Felix Lighter
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I'd take a Gigabyte G1 Gaming. I currently have G1 Gaming 970s and they've worked out well and temps have never been an issue.
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Nvidia announces the GTX 980 Ti | $650 £550 605
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CrimsonEclipse
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Bout to sell an Apple Watch I got for free at an inflated price - I know where that money will be going to! *Grins*
Edit: Questions is what brand should I go for? I've always gone EVGA but how is Asus or Zotac?
Edit: Questions is what brand should I go for? I've always gone EVGA but how is Asus or Zotac?
I'd say they're all fine. EVGA's step up isn't really a factor as it's very unlikely they will offer a step up to the titan x. And pretty doubtful nvidia will come out with another new card in the next 3 mos.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Seems like the Windforce coolers are a bit better than the Twin Frozr and the old DirectCU II. Of course ASUS is now on the DirectCU III, but if the Gigabyte G1 Gaming pops up first I'll probably just nab it instead of waiting for the STRIX.
The STRIX and MSI models are using 2 x 8-pin connectors though, I hope the Gigabyte is too. If it's a 6-pin and 8-pin I might have to keep waiting, sigh.
Sweet, I'll do the same, thanks.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
I just bought a new monitor for $300 and after doing so started thinking about how I could've nearly bought a 980Ti with that money depending on how much I'd get for my 970 towards it with EVGA's Step-up program. Or even a second 970...
GHG
Member
So... Its in stock in a couple of places here in the UAE.
If you guys in the UK and Europe think you have it bad in terms of pricing wait till you hear the price here...
$1028
Hahaha. I just went into tears of laughter when I saw the price. And that's for the reference cooler cards to top it off.
Definitely importing from the US. Now I need to wait for amazon.com to get stock.
What a world we live in.
If you guys in the UK and Europe think you have it bad in terms of pricing wait till you hear the price here...
$1028
Hahaha. I just went into tears of laughter when I saw the price. And that's for the reference cooler cards to top it off.
Definitely importing from the US. Now I need to wait for amazon.com to get stock.
What a world we live in.
Turbowaffles
Member
Guys, I may have missed it on the last couple pages but is there a link where all the current and future models of the 980 Ti are put together on a simple list with pricing/release info?
Sadly, I don't think anything like that exists at the moment.
Unknown Soldier
Member
For anyone who cares, I've confirmed the Gigabyte G1 Gaming also uses 2 x 8-pin connectors. So all 3 big name custom cooler 980 Ti's have custom PCBs with extra power headroom.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
I hope I can get one, I bought the same card.
15% discount at launch is fantabulous. $552 980Ti? LOL.
Turbowaffles
Member
They were super nice about it and offered me the 15% right away.
I'm now trying to decide whether I should keep it or flip it for $630ish and use the money saved towards one of the OC'd water cooled cards that are eventually coming or keep the Gigabyte. I know I can overclock it myself, but why settle for that when you can overclock an already overclocked card? lol.
I think this is about my sweet spot for OC'ing. The memory OC is insane.
Temps hover around 76/77 degrees. If I put the GPU clock offset any higher I start getting artifacting.
Witcher 3 drops are now lowest at about 52-54fps, but that is pretty rare. It's almost a constant 60fps now. (2560x1440 maxed without hairworks)
Overall I am very happy.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Shipping is on the scale of weeks for me since I'm importing to Australia. This should get here within 7 days of Batman coming out, which is the game I want it for the most. I'll just stick with the base one until Big Pascal most likely.
Sir Abacus
Member
Is that reference or custom?
eVGA ACX2.0 SC+ with backplate.
JustProgress
Member
Damn. Can't see the ACX version on Microcenter anymore...
The top end of a reference card and an OC'd card are almost entirely silicon lottery either way. The only cards that are binned to be better overclockers are halo products like the Classified, ROG Matrix, and MSI Lightning Extreme.
So your Gigabyte reference card has the same chance for a good OC as one of those EVGA Hydros, or even the GB G1.
Weeks? How much was the shipping?
I just ordered my second EVGA SC card from Newegg, as I only just found out they ship to Australia, and it was 4-7 days shipping for ~$52.
Still cost ~$970 all-up so I'm not saving much, but no store here has the EVGA SC's in stock and even PC Case Gear would only sell me one card, and wouldn't even let me pre-order a second card until I receive the first one.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Like $30 shipping. It reports expected delivery of the 18th. I consider this the latest time it could arrive, since in my experience Amazon delivers things substantially faster than the estimate usually is. I guess they just like to be conservative for intln shipping.
I don't think that will be possible without adjusting the power limit in the bios (not something for reference boards). Low 1500s will be a realistic high overclock. What they really need to do is a Hybrid Classified for like $800.
Man I feel ya, I am waiting on a 980 ti in the mail and just played the witcher 3 for the first time on my 290x on my 65 inch 4k, was thinking, did I really need to order that? Mainly High settings with some post processing stuff turned down, medium shadows and foliage distance. Was running like a champ, looked amazing.
UnrealEck
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I think you'll probably appreciate the 980 Ti if you're doing 4K gaming more and more as you play with it in more games.
Well yeah, I can probably get closer to maxing out a lot of games, so things will look even more amazing!
rokkerkory
Member
Makes my wallet cry
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
My OC on a reference model is +210 on the clock and +500 on memory.
It's nice.
It's nice.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Well, yes and no. The reference cards are using a 6-pin and a 8-pin power connector, the non-binned but still custom cooler cards like MSI Gaming 6G, Gigabyte G1 Gaming, and ASUS RoG STRIX are going to use 2 x 8-pin power connectors. So there's more power headroom, plus the better coolers don't let the core get as hot which helps with stability at high OCs. So you're playing core lottery yes but there are other factors which influence your top OC potential.
So I game at 1080p and realise that this card is more for higher resolutions but I was wondering how many years do you think you could get out of this card for smashing every game, even poorly optimised ones, at 60fps constant ?
I know thats not exactly a question that can really be answered as things are always changing, I guess its more a guess
I know thats not exactly a question that can really be answered as things are always changing, I guess its more a guess
King Gilga
Member
Would one 980 TI be better than getting 2 970s for sli?
StarlordDial
Member
Was gonna ask the question but in a manner of speaking in A way that i wanted to ask if sli'ng 980ti's is necessary with some games having issues with sli ?
amstradcpc
Member
Big Pascal could be already tapped out at TSMC 16nm. Targeting a Q1'16 release date?.
https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/1848329/
https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/1848329/
dr_rus
Member
Never go SLI/CF is you have a single chip/card option. That's my position.
I wouldn't count on a big Pascal appearing as GeForce earlier than 2017. It does make sense to tape it out first for the HPC market to retire GK110 though.
UnrealEck
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So I game at 1080p and realise that this card is more for higher resolutions but I was wondering how many years do you think you could get out of this card for smashing every game, even poorly optimised ones, at 60fps constant ?
I know thats not exactly a question that can really be answered as things are always changing, I guess its more a guess
I'd guess two at the most.
Spikematic
Member
I have some colleagues in the US right now and I was hoping to order one and have one of them bring it along. Could someone point out where I could buy one? They're sold out on both Amazon and nvidia's site.
CrankyKong
Member
So a 980 Ti is a touch weaker than a Titan X with half the Vram?
CrankyKong
Member
Sold!
amstradcpc
Member
As in that B3D thread someone points out, HBM2 adoption could at least initially,from a cost point of view, make more sense in bigger/more premium chips.
What makes you think it'll be such a long wait? Asking only out of curiosity.
UnrealEck
Member
Get ready for eBay to take a big fucking chunk of that as fees.
What's up with the EVGA cards being ~$900 on Amazon?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDAYOK0/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDAYOJG/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDAYOK0/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDAYOJG/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Yup. You would think they would get tired of resellers taking tons of profit off the card and just make fucking more. This shit has been going on for as long as I can remember with evga.
Everything that's going on makes me think you are wrong. When Nvidia doesn't have anything big in the pipe prices tend to stay high for its max cards. It just threw out amazing value with the 980ti. Why? Because Nvidia hates money? Or could it be they know the AMD card is that much faster?
I honestly believe they know they have a monster soon to release and they won't everyone to double dip. 980ti now and pascal in 6 months when it crushes the TI. We will see.