- May 25, 2008
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Hello all,
First and foremost, I know this probably the hundredth thread regarding the GTX 900 series cards. While I like the GTX 980, for a bit more (roughly $125) I could grab two GTX 970's and put them in SLI. With that said, I would be coming off of GTX 670 FTW Edition cards in SLI. Does the upgrade make sense? I skipped the 700 series largely due to marginal enhancements in performance.
Couple of additional clarifications:
1. The reason I am looking to do this is to just sell off my 670's before they aren't worth anything. I am a tech junkie/latest and greatest kind of guy. This is actually the first pc I have build that has lasted more than a year. With all that said, the replacement video cards would be moving from this system to a new system I plan to build Q2 next year (this assumes skylake isn't delayed).
2. I understand I can always add another 980 for SLI (this would likely "future-proof" the system for quite a long while. The term "future-proof" being loosely used as nothing is ever "future-proof".) The one thing that does stick in my head is to have one really good card and just ditch SLI. I have just been running SLI for a long time now. When we look at pricing and performance, is one GTX980 at $550 that much better than purchasing two (2) GTX970's at roughly $650-$660?
As an aside, I will be upgrading monitors in the future beyond 1080.
Thoughts?
THanks
chris
First and foremost, I know this probably the hundredth thread regarding the GTX 900 series cards. While I like the GTX 980, for a bit more (roughly $125) I could grab two GTX 970's and put them in SLI. With that said, I would be coming off of GTX 670 FTW Edition cards in SLI. Does the upgrade make sense? I skipped the 700 series largely due to marginal enhancements in performance.
Couple of additional clarifications:
1. The reason I am looking to do this is to just sell off my 670's before they aren't worth anything. I am a tech junkie/latest and greatest kind of guy. This is actually the first pc I have build that has lasted more than a year. With all that said, the replacement video cards would be moving from this system to a new system I plan to build Q2 next year (this assumes skylake isn't delayed).
2. I understand I can always add another 980 for SLI (this would likely "future-proof" the system for quite a long while. The term "future-proof" being loosely used as nothing is ever "future-proof".) The one thing that does stick in my head is to have one really good card and just ditch SLI. I have just been running SLI for a long time now. When we look at pricing and performance, is one GTX980 at $550 that much better than purchasing two (2) GTX970's at roughly $650-$660?
As an aside, I will be upgrading monitors in the future beyond 1080.
Thoughts?
THanks
chris
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