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But, but, but... just think of all the starving African babies that could eat that 980ti you heartless pig
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980ti or wait for pascal???
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But, but, but... just think of all the starving African babies that could eat that 980ti you heartless pig
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Is this a joke or do you genuinely believe a 980ti will be worth £400 in a years time?
I think he does.
lol
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I've just got a 980ti because my 750ti is poop for the latest games and I don't want to wait a year to play them. Buy what's relevant now and don't look back. I'm taking a massive leap in power but if your upgrading for 5fps etc then maybe it's something to consider. Also I have my cards for a minimum of a couple of year usually so thas another importannt factor
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I will be upgrading to the FULL fat GP100 when it emerges, Titan Variant. (Not fussed that Ti comes after blah blah blah) This mid-range Pascal is gonna be good but a measly side-grade for some especially with all the hassle of tearing down a custom loop.
Is this a joke or do you genuinely believe a 980ti will be worth £400 in a years time?
If they retail at £600 now i don't think £350 - £400 is impossible this time next year. There are a lot of daft people around who pay over the odds for things - Having sold items over the retail price on eBay a few times. A Q6600 overclocked bundle funded parts for an i5 760 bundle with change to spare.
Time will tell anyway
Evga 980 ti ordered. Need the power now as I should be getting a vive any day now and my 770 won't cut it. Even if I lose 100 in 6 months and 200 in a year, I can't wait that long for something to change. Just wish I had upgraded earlier!
I hate to be right
On a serious note, If you have waited you missed out on gaming time.
Waiting for Pascal turned out to be a bad move. And if you loose 100 quid over 6 months then so be it. (16 quid per month) who cares!
Quite frankly thats a lot of gaming time lost. And i know whats more important...Its time over money anyday
Enjoy your card.
I hate to be right
On a serious note, If you have waited you missed out on gaming time.
Waiting for Pascal turned out to be a bad move. And if you loose 100 quid over 6 months then so be it. (16 quid per month) who cares!
Quite frankly thats a lot of gaming time lost. And i know whats more important...Its time over money anyday
Enjoy your card.
Thanks looking forward to it
you're right, next time I'll be buying whatever is best for me when I need it and to hell with the rumour mill and next big thing round the corner crap!
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Thanks looking forward to it
Good lad!
have fun with it!
I hate to be right
On a serious note, If you have waited you missed out on gaming time.
Waiting for Pascal turned out to be a bad move. And if you loose 100 quid over 6 months then so be it. (16 quid per month) who cares!
Quite frankly thats a lot of gaming time lost. And i know whats more important...Its time over money anyday
Enjoy your card.
The people who will lose a lot of money are the ones waiting for mid range Pascal/Polaris !!!
They will have to pay for the new tech and then 6 months later big Pascal/Polaris will mean they will want to upgrade again.
It will be a bit like paying for a brand new GTX 980 only to find 6 months later they want to upgrade to a GTX 980 Ti.
Better to get a GTX 980 Ti now, enjoy your gaming and then get big Pascal/Polaris when it finally turns up.
Enjoy your card. Pascal seems a miss if that is their top specs for it https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/ , the mid range are not going to be great with all that DP back in and huge memory controller.
All with a 980ti seems we will be waiting for Volta unless the Pascal Ti is a reworked chip with the DP removed and more aimed at the gaming arena, this version of Pascal is nothing more than a compute device to compete with Intel Knights Landing.
I understand why Nvidia had to do that because their last compute card was the Kepler and they really needed to get back to making compute cards for their main market that makes them real money.
Have to say the new Pascal for compute looks great and really enjoyed their presentation on that apart from Jens nervousness while presenting, BUT for gaming these won't be a great update from Maxwell. Volta hopefully will show more gaming aimed features and then again generation after that again will be a compute card again. Unless Nvidia has some master plan to make a compute Pascal with DP and a mainstream version with DP removed and more cores but I doubt it as Jen clearly implied these cards were very hard to make and make them work. Then there is signs they have disabled many cores too on the GPU GP100, guessing that was because very few worked with 100% of the cores functioning and so binned them to a lower standard for the GP100. Who knows they may bring out a GP110 with all cores working as they did with the 780Ti and Titan Black.
All with a 980ti seems we will be waiting for Volta unless the Pascal Ti is a reworked chip with the DP removed and more aimed at the gaming arena, this version of Pascal is nothing more than a compute device to compete with Intel Knights Landing.
I understand why Nvidia had to do that because their last compute card was the Kepler and they really needed to get back to making compute cards for their main market that makes them real money.
Have to say the new Pascal for compute looks great and really enjoyed their presentation on that apart from Jens nervousness while presenting, BUT for gaming these won't be a great update from Maxwell. Volta hopefully will show more gaming aimed features and then again generation after that again will be a compute card again. Unless Nvidia has some master plan to make a compute Pascal with DP and a mainstream version with DP removed and more cores but I doubt it as Jen clearly implied these cards were very hard to make and make them work. Then there is signs they have disabled many cores too on the GPU GP100, guessing that was because very few worked with 100% of the cores functioning and so binned them to a lower standard for the GP100. Who knows they may bring out a GP110 with all cores working as they did with the 780Ti and Titan Black.
The people who will lose a lot of money are the ones waiting for mid range Pascal/Polaris !!!
They will have to pay for the new tech and then 6 months later big Pascal/Polaris will mean they will want to upgrade again.
It will be a bit like paying for a brand new GTX 980 only to find 6 months later they want to upgrade to a GTX 980 Ti.
Better to get a GTX 980 Ti now, enjoy your gaming and then get big Pascal/Polaris when it finally turns up.
Exactly, I never buy the mid range for that reason. I also feel ripped off knowing I don't have the full chip with all the features enabled. I've never purchased a mid range card for that reason, rather wait and buy the full chip or buy the previous generation full chip at a discount.
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Dont you risk loosing some feature support then, like DX12, and maybe no new drivers?
Won't be missing any real features, DX12 is not here or there yet and won't be for another year at least, game developers need to write new engines that make real use of DX12 not the bolted on stuff they are currently doing that makes no visual difference or performance difference yet (in some cases it's actually worse performance with DX12)..
With previous generation the drivers will be more mature and also you can still update drivers anyways and I never had a problem using latest drivers on old generations.
Also previous generations also have DX12 support in the form of DX11.3, but not full features of DX12 of course, by the time DX12 matures we will all be on new cards anyways with more/updated DX12 features on the hardware.
From what I understand of the DX12 tier system no graphics card currently has the full DX12 feature set anyways. They are drip feeding us again to milk us to keep updating..
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Kaap, you can't lose money waiting, it's still in your pocket.
Who's waiting for Pascal after yesterday silence?
You can if you make the wrong choices when you finally do buy.
980 was the full chip, as was 960. Of course Titan too
970 proved again that there are/can be problems with salvage parts, but you can buy mid-range and still get "the full chip".