if your current 980Ti is working fine and allowing you to play the games that you want then don't upgrade. I am feeling now that the need to upgrade your GPU has diminished. 10-20 years ago I was having to upgrade more frequently as the games coming out needed more 3D performance and games would only work on the newest cards. One of my pc's still has a Fury in it and that runs all the latest games Ok for me on my 4k monitor. Additionally I don't want hardware ray tracing support as I cant see a difference.
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Bad time to upgrade 980ti?
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If you can sell your card then this is a worthy thing to do. Used GTX980Ti's seem to be selling for around £100. So paying an extra £400 for a 2070 seems of little benfit if your card card does what you want.
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2070 super is £430 and comes with COD that you can sell for £30.
So it's £300 not £400.
you also have to factor in warranty and speed increase, cooling and power draw.
what use is the warranty if the existing GPU is working fine? I don't really care about the power draw as the warm air coming from under my desk where my pc's are keeps me warm.
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electronics fail. what a weird thing to say. the gpu won't last forever. you have no idea when it will fail. best to sell and re-coup your money than it die and it's worthless.
Like i said before I sold my GTX 1080 only recently on ebay for just under £300. I had used it for 2+ years, it had no warranty. Best thing is I paid £385 for it second hand when it was around a year old.
So it cost me £100 to own it for just over 2 years. And it was covered under warranty for that time too.
It then only cost me £170 more to upgrade to the 2070 super.
Hopefully I get around £300 for that when I sell it too but this might be a card I keep for longer as it runs so cool, quiet and has more than enough power for me. It should last a long while as it's well built but it won't last forever.
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@TNA How long is 'soon' though? It could be 6 months, it could be 9. And who knows what it'll cost, don't nVidia normally release top-end cards first and then a few months later the rest of the range is fleshed-out?
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IIRC in previous years they've launched the titan, then a little later the x60, x70 and x80 first, then a couple of months later the x80 Ti comes along to give almost Titan performance but making sure to have first milked that sweet Titan cash out of a few enthusiastic early adopters... That may not have been the case with the 20 series though, I can't remember!
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While this is true, lets be honest here.
Sorry, but no way they will be a viable option over AMD or Nvidia. I would *love* to see it ,honestly I would, I just cannot see it happening is all.
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If waiting for a new GPU why not see if you can get more out of the ti. The 980 I had was great for tweaking. I think I spent more time playing with the bios than I did gaming lol. Huge gains to be had if you have the patience to do the reading and testing:
https://www.overclock.net/forum/69-...editing-thread-gtx-2xx-9xx-now-supported.html
https://www.overclock.net/forum/69-...editing-thread-gtx-2xx-9xx-now-supported.html