Brillis Wuce :
I understand where you're coming from, and I won't bog down this thread too much, but more and more games are utilizing more cores (look at BF4 performance with i5 vs i7), 16 GB of RAM is great for running things while gaming or multitasking (HWMonitor, PrecisionX, Task Manager, LiveStream), and even my GTX 970 doesn't get 60 fps on all games, hence the 980.
Your post just above this one is absolutely correct, and this one has merit... if you can totally blow the money, there's no reason not to pimp out... but there's also no reason not to if the money could be useful somewhere else. That being said, a few points:
1) I have looked at the performance of Battlefield 4, and we're talking about a 2-3% increase in performance. That, to me, is NOT worth $100. Hyperthreading does very little for gaming because of the type of workload that gaming sends it, and I don't foresee that changing drastically enough in the future to make it worth $100 now instead of hedging bets and upgrading later if it's absolutely required.
2) 8GB of RAM (and no pagefile) is enough to open a folder of 100 bookmarks in Chrome, at once, with no slowdown. Or to run Battlefield 3, a project in Photoshop, AND 30 tabs in chrome simultaneously. HWMonitor, PrecisionX, and Task Manager would barely make a blip, and there's no game that requires more than 6GB on its own. (And that game is Skryim with dozens of mods.)
3) As for the 970 vs the 980... it's a lot more money to get a graphics card that will only be able to 'max out' the very few games the 970 can't for half a year, after which they'll both simply be very good GPUs that can still run nearly everything perfectly. If you want the 980, get it, but the smart money is on the 970.
Not trying to argue with you, just giving the other side of the coin.
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