Onwards from a gtx 980

THE DOC · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:19

Hi ,ive been away from the scene for a bit ,and im looking for some advice on a new gpu purchase .
Going by a bit of research on the forums ,presently my cpu [2500k] is ok for the moment for gaming

and by reading a bit more ,seemingly the better option is to upgrade the gpu for now ,i do play on asus rog27 1440 screen .

Could i have some thoughts please

Begbie · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:28

Budget?

Bloody expensive to upgrade a 980 now.

THE DOC · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:43

Begbie said:
Budget?

Bloody expensive to upgrade a 980 now.

I know ,i cant believe the prices at the minute
I would say about £500 [could always sell the 980 on later]

and it would need to be a worthwhile upgrade

Begbie · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:48

You're pretty much not getting an upgrade for that money

Unless you go 2nd hand 1070/1080.

But I don't think 1070 is that much of an upgrade, certainly not for £650! It should priced about £350 by now.

Bluntwrapped · 7 Mar 2018 at 17:52

I’d hang onto your 980 and drop a few in game settings if you need to. You can always overclock it a bit too.

Before I upgraded to a 1080 my 980 coped really well with 3440x1440. I’d have thought the extra headroom you’ll have at the lower res will be more than enough, especially if you overclock and sacrifice some of the less beneficial settings.

THE DOC · 7 Mar 2018 at 18:01

Thank you guys ,i think ill do excatly that and hang onto it .

Ill go do a little research into overclocking the card then

thanks again

Michaeljcox24 · 7 Mar 2018 at 18:41

If it's any consolation, I'm still running a 980 and it's coping ok on medium to high settings as long as I overclock. Not gonna upgrade till the next gen cards.

Flack88 · 7 Mar 2018 at 19:04

£500 and you cant get an upgrade.........Yep that's the state of PC hardware atm. If you had told me the market would be like this 2 years ago I would have never believed it. It's a complete farce.

Begbie · 7 Mar 2018 at 19:05

Flack88 said:
£500 and you cant get an upgrade.........Yep that's the state of PC hardware atm. If you had told me the market would be like this 2 years ago I would have never believed it. It's a complete farce.

I'd have bought numerous 1080s

arc@css · 7 Mar 2018 at 19:09

Flack88 said:
If you had told me the market would be like this 2 years ago I would have never believed it. It's a complete farce.

+1

the_worrier · 7 Mar 2018 at 20:40

I’m surprised talk of ‘skipping a generation’ is allowed on here!

Bluntwrapped · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:38

THE DOC said:
Thank you guys ,i think ill do excatly that and hang onto it .

Ill go do a little research into overclocking the card then

thanks again

If you have a bit of spare money why not see if you can pick up a used 3770k and sell your 2500k. You'd get a bit of money back and it would be quite a nice upgrade at this point, without spending a fortune.

C-Roy · 8 Mar 2018 at 00:20

I've a 980 and am just waiting it out.

THE DOC · 8 Mar 2018 at 07:53

Bluntwrapped said:
If you have a bit of spare money why not see if you can pick up a used 3770k and sell your 2500k. You'd get a bit of money back and it would be quite a nice upgrade at this point, without spending a fortune.

could i use the same motherboard ?
would there be much point just for gaming [all i really use my pc for]

z10m · 8 Mar 2018 at 08:05

THE DOC said:
could i use the same motherboard ?
would there be much point just for gaming [all i really use my pc for]

Yes. Hyperthreading helps a lot in games on quad core CPUs. Depending on the motherboard you might need to update the bios.

HeX · 8 Mar 2018 at 08:38

Picking up a 2nd hand 3770K is a solid plan. Will give your platform a nice little boost for not much money while you hang on for GPU prices to drop.

Rroff · 8 Mar 2018 at 08:41

Begbie said:
But I don't think 1070 is that much of an upgrade, certainly not for £650! It should priced about £350 by now.

1070 is a reasonable upgrade performance wise - but not for the kind of prices they are currently extremely poor value for money for the performance increase over the 980 unfortunately doesn't look like that is changing any time soon.

Begbie · 8 Mar 2018 at 08:52

Rroff said:
1070 is a reasonable upgrade performance wise - but not for the kind of prices they are currently extremely poor value for money for the performance increase over the 980 unfortunately doesn't look like that is changing any time soon.

Yeah it's a worthy upgrade, for £300ish but not at £650 it's insane.

z10m · 8 Mar 2018 at 09:24

Maybe second hand 980ti.? Yo can still get decent ones for around 300. Definitely better than paying 600 for brand new 1070.

bJN · 8 Mar 2018 at 11:42

In a similar boat, but with a 970 and the 2500k at 1440p. With how stupid prices seem to be at the moment I've put off the idea of just upgrading a GPU and will look to replace the whole system in the coming months instead, hopefully by that point some of the mining craze will have died off again and prices can creep back down.

I'm fearful that, as someone in another thread mentioned, these high costs for GPUs are just going to be normalised much like the cost of mobile phones these days...