brain_stew
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Ignore that garbage. A decent 750w PSU will run tri SLI 970s without difficulty. You have nothing to worry about running a pair.
Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards ($549 & $329)
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Ignore that garbage. A decent 750w PSU will run tri SLI 970s without difficulty. You have nothing to worry about running a pair.
The 980 is an incremental jump over the the 970 full stop. If it had the same priceerformance as the 970 it would be around $400. You're paying a large premium for the prestige of owning the fastest single GPU on the market.
Yeah, it's 67% more expensive. I would have bitten at $499, though.
Any real benefit from going to GTX 680 SLI to a GTX 980? I assume that I should wait until I can get SLI for cheap, but I'd like to go back to a single card if performance is up to the task.
Edit: I guess that GTX 970 SLI would be a more sensible approach, right? Better priceerformance ratio, while keeping noticeable gains. But then again, I'd rather go back to a single GPU for my next upgrade.
Edit: I guess that GTX 970 SLI would be a more sensible approach, right? Better price
erformance ratio, while keeping noticeable gains. But then again, I'd rather go back to a single GPU for my next upgrade.So I have a 780Ti right now.
My current options are 970 SLI, 980SLI, or just hold out for inevitable 980Ti.
Going to a single 970 or 980 doesn't seem like much of an upgrade other than the cool new features they have.
980SLI would work fine with a Seasonic Gold X760 PSU I assume?
My current options are 970 SLI, 980SLI, or just hold out for inevitable 980Ti.
Going to a single 970 or 980 doesn't seem like much of an upgrade other than the cool new features they have.
980SLI would work fine with a Seasonic Gold X760 PSU I assume?
Could I get anything by selling my PSU?
Selling my 670 would take some of the stuff of a new PSU away, at least.
I'd aim for 600W on SLI. 550 would be doable on an exceptionally good PSU. 500 is just a bad idea. You're spending $700 on video cards. Pony up $65-100 for a decent PSU to handle it.
If you have a stock clocked 4670K, shame on you.;P
If you have a stock clocked 4670K, shame on you.;P
I'll second this.
Felix Lighter
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Ideally, I would like to buy 2 Gigabyte GTX 970 G1s and hopefully through Amazon. Come on, get em up.
If it's at least Bronze rated, I wouldn't worry about it.
Arrrgh! I read this:
But then I read this:
I'm torn! I know if I buy a 980, I won't have to upgrade for a very long time. However, the price of the 970 is extremely attractive.
But then I read this:
The 980 is an incremental jump over the the 970 full stop. If it had the same price
I'm torn! I know if I buy a 980, I won't have to upgrade for a very long time. However, the price of the 970 is extremely attractive.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Where are you going to import from?
I'm thinking of using Smokey if I can't get a good price from a "real" store.
Smushroomed
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Is 970 SLI overkill for 1080p?
zyxwvu4321
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I need to go to sleep for a drive in the morning... but I don't want to miss these going on sale and the Gigabyte or Asus 970s selling out.
brain_stew
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Even with all that a decent 600w will be fine. These total power consumption tests are always ran with OCed CPUs as it is.
Why suggest people waste cash on a new PSU when the one they gave is perfectly fine for the task?
120hz?
Windom Earle
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Well, the Asus has the fan deactivated during idle which should explain the temps.
I'm thinking about it, but also wondering what kind of price I can actually get.
Just keep the 780ti, wait for the full Maxwell. These cards are only a good deal if you're coming from the 600's and older.
daninthemix
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Anyone know what the UK price of the 970 will be? I had my eye on a Phantom 4GB 770, but if the price is right I might hold out for the 970 (I presume it will be quieter and cooler?)
for roughly 100$ extra with 2 970s you get like 60% more fps
Because they are dropping $600+ on GPU's and I don't want to see them blow up there system??? You seem to be rather reckless with your PSU recommendations here.
plagiarize
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not yet.
My wife took her first day off in ages... tomorrow. So now she can be home to enjoy a day together.. while I try to score $1k worth of GPUs...
I can tell you this is not going to be the day that she or I had planned.
brain_stew
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At 60hz without downsampling? Absolutely. 120hz? No, I wouldn't say so. Same applies if you plan to use downsampling as well. As SLI 970s are needed for 4K, they're equally needed for 1080p with downsampling.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Only reason I would upgrade now is if I can get good money for the 780Ti. Put it up on Craigslist. Let's see if I get any bites. It's only going to lose more value as time goes on, so I'd rather sell it while it's still worth something.
Should have sold it when the Maxwell rumors were floating around.
Vulcano's assistant
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same boat
WindForce is the shit if that helps any.
I think the only advantage the EVGA has is -1db under load and slightly less power consumption while the Gigabyte is clocked higher and OCs higher.
brain_stew
Member
With all the overcurrent and over voltage protections on modern quality PSUs, nothing is blowing up. The absolute worst case scenario is a system shutting down if the PSU is over loaded but again, that's not happening on a quality 600w PSU with SLI 970s.
Would you expect a single 290x to blow up a 600w PSU? Because the power consumption of SLI 970s isn't much more than that.
jim2point0
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I used to run 2x 4GB 680s with a good 750w PSU. Both the 970 and the 980 are more power efficient. So it'd still be fine for both of these new cards in SLI.
Not to mention, if you are going to feel the need to upgrade to "full" Maxwell then the ONLY thing you should even consider is the 970 SLI route.
But yeah, stick with the 780ti unless you have a dire need for more today.
One neat thing about the 970's, is that they are candidates for other purposes if you want to upgrade later. They'd be pretty damn good in HTPC situations, secondary PCs, etc. I wouldn't want to hand down a 780ti to the kids PC, but I wouldn't think twice about doing just that 6 months down the road with a 970.
This is what I got. So I'm good?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153157&cm_re=Thermaltake_750-_-17-153-157-_-Product
The 980 is an incremental jump over the the 970 full stop. If it had the same price
I'm sold on a 970. Thanks.
So far I've only seen reviews for non reference 970's. Hopefully the reference designs are good overclockers as well.
Friends don't let friends buy Thermaltake PSUs.
Vulcano's assistant
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What I'm afraid of, is that it will all come down to what is still in stock and that I may have to just go with whatever is available.
You told the dude with 550 watts he was good to go for SLI. If there's one thing you don't want to cheap out on with a build, it's the PSU. Having more watts then you need is never a bad thing.
ThoseDeafMutes
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There's no listing on Amazon tho D=
The reason why I always go with EVGA.
Their Step up Program.
They'll take your old card, and give you what you payed as credit to buy an upgraded card from them, Within 90 days of purchase. You just pay the difference to get the new card, and mail them the old card.
90 days is more than enough time for a test drive.
SneakyStephan
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500watt is not 'low watts'...
Because of several years of marketing brainwashing, astroturfing , misinformation and people desperate to justify their 150+ euro 1000watt psu purchases combining to change people's perspective on how much power their pc consumes and how big a power supply they need.
At others asking: again, people were running gtx 260s (180watt tdp) and power hungry i7 920/960s (130watt lol, massive compared to modern i5/i7s) on 350 watt power supplies for years without issues.
A few years ago it was especially bad (including on gaf), tons of people replacing their perfectly fine 450-550 watt psus with 750+watt ones just because they were buying some 200watt tdp gpu...
strix only has 1 dp
I doubt a 550W PSU has a lot of amps going down that 12V rail. That's the key here, 550W are normally not rated for SLI.