Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards ($549 & $329)

According to nvidia's twitter they should go on sale @ 12:01AM, don't know what time zone that is, but they also said it could take up to 2 and a 1/2 hours from then soooo now the waiting game starts.
 
I'm amazed of the GTX 970 overclocked version, its faster than stock GTX 980/780 Ti, at a fraction of the price ($330).

Its the best bang for the bucks GPU on earth right now.
 
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.

I really doubt Nvidia is going to launch new high end cards within the next 3 months. Aren't they waiting for 16/20nm?
 
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.

He was unsure whether he could even run a single 970 and I used that as evidence of how much headroom he has. Still, the point stands. A decent 550w PSU will be enough for SLI 970s, it's not "ideal" but nothing is blowing up.

If I was starting a SLI 970 build from scratch would I choose a 550w PSU? No, I'd probably aim for 600-650w to have some headroom but that doesn't change anything.
 
Whatever man, it's your money:)

You do understand the watts alone is not what you need, it's the amps going down that 12V rail. For example, the 780 needs 42 amps on the 12V rail to work. Now if the 12V rail is not pushing enough amps down that rail, then no amount of watts is going to save you. So it's not just "brainwashing" as you put it.
 
According to nvidia's twitter they should go on sale @ 12:01AM, don't know what time zone that is, but they also said it could take up to 2 and a 1/2 hours from then soooo now the waiting game starts.

God dammit. Don't buy all the Windforces or Strix before I wake up.
 
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

I'll second this.

I have a stock clocked 4770K. It's my first build, from a few months ago. Should I overclock? I guess I haven't felt a need, and pretty worried about heat (not sure if that's a warranted concern).

Any input on overclocking would be appreciated. Like when do I know I should do it - if I'm not hitting 60 frames in something? For reference, I game at 1440p, have a GTX 780 6GB, and sitting at 16GB RAM.

Thanks for any help :D
 
I have a stock clocked 4770K. It's my first build, from a few months ago. Should I overclock? I guess I haven't felt a need, and pretty worried about heat (not sure if that's a warranted concern).

Any input on overclocking would be appreciated. Like when do I know I should do it - if I'm not hitting 60 frames in something? For reference, I game at 1440p, have a GTX 780 6GB, and sitting at 16GB RAM.

Thanks for any help :D
What board do you have, there's likely a guide. It's not really that hard to do.
 
Finally time to upgrade my 560Ti. It's been a great card for a long time, but whee upgrades! :D


Now to just lie in wait. One benefit of having a night shift is waking up at like 11pm and being awake whenever something like this goes down. I wanna order one minute one. :p
 
GTX 970 is a very tempting combination of price, performance and power consumption. Probably gonna switch to that from my 7950 and maybe try a G-Sync monitor.
 
GTX970 looks ideal for me, my 6850 is getting real long in the tooth and I've been dying to jump to the Green team for a while now.
 
You do understand the watts alone is not what you need, it's the amps going down that 12V rail. For example, the 780 needs 42 amps on the 12V rail to work. Now if the 12V rail is not pushing enough amps down that rail, then no amount of watts is going to save you. So it's not just "brainwashing" as you put it.

No one but you is talking about the junk PSUs from 10 years ago. I'm talking about modern 80+ certified PSUs that deliver most of their advertised watts over the 12v rail.
 
The problem with PSUs is that you really need to peel back and figure out who made it. There's a ton of re-branding on that front.
 
Ha, it's technically not a problem, as I can afford it, I just feel like two 970s makes more financial sense than a single 980, but an expensive new power supply would almost negate that. I'm wondering if this one would do fine.

this one only has 2 pci-e cables, for sli you need 4
 
970 seem like the best option

But since I have an 780... i'll probably wait for a price drop and get a second one
 
Spend a bit more and get this.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00918N4A0/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Seasonic is a top tier company. It will have no problem with SLI 970s, and it's fully modular to boot.

I'll consider it, I'm still not decided on if I want to bother with SLI or not because it'd end up costing like $300 more in the end than a single 980. It might make more sense to save the SLI for when I upgrade the rest of my rig in the near future.
 
If I were to sell 1 of my 3 Titan Blacks.... I could get a Tri-SLI 970 setup for around $500 or so and keep the Titan B SLI setup around...

omg

I am up late going through scenarios ;_;
 
I'm intrigued by the 970.

I bought a MSI GTX 780 Gaming July of 2013 for $650. Would it be a bad idea to switch it out for a custom 970 for gaming?

Additionally, I have a fluid simulation experiment I've been working on in Blender, this one to be exact. With full intent on giving credit to the original author, I decided to port the animation to Octane Render for Blender, and render it at 120fps, taking the project from 1000 frames@50fps, to an insane 2400 frames at 120fps. I'm looking at about 650 - 700 hrs of render time. The 780 eats a lot of power. Here's a LQ test frame if you're curious.


Would switching cards be a worthwhile endeavor?
 
You do understand the watts alone is not what you need, it's the amps going down that 12V rail. For example, the 780 needs 42 amps on the 12V rail to work. Now if the 12V rail is not pushing enough amps down that rail, then no amount of watts is going to save you. So it's not just "brainwashing" as you put it.

amps on the 12v rails has very little to do with the listed wattage of a power supply... a decent 400watt psu can provide more amps on the 12v rail than a shitty 650w one
Most decent 550w power supplies have plenty of amps on the 12v rail to power a 290x and then some, so it should be fine for sli 970s. These gpus use very little power.

those 42 amps on the 12v rail for a 780 are the same hilarious (covering their asses) overestimations by manufacturers than the recommended 700 watt power supplies btw.
Because they never know if the guy buying their gpu won't have some crappy dell or noname brand psu that doesn't perform up to spec.

edit: hell even my ancient antec earthwatts 500 from 2009 that came with my case still has 408w on the 12v rail , 408/12 = 34amps ( 2x 17A rails) which is still enough for sli 970s), and this is a really crappy 500w psu by modern standards. The 550w power supplies in the need a new pc thread have 3 22A rails
 
£430 980, £259 970. that 970 is more than reasonable, and i'm not that turned off by the 980 price either considering the non-reference 780tis still go for over 500.
 
I really REALLY hope the 970 eventually gets an 8gb variant....the price and performance ratio is just too perfect! And that power efficiency.....
 
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