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So right now I have 2 liquid cooled 760's in SLI (I mention the liquid cooling because it allows me to seriously OC my GPU's).
About 9 or 10 months ago I got this monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6V63X34230&cm_re=xb270h-_-24-009-657-_-Product
It's been a great monitor, no two ways about it, I'll never buy another monitor without G-sync ever again, the only thing about it is that it doesn't go above 1080p and it's a TN panel.
My tax return is coming soon and I've had my eye on these two monitors
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=24-106-004
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009742
I'd be selling my current monitor as well to help pay for the new one. Which one of those two would you guys buy? I mean when it comes down to it they're both pretty much the same except for the stand and aesthetics, and one can be overclocked to 165hz but I'll never do that, 144hz is good enough for me.
Also, would 2 seriously overclocked SLI'd 760s be able to perform well at 1440p? My gut tells me that I'll probably be getting around 50 fps on most games, and that's fine, with g-sync you don't notice.
The next part of my post is about Pascal, I want to upgrade to a GTX 1080 when it comes out, but all this crap I've been hearing about what type of memory these cards are going to have. I've kind of decided that if Nvidia's flagship GPU that comes out this summer doesn't have HBM2 I'm not going to purchase it. I mean I've heard GDDR5x is supposed to be good but it honestly sounds like a memory technology that came too late and that should have been on the 900 series cards and Titan X, I'd go as far as to say that the 780ti should have had GDDR5x. So HBM2 is going to make it or break it for me when it comes to getting another GPU this summer, after doing SLI with my 760s I'd prefer to just go with a single GPU this time around. Plus I'd like to buy a GPU that is liquid cooled out of the box or at least hybrid cooled assuming they're available at launch, and if they aren't I suppose I can always buy a liquid cooling adapter again just like I did for my 760s. After liquid cooling my CPU and GPUs and only buying Noctua fans I couldn't ever go back to a purely air cooled GPU, too noisy.
I'm just at a loss at what to do because my rig is about 2 years old, I figure if I buy a new GPU this year I won't need to upgrade anything else for another couple years,... my mobo, CPU, RAM... I won't need to upgrade any of that until, hell, probably mid to end 2018.
Opinions anyone? Anybody think I should just wait?
About 9 or 10 months ago I got this monitor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6V63X34230&cm_re=xb270h-_-24-009-657-_-Product
It's been a great monitor, no two ways about it, I'll never buy another monitor without G-sync ever again, the only thing about it is that it doesn't go above 1080p and it's a TN panel.
My tax return is coming soon and I've had my eye on these two monitors
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=24-106-004
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009742
I'd be selling my current monitor as well to help pay for the new one. Which one of those two would you guys buy? I mean when it comes down to it they're both pretty much the same except for the stand and aesthetics, and one can be overclocked to 165hz but I'll never do that, 144hz is good enough for me.
Also, would 2 seriously overclocked SLI'd 760s be able to perform well at 1440p? My gut tells me that I'll probably be getting around 50 fps on most games, and that's fine, with g-sync you don't notice.
The next part of my post is about Pascal, I want to upgrade to a GTX 1080 when it comes out, but all this crap I've been hearing about what type of memory these cards are going to have. I've kind of decided that if Nvidia's flagship GPU that comes out this summer doesn't have HBM2 I'm not going to purchase it. I mean I've heard GDDR5x is supposed to be good but it honestly sounds like a memory technology that came too late and that should have been on the 900 series cards and Titan X, I'd go as far as to say that the 780ti should have had GDDR5x. So HBM2 is going to make it or break it for me when it comes to getting another GPU this summer, after doing SLI with my 760s I'd prefer to just go with a single GPU this time around. Plus I'd like to buy a GPU that is liquid cooled out of the box or at least hybrid cooled assuming they're available at launch, and if they aren't I suppose I can always buy a liquid cooling adapter again just like I did for my 760s. After liquid cooling my CPU and GPUs and only buying Noctua fans I couldn't ever go back to a purely air cooled GPU, too noisy.
I'm just at a loss at what to do because my rig is about 2 years old, I figure if I buy a new GPU this year I won't need to upgrade anything else for another couple years,... my mobo, CPU, RAM... I won't need to upgrade any of that until, hell, probably mid to end 2018.
Opinions anyone? Anybody think I should just wait?
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