** THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: GTX 980 & GTX 980Ti SUPER 48HR SALE!! **

[StrongSad]

My mates looking to buy a card tonight, what do you reckon guys? Get a 980Ti, or the G1 1070 with a free 700w PSU for £419? Then sell the PSU to get some cash back..

G1 and flog psu would be my choice

Exact;y that

 

[Boomstick777]

That GTX 980 for £199 is good deal for sure.

 

[charlief]

Are we gonna see any more gtx 980 deals?. Just got back into pc gaming and my trusty gtx 660 doesn't cut it

 

[tyler_jrb]

980Ti's bargain at that price 20% slower than 1080's for half the money.

 

[whyscotty]

^^^

This

 

[Jono8]

Indeed. £300 for a new 980Ti is a good price.

 

[jimferno]

I'd buy a 980Ti @ £300 but I need one shorter than 290mm to fit my case. First world problems.

 

[Gibbo]

PRICES GO BACK UP 9AM TOMORROW!!

 

[YoungBlood]

I'd buy a 980Ti @ £300 but I need one shorter than 290mm to fit my case. First world problems.

First world solutions.

Spoiler

 

[mahius]

Gnnggggh.

That Gigy 980ti extreme is fluttering it's lashes at me and it's hard to resist.
My 970 is still cutting the mustard and I know that the 980ti is older tech and will get binned by Nvidia as soon as they can and I know that the 1070 is the smart choice and newer tech, but the price difference is quite marked.

Do I stay 970? Do I go 980ti? Do I pay even more than I'd like for newer tech? Ideally I'd like to see what AMD can do at the higher end but as the 980ti offer ends today, I have to defecate or get off the pot.

Help a procrastinating brother out.

As a 970 owner, I couldn't resist. And honestly there's not much point in having a 980ti for me, since my curremnt screen is 1080p60 anyway. But I've got the cash to spare and it will help maintain 60fps in those tricky newer games at least. That and I can always DSR 1440p.

Go for it if you feel you've got the disposable income. Otherwise, be patient, 1070s aren't the best option at their current prices.

Edit:

I'd buy a 980Ti @ £300 but I need one shorter than 290mm to fit my case. First world problems.

The MSI Gaming 980ti I ordered is 182mm. My current case config has 280mm space with hard drive bays used up. Which will make things tricky, I need the hard drive cages since it's in use. My current 970 fits well under at 230ish.

 

[scritchyrat]

As a 970 owner, I couldn't resist. And honestly there's not much point in having a 980ti for me, since my curremnt screen is 1080p60 anyway. But I've got the cash to spare and it will help maintain 60fps in those tricky newer games at least. That and I can always DSR 1440p.

Go for it if you feel you've got the disposable income. Otherwise, be patient, 1070s aren't the best option at their current prices.

I won't lie, the strongest reason for me wanting to buy is because I want to get something new. I don't want to upgrade the CPU yet (3570k) as that means RAM and a new motherboard, and the associated PITA that is updating W10 on a new mobo. I've got enough HDD space (all SSD) and I've no plans to get off 1080 120htz so it really only leaves the GPU.

I know the smart thing to do is be patient as you've said, but I'm not smart and I have the same amount of patience as Dr Harold Shipman.

Curse you Gibbo for extending the deal! I thought I was safe.

 

[jimferno]

First world solutions.

Spoiler

touché

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Id be snapping those Ti's up at that price instead of those 480s and 1060s.

 

[jimferno]

Id be snapping those Ti's up at that price instead of those 480s and 1060s.

A 980Ti @ £300 makes the 480/1060 @£250+ look very bad value for money indeed.

 

[danlightbulb]

A 980Ti @ £300 makes the 480/1060 @£250+ look very bad value for money indeed.

Although there is only 1 model at 300. The rest are 330 ish. And a 1070 can be had for 40 more. Such a difficult price point to make a choice in.

 

[Ree]

Although there is only 1 model at 300. The rest are 330 ish. And a 1070 can be had for 40 more. Such a difficult price point to make a choice in.

also the £300 one doesn't have free delivery so will be roughly £310 would be as well paying the extra tenner for the windforce and get the 3 year warranty as opposed to the 2 on the pny and of course for the extra tenner again it brings the msi, asus and evga into play.

 

[Princey]

I imagine it's not worth me going to a 980Ti from a standard 980 @ 1500MHz?

 

[DarrenM343]

A 980Ti @ £300 makes the 480/1060 @£250+ look very bad value for money indeed.

I'm not so sure. I'm looking at the EVGA SC @ £329.99 vs a FE 1070 at £399.99. The performance is the same or thereabouts, the efficiency is much better in the 1070 and the 1070 has the latest tech. I'm not sure still if the 980 Ti SC is worth it at £70 less - I think paying £70 extra is still better to get the 1070.

 

[Telecaster]

A Ti took my 520w PSU out in minutes, and someone in the Ti thread says he has problems with a 550w super flower.

Just hope all the people jumping on these Ti's check there PSU, I grabbed one of the £299 Ti's on offer the other day, it's shown here. Gaming Extreme.

Idle will take just 90w from the wall, it will tickle 400w at full load, but it's so damn powerfull that I can just put Vsync on and it drops the load on the GPU so drops the draw at the wall.
I wanted 60fps at 1440p ultra, does it in everything I have, and then some. Apart from The Division.
Boosts to 1215mhz on it's own.

Because it blew my PSU, I would have been beter off going for the Gigabyte 1070 - free PSU offer, as I had to get another PSU anyway now but at the time it was a £240 1060 or a £299 980ti

500w superflower here running a 1500+OC'd Ti no problems, haven't seen it get anywhere near 500w from the wall and it runs rock solid, Psu is even the passive model with no fan.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Hi all,

I've been debating all weekend between the founders edition 1070 with the free psu and the 980ti, having read a bit more today I feel it might be a better option to stretch to the G1, but I'm going to watercool it, so would be intersted in peoples opinions on whether it's still worth the extra £20 (basically whether the increased power draw will allow it to clock better)?