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Please someone stop me.
I bought a 780 FTW edition just over a month ago. Just a few days ago, the 980 was released for damn near the same price, and it performs just as well if not better.
First and foremost, can anyone tell me if I screwed myself over by not waiting an extra month for a release no one knew was coming? In other words, how much better is the 980 over the 780 ftw edition?
Secondly- newegg decided they wanted to drive me further towards depression by having an "overstock" sale. They dropped the 780 ftw edition an additional 140$ from the "sale" price I bought it at, 500$.
It is currently at 360$. My second question is simple- Stop me from considering SLI so soon after choosing to just buy /one/ card, with the idea of upgrading to SLI many /years/ down the road, not a month later.
In other words, tell me if it's worth the money (360$ atm) to upgrade to SLI?
How much of an improvement would I even see?
Please someone tell me to just stfu and stop whining, because I'm in no financial state to be thinking about dropping another 400$~ dollars after just starting college. But still, don't lie, I really wanna know what's best here- I'm just really hoping the "best" thing to do is wait.
Which reminds me- how long will it be before this card (780 ftw edition) reaches a low price again?
Thank you all so much in advance, I'm really stressing out here. I lost 140$ by not waiting another month, and it sounds like I could have gotten a free upgrade anyways if I had waited. It just hurts to build my first PC and then get hit by these sales so soon after being happy with my build. Sorry for whining!
My build and cost:
Asus LGA Pro Wifi-ac Motherboard $210
8gb 2133mhz G Skill Sniper Series RAM $76.5
Intel core i7 4790k Haswell 4.0ghz w/ Arctic Silver 5 (Cooler Master 212 Plus) $340+$7+$35
250gb Samsung SSD + 2tb WD Green HDD $130+$90
EVGA Geforce GTX 780 FTW GPU $500
AX860 Corsair PSU $103
All in a Xion XON 985-bk Case $81
I bought a 780 FTW edition just over a month ago. Just a few days ago, the 980 was released for damn near the same price, and it performs just as well if not better.
First and foremost, can anyone tell me if I screwed myself over by not waiting an extra month for a release no one knew was coming? In other words, how much better is the 980 over the 780 ftw edition?
Secondly- newegg decided they wanted to drive me further towards depression by having an "overstock" sale. They dropped the 780 ftw edition an additional 140$ from the "sale" price I bought it at, 500$.
It is currently at 360$. My second question is simple- Stop me from considering SLI so soon after choosing to just buy /one/ card, with the idea of upgrading to SLI many /years/ down the road, not a month later.
In other words, tell me if it's worth the money (360$ atm) to upgrade to SLI?
How much of an improvement would I even see?
Please someone tell me to just stfu and stop whining, because I'm in no financial state to be thinking about dropping another 400$~ dollars after just starting college. But still, don't lie, I really wanna know what's best here- I'm just really hoping the "best" thing to do is wait.
Which reminds me- how long will it be before this card (780 ftw edition) reaches a low price again?
Thank you all so much in advance, I'm really stressing out here. I lost 140$ by not waiting another month, and it sounds like I could have gotten a free upgrade anyways if I had waited. It just hurts to build my first PC and then get hit by these sales so soon after being happy with my build. Sorry for whining!
My build and cost:
Asus LGA Pro Wifi-ac Motherboard $210
8gb 2133mhz G Skill Sniper Series RAM $76.5
Intel core i7 4790k Haswell 4.0ghz w/ Arctic Silver 5 (Cooler Master 212 Plus) $340+$7+$35
250gb Samsung SSD + 2tb WD Green HDD $130+$90
EVGA Geforce GTX 780 FTW GPU $500
AX860 Corsair PSU $103
All in a Xion XON 985-bk Case $81
Roger Rogers
October 16, 2014 8:37:46 PM
4745454b said:
Single 1080 monitor I assume? IDK. To spend $80 seems wrong. The 780 should be fine with a single screen. Go for it if you want, but it probably isn't needed. Might want to just cut your losses and move on. GTX 780 reason to SLi
I have the 27-inch 1080p Asus stereoscopic 3D screen and i7 Haswell 4770 and iChiLL GTX 780 and games such as Batman: AC or AA run at as low as 10fps in action scenes sometimes while in stereoscopic. Average is over 60. But even with the latest NVidia drivers etc... bios etc... chipset etc... too low.
So, I have had to put in a bid for another GTX 780; and wondered about the 980 etc.....
I still dont know if the 780 3Gb is the issue though. I have never seen anyone answer that (ref the 3D affecting VRAM requirements).
As for spending $80 seeming wrong; you could perhaps relate that to the US National Debt Unfunded Liabilities for perspective.
Maybe a used 760 for the PhysX would help.... but the complexity of options in regards to how that could affect frame-rates pozitively in (or out of) stereoscopic 3D is not well known even by most PC experts.
So; I completely understand the question.
I considered using my 780 for PhysX and getting one 980 for now.
P.S.
Reliable Amazon sales-dealers still sell cards like the Asus GTX 780 for the equivalent of around $800 here in Japan. so learn to be grateful you get them for $500 or $380 or whatever it is.
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Because0789
September 23, 2014 8:38:10 PM
Rear Bumper
September 23, 2014 8:20:53 PM
Because0789 said:
It performs better than a 780ti and has an extra 4 gigs of VRAM which will help down the road if you SLI/play at higher resolutions. Another 980 would cost another $550 down the road though but should drop in price when Radeon responds to these cards with new cards of their own.How much of an improvement are we talking about, 80$+ worth? and
Does the upgraded memory bus of the 780 series have any advantages over the 980? 364-bit versus 256-bit?
Because0789
September 23, 2014 7:59:21 PM
Rear Bumper
September 23, 2014 7:39:22 PM
Because0789 said:
Should be it is meant for upgrading to newly released cards when you have purchased a card in the last 90 days. http://www.evga.com/support/stepup/I do see it as an option. Considering I bought mine at (What was then considered) a sale, the difference would be 80$, plus shipping and tax.
Do you know if the performance difference would really be worth that?
Because0789
September 23, 2014 7:24:29 PM
Should be it is meant for upgrading to newly released cards when you have purchased a card in the last 90 days. http://www.evga.com/support/stepup/
Rear Bumper
September 23, 2014 7:14:55 PM
Because0789 said:
Who did you get it through? If it is EVGA they have a step up program in the first couple months, you just pay the difference.That actually doesn't sound like that bad of an idea, if the 980 really ends up being better. I did order through EVGA thankfully. Do you happen to know if the 980 is part of the program?
Rear Bumper
September 23, 2014 7:14:04 PM
4745454b said:
I'd contact newegg. They might give you the difference in the new price. Otherwise you could just return it and buy it at the new price. You didn't give us any system specs so I have no clue if you can run SLI, or if it's needed. And we knew these new cards were coming. It's not like they didn't tell anyone. I'd probably keep your card and get newegg to give you the new price. I did contact newegg, and sadly it's been about 42 days since I purchased the card- just over their one month return policy. They were kind enough to give me a 20$ customer-care gift card, and that helped-just-a-little over the loss.
Sorry about the pc specs! They're listed now, I was just a bit flustered and hit submit without thinking.
I'd contact newegg. They might give you the difference in the new price. Otherwise you could just return it and buy it at the new price. You didn't give us any system specs so I have no clue if you can run SLI, or if it's needed. And we knew these new cards were coming. It's not like they didn't tell anyone. I'd probably keep your card and get newegg to give you the new price.
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