First gpu purchase, which 980 ti

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Starkium

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ive been waiting since 2011 to buy a gpu. I've been squeaking by with a 560 ti. I'm an indie developer and I know I want a 980ti for all its potential. I'm also an enthusiast and would like to try over clocking and water cooling.

At the moment I have a 3770k, 1300 watt psu, 16 gb ram at 1600mhz, and a Maximus v formula mobo.

I am planning on buying one card now and then investing in skylake mobo/cpu and ddr4 AND THEN I would probably get another card for sli and water cool it when all those parts are purchased.

So I'm stuck between a lot of the great options. I'm really not sure if I want to go with an asus card or an evga card. The strix is incredible with rumors of the matrix being better. But evga has a better warranty and the kingpin.

I'm guessing the kingpin won't be available after all the other parts are purchased so I wouldn't have identical cards. The strix is huge and asus has that awful 3 year warranty.

What should I do in this situation?
 
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It's hard to say because they aren't out yet and I don't know what the performance will be like, right now 2 980 ti's (whether they are reference or not) can handle most games on ultra in 4k at around 60fps. If one 1080 series card can do that by itself then I would go with the single card over sli. As far as the Kingpin goes, I would get 2 classifieds over 1 kingpin just because it would be a big performance jump.
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EVGA also makes the Classified, but the Kingpin is still the best. They bin the cards and Kingpin cards have the best OC ability out off all the other models.

 
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The classified Isn't as powerful as the strix. Is it worth the trade off do you think?

I'd get the kingpin but I'm sure there won't be any in production by the time I get all the parts.
 
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I would say it's worth it. If you're over clocking it I bet you could get it close to the strix base/boost clock speeds. I've owned evga cards in the past and they have never disappointed. I did have a 980 strix a few months back and ended up swapping it, like I said I wasn't very impressed.
 
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Last question. If I decided to go with the kingpin, by the time I got all the skylake parts the 1000's series might be out. Should I just use the step up program to get a 1080ti or kingpin instead? Or would I be better off just having two 980 ti classy's
 
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It's hard to say because they aren't out yet and I don't know what the performance will be like, right now 2 980 ti's (whether they are reference or not) can handle most games on ultra in 4k at around 60fps. If one 1080 series card can do that by itself then I would go with the single card over sli. As far as the Kingpin goes, I would get 2 classifieds over 1 kingpin just because it would be a big performance jump.
 
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