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7 hours ago, Tsuki said:

is it worth trying to sell my 970 strix to get a 1060 FTW2 6GB?

and would i actually get that much more performance out of it?

both have very close performance but one has more vram and newer, does that answer your question?

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is it worth trying to sell my 970 strix to get a 1060 FTW2 6GB?

and would i actually get that much more performance out of it?

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Yes, but I would jump to the 1070 if you've got the coin.

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1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Yes, but I would jump to the 1070 if you've got the coin.

that was my original plan, but at the moment im paycheck to paycheck so an extra $100 would put things a little tight.. in my area i think i can sell the 970 for about $300, which is basically the same price as a new 1060, give or take like $10.

 

6 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

wait for vega. 

not super interested in vega. bit outside my budget, and with the rumors that its gonna be a beast mining card, i doubt ill even be able to get one in stores.

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wait for RX 580 prices to settle and get one of those. 

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4 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

wait for RX 580 prices to settle and get one of those. 

looking at retail prices, the RX 580 is $100-200 more than the 1060

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5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

wait for RX 580 prices to settle and get one of those. 

That might take a while. Also there is next to no stock of rx4/5 gpus. Soon the market will be flooded with ones that have been trashed by miners.

 

1 minute ago, Tsuki said:

looking at retail prices, the RX 580 is $100-200 more than the 1060

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The 1060 is more equivalent in performance to the 980. If you are able to pick up a 980 used for a low price (No more than 250 dollars), I'd say you got a pretty good deal there.

 

If you don't want to buy used then I'd go for the 1060 or you can wait for the Polaris cards to drop in price.

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5 hours ago, Tsuki said:

is it worth trying to sell my 970 strix to get a 1060 FTW2 6GB?

and would i actually get that much more performance out of it?

youll get maybe a 10% performance increase. if you have to pay more than 40 dollars for it though, i wouldnt

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7 hours ago, Tsuki said:

is it worth trying to sell my 970 strix to get a 1060 FTW2 6GB?

and would i actually get that much more performance out of it?

both have very close performance but one has more vram and newer, does that answer your question?

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