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Devrij

Devrij

Devrij

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So I have some birthday money and some other cash I have been saving that adds up to about 500 quid.

Initially this was earmarked for a 390x or 980ti. Whichever turns up and has good performance. I currently have 290 xfire, but I really want a single card solution after months of terrible xfire support.

That said, there is no official launch date for either card, let alone any performance figures. With that in mind, I'm debating spending that money elsewhere. But where?!

I currently have:
3770k at 4.6ghz
8gb Ram
1x 250gb Samsung ssd
1x 120gb crucial SSD
1x 60gb OCZ ssd
1tb Hdd
2tb hdd
500gb hdd
Xfire 290 tri x

Dell u2711
Acer 24in 1080p monitor

Mech kb and mx518 mouse

So what would you guys suggest?
 
Personally there's nothing I would upgrade on that system until the next set of cards come out apart from:

Upgrading to 16GB RAM
Consolodating all those SSDs onto one 850 Evo or similar
 
Minstadave said:
Personally there's nothing I would upgrade on that system until the next set of cards come out apart from:

Upgrading to 16GB RAM
Consolodating all those SSDs onto one 850 Evo or similar
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This was what I was considering, maybe a 500gb SSD. RAM wise I think I'm okay for now.

I think a 980 would be a downgrade and not great value either, so I would want to go to a single card that offered a significant performance boost over a 290. And screw paying that much for a titan x.

I must admit I'm considering upgrading my monitor and relegating the Dell to secondary status for colour work. I'm tempted by these 144hz 1440p monitors that are coming out. Thoughts?
 
Would definitely go Asus over Acer. That is bang on my budget as well. Bloody tempting!

Oh man that is tough to resist
 
I did consider the 1TB SSD route. It's just not a particularly exciting purchase. It would just free up sata ports I don't need yet, and provide more storage than I need as well. I might ditch the 60GB SSD and put a 500GB in for the OS drive instead of the 250gb, but the extra cost of a 1TB isn't worth it just yet.

I think it's either a monitor or I wait for the GPUs. Technically my 290s are more than enough in terms of performance (when xfire works), so downgrading overall performance for the sake of going single card on a 390x could wait. I could potentially save up for xfire 390x though depending on pricing.
 
I know the pain of crossfireX issues as I had two 7950's and it's infuriating to have some games drop your performance ~50% or not work alltogether.

I'd wait for a single card upgrade tbh
 
Sigh, that is the smart option. If the 390x/980ti are both supremely disappointing then I think I'll have to get one of those monitors.
 
Devrij said:
Sigh, that is the smart option. If the 390x/980ti are both supremely disappointing then I think I'll have to get one of those monitors.
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Do the maths, man. The 980ti is going to be about as fast or slightly less faster than a Titan X. Right now your cards are literally neck and neck, so the 980ti alone would not be an upgrade at all IMO.

So you would need two of them to see a big upgrade and that's going to cost you a grand. Same goes for the 390x, I don't see it being less than £500 or so. In both scenarios you would need to be running 4k to get the most out of it. SLI Titan X/980ti is 4k only and ridiculous for lower resolutions.

Go for the monitor IMO. I recently bought the Acer Predator 4k2k Gsync (I run two Titan Blacks) and going 4k is the best thing I've done in years.
 
ALXAndy said:
Do the maths, man. The 980ti is going to be about as fast or slightly less faster than a Titan X. Right now your cards are literally neck and neck, so the 980ti alone would not be an upgrade at all IMO.

So you would need two of them to see a big upgrade and that's going to cost you a grand. Same goes for the 390x, I don't see it being less than £500 or so. In both scenarios you would need to be running 4k to get the most out of it. SLI Titan X/980ti is 4k only and ridiculous for lower resolutions.

Go for the monitor IMO. I recently bought the Acer Predator 4k2k Gsync (I run two Titan Blacks) and going 4k is the best thing I've done in years.
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I know it would be an overall downgrade, but if a single 390x was about 50% faster than 1 290 it would be worth it for me to avoid the driver issues with xfire. I never planned to buy two right off the bat.

I've always said that investing in something you actually interact with (kb/mouse/chair/desk/monitor) is one of the best things you can do, so I know a new monitor would be an upgrade I'd enjoy. I was tempted by 4k, but I can't afford a 4k panel that I'd actually want just yet (just the budget ones), and I plan to wait a bit longer until gpu performance/dx12 gains has caught up.

stulid said:
ASUS just called, they are making your new monitor right now.
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You, sir, are trolling my wallet hard, and I am very tempted. Given that they are on pre-order though, I think I'll hang tight and wait to see if we get any news on the gpus in the meantime.
 
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