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Return 980 and wait for 980 Ti ?

Dicehunter

Dicehunter

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Currently I have a 980 Matrix I bought elsewhere, I've had it a few days and I have a bit of an urge to return it and wait for the 980 Ti if it really is due next month or even the 390X depending on launch time, Price etc...

Currently gaming at 1440P, I never game with AA so performance is generally very good especially on the ROG Swift with G-Sync.

No clue if I should stay with it or go with a refund, Thoughts ?
 
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I think prices will drop when the new cards come out, then you can either get one of the new cards or pay less for your 980. I'm hoping to go 1440p so fancy a single card that can power it, so I guess depends what res you're interested in
 
Exactly.. don't play the waiting game if you already have something like a 980. At that point why stop at the 980ti? Might as well wait for pascal etc... :D
 
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Exactly.. don't play the waiting game if you already have something like a 980. At that point why stop at the 980ti? Might as well wait for pascal etc... :D
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True, I'll stick with the 980 and I might as well just save up and get the top end Pascal when that comes out :)
 
I was in the same boat a few days ago and have decided to just enjoy mine (esp with W3 and Batman coming soon!!). I got them for a decent s/h price too so can't complain too much :D

I'm convinced the Ti's are gonna be £675/700 anyhow, esp on launch so you get what you pay for ;)

I'm going to try and hold on for Pascal now :cool:
 
I would send it back and wait for the 980ti mate that's what I'm doing,I sold my 780ti to buy the 980 but when I heard there was going to be a ti version I was sold. And with your swift screen the extra vram will come in handy.
 
How long have you got until you would have to send it back? If its the rainforest, they will take it back regardless of time (at least in my experience).

@ 1440P the extra VRAM is going to help over the next few years. My advice is wait as long as you can to send it back, then do and get the 980ti or the 390x. Or just a 980 again for cheaper.
 
With all the waiting people are prepared to do concerning future GPU launches I think they sometimes forget what graphics cards do -

They allow you to play PC games in your spare time.:D

As to using the highest settings in games, if you like the game reducing the settings slightly does not matter that much. If you don't like the game the only thing left is a tell everyone how good it looks maxed out.

I started PC gaming back in the MS DOS days so for me graphics are not that important, it is gameplay that counts.:)
 
4 titans are still a huge amount of money for someone that doesn't think graphics are that important. Surely you care a little more than your letting on :p
 
I would wait, a gtx 980 is barely faster than the 780Ti which came out in 2013. The next wave of cards should hopefully be a nice jump in performance and by all accounts should be with us soon.
 
Not sure how much your 980 cost but really bad times to be buying premium priced 980s Imo. They are rather dear enough at £400-£450 considering the gm204 is the small Maxwell chip.

At near enough £600 the Matrix 980 will lose a lot of value if the 980 Ti comes in at £650 with 6GB Vram.
 
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Just keep it. Wait for Pascal until you next upgrade, those cards are speculated to be very good (though the cynic in me thinks otherwise). If you really want a boost and you don't have anything against multi-card set-ups, then go for a second 980 in the future, only if it's really needed. 980 does the job at 1440p, especially with G-sync. Just earlier I was on a thread where someone was running GTA5 at 4k G-sync with a single 980 and on high settings too. Goes to show that the 980 is a great piece of hardware. They also recommended overclocking the GPU memory.
 
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4 titans are still a huge amount of money for someone that doesn't think graphics are that important. Surely you care a little more than your letting on :p
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I often game on a single card even at 2160p

4 cards can be a lot of fun for certain things but for pure gaming it is the game that is important not the hardware.
 
So many conflicting view points, I'm seriously stuck on what to do.

On 1 hand I'm enjoying the 980 and it's performance, On the other hand I could get a refund, Put up with the iGPU on the 4790K for a month then get the 980 Ti with 30-40% extra performance and 2 extra gigs of memory.

Decisions.
 
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