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Advice for GPU Upgrade for VR Rig

kjtaylor13

kjtaylor13

kjtaylor13

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Hi All,

I'm currently running 2 x Asus 980 Strix OC's in SLI. I'm looking for some advice on what to going forward about GPU's

My Main Rig is specced as so:
  • HD-296-SE Seagate SSHD 5900RPM 3.5" 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST4000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive
  • MY-203-KS Kingston HyperX Savage Red 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK4/32)
  • CA-157-CS Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW)
  • CP-539-IN Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
  • MB-608-AS Asus Maximus VII Hero Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
  • HS-014-CS Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060008-WW)
  • GX-354-AS Asus GeForce GTX 980 DirectCU II OC Strix 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  • GX-354-AS Asus GeForce GTX 980 DirectCU II OC Strix 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  • HD-027-KS Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/240G)
  • CD-004-OK OcUK Value Blu-ray / DVDRW combi SATA - OEM
  • CA-156-CS Corsair RM Series RM 1000 '80+ Gold' 1000W Power Supply (CP-9020062-UK)
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And I mainly run VR for my Oculus Rift, have Touch and a number of other controllers, and have a 2k 144hz ASUS ROQ monitor. But would like to stream 4k games via my Shield TV Also. I would like to run my games at the best graphics settings possible.

Would a Single Pascal based GPU be better than my current SLI setup? If I were to go from 2 980's to the current 1080 Asus Strix OC running as a single card would I notice any improvement in performance?

Should I wait for the 1080ti? How much of an improvement would this be over the current 1080 Strix?

Thanks all for your advice.

Cheers

Kevin
 
Hi,

Thanks Guys for the advice. I have since done a bit more reading, and there is only limited use of the NVidia VR works at the moment. So Pascal only offers a small improvement for VR for me.

I will wait to see what the new GPU's announced this year offer.

Thanks Again

Kevin
 
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