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2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It's never worth it to wait. There's always something better on the horizon. There is no release date or confirmation gaming cards on Volta will even be a thing, so there's that too.

In this case it's better to wait given the prices of Pascal and Polaris. 

Just wait for Volta and snag a card for its MSRP, rather than this overpriced GPUs that we have on the market right now...

 

I would get a 980/980Ti if you want something right now. 

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Should I get Pascal or wait for Volta? 

I already owned a GTX 1060 but sold it about a week due to some reason. 

My main rig sports a Ryzen 5 1600 so I'm not able to boot up without a Graphics card. So I'm planning to get a new card. 

 

Is it worth the wait for Volta? 

Or 

Should I just get a GTX 1080/Ti?

 

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It's never worth it to wait. There's always something better on the horizon. There is no release date or confirmation gaming cards on Volta will even be a thing, so there's that too.

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2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It's never worth it to wait. There's always something better on the horizon. There is no release date or confirmation gaming cards on Volta will even be a thing, so there's that too.

In this case it's better to wait given the prices of Pascal and Polaris. 

Just wait for Volta and snag a card for its MSRP, rather than this overpriced GPUs that we have on the market right now...

 

I would get a 980/980Ti if you want something right now. 

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6 minutes ago, Eibe said:

In this case it's better to wait given the prices of Pascal and Polaris. 

Just wait for Volta and snag a card for its MSRP, rather than this overpriced GPUs that we have on the market right now...

 

I would get a 980/980Ti if you want something right now. 

Again, there might not be Volta for gamers. Nvidia never confirmed they would make the cards at all since competition isn't really a thing at the moment.

 

But yeah, Maxwell cards are the way to go right now. Flippin' miners.... 

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7 minutes ago, Eibe said:

In this case it's better to wait given the prices of Pascal and Polaris. 

Just wait for Volta and snag a card for its MSRP, rather than this overpriced GPUs that we have on the market right now...

 

I would get a 980/980Ti if you want something right now. 

This is what I did.

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1 minute ago, Grimfrost769 said:

This is what I did.

*holding my gtx 1070 that i bought for 460 USD*.. yeah..

Go for maxwell, prices of pascal are over the roof right now...

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4 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Flippin' miners.... 

*sigh* GPU manufactures could have nipped this shortage in the bud a LOOOONG time ago, but chose not to. It's not miners' fault they didn't open a secondary channel sooner.

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1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

*sigh* GPU manufactures could have nipped this shortage in the bud a LOOOONG time ago, but chose not to. It's not miners' fault they didn't open a secondary channel sooner.

Why do miners have to mine with GPUs ? Why can't they mine with i dunno... old PCI Sound Cards ? :D:D

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4 minutes ago, Roman848 said:

Why do miners have to mine with GPUs ? Why can't they mine with i dunno... old PCI Sound Cards ? :D:D

Because most of them don't know what they are doing. Smart people mine with ASICs, not 15 GPUs. 

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2 minutes ago, Eibe said:

Because most of them don't know what they are doing. Smart people mine with ASICs, not 15 GPUs. 

You can't mine 1/2 of the coins out there with an ASIC, and many of these ASIC resistant coins are doing better than an ASIC is paying out.

 

So there's that.

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38 minutes ago, Infow27 said:

Should I get Pascal or wait for Volta? 

I already owned a GTX 1060 but sold it about a week due to some reason. 

My main rig sports a Ryzen 5 1600 so I'm not able to boot up without a Graphics card. So I'm planning to get a new card. 

 

Is it worth the wait for Volta? 

Or 

Should I just get a GTX 1080/Ti?

 

Did you sell it because your card is currently worth twice what it used to be?

 

I'm debating doing that myself.

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2 minutes ago, JR8 said:

Did you sell it because your card is currently worth twice what it used to be?

 

I'm debating doing that myself.

Well I sold my 1060 for almost $400

I didn't know that the current prices of the 1060 are twice of what it used to be

before selling it.  

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At current prices... just wait.

 

And hope that cryptocurrencies crash in the meantime, or by the time Volta rolls around people will be mining on those as well.

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Yeah the uncertainty around Volta has be upgrading at the  moment, the problem was finding a 1080 Ti that wasn't $1200+.  However I managed to get a SC2 Hybrid Ti directly from EVGA for $845 shipped and managed to sell my 2 month old EVGA GTX 1080 SC ACX 3.0 for $650 when I bout it for $545.  

 

So now my system gets a huge boost in GPU performance and I am fully liquid cooled

 

I have said this before, but mining will put fluxes in the GPU market for the foreseeable future.  Even if Volta comes out for various reasons I still see Pascal retaining a lot of its resale value, thus making an upgrade to Volta or whatever is next easier on the wallet

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