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Need to make a decision on my GPU's

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I have six choices I have been unable to make and I need help! I'm going to go with the most votes and finally put down money either tonight or tomorrow depending on the amount of responses! GPU choices for my water build are: -

1) Save money and keep my EVGA SC ref dedign 980 SLI cards and buy EK waterblocks for them for approx £216

2) Wait and buy 2x 980 Ti Hydro Coppers for approx £1260

3) Buy just 1x 980 Ti Hydro Copper or equivalent pre-watercooled card and overclock

4) Buy 2x EVGA 980 Ti cards from EVGA's site and add the watercooling myself for approx £1300

5) Buy two pre watercooled OCUK tech labs cards for approx £1366

6) Buy the cheapest reference 980 Ti's for approx £1020 and add watercooling myself for approx £226 - Total of £1246

I have spent over 4k on this build already, so saving money is good! I was also thinking I could get back some of the costs of options 2,3,4, 5 & 6 by selling my 980 GPU's on ebay!

Any help would be appreciated as I seem incapable of coming to a decision! Thanks in advance for the much needed help!

Spike
 
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Option 6 = 2 votes so far!

The only reason option 6 scares me is the messing around with the cards! I believe only EVGA covers warranty with changing the stock cooler? Also I'm worried about cards that may not clock well...
 
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Can an inquire as to why a single watercooled and OC'd 980 Ti is out of the question? Would I not get close to the same performance I am getting now?
 
For option 6 I can get 2x Zotac 980 Ti's from ocuk for 510 and add waterblocks for around £1246, whereas option 2 is only £14 more expensive has warranty and has the water cooling as standard? I really didn't expect 6 to get this much of a majority vote!
 
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i think u gave ppl too many options
you confused the simple folk around here^^;

Haha not sure if that's true? What would you choose? Maybe it's because the EVGA hydro coppers are so rare from the EVGA store? I think it's a 2 week wait for the next batch and there is no guarantee I'll get one for a while?
 
well i dont benchmark i only game
and i play a lot of weird games
so id go the 1 card route and i trust the evga peeps
watercooling is about looks too tho so only if it fit in with my look :)

my use maybe not same as urs tho and you want/need the 2 card poweh!?

Going to be doing a lot of video editing and colour correction, which requires CUDA cores. The more the better:) As for looks, I think two cards look better than one! It's not a deal breaker though! I could save the extra money to pay off some CC bills:)
 
If there's an option for a single ti, then why not also a single TX? I understand you can't buy TWO TX but one seems possible.

What possible advantage would a single TX give me over SLI 980 Ti other than a bit more RAM, which doesn't seem to make a difference in games at the moment? Also DX12 is going to be able to utilise each cards memory independently when in SLI, so it would be like 12... Is this not right?

I have also been drinking but you may have had a bit more than me.:D

Option 6

Flash EVGA SC bios

Add waterblocks and enjoy.:D

I understand 6 is popular so looks like 6 might be the one, but there is no warranty if I do 6! That scares me a little:(
 
You've spent 4k already and want to skimp on gfx?

:mindblown:

Surely a logical person would think "right spent a crap load on a system.. I already have two good cards, so where can I save money"?

I don't want to skimp... I just would like the best value for money. With pascal coming out next year I don't want to spend too much now. Which is why I was asking the questions in my opening post. That is why TX is out of the question! I also don't want to get less quality than I have now, which again is why I asked the questions in my opening topic!
 
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