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What Would You Do?

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The graphics card on my kids computer has blown so need to pick up a new card.

I have enough saved to pick up a new high end card and give him my 390.

I seem to have two options buy a 1080 I can live with £550 and one or two reasonable custom cards in this price (unless its gone up since I looked yesterday).

The other choice is to pick up the new a.m.d card at the end of the month, wait and pick up a high end card at Christmas.

1080 seems to me the best option here (I only have to buy one card the old one gets used).

Anyone think of a good reason as to why I should wait?

The only thing that is holding me back is I would prefer to pick up a more expensive card from evega or msi, I have the cash but not willing to spend £600 to £650 on a card.

This makes me lean towards the cheaper a.m.d and wait to see how things stand at the end of the year.

If my kid had not blown the card I would be waiting it out.
 
What res are you playing at?

Seeing as you don't have MM access, I would stick out for a 1080 unless you know someone flogging a 980Ti
 
Can you get a cheaper second hand card to tide you over? Obviously performance would take a hit compared with a 1080 in the meantime, however if you can live with it then you will be able to make a more informed decision when the new AMD cards are released, and then sell your temporary card for much less of a loss than you would if you were swapping around with almost new top end cards!
 
We are pretty sure the AMD 480 will be roughly between a 970/980 performance and we know the 1080 is the fastest card available, so if you can justify the cost, go for it.
 
as said above what resolution you play at, if 1080/1440p an RX 480/GTX 1070 should be plenty enough for 200/350£ untill Vega/Ti shows up, probably more capable of 4k@60 and worth spending 600£ on.
 
snips86x said:
Considering they're going to be launching a Ti version, I think its ludicrous...
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Serious question:- will the 1080ti be similarly ludicrous because NVIDIA will release the faster 1180gtx after it?

You can't play die size or memory bus width a 960gtx is still faster that an 8800gtx ultra despite the former being a cheapish mid range card and the 8800gtx ultra being very high end in it's time...
 
The 1080 price is ludicrous because of the 1070, not the 980ti ... and if I were buying a new card to tide me over then it would be a no brainer, the 1070.
 
If they keep jacking the price every time they release a card that is 'faster' than what's currently available, then the 1280 will probably be about £1000.

And you'll be ok with this because it is 'faster'?

The 1080 is a mid range part at a high end price.
 
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If they keep jacking the price of every faster card, why are we not paying a couple of hundred thousand for the top end stuff now. :rolleyes:
 
bru said:
If they keep jacking the price of every faster card, why are we not paying a couple of hundred thousand for the top end stuff now. :rolleyes:
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Problem is once again Nvidia has no competition at the highest end, what else are you going too do if you want the single fastest GPU. So they will rip you off. If you need a good card I think just go with the 1070.
 
AlamoX said:
as said above what resolution you play at, if 1080/1440p an RX 480/GTX 1070 should be plenty enough for 200/350£ untill Vega/Ti shows up, probably more capable of 4k@60 and worth spending 600£ on.
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1440p for me and 1080 for my kid. I will be sticking at 1440 res. for a while as its a colour accurate monitor. 4k colour accurate gaming monitor at a reasonable price tag is a while away I think.



GTX 1070 more expensive than I would want to pay for a stop gap card. 480 I suspect would be fine price wise. Performance wise unless some surprise we do not know, not so exciting.

1080 at £550 I think the price is rich but I would bite.

Thinking if I see a 1080 I like come down slightly in price to the £550 mark get it or go with a 480 if not and wait.

Thing that puts me off waiting is that the red and green team release at eye-watering prices.

Pay a bit more for a monster but pricing is becoming a bit of an issue for me.
 
If its purely just as a stop gap card then the 480 would do well at 1440p. It's quite fun knowing how little you spent sometimes for the performance:D
 
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