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Anyone still on GTX980/ti and what you doing?

JonnyG1982

JonnyG1982

JonnyG1982

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O dear, this has not gone to plan at all.

I use to upgrade pretty much every year or even side grade (especially graphics cards) from around 2001-2014. Maybe a combination of getting older, overclocking no longer been so fun, gaming less, games not requiring upgrades etc slowed this down.

I didnt jump immediately on the Gtx900 series and held off. When the GTX1080 came out i didnt think it was much of a performance improvement over the GTX980ti which i could get at a great price so i bought that around summer 2016 for £340 (that's an EOL deal Nvidia) with the idea been i would get a RTX2000 card at launch.

On we go a few years the RTX2000 comes out, massive disappointment. Only real upgrade was the RTX2080ti but look at that price! Right, ill have to hold off longer...

On we go a few years more, aaaaa how refreshing the RTX3080 looks, brilliant performance at the correct price, at last im going to treat myself to a proper upgrade after all these years, TAKE MY MONEY! Nope, shortages, crypto, scalpers,ultimately leading to ridiculous prices another disaster. Best solution was pre built system but when finally found decent price in August 2021 i thought, Ive waited this long, I may as well wait now for the RTX4000 series.

On we go a few years. Finally 2 years after RTX3000 launch, prices dropping to MRSP but why would i pay MRSP on 2 year on tech? No worries, RTX4000 will rescue us....nope its Turing prices all over again and worse.

So here I am, and probably many others thinking "Well thats just ****ing great!" Either pay MRSP for 2 year old tech or pay £1300+ for a true 4080 card that we all expected/hoped would be around £650-800.

Nvidia clearly decided it wants to charge higher and higher premium now and know they can probably sell enough at stupid prices for ridiculous profit while minimizing damage on the large amount of RTX3000 cards still available to be sold which of course they can now keeping selling at that BARGAIN MRSP all these years later.

I feel right over the barrel as having not upgraded (gpu) in about 6 years or bought the top dog card (excluding titans) in about 8 years i've truly had enough waiting. I side graded from a I7-920 to 2500k sandy like 10 years ago so my system more or less is a decade old. Im still on windows 7. Im expecting something to give up the ghost soon.

I got the money, im sure many do, its the dam principle that puts me off buying anything. Hoping AMD do us a favour and get some news out there that they'll offer similar performance to the RTX4000 series but at a much improved price.

Thats my rant over, thanks x
 
I'm still on a 980ti mainly from
  • Not gaming much
  • Then not really able to afford to upgrade anyway
  • Back to not gaming that much
  • Then to £1500 budget for 4000 series
  • Feeling underwhelmed by 4000 series and annoyed at Nvidia attempting to normalise insane prices to try and keep their profit margins and share price high now that miners are gone.
I'm waiting for AMD but if Intel launched the A770 before then I would probably just buy one instead.


Nothing is really coming out anytime soon that really needs a new GPU anyway
 
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970 user. I need an upgrade for the 3D work I do for fun, as well as gaming.

I don't think I'm prepared to go through the nonsense of juggling texture map sizes in substance painter again or praying that painter doesn't crash on export due to my GPU. So i may just settle for a second hand 3060 12GB or 3060ti, depending on prices; if new GPUs are terrible in pricing.
 
Why don't you go for a 3060ti or a 3070? Big step up over what you have, no need for a flagship card nowadays.

Prices for the 4000 cards are frankly ridiculous. And the same can be said for the prev generations too. They'll only go up from here.
 
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I picked up a Gigabyte XtremeGaming 980ti from OCUK on a special deal at the end of production. Stuck on a custom BIOS and added a watercooling block and was happy until BF2042 came out.

I game mainly in surround mode using 3 x 1080p screens at 5760 x 1080, the 980ti gave me over 60fps in BF4, BF1 and BFV but just can't cut it in BF2042.

I've been tempted by a 1080ti but feel I need to make the jump to at least a 2080 super or ti to get over 60fps on my setup.

I upgraded the CPU and motherboard early this year to a Z590 and 11400F which gave me a small bump in FPS in BF2042 and made it much smoother.
 
When my nephew is at home he games on a Maxwell Titan - essentially a high VRAM 980 Ti. I know he plays Mount and Blade and the turn based historical stratey games by Paradox. He has fun. If you're still having fun then do you really need to upgrade?
 
Ideally, I would have liked to have waited until the 4000/RDA3 series of cards was out, but in the end,
purchasing during early summer suited my circumstances/budget.

So far, I've been quite pleased with it though I only entertained picking an FE model as most of the AIB cards were even higher priced.
 
Still using my 980ti since 2017 which I bought second hand for £310, I'm not dying to upgrade because I don't/can't play as much as I'd like (2 yr old son and certain shifts at work) and also the games I play aren't super demanding.
I'm a fan of older FPS titles (boomer shooters if you will) and the occasional racing game Forza etc I run all this on a 1440p 144hz monitor and honestly the 980ti is sound, the only game it's struggled on for me personally is doom eternal the ancient god's dlc, even on low settings I'm not entirely satisfied..so I'm leaving it until I eventually upgrade.

There's so many variables to this situation I think, life commitments go hand in hand with game time, actual GAMES you play that make the most out of your hardware and then the principal of selling your left bollok to pay for a top GPU..no thanks I'll wait.
 
I find I don't have the time to game much, as a result I got out of the mentality of having to have the latest. I want to upgrade my system because I do a bit of video editing and would like to try some AI stuff too. If RDNA3 prices aren't great then I will consider a second hand nvidia 3 series. I'm in absolutely no rush to upgrade. Any games I'm interested in seem a while off and even then it is only a couple of games.
 
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I was using my old 980ti while i rma'd a 5700xt and thought it was better / smoother. Eventually replaced with a 3700 and really dont notice the difference tbh. Playing bf2042 and gtav mainly.
 
Damn, what that when the GTX 980 Ti came out? June 2015... I remember all the hype for the EVGA Kingpin for that model. It was costly though. Gorgeous heatsink though.

 
I've had approx. 8 different 980 Ti's they were a fantastic card of its time and I will always have great respect for the 980 Ti 6gb Vram back in the day was fantastic and matched the previous 'Titan' I agree with what others have said I'm sure you could pick up a 3060 Ti for £350 ish and whilst it maybe MSRP its still a great card for the price leading into 2023 and many more features than the 980 Ti.
 
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I got the money, im sure many do, its the dam principle that puts me off buying anything.
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Agree.

I have a 970 for 1080p and retro gaming. Works just fine, no real reason to upgrade.
I have a 1080ti for 1440p gaming. Works just fine, no real reason to upgrade.

Unless AMD have some cheap rabbits to pull out of their hats, I'll be staying where I am for a few more years yet.
 
GTX 1080 here. I game at 1440p and am just going to get ME Legendary going next as it can still handle that while waiting for Nov 3rd before I hit anything more demanding.

If the madness hadn't have happened I may have looked at a 3080 but that didn't happen.

Have been tempted by the 6800/XT but I may as well wait now.
 
I sold my 980 Ti and regret it. It was a great card. However, the RTX 3070's are pretty cheap now, and I game at 120 hertz from dusk-till-dawn on it. Drivers improved and latency is pretty good online. I would not bother with 4080 (4070), 4080 16 gig or 4090 RTX, unless you want your electrics to explode...
 
2 x 980 from my last build. There's a few games I really want to play but need to upgrade for, so although my current games run just fine on it, I'm holding off on purchases due to needing to sort my hardware out first.
 
Not strictly using my 980ti Strix in my primary build; have it temporarily installed in my sibling's computer until we can grab a decently priced 3070/ti. Prior to that, 980ti has been sat dormant as a reliable backup GPU. Still runs many games up on 1080p/1440p with respectable FPS and reasonable settings
 
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Not a 980ti but I recently purchased a 6600 second hand and it looks to perform similarly. Gaming on a 1440p screen but I've not really played any PC games in the last 5 years if not longer so I'm going to play older games for now myself.
 
I had a GTX 970 at 1550mhz (ASUS STRIX)
When the demo for RE Village came out, it showed me the card was capable but on it's last legs at 1080P and driving quality visuals at 60 FPS.


And here emulating PGR (XBOX 360) The 970 struggled.


Even though GPU utilization is not that high in the emulation video, it won't draw any more from it to fulfill the 30 FPS framerate due to lacking newer technology that the emulator was using at the time, it might have improved support now but back then.. nahh..

Plus I moved to 1440P, Went to a 5700-XT then, 2060 then 3070 where I will be staying for a very long time.


I would assume 980 Ti users especially won't see such a drop off just yet but 980 users will, the 970 overclocked could match and even overcome the stock 980.
 
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