Graphics upgrade and Equipment [Recommendations]

[gamingpy]

Hello everyone, as you can see, I have decided to opt for renewing the components of my equipment, so I have put up for sale the items from my brand, but well, I am not here to sell you anything, I just wanted to let you know.

What I am getting at is that I was thinking about changing the graphics card, which is a 780 ti, and I would like to have one with lower consumption and extreme power, I was looking at the gtx 980, but many say that the price it has right now is throwing money away since it doesn't justify having 10 fps more than the 970, however, many recommend that it is better to opt for the 970, what do you guys say? My idea is to play at 4k, but for that, I imagine that I will have to set up an SLI with one of the two cards, which brand and reference would you guys choose?

The idea is to upgrade to the Haswell platform and as you can see, I have decided to buy these memos, budget is not a problem, so I wanted to know if you recommend these, it is to pair them with an asus rampage v motherboard and an i7 5930k.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Regards

[Fassou]

If you want a graphics card now, then the GTX970 without a doubt, and so when AMD and nVIDIA release their new little monsters with new memories and so on (we have the big network full of "leaks" of impressive performances of unknown cards), it won't hurt you as much to spend on a GTX980.

Salu2!

[gamingpy]

@Fassou:

If you want a graphics card now, then the GTX970 without a doubt, and so when AMD and nVIDIA release their new little monsters with new memories and so on (we have the big network full of "leaks" of impressive performance of unknown cards), it won't hurt you as much to spend on a GTX980.

Salu2!

Or in any case what I could also do is wait for the price to drop but I don't really know when they plan to release the gtx 980 ti also I've heard rumors that the next AMD graphics card will be beastly and even surpass the supposed 980 ti that hasn't even been released yet anyway they're rumors but okay.

The ones I'm liking the most at the moment would be the G1 from Gygabyte and as a second option I would have the EVGA version FTW which according to comments are very good and quiet, what scares me the most are the famous coil whine that apparently in some cards like MSI tend to have this inconvenience.

[whoololon]

I agree with Fassou and I would also choose the 970 over the 980 (the 980 TI will be delayed as much as possible to not take market away from the 970). First for price/performance ratio and second for performance/price.
The squeak thing, that's the Chinese lottery you can get and it doesn't matter if it's MSI, Gigabyte, Asus...
And the fact that AMD is going to release a range of graphics cards that are going to be the best... well, seeing the trajectory they are on, it sounds like December 28th. :troll:

[amd125]

Another vote for the 970 GTX. The 980 GTX in my view is worth too much for what it offers compared to the 970 GTX. Selling your graphics card, the change shouldn't cost you much money, you'll get more power with less consumption and in the future, you'll be able to put another one in SLI if you're missing a girl, because 4K demands a lot of girls.

[fjavi]

@gamingpy:

Hello everyone, as you can see I have decided to upgrade my computer components so I have put up for sale the items from my brand but well I am not here to sell you anything I just wanted to let you know.

What I am getting at is that I was thinking about changing the graphics card which is a 780 ti I would like to have one with lower power consumption and extreme power, I was looking at the gtx 980 but many say that the price it has right now is throwing money away as it does not justify having 10 fps more than the 970 however many recommend that it is better to opt for the 970 what do you guys say? my idea is to play at 4k but for that I imagine I will have to set up an SLI with one of the two cards, which brand and reference would you guys choose?

The idea is to upgrade to the Haswell platform and as you can see I have decided to buy these memos budget is not a problem so I wanted to know if you would recommend these it is to pair them with an Asus Rampage V motherboard and an i7 5930k.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Regards

I wouldn't go crazy about upgrading to Haswell, you have a good computer and Haswell-E is very expensive, DDr4 has a low frequency and is problematic, the motherboards are quite green and it is better to wait until the refresh of X99, when another chipset comes out for the socket 2011-3 then we will see if it goes better, right now there are people who have already tested the Rampage V with more than one 5960X and in the end they prefer to stick with their Maximus VI extreme.
If you want to upgrade then put two 970s, your motherboard allows you to put them quite far apart, I wouldn't upgrade to Haswell-E right now having a socket 2011, I wouldn't even think about doing it from a 1150.

Regards

[gamingpy]

@amd125:

Another vote for the 970 GTX. The 980 GTX in my view is worth too much for what it offers compared to the 970 GTX. Selling your graphics card, the change shouldn't cost you much money, you'll get more power with less consumption and in the future, you'll be able to put another one in SLI if you're short on cards, because 4K demands a lot of power.

But the gtx 970 is not that stable in 4k resolutions according to some benchmarks I've seen, at the moment the price of the g1 on amazon.com has had a $30 reduction although to me it's still expensive if we compare the gtx 970 in terms of price/performance.

Is anything known about amd's graphics cards when they would be released or to get some first looks at the r9 390X Bermuda graphics cards?

[gamingpy]

@fjavi:

I wouldn't go crazy about upgrading to Haswell, you have a good system and Haswell-E is very expensive, DDR4 has a low frequency and is problematic, the motherboards are quite expensive and it's better to wait until the X99 refresh, when another chipset comes out for the socket 2011-3 then we'll see if it works better, right now there are people who have already tested the Rampage V with more than one 5960X and in the end they prefer to stick with their Maximus VI extreme.
If you want to upgrade, put two 970s, your motherboard allows you to put them quite far apart, I wouldn't go crazy upgrading to Haswell-E right now with a socket 2011, I wouldn't even think about doing it from an 1150.

Regards

jajaj I understand fjavi you're right, regarding the graphics I'm not entirely convinced by a SLI of the gtx 970s to be able to play at 4k resolutions.

If you were to set up an SLI, whether it's the 970s or 980s, would you prefer the reference model? why? that's one of the biggest doubts I have, what would you do if you had to choose which one you would opt for, if it works it should work whether they are reference or not but the idea is to push it and get the best possible performance.

[fjavi]

@gamingpy:

jajaj entiendo fjavi tienes toda la razon, respecto a las graficas no me convencen del todo un SLI de las gtx 970 para poder jugar a resoluciones 4k.

Si te montaras un SLI sean de las 970 o 980 preferirias el modelo de referencia? por que? esa es una de las dudas mas grande que tengo que harias tu si tuvieses que elegir por cual de ellas optarias, de funcionar tendria que funcionar sean las de referencia o no pero la idea es darle caña y que pueda rendir lo mejor posible.

Yo para SLI prefiero el de referencia, pero la 970 el modelo de referencia me parece muy malo, si tuviera el disipador oficial de Nvidia estaría muy bien, asi como lo tiene la 980, pero los que se ven no me gustan nada, por eso con una caja que tenga buena ventilación y una placa que permita separación entre las dos graficas, con la 970 elegiría personalizadas y con la 980 los de referencia.

El porque es por que esas graficas personalizadas no les sienta bien estar juntas, una la de arriba se calentara unos cuantos grados mas, con los de referencia estaran mas igualadas en temperatura, aunque influye la ventilación de la caja y la separación entre tarjetas, si tiene buena separación y una ventilación buena dentro de la caja, con las personalizadas también podría ir bien, eso si no se piensa meter mas de dos con 3 o 4 ya desde luego yo solo quiero de referencia, o pensar en poner RL a las graficas.

saludos