Is it worth getting a GTX 1080 Now and other stupid questions?

[hobib_ali]

If it helps you decide, I went from a EVGA GTX780 FTW to my Inno3D X3 1070 and in some games the 1070 is around double the performance of the 780. It's a huge jump in performance while giving a massive drop in power consumption. With my old 780 my whole pc had a maximum power draw at the wall of 452w. With the 1070 I don't even hit 280w at the wall!!

how do you know that? how do you measure the power draw from your wall socket? to see how much current your pulling out?

 

[Caracus2k]

how do you know that? how do you measure the power draw from your wall socket? to see how much current your pulling out?

It doesn't take much work on the internet to find a pass through power socket adaptor that (amongst other things) can tell you how many watts whatever attached to it is pulling! You can walk into a popular high street electrical shop and buy one as well if you want!

As others have said a 1070 is a smart upgrade from a 780, 980ti's still too close to cheaper 1070's to be a firm recommend especially as there's little performance wise between pascal gpu's of the same series and as such not much to gain going for the more expensive variants

 

[pastymuncher]

how do you know that? how do you measure the power draw from your wall socket? to see how much current your pulling out?

You can buy a power monitor that plugs into the socket and you then plug your pc power lead into that and it tells you the wattage you are pulling as well as the amps and some other things. They are widely available for £10-15. I have a Zalman ZM-MFC2 multi function controller which can give you live power draw figures. It works exactly the same way as the plug in ones apart from all I have to do to see what I am pulling is look at the display on the front of my case instead of getting down on my hands and knees to look at the socket.

 

[Phage]

Seen this ? X34A monitor for less than that ROG

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/b-gr...er-wide-zeroframe-curved-led-m-bg-069-ac.html

 

[xentas]

As far as performance and value is concerned, the 1070 is probably a better choice, it is faster than the 980ti even if it is a little more expensive and the 1070 also has more memory as well. there are more positives than negatives to a 1070 than a 980ti.

in a few years you can move up to a full 4k card but the 1070 may give you the legs you need for games that the 980ti may not be able to provide. it all depends on you.

 

[Loosecannon]

Seen this ? X34A monitor for less than that ROG

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/b-gr...er-wide-zeroframe-curved-led-m-bg-069-ac.html

And seeing the posts about issues with acer on this forum, you can bet they have coil whine, blacklight bleed problems or dead pixels...

 

[Bluntwrapped]

But OP never said anything about 4K.
You'll always be waiting for the next NVidia offering and buying overpriced old/outdated tat

I think we're a long way off of doing 4K well at a reasonable price (ie, not sli Titan X) so most would be better off sticking with 1440p which seems to be the sweet spot.

He never did, but you could argue spending so much on a brand new GPU would be a silly thing to do unless you're pushing multi monitors or gaming on a high res single monitor setup.

The previous gen cards cope perfectly well with 1440. Where is the sense at throwing £500-800 at something when the £250 option will be perfectly suitable.

 

[yoyo59]

Personally I'd get a 2nd hand 980Ti, OC it if you really need to (or under-TDP it to ~70% if you want to stay under 150W of power/heat) and spend the remaining £300+ on something else, unless you really need that extra 25% fps right now.

When you've decided on a bigger/better monitor, reassess then.

EVGA make quality kit though, if you must...

second hand 980tis seem to be more money than new ones as of late

 

[oldestgregg]

If you are spending that much I would try and stretch my budget to the X34 Predator

This. My 1080 powers my X34 just fine and Gsync makes up for times with low FPS by smoothing the lower framerates.

 

[Simon Belmont]

EVGA GTX1080 FTW and my Acer X34A are absolutely amazing. I'll be extremely happy for many years to come.

 

[atomic7431]

EVGA GTX1080 FTW and my Acer X34A are absolutely amazing. I'll be extremely happy for many years to come.

What frame do you get on games like bf4, ashes of the singularity, no mans sky etc?

thanks

 

[Kaapstad]

So I've got some money to burn currently so I figured I might as well get one of the new 1080 as there at least slightly better than my current 780. Also it might go with a new GSync monitor I might get in a few months(in the meantime I could downsample).

So are there any good reasons not to get one now, like new cards coming, drop in prices or are the 1080s just bad.

Is this a good card or are there better ones for a similar price?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...s-graphics-card-08g-p4-6286-kr-gx-300-ea.html

Are there problems running two monitors of different resolutions on the cards(I know there used to be)?

If you have got the money to spare go for it.

That is one of the better 1080s in your link.

 

[oldestgregg]

What frame do you get on games like bf4, ashes of the singularity, no mans sky etc?

thanks

Decent framerates and Gsync means that even when its under 60fps its still smooth with no tearing.

I'm playing the new Deus ex game which is very demanding and only had to knock a couple of settings down from ultra to have it smooth as butter. Gsync is a must for me now and I couldnt live without it TBH

 

[Calabi]

Well I've ordered the 1080, it better be good otherwise your all in trouble.

Thanks everyone.