GTX 1080 Ti

[NorthTexan95]

Anyone else looking forward to the official announcement and/or release in January at CES?

 

[NorthTexan95]

I currently have a GTX 980 Ti and from reviews the GTX 1080 should get be about 20 fps improvement depending on the game. That's a big jump for one generation . However, I've been waiting for the 1080 Ti version which should provide a bigger boost. If it should prove to be more costly than I can afford then it should also somewhat reduce the price for the 1080. Looks like Christmas is coming the first week of January at CES.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Nope, I never buy the top end cards. I usually spend right around the $200 range and it tends to last me 3+ years. Actually, I just traded my 3+ year old 2GB GTX 960 (paid $215 for) for a 6GB GTX 1060 that I got on a black Friday deal. 145% increase in performance.

My GTX 960 play's DOOM 4 just fine, but I know going forward I'm likely to start experiencing issues on the newer games.

I view CPUs the same way. I currently have an 8-core AMD FX-8320. Nothing except SETI and Astrophotography processing maxes it out. Though, I'm on the verge of purchasing an i7 6800k. It dropped under $400 on Black Friday, but I didn't get one. Next time it drops below $400, I will grab one and a X99 MB.

 

[Supercowboy1986]

I have an evga 1080 ftw. I love it and do not think I will trade up for the ti.

Nope, I never buy the top end cards. I usually spend right around the $200 range and it tends to last me 3+ years. Actually, I just traded my 3+ year old 2GB GTX 960 (paid $215 for) for a 6GB GTX 1060 that I got on a black Friday deal. 145% increase in performance.

My GTX 960 play's DOOM 4 just fine, but I know going forward I'm likely to start experiencing issues on the newer games.

I view CPUs the same way. I currently have an 8-core AMD FX-8320. Nothing except SETI and Astrophotography processing maxes it out. Though, I'm on the verge of purchasing an i7 6800k. It dropped under $400 on Black Friday, but I didn't get one. Next time it drops below $400, I will grab one and a X99 MB.

Same here. I had a gtx 670 and was later given a 770 for free at dreamhack Austin . Then I got engaged and my now wife got me the 1080 ftw as an engagement gift. If she didn't give it to me as a surprise I would of been rocking my free 770 still.

Where did you trade your 960? I also was a life time amd user (last one I had was the amd 64) but when I could afford intel I never looked back. I'm still rocking my i7-3770k like a champ. It's so beastly I don't think I need to upgrade until I have to future proof my next PC. My current one is about 5 years old. The difference between amd and intel cpus is really night and day.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I didn't "trade" it. I just bought the new card. I'm going to build a new PC and convert my current PC into a NAS / KVM Virtual server running CentOS and the NAS storage on (3) 3TB disks using ZFS RAIDZ. (6TB capacity) My GTX 960 will stay in my current PC and the 1060 will go in the new PC with the i7.

I also got a 1TB SSD drive on Black Friday for $250. Currently, my boot drive is a 256GB SSD with (2) 2TB secondary drives. One for archiving backup and the other is where I install games and stuff.

The new 1TB SSD drive will allow me to install games an SSD drive for faster loading times.

As for AMD and Intel. AMD was always a better deal, but the deal breaker for me with Intel's use of cheap plastic brackets to hold their HUGE heatsync and fans on. I used to have to replace them a few times during the life of the CPU. Finally, I just quite buying Intel and bought AMD because their brackets / clamps where metal.

Now it doesn't matter so much as I now use liquid cooling and those aren't clamped on with cheap plastic.

 

[NorthTexan95]

I don't purchase top of the line CPU's it has little impact on gaming performance. I've never had top of the line GPU until I went with the 980 Ti about a year and a half ago. I had a x1440 monitor that died and I had to go back to a x1080 monitor. It ... was ... horrible! (First world problems). I quickly got a new x1440 monitor.

 

[Maverick84]

fellow PC gamers, yes!

i5 6600k
GTX 1060 6GB
16gb DDR4
450gb SSD / 1 TB HDD
Windows 10

dunno why I listed all that, I just recently upgraded a couple of parts and I'm stoked I guess hahah

 

[NorthTexan95]

I didn't "trade" it. I just bought the new card. I'm going to build a new PC and convert my current PC into a NAS / KVM Virtual server running CentOS and the NAS storage on (3) 3TB disks using ZFS RAIDZ. (6TB capacity) My GTX 960 will stay in my current PC and the 1060 will go in the new PC with the i7.

I also got a 1TB SSD drive on Black Friday for $250. Currently, my boot drive is a 256GB SSD with (2) 2TB secondary drives. One for archiving backup and the other is where I install games and stuff.

The new 1TB SSD drive will allow me to install games an SSD drive for faster loading times.

As for AMD and Intel. AMD was always a better deal, but the deal breaker for me with Intel's use of cheap plastic brackets to hold their HUGE heatsync and fans on. I used to have to replace them a few times during the life of the CPU. Finally, I just quite buying Intel and bought AMD because their brackets / clamps where metal.

Now it doesn't matter so much as I now use liquid cooling and those aren't clamped on with cheap plastic.

I started using AMD chips in the late 90's? 00's? For a long time they were the best deals. Now I've been Intel for the past decade. AMD has fallen behind and not caught up yet. I used to be a big Radeon fan boy but for the last five years or so it's been Nvidia.

I recently switched from an i7 process to a faster i5. I do notice the change when processing video as it's now much slower but I don't do that very often. However, I notice the faster i5 processor most days.

$250 for a 1 TB SSD? I'm jealous. I use a 250 SSD for booting and a 500 SSD for software installs.

 

[Tabascocat]

Clicked on this thread thinking a new muscle car was coming out