GeForce 770 upgrade?

[MattyK]

Hi all,

With Black Friday fast approaching, I'm toying with the idea of upgrading my GTX770 to a GTX970.

My current setup is:
5820K - Stock
Asus Sabertooth motherboard
16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM
256GB Samsung EVO SSD
2GB EVGA GTX770 SC SuperClocked

I primarily play Planetside 2 at a resolution of 2560*1440 and find that it is bottlenecking on the GPU front.

Sooo, my question - in light of the new GPUs on the horizon (about 5 months away I think?), would you upgrade to a GTX970 to see you through or would you hold off and spend a chunk of cash later?
I appreciate we don't know whether the next gen of Nvidia kit will be all singing and dancing.
I am looking at sticking with team green - purely based on personal experience of having AMD cards failing on me.
I've set myself a mental budget of £250 to spend on a Black Friday deal should one appear.

Curious on peoples thoughts and advice.
Thanks!

 

[Insanties_birth]

I'd say get over it and get a 390 as it's simply the better card. After all if you're saying you're going to be selling this card very shortly anyway when the next cards go out then it's not going to even be something you put up with for long. If that really is out of the question though then I wouldn't waste money on a 970 for 1440p as it handles it decently but there's really just no point in losing the money to have a card that can't really make full use of the res in my opinion (others may disagree as it could still benefit slightly in the mean time).

Big picture is it sounds like you're going to go with Nvidia when they release the new cards as this is the best option but I'd say just give AMD a try in the mean time. It's not going to kill you and you'll get the Nvidia card when you sell it for the new stuff later anyway but the 970 just risks missing out on having the vram for that resolution in some games. Performance over brand.

 

[Simon Belmont]

I'd say get over it and get a 390 as it's simply the better card. After all if you're saying you're going to be selling this card very shortly anyway when the next cards go out then it's not going to even be something you put up with for long. If that really is out of the question though then I wouldn't waste money on a 970 for 1440p as it handles it decently but there's really just no point in losing the money to have a card that can't really make full use of the res in my opinion (others may disagree as it could still benefit slightly in the mean time).

Big picture is it sounds like you're going to go with Nvidia when they release the new cards as this is the best option but I'd say just give AMD a try in the mean time. It's not going to kill you and you'll get the Nvidia card when you sell it for the new stuff later anyway but the 970 just risks missing out on having the vram for that resolution in some games. Performance over brand.

I just downgraded from a Titan X to the new Gigabyte Xtreme GTX 970 with a 1440p Asus Swift G-Sync and it runs great. 4gb of vram doesn't seem to be a issue. Tested nearly 20 games and they all run great. Why spend the extra £130 or for a 980. I would say if you can wait a few months then hold out until pascal. That's what I'm doing.

 

[rtho782]

If 4GB on the Fury X is enough for 4k, 3.5GB is enough for 1440p.

I have a friend with a 970 running a RoG Swift perfectly adequately.

 

[nashathedog]

The 770 certainly is the weak link in that rig, personally I'd be going top end but waiting is a good idea so if you really can't manage with the 770 go for a 970 if you won't touch AMD. I'd go 390 but that's me.

 

[MattyK]

Thanks for the replies all.
Appreciate everyones view.

I upgraded my whole rig not that long ago - went from an I7 920 & Gigabyte UD5 mobo. Served me well but felt that it was struggling. So went for X99.

But of course, now I notice the 770 holding me back!

I don't upgrade as much as I would like - so I tend to do big upgrades (went from a GTX280 > GTX770 previously!)

Admittedly it's been a fair while since I've used AMD cards, but the 3 I had previously all had something fail. Nvidia has always been solid for me. As I say, personal experience.

 

[rtho782]

If you can live with it, it should be late Q1/early Q2 2016 we see 14/16nm shrinks (e.g pascal).

That's going to be a big leap forward, we've been on 28nm 4 years.

I know you can always say "wait for the thing around the corner" but it seems a shrink is now only twice a decade..