upgrade GTX 680 SC to 780 ti

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My brother just upgraded his EVGA 780 ti SC with a 980 ti and offered to sell me his 780 ti for $250. I was wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade my EVGA 680 SC with it and try to sell my 680 on Ebay. I play WoW, Diablo 3, Titanfall, and Crysis 3.

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That's a fair asking price for a 780Ti. Keep in mind however that Nvidia over time will eventually drop updating driver support (and specifically new game updated driver support) with their older GPUs if you hope to get many years out of it. The GTX 6-series are next up on the chopping block (I still have two of them in SLI on an old i5 2500K 1080p backup gaming rig). It doesn't mean the card will stop working, it just means there won't be any new drivers for it for the latest games.

Just something to think about when buying a previous generation GPU, since the next Nvidia generation (10xx?) is right around the corner which will render the 7xx series two generations old. But for now, a used $250 780Ti, especially a SC EVGA version, is...
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That's a fair asking price for a 780Ti. Keep in mind however that Nvidia over time will eventually drop updating driver support (and specifically new game updated driver support) with their older GPUs if you hope to get many years out of it. The GTX 6-series are next up on the chopping block (I still have two of them in SLI on an old i5 2500K 1080p backup gaming rig). It doesn't mean the card will stop working, it just means there won't be any new drivers for it for the latest games.

Just something to think about when buying a previous generation GPU, since the next Nvidia generation (10xx?) is right around the corner which will render the 7xx series two generations old. But for now, a used $250 780Ti, especially a SC EVGA version, is a very good GPU for the dollar...even more so considering you know the its owner. While a new 970 is more expensive but slower, when in overclocked form, it can get *real* close to a stock 980.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8568/the-geforce-gtx-970-review-feat-evga/16
 
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