Are there any rumours as to when the next Nvidia GPUs will be released?

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I don't really read many hardware tech sites so don't often manage to keep up to date with rumours etc. I was wondering if there was any information out for when Nvidia will be releasing new GPUs?

It seems a bit silly to upgrade at this point since the new GPUs will be released at some point and I imagine that the speed increase will be quite good compared to what I have at the moment in terms of graphics cards.

The Nvidia 980Ti looks cool at the moment but obviously if I can wait for a few months until Nvidia release a new generation of GPUs then I can get an even better GPU for the same price.

 

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you still have another 4months at least for nvidia, and AMD probably late summer

OK. Not too bad then. Especially as I have to wait for new Intel CPUs anyway. Plus it'll give me time to save up some more money to get an even better system.

 

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It would be a longer while for Intel to release the next CPU gen, considering they only launched Skylake/Z170 platform not that long ago.

Untrue.

Intel are due to release Broadwell-E in Q1 2016 and the rumours say that the top end CPU will be a 10 core / 20 thread CPU which will be a significant upgrade to my Sandybridge-E which is 6 core / 12 thread (i7 3930k).

I do a lot of stuff that requires a lot of threads so upgrading will be a huge boost to my productivity.

 

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Is it worthwhile upgrading to X99 board and 5820k CPU?

I wouldn't at the moment given that Broadwell-E is going to be released shortly (Q1 2016) which is the successor to Haswell-E and also uses X99 motherboards.

 

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Interesting thread, i'm on 2500k and a Z77 is there much point upgrading? I play games at 1080p currently, though will probably upgrade to 1440p this year. My '4 years old in April' system doesn't seem to be struggling, although I was thinking about doing a whole system upgrade this year.

Monitor - RAM - CPU - MOBO - GPU.

The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading my system is because it feels like it is on its last legs.

One hard drive has failed. The system randomly locks up at times and it is really noisy. I'm sure I could fix the problems with the system with a bit of work and some cash but if I upgraded to a whole new system I could use my current system as a spare for running Linux virtual machines or something.

I'm definitely looking to upgrade my graphics cards though although I doubt I'll go Crossfire or SLI this time around. It is just more things that could possibly go wrong.

For the record here are my current system specs:

Intel i7 3930k running at 4.4Ghz
2x AMD 7950 in Crossfire
1x 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
1x 2TB Seagate HDD
16GB DDR3 1666Mhz RAM
Asus Sabertooth X79 Motherboard
Blu-ray reader / DVD writer

 

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I honestly cannot see anywhere in that setup where one would think they were on their "last legs" o_O Okay, you GPUs are pretty old, replacing them with dual 970s/a 980ti/ dual 390s or something would work well.. but the rest of your system would likely see little benefit with an upgrade, depending on what it is you use it for

When I said it was on its last legs I didn't mean spec wise (I know I should really be good for another year or two at least with my current CPU) I meant that the system was unstable under Windows. I get complete freezes in Windows every now and again and I'm positive it is because I have some dodgy hardware somewhere.

New GPUs would be awesome (hence the reason I started this thread asking for when the new ones will be released) but I thought I might as well upgrade the whole system when Intel release the Broadwell-E CPUs in Q1 2016 and get a free CPU upgrade at the same time.

Hopefully that'll sort the whole system out. The next system I want to build I want to be as damn near silent as possible which is a new requirement for me. When I built my current system I didn't really care about noise I just put the maximum number of fans in to keep it as cool as possible without worrying about noise. This time will be different (although I'm not skilled enough to do water cooling unfortunately).