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nVidia Titans still worth the investment?

snips86x

snips86x

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I'm running a 290p and looking to change to nVidia. I'm considering a change to 2xTitan and I game at 1440p.

I love eye candy and having some serious thought about 4K but not until our attic has been converted, within 12-18 months.

I'm not really looking for an AMD alternative as I've had enough of the 290 - so thoughts on the Titans?
 
I have 3 of them and don't plan on swapping them out until the proper next gen stuff (16nm, Pascal or whatever), the 6GB of VRAM will be plenty for 1440p for the foreseeable future and they pack some serious grunt when overclocked

a lot of the console port type games (COD, BF4, anything by Ubi) don't even support mutli card on release or much past 2 even when patched up, yet I still get 100fps+ in most things at 1440p even on 2 cards

if you can pick them up cheap (they seem to be going for around £350 now) then yeah why not, solid cards that should not struggle at all until the real next gen of cards turns up
 
Thanks for your reply Andy!! I'm >this< close to agreeing a purchase and in all honestly, I'm fed up with the AMD 290 when it comes to the likes of older/less demanding games. Actually, even newer ones to be honest.

Are yours under water? I'd like to run 2 next to each other.

Also, I have an Corsair HX+850, should be OK yeah?
 
mine are on water yes, they ran fine on air to be frank, it was only really when benching I had to turn the fans up to near max that pushed me to water, but most often these days I only run them at +100 core and +250 mem in AB, rather than trying to fine tune my OC to the last few mhz for every game
 
andybird123 said:
mine are on water yes, they ran fine on air to be frank, it was only really when benching I had to turn the fans up to near max that pushed me to water, but most often these days I only run them at +100 core and +250 mem in AB, rather than trying to fine tune my OC to the last few mhz for every game
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Cheers for that!

I'm not intending on putting them under water, but you never know. Kind of wish I'd done this ages ago and not bothered with the 290 :(

thefogo said:
Wait for the 390x?
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This has been on my mind for some time but they just don't make cards like nVidia - quality just isn't there!
 
Titans and all things Kepler seem to be going backwards. It looks like Nvidia have stopped giving them performance updates. Check out performance summary on tpu over the last 6 months to see what I mean.
 
TheRealDeal said:
Titans and all things Kepler seem to be going backwards. It looks like Nvidia have stopped giving them performance updates. Check out performance summary on tpu over the last 6 months to see what I mean.
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Cheers, will have a read over lunch! Still, would be miles better than my 290!
 
Hey Snips,

I think investing in the previous step of architecture would come back to bite you pretty soon.

As much as the temptation is there right now - by the end of March we'll know a lot more about where the 2 companies are going for 2015.

The 390X and the Titan X announcements and probably the next iteration of the 900 series etc.

Hold that purchase finger back - for 25 more days and ask yourself the same question again.

sh33p
 
TheRealDeal said:
Now look at the GTX960 review which is the most recent.
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wow, wasn't expecting that :/
sh33pst3r said:
Hey Snips,

I think investing in the previous step of architecture would come back to bite you pretty soon.

As much as the temptation is there right now - by the end of March we'll know a lot more about where the 2 companies are going for 2015.

The 390X and the Titan X announcements and probably the next iteration of the 900 series etc.

Hold that purchase finger back - for 25 more days and ask yourself the same question again.

sh33p
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Cheers mate but my issue is not wanting to pay premium for the new gen hardware. I know exactly what you mean but my only way forward would be to go nVidia and get a decent card(s) which would last me 2 ish years. By the looks of the current Titans, they've lasted 2 years already and should last another 2. There's no way games over the next 2 years are going to advance so quickly the Titans will be come redundant.
 
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snips86x said:
This has been on my mind for some time but they just don't make cards like nVidia - quality just isn't there!
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Hm...I guess the field is always greener on the other side?

The truth about Nvidia is that other than the top tier cards, all the lower tier cards are all about "cutting down the quality" down to the lowest acceptable level- just look at the 970 memory thing and the 960 128-bit bus; even the 980 has the blower cooler downgraded (Vapour-chamber feature removed) comparing to the Titan cooler.

But to be fair, the Titan's quality should be top-notch since it is suppose to be a premium card...if you can find one for cheap, then they will probably perform quite well. Though it's been point out that Nvidia do neglect driver performance for older cards comparing to newer gen cards (though AMD probably do the same as well).
 
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