Upgrade from 970 sli?

[3t3P]

It's time for new everything.

Planning a coffeelake build when chips are actually available.

For now I'm selling off my gtx 970s and want to do away with sli as it feels like devs aren't supporting it like in the good ol days.

Currently at 2560*1440 144hz. I 'may' go UW 3440*1440.

Now a 1070 will equal my current setup but where's the fun in that you want more ooomph when you upgrade right?

More than happy to buy a 1080 scraping in as they are FEs under 500 quid and slap an EK block on for 90 clock it and be happy.

Or will I?

That leaves the 1080Ti. I've never owned a flagship GPU and with a waterblock you are talking 800 pounds on Just a GPU which while I can afford it makes me feel queesy somewhat.

Having said that only change gpus every two to three years...

I like details on close to max though think ultra settings are a farce.

Thoughts/feelings?

Oh and NV only for gsync pls

 

[Scania]

I’ve recently upgraded to two 1070’s in SLI for my 5760x1080 Surround setup and its awesome on games that support SLI - which pretty much everything I play does - it’s on par if not slightly better than a 1080ti with games that scale, I must say though the single 1070 handled most stuff just fine before I got the second.

Ultimately it’s down to price, I got my first 1070 new for £299 and the second for a lot less, I wouldn’t pay 1080ti money as a matter of principle, PC gaming is getting prohibitively expensive if you don’t have the time through work / family / life to justify the considerable outlay required...

 

[w1ze1]

Single GPU going forward unless things change support wise for Crossfire/SLI.

A (most) 1080Ti FE will hit 2000-2100mhz Core and 13-14GHZ Mem on its own air cooler, not sure if your looking at non refs but pointless if your going to put a block on it anyway.

An FE is £75-100 less directly from Nvidia than many retailers.

 

[BTVA]

I upgraded from 2 HOF GTX 970 to a single Strix 1080 and the difference is night and day. Around 30-40fps more in BF1, less input lag, running on the same res as you are.

 

[w1ze1]

 

[nfsdanz]

I just 'side-graded' from Gigabyte G1 GTX 970 SLI to a MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X (mainly because I could get most of my money back)

I heavily overclocked my 970's so they were on par with stock 980's. Using the GTX 1080 out of the box, it was actually slower than my overclocked 970's in games with good SLI scaling. Despite all the negative press surrounding SLI, I really don't think its as bad as many people on this forum claim, I guess it depends what sort of games you play and how desperate you are to play them maxed out on release.

To be honest, at that resolution, I would either get a GTX 1080 with the intention of adding another one later down the road or if you want a single card solution, just go all in with the GTX 1080 Ti.

GTX 1070 definitely not worthwhile.