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What would you do? Sell now or keep?

Sime

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Sime

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Hey everyone. A friend of a friend has just sold me his Gainward 580GTX 3GB "Phantom" for a very good price (so good I had to snap it up).

Now im in abit of a conundrum whether to keep it or sell it on the bay or our market for profit?

As the new Nvidia cards will be out soon (am I right in saying that?) the price of 580GTX's will drop pretty quickly so would it be worth it for me to sell it on whilst the market is higher and get either a new Nvidia card when they come out? (or alternatively get two higher end ATi cards or something).

My 280GTX has done be very well these last - ermmm, 3 or 4 years? so im ok in the mean time if I do sell it on...

Thoughts?
 
One thing you will not get from Kepler is good value.

I would it and ride the bugger til it dies. Get your value out of it.
 
Keep it, the 580 is a very capable card and will be for a very long time to come yet.

Put it under water and overclock the nuts off it! :D
 
ALXAndy said:
One thing you will not get from Kepler is good value.

I would it and ride the bugger til it dies. Get your value out of it.
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But once Nvidia gains the single GPU crown (let's say they do) then AMD will hopefully drop thei prices and you get a 7970 for a good price.

I personally would sell just to get a new card, but obviously it's different person to person.
 
Sell, no reason to hold on to nearly EOL top of the line card.

Besides you didnt mention your system specs- it may well be bottlenecked.
 
...Could be...

i7 960 @ 4ghz
12GB RAM

Just tried battlefield 3 on 1920 x 1080 on high to ultra settings. Incredibly smooth.

To think I was playing it on a lower resolution on medium settings on the 280GTX and still getting stutter!

What does EOL mean?
 
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Cleeecooo said:
But once Nvidia gains the single GPU crown (let's say they do) then AMD will hopefully drop thei prices and you get a 7970 for a good price.

I personally would sell just to get a new card, but obviously it's different person to person.
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And in his PC the 7970 probably won't offer much more than a 580 other than bragging rights.

The 3gb Phantom is an amazing card and I would hold onto it.

Not only that but you're forgetting that Ebay is a complete git. Liars, scammers, switcharoos, high fees.

And for what? all that buggering around for 20% more speed. A 580 Phantom over a 280 is a massive upgrade.


Sime said:
What does EOL mean?
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End of life. Something that clearly doesn't apply to the Phantom.

Keep it. I can promise you that you'd need to be Steve bloody Austin himself to notice the 7970s extra output, given that the 580 can smash any game at 1080p into a mushy bloody pulp.
 
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EOL means end of life :)

The 7970 is a powerful card when overclocked and if you get it for the same price as a 580 then I'd say it was certainly worth the upgrade.

eBay is ok when used properly. Not great though.
 
Cleeecooo said:
EOL means end of life :)

The 7970 is a powerful card when overclocked and if you get it for the same price as a 580 then I'd say it was certainly worth the upgrade.

eBay is ok when used properly. Not great though.
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I'm not being pedantic, but how is it worth the upgrade?

If a game runs at acceptable frames and you don't turn on FRAPS so you can jerk on the gherkin then how could you ever notice the difference?

As long as a game doesn't dip below 30 FPS (yes, I'm greedy and don't count 26 as acceptable) and maintains a good avg FPS then you would never, ever notice the difference. Maybe in like three years you would.

I've said it before and I will say it again. If the 3gb 580 was at what I consider to be a fair price I would have gotten one. I'm not a huge fan of AMD's drivers and never have been, but I will say I have found my 7970 acceptable.

However, if the 3gb 580 had been priced at less than £400 I would have gotten one, quite simply as my 470 provided a completely hassle free experience.
 
Keep it, it's a beast of a card, granted the 7970 is an even bigger beast, but as stated above, I very much doubt you could tell the difference, plus you get the phantoms quality cooler thrown in too.

As you are impressed by BF3 performance, that should be a good enough indication of the performance of the 580.
 
While not likely it is possible kepler will be a big late fail and the GTX680 may not be a worthwhile upgrade from your 580, in that case the wise thing to do is to sit out the first 28nm gen entirely.
 
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