2nd Titan X madness at this stage?

Wulfster · 15 Apr 2016 at 17:22

As the title says, 2nd Titan X now for sli sheer folly or gaming jolly?

Best

Wulf

P.S. Anyone know if evga pro v2 3 way bridge would span pcie1 to pcie4 (recommended by MSI for sli at 16x, 16x) on MSI Godlike? :confused:

Mtom · 15 Apr 2016 at 18:44

Yes.
The price will nosedive when Pascal comes out, so you lose a lot of £
If Pascal is better in DX12 and async compute, the Maxwell optimization for games will be on the second row as well

Radox-0 · 15 Apr 2016 at 18:51

I would proberbly wait at this stage.

For the bridge its 80mm spacing from E1 to E4 so yea the 3 way evga bridge spans the distance, will just leave the middle fingers unused.

tommybhoy · 15 Apr 2016 at 18:56

Madness....

Radox-0 said:
middle finger

Is what Devs give to mgpu.

JediFragger · 15 Apr 2016 at 19:30

Wait to see if the new Ti's are indeed launched with the other cards in June at least imo...

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Apr 2016 at 19:36

I would probably hold out until the new cards are out. I would expect a GTX1080 would be quicker than a Titan X too,and you will probably get some money back if you sell it at the correct time.

Reality|Bites · 16 Apr 2016 at 07:04

What games are you playing that your TX is struggling with?

whyscotty · 16 Apr 2016 at 07:20

Reality|Bites said:
What games are you playing that your TX is struggling with?

Minecraft

Wulfster · 16 Apr 2016 at 08:49

Thanks for all the answers guys and being the voices of reason

Upgrade itch can be a terrible mistress

. Not really struggling with any games but will be moving to curved widescreen. Again, think I need to sit tight and see if new cards bring anything new to the table connection wise (DP1.3?).

Best

Wulf

JediFragger · 16 Apr 2016 at 10:33

Wulfster said:
Thanks for all the answers guys and being the voices of reason

Upgrade itch can be a terrible mistress . Not really struggling with any games but will be moving to curved widescreen. Again, think I need to sit tight and see if new cards bring anything new to the table connection wise (DP1.3?).

Best

Wulf

I'm getting by with a single clocked Ti fine tbh, with a few non-essential settings turned down for Division . You won't struggle

Dicehunter · 16 Apr 2016 at 13:31

With the rumoured specs of the 1080 I'd definitely wait as you'll probably get better performance than a 980 Ti/Titan X at a lower price than both.

TonyTurbo78 · 16 Apr 2016 at 13:48

wouldn't go anywhere near Sli or Crossfire these days, it's one big lie, worst it's ever been right now, support is so bad for it, and I'm a crossfire user. Last time I'll have two gpus in my rig.

Cooper · 16 Apr 2016 at 14:29

TonyTurbo78 said:
wouldn't go anywhere near Sli or Crossfire these days, it's one big lie, worst it's ever been right now, support is so bad for it, and I'm a crossfire user. Last time I'll have two gpus in my rig.

Lol, I wish I had a pound everytime someone on here said how bad SLI is, not only would I be able to buy a 3rd card & upgraded PSU for tri-sli with the proceeds, I'd be having an even better experience with SLI.

Dark Souls 3 being the latest example, 60fps, maxed out, 2880x1620 resolution, smooth as you like.

Yes thank you, more of that please.

oldestgregg · 16 Apr 2016 at 14:46

Cooper said:
Lol, I wish I had a pound everytime someone on here said how bad SLI is, not only would I be able to buy a 3rd card & upgraded PSU for tri-sli with the proceeds, I'd be having an even better experience with SLI.

Dark Souls 3 being the latest example, 60fps, maxed out, 2880x1620 resolution, smooth as you like.

Yes thank you, more of that please.

MGPU is probably better supported than 21.9 at this point. Speaking from experience here with the last new 3 games Ive attempted to play in 3440x1440

peterhc · 16 Apr 2016 at 14:56

I am running 980 in sli, and so far experience have not been great. Been playing division a lot and I get funny freezes and sometimes I get chucked out of game. BF4 nice and smooth but don't play that as much nowadays. I was hoping for around 80% scaling but all I get is around 50%, plus heat=noise. Considering selling both cards and get like Ti or maybe new gpu of nvidia.

Kaapstad · 16 Apr 2016 at 15:19

Wulfster said:
Thanks for all the answers guys and being the voices of reason

Upgrade itch can be a terrible mistress . Not really struggling with any games but will be moving to curved widescreen. Again, think I need to sit tight and see if new cards bring anything new to the table connection wise (DP1.3?).

Best

Wulf

Wait for the new cards to arrive and then pick up a second hand TitanX cheap.

Gibbo · 17 Apr 2016 at 09:16

Mtom said:
Yes.
The price will nosedive when Pascal comes out, so you lose a lot of £
If Pascal is better in DX12 and async compute, the Maxwell optimization for games will be on the second row as well

The price won't go down, they are only going up, a few months ago we had them sub £800 and now they are closer to £1000 and still selling out. There won't be any price nosediving on Titans, if anything they will go up, not down.

DarrenM343 · 17 Apr 2016 at 09:21

Gibbo, why is that? Simple supply/demand, possibly as more switch to 4k? Currency changes?
I can't think of any other product, and especially tech product, where the price actually rises mid-lifecyle to end of lifecylce

. It's still a top product of course but been ont he market now for about a year.
I was an early adopter and paid I think £949 so surprised to see the prices still at that level.

Silent_Scone · 17 Apr 2016 at 09:30

TITAN prices have always held well compared to other products

Caracus2k · 17 Apr 2016 at 13:16

Gibbo said:
The price won't go down, they are only going up, a few months ago we had them sub £800 and now they are closer to £1000 and still selling out. There won't be any price nosediving on Titans, if anything they will go up, not down.

Its a bit like older memory (DDR2 etc) it can actually be quite expensive to buy new once its pretty much EOL due to supply/ demand and due to it being expensive for retailers to stock it due to low turnover and demand.

Back to the Titan X...

as for what you get for it on the MM used well that's a different story......

The older Titans held a fairly decent resale value partly because of their relatively decent compute power (Double precision performance particularly), not something the Titan X can boast about...

If the 1080(ti?) of whatever Nvidia call it comes out and can put some distance between itself and the Titan X performance wise expect used prices for the Titan X to take a big dive.

Silent_Scone said:
TITAN prices have always held well compared to other products

As above this time around the Titan X only has to its credit a name and more memory. Its not really in the same class as the mark one Titan, Titan Black and Titan Z

Unless your using Titans in SLI they are almost a complete waste of money as the card does not have enough GPU power on its own to need 12gb of memory and well clocked 980Ti's can match overclocked performance of a Titan X with half the memory and much less initial outlay price wise in most scenarios

I have to say that the tail end of 28nm graphics cards has been a terrible time for price cuts in existing lines.... just look at the prices even now for 970's still going for similar prices to Launch back in 2014!!!

Just looked at a Hexus review for a Gigabyte G1 that showed it was sold at launch for under £290. OCUK have it up for a penny under £300 (but no stock) nearly a year and a half later!

I have not known such price stagnation in the GPU market before