Should I delay building my PC and wait for the release of the Pascal?

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I'm planning on building my first PC. I planned on getting an evga Geforce GTX 980 TI Hybrid for my graphics card. However, with recent news that the NVIDIA Pascal's shipping date would be late March/early June, I was wondering if it would be worth waiting to build my PC and buy all the parts once the Pascal GPU comes out. Obviously, I would replace the 980ti hybrid with the Pascal GPU.

When browsing through forums, I found that a major reason why people were waiting for the Pascal instead of upgrading to the 980 TI was because they already had a relatively decent graphics card like a gtx 780 or 960. I, on the other hand, am currently "gaming" on a computer with integrated graphics. Will the Pascal be worth waiting for or should I just buy the 980 TI and start gaming.
 
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If you feel you're able to wait, then wait. Although seeing as you need the performance now, why not just go for it.
It's not as if whatever Nvidia releases, even if very good, will suddenly mean that your GTX 980 Ti has no value. It'll still be
a supremely good card for gaming. The sad thing is how new releases of anything, whether it's DDR4, 6th Skylake CPUs
or whatever else, simply don't guarantee a real and noticeable jump in performance. Hence why, for instance, tons of
people are gaming on 4th gen Intel CPUs and doing just fine, because there's no real difference between those and the
newer 6th generation ones. Sure, there may be extra features and perhaps more bells and whistles; but it just doesn't
always translate into...
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If you feel you're able to wait, then wait. Although seeing as you need the performance now, why not just go for it.
It's not as if whatever Nvidia releases, even if very good, will suddenly mean that your GTX 980 Ti has no value. It'll still be
a supremely good card for gaming. The sad thing is how new releases of anything, whether it's DDR4, 6th Skylake CPUs
or whatever else, simply don't guarantee a real and noticeable jump in performance. Hence why, for instance, tons of
people are gaming on 4th gen Intel CPUs and doing just fine, because there's no real difference between those and the
newer 6th generation ones. Sure, there may be extra features and perhaps more bells and whistles; but it just doesn't
always translate into performance that the average user will notice. Thus in my view, you should just go buy your PC now.
Gaming on Integrated graphics must be a type of torture on one level or another.
 
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Yeah, you bring up a good point. Gaming on integrated graphics is pretty torturing. Especially since I have games like Witcher III in my steam library waiting to be played. I think I was just caught up in the glamour and the potential of the Pascal GPU's and forgot that the 980 TI is still a ridiculously good graphics card, even in comparison to the Pascal. By the time I wait for the GTX 1080 (or X80), I'll probably want to wait for the 1080 TI and so on and so forth. Considering I've never gamed with an actual graphics card, I think it's time to stop the "waiting" game and just buy the 980 ti. Thanks for your advice:).

Also, do you think the EVGA 980 TI hybrid is good? I was looking at different brands of 980 TI's, including the MSI gaming G6 and the gigabyte G1 version. The only reason I'm hesitant of getting those two cards, despite having custom PCP's and higher clock speeds, is because of the coil whine complains I often see on these forums. Do you think it's worth spending a little more for the hybrid to avoid the coil whine?
 
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You're welcome.

In your situation, any GTX 980 Ti is good! I'm not personally fussed much about noise and such. You seemed pretty willing to change your card immediately once Pascal was released, so with that in mind, I would've imagined you just get any GTX 980 Ti which you can get your hands on and then simply change it for another one, if there's a problem with it. I can't really tell you if it's "worth it". If it's
something you personally think will be really terrible to endure, then sure, then it's worth it. You're not spending so much money
just to be uncomfortable with your setup after all, right? If you think you can avoid problem X by spending only a little bit more
money, then sure, that can also be worth it. Although I must say, if I were you, I probably wouldn't even notice any problems,
because I'd be so engulfed in my new 150 FPS up from whatever subzero FPS the integrated was giving me.
 
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