Help friend with too much moneys GPU upgrade

[Drojman]

Hi all,

Friend saw my 3440x1440 monitor and decided he had to have one too.

Currently he only has one 760 in his PC. However he said he is willing to splash the cash. He wants all the bells and whistles etc.

He now has his heart set on SLI 980s. The rest of his rig is pretty good, I think a 4930k + 8GB RAM. Don't know his mobo but I think it's something decent.

He claims that the program he uses for his job only works with Nvidia. No idea if it's true or not, but lets say it is. Should he going for 980s? If money isn't an issue for him, should he just go ahead and buy it? The thing is, he's terrified something is coming out soon that will beat the 980s. He'd wait if there was. I have mentioned 970s, but he's a bit extremely bull headed about this.

Any help would be great.

 

[Drojman]

I basically told him that he was never going to get the 'best' for long because there will always be something coming out.

I told him if he definitely needs Nvidia, go for the 980s.

If not and he can find them cheaply (£500ish) then pick up an R9 295x2.

I appreciate the suggestion for the waterblocked 290xs. In an ideal world (if it was my money!) I would do that. However he's not that hardware literate unfortunately and I think the benefits of me doing that for him would not be worth the cost/effort for something he wouldn't even notice.

Or maybe I'll make him buy this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-156-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

Thanks for the help guys. As for the suggestion of him joining the forum...I wouldn't want to inflict that upon you .

 

[Drojman]

You reckon 4GBs not enough? I thought so too at first, but 3440x1440 is only about 60% of 4k isn't it? I wouldn't have thought the VRAM ceiling would be hit unless there was a terrible optimised game.