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Hey Guys,

So I'm planning to run VR in the near future, and I currently have 2 MSI 970s in my PC. Do you think upgrading to one 1080 will be worth it? Since i could sell both cards for around 300€ I wouldn't have to spend a lot of money. Considering that my cards have approximately Titan X performance and the 1080 has a bunch more than that I thought it would be a reasonable upgrade... What's your guy's opinion on that?

Thanks for your answers!

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oops, I meant MSI 980s... that typo though xD

"I was once invited to a party over at a friend's house. At 3 am, I found myself in his room with some friends, overclocking his graphics card. This pretty much is me in a nutshell."

 

(I'm getting invited to a lot more parties since then, by the way)

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3 minutes ago, iklalter said:

Hey Guys,

So I'm planning to run VR in the near future, and I currently have 2 MSI 970s in my PC. Do you think upgrading to one 1080 will be worth it? Since i could sell both cards for around 300€ I wouldn't have to spend a lot of money. Considering that my cards have approximately Titan X performance and the 1080 has a bunch more than that I thought it would be a reasonable upgrade... What's your guy's opinion on that?

Thanks for your answers!

I would suggest waiting for independent reviews to come out before dropping any money on a new card. There is always the possibility that these numbers are "exaggerated". They're trying to get you to buy their product after all lol.

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3 minutes ago, iklalter said:

oops, I meant MSI 980s... that typo though xD

there's an edit button....

 

we'd have to wait for the benchmarks first.

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1 minute ago, imreloadin said:

I would suggest waiting for independent reviews to come out before dropping any money on a new card. There is always the possibility that these numbers are "exaggerated". They're trying to get you to buy their product after all lol.

Yeah, if it's actually as powerful as we all hope it actually will be then that will be a worthwhile upgrade, but definitely wait for other people not affiliated with Nvidia to run some tests.

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2 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

there's an edit button....

 

we'd have to wait for the benchmarks first.

Yea I noticed it after posting - I'm new here :'D

 

Thanks for your opinions! I just doubt I'll get the full price for my cards when the 1080 is out :/

"I was once invited to a party over at a friend's house. At 3 am, I found myself in his room with some friends, overclocking his graphics card. This pretty much is me in a nutshell."

 

(I'm getting invited to a lot more parties since then, by the way)

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14 hours ago, iklalter said:

Hey Guys,

So I'm planning to run VR in the near future, and I currently have 2 MSI 970s in my PC. Do you think upgrading to one 1080 will be worth it? Since i could sell both cards for around 300€ I wouldn't have to spend a lot of money. Considering that my cards have approximately Titan X performance and the 1080 has a bunch more than that I thought it would be a reasonable upgrade... What's your guy's opinion on that?

Thanks for your answers!

Well the fact that VR can't utilize SLI at the moment, yes I'd say it'd be worth it.

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As for my opinion. Would be a money waste, 2 980's are pretty strong for itself. The only reason why I would even upgrade to a 1080 is that you will have a single card instead of 2. Not really fond of SLI/xfire configs.

 

I would wait, maybe your 2 980's are stronger :) !

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Alright guys, thanks for the answers!

"I was once invited to a party over at a friend's house. At 3 am, I found myself in his room with some friends, overclocking his graphics card. This pretty much is me in a nutshell."

 

(I'm getting invited to a lot more parties since then, by the way)

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