To upgrade or not to upgrade-The return

[mickyflinn]

Brill thanks. and any thoughts on a decent upgrade for my gtx 1080 sc for around 700ish?

AMD RDNA 3 gpu's are to be released on November 3rd you should wait till at least then.

 

[poisonheart]

AMD RDNA 3 gpu's are to be released on November 3rd you should wait till at least then.

I always stick with Nvidia

 

[mickyflinn]

I always stick with Nvidia

That's fine but the new AMD gpu release should push prices down, so win win.

 

[JollyJamma]

That's fine but the new AMD gpu release should push prices down, so win win.

Second hand pricing or new?

Nvidia rarely reduces RRP pricing based on competitors like AMD.

The only reason they they reduced their RRP of late is a massive crash in demand through the entire industry.

 

[mickyflinn]

Second hand pricing or new?

Nvidia rarely reduces RRP pricing based on competitors like AMD.

The only reason they they reduced their RRP of late is a massive crash in demand through the entire industry.

Both and if RDNA3 brings supposedly double the performance of 6000 series Nvidia will have to compete bringing down 3000 series even further.

There are always deals to be found but the covid thing did messs things up.

 

[poisonheart]

So... pricing and new releases aside.... is a rtx3080 a huge upgrade from my gtx 1080 and if so is there a particulalry good one?

 

[mickyflinn]

So... pricing and new releases aside.... is a rtx3080 a huge upgrade from my gtx 1080 and if so is there a particulalry good one?

3080 is double the performance of your 1080 and also has ray tracing and capable of 4k gaming.

 

[poisonheart]

So, thanks for all your help.
I finally went for
My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLBD532G5600HC36BDC01) (SKU: MY-0BB-TG) = £179.99
• 1 x Noctua LGA 1700 Socket NM-i17xx-MP83 Mounting Kit (SKU: HS-03X-NC) = £8.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce RTX 3080 Twin X2 OC LHR 10GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-07M-IN) = £769.99
• 1 x Nvidia - Be Greater Gaming Bundle - Spider-Man Remastered (SKU: XX-043-NV) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus Prime Z690-P - Intel Z690 LGA 1700 DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6H2-AS) = £192.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-69Z-IN) = £415.99

Total: £1,579.01 (includes delivery: £11.10)​

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[mickyflinn]

So, thanks for all your help.
I finally went for
My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLBD532G5600HC36BDC01) (SKU: MY-0BB-TG) = £179.99
• 1 x Noctua LGA 1700 Socket NM-i17xx-MP83 Mounting Kit (SKU: HS-03X-NC) = £8.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce RTX 3080 Twin X2 OC LHR 10GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-07M-IN) = £769.99
• 1 x Nvidia - Be Greater Gaming Bundle - Spider-Man Remastered (SKU: XX-043-NV) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus Prime Z690-P - Intel Z690 LGA 1700 DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6H2-AS) = £192.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-69Z-IN) = £415.99

Total: £1,579.01 (includes delivery: £11.10)​

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Enjoy.

Just a word of advice use 2 seperate 8 pin cables from the psu to the gpu not 2 daisy changed from one cable as the 3080 can have high power spikes.

 

[poisonheart]

Just an update:
The mobo was oos, so went for the more expensive MSI MAG Torpedo and an EK 360 AIO cooler.
Started the build on Saturday, and wasn't my day.
The build went well, all smooth as to be expected, until power on.
No display detected and no post.
After a couple of hours of checked and double checking things I removed one of the dimms (after reading a forum post about faulty memory causing a red cpu ez debug light on MSI boards) and voila, display...but then upon entering the bios the cpu temp was rocketing and the aio pump apparently not working.
Currently RMAing the cpu and mobo for testing, but it's looking to me like the board was faulty.
fingers crossed.