GTX 970 Upgrade

[BrolVurntern]

Evening,

 

Unfortunately one of my GTX 970 Gigabyte G1's has died from my SLI setup, now I guess is the time to consider upgrading.

 

I'm guessing it would not hurt if I waited for the Nvidia announcement tomorow, however, i'd still like to upgrade.

 

I can afford to invest in a 1080 currently, however, would like to see 1080ti announcements/prices.

 

If it's £100-150 higher than the 1080 I may get a 1080Ti.

 

Although my curiosities is, if a 1080ti was to be announced, do you believe 1080s will get much of a price drop, if anything?

[Praesi]

If you upgrade, do it right. If a 1080ti will be released anytime soon, go for it. Pricedrops will only happen sooner if AMD get their shit together.

[KillerGamingBro]

I dont think they would get much of a price drop, but like you stated no harm done waiting.

[dragoon20005]

nVidia prices wont drop as much as you expect

 

The GTX1080 will still hover at the current prices

 

the GTX1080Ti will be priced under the Titan XP but still at least 150-200 bucks higher than the GTX1080

[BrolVurntern]

3 minutes ago, Praesi said:

If you upgrade, do it right. If a 1080ti will be released anytime soon, go for it. Pricedrops will only happen sooner if AMD get their shit together.

 

Very true, i'd much rather have a very strong single card this time, and retire the GTX 970 over to the lounge room, SLI looks really great having the filled out case, however some games cause SLI to grind my gears.

 

2 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

nVidia prices wont drop as much as you expect

 

The GTX1080 will still hover at the current prices

 

the GTX1080Ti will be priced under the Titan XP but still at least 150-200 bucks higher than the GTX1080

 

That would be a real shame, I remember the 980ti released with price cuts, although, that may be due to the fact AMD had an upcoming to release card at that point.

[1234vietnam]

the question is, do you need a 1080/1080ti.

Could you get a 1070 and upgrade something else?

[dragoon20005]

1 minute ago, BrolVurntern said:

 

Very true, i'd much rather have a very strong single card this time, and retire the GTX 970 over to the lounge room, SLI looks really great having the filled out case, however some games cause SLI to grind my gears.

 

 

That would be a real shame, I remember the 980ti released with price cuts, although, that may be due to the fact AMD had an upcoming to release card at that point.

The only way nVidia will cut prices is when officially Vega GPUs are out and performance graphs are pitted with the GTX1080

 

will they start cutting prices

[SeanAngelo]

10 minutes ago, BrolVurntern said:

Evening,

 

Unfortunately one of my GTX 970 Gigabyte G1's has died from my SLI setup, now I guess is the time to consider upgrading.

 

I'm guessing it would not hurt if I waited for the Nvidia announcement tomorow, however, i'd still like to upgrade.

 

I can afford to invest in a 1080 currently, however, would like to see 1080ti announcements/prices.

 

If it's £100-150 higher than the 1080 I may get a 1080Ti.

 

Although my curiosities is, if a 1080ti was to be announced, do you believe 1080s will get much of a price drop, if anything?

wait for 1080ti

[BrolVurntern]

2 minutes ago, Prqnk3d said:

the question is, do you need a 1080/1080ti.

Could you get a 1070 and upgrade something else?

Currently sitting on an OC'd 6700k, Cm Storm Trooper (May be changing case soon to a cooler master mastercase 5t), crucial 1TB m.2 SSD, as well as an external SSD.

 

Mostly should be fine for now, unless intel ever release some groundbreaking CPU, and...not the 7700k

[RadiatingLight]

I would wait to see what AMD has to say at their vega announcement in 2 days, but if it doesn't seem like the 2nd coming of Christ, then just jump for a 1080

[Jamtoad]

Personally I'd get a 1070 and usee thathe the next few years. But nidea never need the power of a 1080/ti in the first place 

[1234vietnam]

8 minutes ago, BrolVurntern said:

Currently sitting on an OC'd 6700k, Cm Storm Trooper (May be changing case soon to a cooler master mastercase 5t), crucial 1TB m.2 SSD, as well as an external SSD.

 

Mostly should be fine for now, unless intel ever release some groundbreaking CPU, and...not the 7700k

just save some money?

1070 still has better performance than dual 970s

[BrolVurntern]

15 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

I would wait to see what AMD has to say at their vega announcement in 2 days, but if it doesn't seem like the 2nd coming of Christ, then just jump for a 1080

 

I'd love to see some more availability in the GPU market, although I hope it isn't similar to their ry-zen announcement event. I found that entire event, well, weird.

 

14 minutes ago, Jamtoad said:

Personally I'd get a 1070 and usee thathe the next few years. But nidea never need the power of a 1080/ti in the first place 

 

I'm using an 1440p ultrawide currently, with the TN ROG Swift on the side. Need a bit of horsepower to run things smoothly.

 

13 minutes ago, Prqnk3d said:

just save some money?

1070 still has better performance than dual 970s

 

I've got some side spare cash for this, and not much else on the system to spend it on.

[faziten]

12 hours ago, BrolVurntern said:

Evening,

 

Unfortunately one of my GTX 970 Gigabyte G1's has died from my SLI setup, now I guess is the time to consider upgrading.

 

I'm guessing it would not hurt if I waited for the Nvidia announcement tomorow, however, i'd still like to upgrade.

 

I can afford to invest in a 1080 currently, however, would like to see 1080ti announcements/prices.

 

If it's £100-150 higher than the 1080 I may get a 1080Ti.

 

Although my curiosities is, if a 1080ti was to be announced, do you believe 1080s will get much of a price drop, if anything?

It's time to figure what the heck fried that GPU to begin with. What if your Motherboard is faulty and you fry whatever monstrosity you shove in there?. Even your PSU could be responsible.

 

Now let me put my tin foil hat aside, too hot in here to wear this crap.

If the 1080Ti is announced, i let you remember between the 1080 and Titan X(P) there's a lot of room to create a new segment.

Today the best you can get from the competence is trading blows with 1070 (meaning fury X and half the framebuffer). So NV is not being chased by a big AMD Machete to cut some prices. Their podium is still uncontested and believe it or not that is what pushes price up or down, not generosity or something of the sort imho.

 

 

[BrolVurntern]

On 1/4/2017 at 2:10 PM, faziten said:

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I got worried about what you said here, so I sent some parts into a local shop, namely the motherboard and PSU, was told the PSU was the issue and it was also setting off some issue on his testing system, asus anti surge setting off a lot gave him a warning as he claimed. So I purchased and installed a EVGA supernova (Boy that was costly).

 

Also on topic I have purchased myself a GTX 1080 since 1080ti wasn't released, got an extremely good deal on a brand new EVGA GTX 1080 FTW edition which I somewhat couldn't ignore, down to £510 from £650, I have no idea why it was reduced, but I done a little googling and it seems I need to apply some cooling pads, so i'll contact EVGA about this soon and try to avoid putting it under too much stress until then.

[faziten]

47 minutes ago, BrolVurntern said:

 

I got worried about what you said here, so I sent some parts into a local shop, namely the motherboard and PSU, was told the PSU was the issue and it was also setting off some issue on his testing system, asus anti surge setting off a lot gave him a warning as he claimed. So I purchased and installed a EVGA supernova (Boy that was costly).

 

Also on topic I have purchased myself a GTX 1080 since 1080ti wasn't released, got an extremely good deal on a brand new EVGA GTX 1080 FTW edition which I somewhat couldn't ignore, down to £510 from £650, I have no idea why it was reduced, but I done a little googling and it seems I need to apply some cooling pads, so i'll contact EVGA about this soon and try to avoid putting it under too much stress until then.

wooosh, dodged a bullet there. Imagine the poor 1080 ending up like the 970. It's nice you have it solved. Installing the thermal pads on VRM is fairly easy, so you won't get much trouble. Remember to ground yourself (electrical ground i mean) before touching any electronics. And you are golden

Best of lucks with your new investment.