GTX 980 / 970 Discussion

[dangel]

Would like to see AMD come up with something strong - ultimately this only pushes nvidia on pricing which would be great since GPUs having been 'car' money for a little while now..

Smuggling them into the house and keeping them off the books is bloody hard enough..

 

[LambChop]

Haha

I think they should be more worried about the 970 trading blows with their flagship at about half the power usage..

That's some serious ownage right there. I hope AMD come out strong with their next card..

Me too, keeps both teams on their toes.

 

[WalderX]

Smuggling them into the house and keeping them off the books is bloody hard enough..

Haha. I said to my wife last night "I'm buying a new PC" she said "oh its that time of year again, OK"

Woop woop!

 

[~Mike~]

^ lol

I hope AMD come out strong with their next card..

They need to.

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

I pretty thought the same thing - hopefully they're won't be a long wait and hopefully it'll be easy to tell which boards will fit them. Reference cards are always the easy choice..

970 might be "stubby" again, so non-ref would be better there (EVGA FTW again?).

980 ref will be fine, shame about having to ditch the cooler though

 

[dangel]

Haha. I said to my wife last night "I'm buying a new PC" she said "oh its that time of year again, OK"

Woop woop!

Oh well done you

I think i'd be fine if they're priced around 400 or so - I just don't want her to hear the THOUSAND word

 

[Simon Belmont]

Are these out today? What's the price?

 

[dangel]

970 might be "stubby" again, so non-ref would be better there (EVGA FTW again?).

980 ref will be fine, shame about having to ditch the cooler though

It's quite possible EVGA will use the 980 PCB for the 970 yes - it'd probably be a more stable card as a result for overlocking.

I could still go 2x970 if the 980 is extremely close to it - after all the 680 wasn't worth having over the 670.

 

[dangel]

Are these out today? What's the price?

No, and no idea. In that order

 

[chaparral]

I just don't want her to hear the THOUSAND word

I hate hearing that word or seeing that number when I am pricing something..

It Ok when it a house/car/motorbike/boat etc as it expected..

 

[TwsT]

it's quite possible the will use a 770 pcb too

wouldn't be the first time hehe

 

[WalderX]

Oh well done you

I think i'd be fine if they're priced around 400 or so - I just don't want her to hear the THOUSAND word

Yeah, I've already pretty much decided I'm going for the 970, unless it turns out to not be that amazing and OCUK put a mega deal on 290 or 780ti stock...

Getting an i7 and z97 board to go with it. Upgrade from AMD FM2 platform lolz

 

[rankftw]

Now I can't decide on 2 980s or one 980 and a ROG Swift >.<

 

[spot35]

wouldn't be the first time hehe

True

 

[TwsT]

1 and the swift get the 2nd one later

 

[Flying_Hellfish]

it's quite possible the will use a 770 pcb too

wouldn't be the first time hehe

is that a ?

 

[dangel]

Now I can't decide on 2 980s or one 980 and a ROG Swift >.<

Easy choice - one 980 + swift. It's a complete no brainer imho - love the swift.. Sometimes at night I sneak into the office just to see that red glow..

 

[dangel]

Yeah, I've already pretty much decided I'm going for the 970, unless it turns out to not be that amazing and OCUK put a mega deal on 290 or 780ti stock...

Getting an i7 and z97 board to go with it. Upgrade from AMD FM2 platform lolz

The benches, if they're real, put the cards far closer than the hardware would suggest.. We'll see. Definitely worth getting the new board/cpu but the i7 might be overkill depending on what your target res etc is.
Frankly I got an i7 because I could, not because it made a real difference. I won't do anthing with my PC apart from graphics this year as my bottleneck is purely GPU.

 

[TwsT]

is that a ?

not seen the evga cards wouldn't know i just know manufacturers waste nothing.

 

[rtho782]

My 780ti does 1300ghz so hope these clock well!

1.3 TERAHERTZ?!

That's impressive