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780ti or wait?

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Hey all, getting paid tomorrow and I can get a 780ti for 199.

I was wondering if this is a good buy? Or shall I wait for the new amd line up
Currently game at 1080p but thinking of switching to 1440p.

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Are you looking to pay over 300 for a gpu? If not, you can safely buy now while the deals are going on. I wouldn't buy the 780ti though, the older Nvidia cards lag behind faster than AMD ones as time passes. I'd look at the cheap 290x deals instead.
 
I probably would spend more, but there are so many deals right now, i could just get a 290x and grab another in a few months - but i've never cf'd before so it would be a new thing to me, then there's buying a new PSU to support it...

Any good advice? I have no idea what to do!
 
Wait unfortunately. Let the prices settle a bit after the release of the new AMD jobbies and then see what card suits your requirements.
Incidentally, I went from a 290x 8gb to a 780ti and find the 780ti a better card "for the games I play", company of heroes, (which'll run on vitually anything, Homeworld remastered and Crysis 3.) Newer games would/might be more problematic due to Vram issues and maybe insufficient grunt, but to find out, ....you have to wait and see.
 
If you can get a 780Ti for that price, bite their hand off! New cards coming out won't affect any prices, at that price level. It all boils down to what you want to spend.

And Don't listen to nonsense about Nvidia leaving Kepler behind blah blah, they've just had a blip in the recent drivers for the last 2 months or so that have **** over all Nvidia cards :-)
The 780Ti is still very powerful, and overclocks really well making it even more so. But cooling is a bit of an issue on the reference boards.

By the way, I currently use 2x 780Ti at 1440p with Gsync, and had a Titan X for a while, so I know my Nvidia onions.
 
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At that price, it's worth. My 780 (none ti) I just sold kicked arse at 1080p. And cost me a fair whack more when I first got it. So I can only imagine the ti just shining through.
 
A 290X is on par with a gtx 970 and should have more life in it than a 780ti due to the 4gb VRAM. Many people complaining about poorer performance of the 780ti with newer drivers. Check out some reviews and then decide.

If going for a 290X try getting an aftermarket cooler version, the AMD blower type is noisy.
 
I wouldn't get either, Wait for AMD's next gen or buy Nvidia's newer gen. I'd prefer a 970 over a 780ti even if it is a few frames slower in most games. It's not a noticeable difference and Maxwell is the better architecture which will have support for longer and it'll keep it's value better now so when it's time for you to sell on you're selling something that's a generation newer.
 
290x but if ur considering two cards my opinion changes as at the moment there is a few probs with xfire profiles being abit slow to be released with new games. Other than that nothing wrong with AMD drivers. I'd hang on if your going to spend more than 300 quid as you could bag a good card frm AMD for the price possibly.
 
A 290x for 180 is imo a no-brainer, so long as it's not reference. I disagree with people saying to wait, there's no way prices will shift much more than what they are now, more likely you'll have a harder time finding these deals on the old cards as they will be replaced with new stock which will have slightly better performance but much higher prices.

Why I wouldn't recommend the 780ti: It's more expensive, it has near equal performance to the 290x or worse, and has 1gb less vram & there's the Kepler debacle (which, intended or not, is a spot against it unlike for the 290x). The only reason to buy it is if you're a die hard Nvidia fan.
 
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At £199 it presents a very good power to performance ratio. As excited as reviewers got about the 970 and 980 they really weren't that much faster than the TI and Titan Black. Maybe 10% on a good day. I know the 970 and 980 overclock better than the 780 series but I personally don't overclock, I just stick on a EVGA bios and leave it there.

GPUs are expensive enough, last thing I like doing is shortening the life of them.
 
That is a good price for that card but it is impossible too say don't wait as cards tend too always get cheaper. If the deal is going too still be available after the release of the new cards then there wont be any harm in waiting if not then I would be tempted too get one now
 
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