meh you will find a ton of people selling their 980ti for cheap

Like me (probably)

 

Definitely wait though. 

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Okay, I figured as much.


CPU: i7 5820K Motherboard: AsRock x99x Fatality RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR4 3000mhz GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 ti SC2 Case: Corsair 780T Storage: Samsung 950 Pro M.2, Samsung EVO 500gb and various WB Storage PSU: EVGA 1300 G2 Display: TBD
 

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