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When do you plan to upgrade your Graphics Card?

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im getting an itch after having my 390 for 2 years now, but at current prices it is a hard expense to justify.
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My 390X just about does the job at 1440p. Which surprises me. Wouldn't upgrade to anything less than a 1070Ti or 1080, but don't have half a grand spare at present. Holding fire for a year or two...
No Man's Sky really does rag the doodahs out of it though- the central heating never comes on when I'm playing it.
 
Just got a 1070ti, before i had a 670. Thinking i will need a whole new system in about 2-3 years as i still have a 3770k and i’m not sure how much longer it will be good enough for new games.

The difference between witcher 3 on ps4 and pc on ultra is night and day, not sure why i had a dabble with console now as they are inferior.
 
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I’ll upgrade my gpu when a really good game that I know I will spend a lot of time playing is released. The last game that prompted a gpu upgrade for me was BF4. BF1 didn’t appeal so I still play BF4. Or maybe if I get a higher res monitor but then again I would only do that for a new game too.
 
almoststew1990 said:
My 390x was £250 in a Black Friday sale in 2015 and spending similar money now wouldn't get me much of an upgrade I think!
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I'm almost in exactly the same boat, only difference is I have a 290X and I paid £260. I even recently upgraded from 1080p 60Hz monitor to a 3440x1440 100Hz monitor and it still plays Battlefield 4 at Ultra; silky smooth. Admittedly the freesync maybe helping there ;) I did check the fps and it still hits around 80 fps using mantel.
 
Wanted to upgrade my Fury Pro to Vega, but no way at the current price / performance .. and noise levels, now waiting impatiently for the next gen. If that goes south, then I guess its Team Green time.
 
Its always tricky isn't it to sell current stuff while still some worth or to run it into the ground when titles don't run properly you upgrade and feeeel that boost.

I can't stand losing lots on GPU's, I have just sold a 970 for £156 and will sell the second. A GTX 1080 (MSI Seahawk EK) arrives tomorrow, I got it for several reasons;

1. SLI support doesn't feel as good as it used to and dropping to one 970 at 2560x1440 is not enough grunt
2. I want to watercool a GPU again for the advantages to overclocking and noise reduction it brings, doing this with two cards vs one is expensive for blocks and inherently more complex
3. I feel any moment now, if it hasn't happened already that 4GB VRAM is starting to become an issue in some titles at 1440p

I will keep this GTX 1080 until 2019 I think, I change GPU's 2-3 yearly
 
Hopefully xmas. Can't decide between a 1080 or a Vega. Currently running a 1440p freesync monitor but really don't want to shell out and get a reference cooler card.

That gigabyte or Inno3D 1080 is tempting me.....
 
Bought my Fury X in April last year with a view to that lasting 3 years - got until August this year and bought a liquid cooled Vega 64 although I probably wouldn't have had the Fury X has more than 4GB of RAM. I'm expecting to get at least 2 years out of the Vega although I actually financed the card over 3 years so not quite sure how that's going to work out!? As long as I can keep games within the freesync range of my 3440x1440 monitor I'll be able to hold out ok. I think...
 
Probably next year depending on performance/power consumption. Not much reason to upgrade from my 980ti at this point especially as I rarely play PC games now.
 
My 280x is still going strong, running Doom at a rock solid 1080p/60. I’d really like to play at 4K but there’s nothing out there worth upgrading to at a decent price. I’ll likely look into a small jump up (if that’s possible) if Wolfenstein 2 stutters.
 
I got a 1080 Ti a couple of months ago, so hopefully not for a long, long time. Not planning on moving to 4K any time soon anyway.
 
Had my 980ti since launch and it'll keep me going a while yet. I might see what the next gen brings, but frankly I don't have the cash to burn on gpus at these prices. I'll be upgrading my cpu first I think. My ancient Z77 chipset is feeling a bit outdated
 
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