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Nvidia Game 24 Stream All Night Live Another Day
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If you email them directly they most likely will tell you.
It won't.
The biggest reason the Maxwell series is so cheap is that the die are almost half the size of keplar. Nvidia saved a ton of money and can still maintain the margins they are used to having.
Windom Earle
Member
And with more memory and the new Maxwell features. It's a good deal.
Smushroomed
Banned
Could sli 970s for how "cheap" they are
Dictator93
Member
8800GT SLI set up cost was about 600 when I got it. It was god like too.
2002whitegt
Member
Production value on the stream is so bad, lol
Oh yeah, I loved my 8800GT. Quite possibly my favorite GPU of all time. That thing offered crazy bang for the buck.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
If you can sell your 780Ti for $500 and buy a 980 for $550, then sure. I just don't know how you'll do that.
plagiarize
Banned
Nope.
Damn how much faster is the card with the ACX 2.0 stuff?!
I wonder if the 970/980 the most overclockable card in Nvidia history.
Hopefully, sell it to somebody who hasn't seen this stream. lol
Plus side:
Get to play EVE VR and Wasteland 2 and Gauntlet
Woot woot
I was getting sliders outside anyway so whatever. Guy told me to go play Dota at nvidia so it was worth it.
Get to play EVE VR and Wasteland 2 and Gauntlet
Woot woot
I said $330 was respectable.
I was getting sliders outside anyway so whatever. Guy told me to go play Dota at nvidia so it was worth it.
mordecaii83
Member
I NEED these cards to go on sale soon!
plagiarize
Banned
Bed would be nice right about now, but it's not happening until I get mine ordered.
DylanTackoor
Member
Only reason I might hesitate is because I have a friend who's willing to just give me his 670 FTW for free. Saving my wallet from that kind of pain would be nice, but god damn I want that VR feature.
fluffydelusions
Member
Same
Smushroomed
Banned
minimum psu for 970 sli?
GHG
Member
From what I've seen you should be good to go if you have a high quality 700w or above.
Did anyone read the techpowerup review for the 980?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980/31.html
This is their closing line. lol
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980/31.html
This is their closing line. lol
I have to see what the prices turn out to be for 980 here in Sweden, but it does not look good if I want a good cooler. =(
Maybe I'll just go with reference cooler, since I am planning on replacing it with the full maxwell card next year anyway. If I could deal with the 6950 reference, this shouldn't be a problem.
Maybe I'll just go with reference cooler, since I am planning on replacing it with the full maxwell card next year anyway. If I could deal with the 6950 reference, this shouldn't be a problem.
That's what I thought when I saw the $329 price point.
*shrugs*
Good luck to team red but I'll be switching this time.
plagiarize
Banned
I've been planning the switch since the Gsync announcement. I know freesync is happening at some point, but it hasn't happened yet.
Since I'm coming from a 7970, this looks like a great jumping in point, not that I haven't owned multiple NVidia (and AMD/Radeon) cards in the past.
Since I'm coming from a 7970, this looks like a great jumping in point, not that I haven't owned multiple NVidia (and AMD/Radeon) cards in the past.
mordecaii83
Member
I'm right there with you, I'll be up until I can order one...
344.11 WHQL drivers are up.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-344-11-whql-driver-released
and a new version of Geforce Experience that add DSR support for 900 series cards as well as 4K Shadowplay support
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-2-1-2-released
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-344-11-whql-driver-released
and a new version of Geforce Experience that add DSR support for 900 series cards as well as 4K Shadowplay support
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/geforce-experience-2-1-2-released
SneakyStephan
Banned
First time in like 4 years that a new gpu looks attractive/compelling to me.
I'm relieved that they priced the 970 reasonably
One click downsampling is a feature I've wanted for ages (my 6870+ crt monitor never even let me downsample at all) and getting an almost 4x performance increase over my hd6870 while using less power is pretty cool (can't stand a noisy pc)
Shame there's no point upgrading my gpu before I replace my phenom II cpu... it's costly with current ram prices and the midrange cpu being 230 euros.
Time for a new build soon me thinks.
I'm relieved that they priced the 970 reasonably
One click downsampling is a feature I've wanted for ages (my 6870+ crt monitor never even let me downsample at all) and getting an almost 4x performance increase over my hd6870 while using less power is pretty cool (can't stand a noisy pc)
Shame there's no point upgrading my gpu before I replace my phenom II cpu... it's costly with current ram prices and the midrange cpu being 230 euros.
Time for a new build soon me thinks.
TheMadMan007
Member
Ok, so here is my real question. SLI two 970's or just go with the 980? Money isn't that big of a issue, but I don't want to SLI two 980's. I got the general consensus that it is just better to go with the single better card than to SLI two lower ones since most games have really bad SLI support.
I've always preferred a single powerful GPU to 2 weaker ones, but damn the 970 SLI at $660 is making a great case for itself.
Even if the game doesn't support SLI, the 970 only seems to be about 10% slower than the 980.
opticalmace
Member
edit: whoops will ask in the other thread.
You don't need to SLI if your performance target is stable 60FPS 1080p with games made this year.
If you want 120 FPS to leverage lightboost/ulmb or 60fps for next year's games at 1440P + then carefully consider getting SLI.
A single 970 will satisfy a lot of people.
The only reason to go with the 980 is if you'll wind up feeling the need to SLI that. It won't be a lot of difference in the long run but maybe it's 10-20%. There's no value proposition there for sure..
Just found this on Nvidia's site
How Maxwell’s VR Direct Brings Virtual Reality Gaming Closer to Reality: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/maxwell-virtual-reality/#sthash.UeUlBr7q.dpuf
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/maxwell-virtual-reality/
"Few applications support VR headsets. So we’re bringing VR support to games that already work with NVIDIA 3D Vision."
Awesome news!
How Maxwell’s VR Direct Brings Virtual Reality Gaming Closer to Reality: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/maxwell-virtual-reality/#sthash.UeUlBr7q.dpuf
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/maxwell-virtual-reality/
"Few applications support VR headsets. So we’re bringing VR support to games that already work with NVIDIA 3D Vision."
Awesome news!
Holy Shit, is this Maxwell only? I have a DK2, so that alone will push me to get a 980.
Hooooolyyyyy fuuuuuuck! I don't have any VR stuff, but I'm really big into 3D vision and this sounds like they'll be putting some good legs behind 3D vision again! It's an incredibly technology totally worth investing resources in.
Super busy with Mod24 and other stuff, but thought I should quickly pass on my article that gives you a lot of info: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/maxwell-architecture-gtx-980-970
Tons of other new info on http://www.geforce.com/, too. I'll try and answer any questions when I have some spare time, but don't count it
Tons of other new info on http://www.geforce.com/, too. I'll try and answer any questions when I have some spare time, but don't count it
Smushroomed
Banned
Super busy with Mod24 and other stuff, but thought I should quickly pass on my article that gives you a lot of info: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/maxwell-architecture-gtx-980-970
Tons of other new info on http://www.geforce.com/, too. I'll try and answer any questions when I have some spare time, but don't count it
When will e-tailers like newegg and amazon have 970's for sale?
Sorry if this has been answered already
Midnight or 6am tomorrow morning.
What microstutter? AFR frame of latency is completely removed and we're already super smooth even in AFR.
The final paragraph in total pretty much skewers AMD by bringing in the 970 (even though its a 980 review, heh)
"Oh, and AMD seems fucked." is one of the funniest closing lines I've ever read. Lots of angry fans are going to be on about that in the comments haha.