Thanks for all the great replies, looks like a lot of you recommend the 980ti and that's what I think I'll go for, do you guys think the 980ti will last a few years from now with gaming
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That depends on your needs. Hard to answer really.Thanks for all the great replies, looks like a lot of you recommend the 980ti and that's what I think I'll go for, do you guys think the 980ti will last a few years from now with gaming
Thanks for all the great replies, looks like a lot of you recommend the 980ti and that's what I think I'll go for, do you guys think the 980ti will last a few years from now with gaming
I got a 980Ti for £265. Performance is somewhere between a 1070 and 1080.
By comparison, I bought my 780 new at £450-odd... After just under 3 years, it's worth less than a hundred quid. That hurts.
Yeah. Poor dude lost around £200 in a matter of a couple of months on that one. Unless Vega improves price for performance, 1080 second hand prices won't go down any more for a while.Depends on resolution...
Pascal will be driver optimised for some time
The 980ti is a good card but 1080 have been sold in MM for £350!
It's always a shocker when you look at it, though, given how much these things cost and ho wlittle life you get from them. I can't really think of anything else in life that costs so much but doesn't last. Everything else can still be used, even if it isn't the top thing, while graphics cards suddenly become unable to cope. Even mobile phones aren't that bad.with graphics cards advancing at the rate they have for years.....
.......then 3 years of use/abuse is a long time in gpu world so it's hardly surprising that a now rather archaic 780 is worth little over 50 notes after three years with likely no warranty left.
It's always a shocker when you look at it, though, given how much these things cost and ho wlittle life you get from them. I can't really think of anything else in life that costs so much but doesn't last. Everything else can still be used, even if it isn't the top thing, while graphics cards suddenly become unable to cope. Even mobile phones aren't that bad.
AMD cards seem to get better once they sort the drivers out, but that can take years too.
Thing is, the price drops are far behind enough that by the time the peasantry can afford it, no-one is playing those games any more... perhaps a few diehard veteran experts who know all the hax, but that's not really fun to play on.objectively i would say its actually a good thing! Scrooge's/ poor people can buy relatively recent hardware for little £££'s and buy older games for far less than release price for a budget gaming experience not too far behind the bleeding edge.
Thing is, the price drops are far behind enough that by the time the peasantry can afford it, no-one is playing those games any more... perhaps a few diehard veteran experts who know all the hax, but that's not really fun to play on.
I was referring to the price of games themselves, too.If your playing competitively online you can often make better use of lower game settings to improve your game! (thinking fps's here) so older hardware is ok to!