Should I trade out my 980ti?

[NeXTSalt]

So I love my main rig but my problem is that I can't go around with it due to its size. I plan on using a on the go computer by july next summer. As of right now just in terms of extra parts going towards it is a MSI B150 Mortar Arctic, 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX White (2x16) 3200MHz and a reference GTX 980ti. The thing is that my friend is making a new build and offered a old alienware alpha he has just for my GTX 980ti.

I am asking if I should accept his offer or not.

 

What the trade will be:

What I would give:

Reference GTX 980ti (used for about a year)

 

Alienware Alpha

Specs:

I7-4765T 2.00GHz

16GB DDR3

GTX 860m

500GB SSD

 

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My main rig specs:

I7-6950x

64GB DDR4

2 GTX 1080 FE's

512GB 950 pro boot, 1.2TB 750 series, 320GB HDD, 2TB HDD

[Cereal5]

By computer on the go do you mean laptop or something like this?

[courtiousdoge]

34 minutes ago, NeXTSalt said:

So I love my main rig but my problem is that I can't go around with it due to its size. I plan on using a on the go computer by july next summer. As of right now just in terms of extra parts going towards it is a MSI B150 Mortar Arctic, 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX White (2x16) 3200MHz and a reference GTX 980ti. The thing is that my friend is making a new build and offered a old alienware alpha he has just for my GTX 980ti.

I am asking if I should accept his offer or not.

 

What the trade will be:

What I would give:

Reference GTX 980ti (used for about a year)

 

Alienware Alpha

Specs:

I7-4765T 2.00GHz

16GB DDR3

GTX 860m

500GB SSD

 

________________

My main rig specs:

I7-6950x

64GB DDR4

2 GTX 1080 FE's

512GB 950 pro boot, 1.2TB 750 series, 320GB HDD, 2TB HDD

would reccomend you build a minit itx build using spare parts or a last gen cpu (from your old rig) with your 980 ti it will easily beat out the 860m no prob and a desktop i5 can get equivilant power just salvage a bunch of parts from your old rig and make a mini it x 1 but you will need a new case or even mobo tho

[NeXTSalt]

11 hours ago, courtiousdoge said:

would reccomend you build a minit itx build using spare parts or a last gen cpu (from your old rig) with your 980 ti it will easily beat out the 860m no prob and a desktop i5 can get equivilant power just salvage a bunch of parts from your old rig and make a mini it x 1 but you will need a new case or even mobo tho

Well yeah on the go is like a small(ish) lan rig probably would be a air 240 max using the 980ti, ram and mobo lying around and spend around $800-$1000 for the rest of the parts is what I had in mind if I am to not trade it out

[NeXTSalt]

11 hours ago, Cereal5 said:

By computer on the go do you mean laptop or something like this?

Well something of the line of a matx rig since I got a sky lake mobo with 32gb of ram just lying on my desk.

[courtiousdoge]

2 minutes ago, NeXTSalt said:

Well yeah on the go is like a small(ish) lan rig probably would be a air 240 max using the 980ti, ram and mobo lying around and spend around $800-$1000 for the rest of the parts is what I had in mind if I am to not trade it out

so are you trading it out?

[NeXTSalt]

Just now, courtiousdoge said:

so are you trading it out?

I don't know yet, I set a goal to decide in 2 weeks and I do have conflicting thoughts as like to help my friend by trading it so he can use the 980ti for his mitx rig and just deal with a alienware alpha as a on the go PC or to decline and get a matx white themed build featuring my GTX 980ti. Even if I did end up trading it I do still have the thought of making a white themed build. Do you know how the GTX 770 holds up in today's games? I do have a reference model lying around not doing anything as of right now.

[courtiousdoge]

3 minutes ago, NeXTSalt said:

I don't know yet, I set a goal to decide in 2 weeks and I do have conflicting thoughts as like to help my friend by trading it so he can use the 980ti for his mitx rig and just deal with a alienware alpha as a on the go PC or to decline and get a matx white themed build featuring my GTX 980ti. Even if I did end up trading it I do still have the thought of making a white themed build. Do you know how the GTX 770 holds up in today's games? I do have a reference model lying around not doing anything as of right now.

a 770 = 960=1050 

trade that out for the alienware alpha lol 

but seriously just spend a few hundred and get sum fast hardware (#gottagofast)

mainly because going down to a alienware alpha from u=your rig would be bad

 

[NeXTSalt]

Just now, courtiousdoge said:

a 770 = 960=1050 

trade that out for the alienware alpha lol 

but seriously just spend a few hundred and get sum fast hardware (#gottagofast)

mainly because going down to a alienware alpha from u=your rig would be bad

 

I did have a bad past experience with Alienware before lol I got a ivy bridge gt 650m laptop back in 2012 and fried itself a couple months ago. Let alone performance was ass to begin with lol.

 

maybe if I want to keep a somewhat powerful standpoint when I am away from my monstrosity of my main desktop should I just pick up another GTX 1080 and shove that into a small build?

[courtiousdoge]

16 minutes ago, NeXTSalt said:

I don't know yet, I set a goal to decide in 2 weeks and I do have conflicting thoughts as like to help my friend by trading it so he can use the 980ti for his mitx rig and just deal with a alienware alpha as a on the go PC or to decline and get a matx white themed build featuring my GTX 980ti. Even if I did end up trading it I do still have the thought of making a white themed build. Do you know how the GTX 770 holds up in today's games? I do have a reference model lying around not doing anything as of right now.

a 980ti  and 1080  are quite similar in 4k and 1440p and 1080 is a little bit better in 1080 would not recommend you spend like 600 usd just for like 6 more fps

[NeXTSalt]

2 minutes ago, courtiousdoge said:

a 980ti  and 1080  are quite similar in 4k and 1440p and 1080 is a little bit better in 1080 would not recommend you spend like 600 usd just for like 6 more fps

True, also what threw me off a bit is the 4765t that is on friends Alienware as far as benchmarks go. As what I saw that super low clock of 2ghz seemed to really perform only around a i5-3570k at stock as far as I saw for now.

 

also as far as GTX 1080 performance, I think it's a bit better than 6 FPS boost from the 980ti from what I tested, well then again my testing might be more off since I was using 980ti's in SLI compared to 2 1080's in SLI.

[Cereal5]

17 minutes ago, courtiousdoge said:

a 980ti  and 1080  are quite similar in 4k and 1440p and 1080 is a little bit better in 1080 would not recommend you spend like 600 usd just for like 6 more fps

Not even close. A 1080 beats a maxwell titan x. Ask me how I know

 

a 1080 is made for 4K. 980/980 Ti SLI is what you would need for actual 4K

[courtiousdoge]

6 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Not even close. A 1080 beats a maxwell titan x. Ask me how I know

 

a 1080 is made for 4K. 980/980 Ti SLI is what you would need for actual 4K

well i wouldnt trust myself its like 2 here

and i am eating cheetos and drinking pepsi in true nerd fashion

[NeXTSalt]

38 minutes ago, courtiousdoge said:

well i wouldnt trust myself its like 2 here

and i am eating cheetos and drinking pepsi in true nerd fashion

 whenever I type these responses my iPad loves to auto correct random shit making my life harder to respond properly.

[NeXTSalt]

50 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Not even close. A 1080 beats a maxwell titan x. Ask me how I know

 

a 1080 is made for 4K. 980/980 Ti SLI is what you would need for actual 4K

Ok then what's your opinion, should I keep my 980ti for a mini on the go PC or trade it out for my friend and just buy like a GTX 1080, 1070 with a aftermarket cooler (like EVGA's ACX 3.0 type line cards) for a white themed build (or I can even go as low as reusing my reference GTX 770

[Cereal5]

1 hour ago, NeXTSalt said:

Ok then what's your opinion, should I keep my 980ti for a mini on the go PC or trade it out for my friend and just buy like a GTX 1080, 1070 with a aftermarket cooler (like EVGA's ACX 3.0 type line cards) for a white themed build (or I can even go as low as reusing my reference GTX 770

All depends on how much you have/want to spend. If you have the money for it (which I'm assuming you do since you're even talking about it) I would go 1070 with an i5 or i7 or the likes. Especially since on the gonmonitors usually aren't 4K lol