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Strangely enough I couldn't find a proper tom's/3d guru's benchmark or article about this.
I just have to know where I stand, "am I good" or did I screw up:
I purchased my 2nd GTX 980 at the beginning of May, right before The Witcher 3 came out. TW3 came out on my birthday so I was excited about it and the SLI.
It was barely a month afterwards that GTX 980 Ti was announced and released.
Gotta say I did feel a little sting inside.
Especially since I made a post asking about whether or not I should go for 980 SLI and what about future 900s cards, and the majority of people told me 980 Ti might never happen and that there are no expectations about it.
Then a month or so later... BAM!! 980 Ti announced and I was surprised, maybe a little pissed off, especially since prices in Israel haven't changed for 980, nor have they changed in Amazon. So the price for 980Ti cost exactly/almost the same as my 2nd GTX 980.
My specs:
X2 Gigabyte G1 Gaming Geforce GTX 980 SLI
Core i5-3570K (running @ 4.2 Ghz auto voltage OC)
Asus Sabertooth Z77 Motherboard
16 GB of G.Skill Ripjaw-X DDR3 1600Mhz (x.m.p profile)
SSD 256GB Crucial M4
HD Western Digital Black 2TB
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Case: Corsair CC600T Graphite White Special Edition
PSU: Corsair 850AX Gold
Running Windows 10 64bit. Pro
Monitor: Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q 2560 x 1440p 144 MHz + Nvidia G-Sync.
Secondary Screen: 55" TV: Samsung UA55D6400 TV1080p 60 MHz
Connected via Pioneer VSX-823-K AV Receiver
Also recently installed Windows 10 and here is my 3dmark score:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8038218
What do you think?
Not wanting to sound too spoiled. I still play games on my PS3 and PS4 and love it. But High End PC Gaming has always been my prime concern.
If something really sucks about PC gaming, is the constant looming shadow of "yet another new and better hardware".
Also in my case, which I discussed in a different thread, I can't upgrade my CPU (not significantly at least) because of Motherboard compatibility, same issue with the RAM.
Only if I make a whole new PC build, which I rather avoid for several years if I could...
I put a lot of effort into this build a few years back (it had gtx 670 back then which I upgrade to gtx980). To be honest it was a difficult effort to research, find and assemble everything correctly. It was the first PC I built entirely from scratch by my self alone.
I just have to know where I stand, "am I good" or did I screw up:
I purchased my 2nd GTX 980 at the beginning of May, right before The Witcher 3 came out. TW3 came out on my birthday so I was excited about it and the SLI.
It was barely a month afterwards that GTX 980 Ti was announced and released.
Gotta say I did feel a little sting inside.
Especially since I made a post asking about whether or not I should go for 980 SLI and what about future 900s cards, and the majority of people told me 980 Ti might never happen and that there are no expectations about it.
Then a month or so later... BAM!! 980 Ti announced and I was surprised, maybe a little pissed off, especially since prices in Israel haven't changed for 980, nor have they changed in Amazon. So the price for 980Ti cost exactly/almost the same as my 2nd GTX 980.
My specs:
X2 Gigabyte G1 Gaming Geforce GTX 980 SLI
Core i5-3570K (running @ 4.2 Ghz auto voltage OC)
Asus Sabertooth Z77 Motherboard
16 GB of G.Skill Ripjaw-X DDR3 1600Mhz (x.m.p profile)
SSD 256GB Crucial M4
HD Western Digital Black 2TB
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Case: Corsair CC600T Graphite White Special Edition
PSU: Corsair 850AX Gold
Running Windows 10 64bit. Pro
Monitor: Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q 2560 x 1440p 144 MHz + Nvidia G-Sync.
Secondary Screen: 55" TV: Samsung UA55D6400 TV1080p 60 MHz
Connected via Pioneer VSX-823-K AV Receiver
Also recently installed Windows 10 and here is my 3dmark score:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8038218
What do you think?
Not wanting to sound too spoiled. I still play games on my PS3 and PS4 and love it. But High End PC Gaming has always been my prime concern.
If something really sucks about PC gaming, is the constant looming shadow of "yet another new and better hardware".
Also in my case, which I discussed in a different thread, I can't upgrade my CPU (not significantly at least) because of Motherboard compatibility, same issue with the RAM.
Only if I make a whole new PC build, which I rather avoid for several years if I could...
I put a lot of effort into this build a few years back (it had gtx 670 back then which I upgrade to gtx980). To be honest it was a difficult effort to research, find and assemble everything correctly. It was the first PC I built entirely from scratch by my self alone.
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