I couldn't wait anymore and pre ordered the middle of the road option, I only have 1080p atm any.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX 3.0
How fucked am I? Should I cancel? I don't even know when it launches.
you're okay, look into the EVGA step up program. within the next 90 days you can trade in your graphics card towards a higher end model (such as the EVGA classified that is undoubtedly going to come soon) and you will just be required to pay the difference.
>pre-ordering a gpu
holy shit, people are stupid.
buying anything, holy fuck anon.
>buying
you fucking capitalist pig
>>54778347
Thanks for the tip, I might do the step up program as the other cards are more power for only $30-60 more.
But I feel if I'm stuck on 1080p for a year or two then it doesn't really matter.
>>54778262
GTX1080 doesn't mean "made for 1080p" unless you're at 144Hz.
>>54778262
enjoy your memecard, idiot
>>54778262
You usually don't have to worry about the top end cards, but why chance it after what happened with the 970?
I would cancel it and wait.
>>54778262
wait for poolaris.
>>54778688
I really don't know what to think about this new generation of GPUs and CPUs.
In 5-8 years games are seriously going to start looking amazing. But at least this GTX 10XX serious is the final generation for 1080p imo. Everything after these will be for 4k and what ever comes after that.
>>54778738
I think the 900 series was honestly the last generation for 1080p. You should be looking into 1440p if you plan on sticking with the 1080.
>>54778688
>why chance it after what happened with the 970?
the 1080 has 8 GIGABYTES of ram
surely wont have the same problem.
>>54778794
Enjoy your 7 GB of RAM before it turns into a stuttering mess.
I jest of course - I just pre-ordered the 1080 FTW GAMING, so eh, I'll see for myself.
>>54778766
I will transition to 4k in the next 2 years. But I'm only running a i7 4770 OC to 4.0.
I think I'll have to invest another $1-1.5k into a next gen CPU, MOBO and a larger 4k monitor after the (hopefully) the prices drop in 2 years.
can a 1080 run dark souls 3 on medium at 1080p?
>>54778887
>can a 1080 run dark souls 3 on medium at 1080p?
>>54778887
You should probably wait for the 1180 for that, the 1080 is obviously just the base line for 1080p. Probably only good for low settings.
>>54778262
Idiot.
Wait until you can buy one with better power delivery instead of 1 8 pin.
>>54778794
I'm not talking about having the same problem. I'm talking about them doing shaddy shit in general.
>>54778859
You should consider if you want to wait it out for the ti as well.
>>54779019
Will they even be doing that considering the lower power requirements in general?
>>54779107
I immediately rescind this post, as this image was already on their site as is. So it is at least possible. They may not do it, but you're right that they might.
>>54779078
Just a general question but are there any games coming in the pipeline in the next 2-3 years that will make the 1080s struggle.
It's maxing out everything atm
>>54778526
Well done quoting jay2cents faggot.
Why wouldn't anybody want to make sure they don't have to run their card constantly at 100%? Do you people not think we have electricity bills?
>>54778887
You many want to wait for the 1190ti, It will probably run it 1080p med-high settings. You can expect 40-50 FPS.
>>54779019
Well the GTX 1080p FTW has duel 8 pin
>>54779220
Good catch.
>>54778366
Only nvidiots can be this retarded, excluding gaymerz.
Damn even I play games on my 980ti, and I might be somewhat retarded compared to the average nigger, but I'm surely more intelligent than you because I don't feel the urge to make useless pre orders
>>54778847
I might preorder the MSI gaming x 8 version. But no release date. Where did you preorder the evga ftw from
>>54779427
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-6286-KR
>>54779449
Anyone know when it's coming out?
>>54779762
Mid June
Probably the 10th
I am gonna flip my shit if we don't get a release date for the goddamned 1070 soon. I NEED IT
>>54778404
>>54778391
Got a free way to obtain?
>>54779859
june 10th
>>54779889
They're more so saying it's worth waiting another month so that people can get their hands on it, and have time to do some stress testing to determine if there are any issues with the first batch release.
>>54779889
>>54779913
No, he is talking about his parents buying it for him.
>>54778262
>the middle of the road option,
This is the most powerful GPU in the market. In what universe is this middle of the fucking road?
>>54779957
There will be more powerful versions of it in less than a month. So it is a middle road.
>>54779957
The GTX 1080 SC will be the middle of the road in terms of the 1080s that come out this year imo
Damn, looks like the GTX 1080 TI will have 16g Ram.
On stream today Max settings Tomb Raider was using 7g Ram on their GTX 1080.
This really is a beautiful fucking card, MSI.
11/10 will buy when I can get my hands on one. Should look nicer in my rig than my MSI 980ti.
>>54778887
If you run low settings you may get 10fps. Wait for the 2180ti sli
>>54778262
>>54778847
Where did you pre-order from?
>>54780133
>>54779449
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-6286-KR
>>54779909
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that's not tomorrow
>>54779449
You cannot pre-order from that link..so where did any of you actually place an order?
>>54779963
>>54779992
Snake oil for the most part. 1-3% differences in the cases where you actually see improvements.
>>54780154
You could earlier today. You missed out by about 16 hours.
>If only I had money
I haven't upgraded my card in forever. Someone recommend me a card that isn't fiendishly expensive
>>54780167
>super limited quantity time exclusive video cards
>there's going to be tens of thousands of them in a month
This is fucking bullshit.
>>54780184
Gamble and buy a used 980ti off amazon for $400 or wait until Christmas and get one new for $450
>>54780184
R9 wait for Polaris. AMD is known for their budget conscious products. I have a feeling the R9 480 will be just your speed, slightly over 980 performance for ~200 USD (TBA, Computex).
>>54780167
I just pre-ordered it less than 2 hours ago. I see it's on auto-notify now though. Guess I got lucky.
>>54780201
>980ti going down to $450
Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which comes first.
Fuck this wait... I just want to play GTAV with my Anime texture mods ;_; They bring my 750Ti to it's knees with it's clownshoes 2GB of RAM.
>>54780220
Shit, really? I guess nobody bothered to check the FTW model. Classified sold out in like, 5 minutes.
>>54778859
>*only* running a two generation old i7
>when there has been virtually no performance increase in the past 4 generations
>>54780252
108.2%. Goddamn. I had no idea how bad things really were.
>>54780252
I recently upgraded from an i7 920 OCed @ 4 GHz to a 6700k. Definitely don't notice as much of an improvement as I was hoping for.
>buying the 1000 series card when the 1100 series is on the horizon
>>54780252
>>54780308
Well the i7-4770 is clocked at 3.5 and I've OC to 4.0.
So I won't upgrade until there is a 5.0 OC to 5.5 and it's around $600
>>54780308
Do you have your 6700K OC'd? I'm running at 4.6 on air and can notice a difference vs stock.
>>54780310
>recommending an 1100 series card when the 1200 series is just over the horizon
>>54780414
the gpu pile doesn't stop from getting higher
i warned you about nvidia bro
>>54780414
the midrange 1200 series cards will cost like 2k since amd will be dead by then
>>54780457
Good, Nvidia stock is already buying me this new GTX 1080.
Made almost 2k this month.
>>54780057
Not gonna lie I got a chubby looking at this
>>54780478
You own 3% of the shares? Impressive, but doubtful.
>>54779220
Interesting.
>>54780457
That glimmer of hope you see? That's me.
>>54780184
GTX 960 is pretty awesome for for about $175
>>54780542
What do you mean, there was a buy call on NVDA in 2014, it was all over. I got 3k worth of shares.
If you look at the 5 year chart I'm sure you could do the same thing. Wait until they start eating their profits on RND in 3 years and buy, then sell a few days after they release their next gen cards.
>>54780576
Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you meant to say your stock increased 2k this month, not that you cashed out for 2k profit this month.
>>54780365
What's a good program to test overclocking these days anyways? I know Prime95 used to be the go to, but I've read it may not be so good recently.
>>54780602
The new versions of prime95 are not good, but you can get v26.6 which works perfect.
See this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1800828/intel-temperature-guide.html
>>54780595
I priced out 60% of my position this week and hope to reenter at $35-40 if it happens and the company is still sound.
You can do the same thing with AMD but at a greater % profit.
Not really tech but if you have cash it's easy to pay for your computers that way. Both companies are pure hype.
>>54780623
Thanks! How's this older version compare to the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility? Or would just running both of these and something like Cinebench be the best bet?
Been like 4 years since I've done any overclocking, so just want to make sure I get my tools in order before I go to it.
>>54780664
*loads self directed 401K website up*
>>54780664
Another anon here, i bought amd when they were at 1.8 and now they're at 4.6. Over doubled my money and it just keeps going up. I wish i would've invested more than 1k though....
>>54780692
Well I'm baffled. I should have saved my settings before I started fiddling around. I began with a 4.2 GHz OC which just came stock that I've been running at since I first put this thing together. I jacked up the core ratio to 45 instead of the 42 it was at to try a 4.5 GHz, and somehow my temperatures have gone down. It was peaking at 77C before at the 4.2, now it's peaking at 76C with 4.5 (Air cooled).
I guess it must be the voltage settings. I set it to manual of 1.325 like a number of recommendations I saw. I really should have jotted down all the settings before I messed with them. Oh well, time for stability testing.
>>54781078
Is ambient air temp the same?
>>54779889
Yes actually. But it's not going on 4chan.
>>54783224
23c ambient, so yeah, been the same.
If you're going to get milked like that, at least get the FTW edition for the upgraded power delivery.
I see the gtx1080 card, but my screen supports 1440. where do i get a gtx1440 card?
>>54780184
Wait a month and get a 1070.
>>54780184
Wait for polaris or if you don't want to wait get a 390x it's faster than 980
>>54783229
I know what it is.
So, I'm considering getting a new GPU when I get back from Washington D.C., should I go for the latter 1070 or get the 1080? What's the power difference between the two? My money's tight right now. so I'd like to know the power differences. I have a GTX 745 right now, and it runs well, but still has issues running games. Maybe it's because I'm on W8, but I don't know as the header pic implies. Any help determining which to get would be great /g/.
>>54783433
Fuck off faggot
>>54780057
A very subtle troll, this one.
Almost baited.
>>54783433
If money is tight, just get the 1070. The 1080 is pretty much overkill.
>>54783567
>tfw you have more money each month than you could ever hope to spend without buying cars and houses.
>tfw /g/ told me to get CS, but instead i got network certs and now earn a killing.
Asus fucked up the cooler again.
EVGA is the only non cuck choice
>>54783664
You should put your extra money in the S&P 500. Fill up your tax advantaged space first (401k and roth ira). I have $100,000 invested in the market - so on average, I'll make $7,000 a year passively.
>>54780833
I'm horrible at getting out of a stock when it's going up. It took me over 5 years to learn to just go off my targets for % made and not care.
I've been in AMD for so long that I can tell you I got burned the last time it hit around $4. Like all hyped based stocks it's going to fall again. Their financials hardly support a sustained $4 share.
The big play, aka how people are going to get rich is dumping large amounts of $ in Nvidia (it's reasonably safe) and hoping AMD goes under due to lack of competition. If that happens then you could get 300% + return from Nvidia while short selling AMD.
I pray it happens.
>>54778262
posting question in this thread
how do I get evga to accept an RMA on my 960? It's a piece of shit and was defective from day 1 but they want me to do all this testing to make sure it's bad enough for an RMA. Can i fry it in any way or say something to make them take it without all the other bullshit?
>>54783807
if nvidia becomes a monopoly, game graphics settings will equal to your income
>>54778262
Yes, why are you buying a first run card? There's always a litany of issues.
>>54783843
so what exactly is the problem with the card?
>>54779178
So you're spending $400 more for a GPU in order to save $20 per year on electricity?
And in two years, when you will have saved $40 on electricity, you'll again spend $400 more for the next GPU?
What kind of ass-backwards logic is that?
>>54783843
disable the fans and benchmark it until it fries. ahahha or put it in an oven, but most likely will fuck its warranty up if you do the last part
>>54784082
actually baking the gpu might make it work better, do it and post results.
>>54783931
It's hard to say, but I bought it a week after it came out and it always had performance issues. Every game I played would stutter, on lowest settings. Heating issues, among other things. Replaced it with a 390x recently, so I really don't want to put it back in to run a bunch of diagnostics.
So I need a way to get them to accept the RMA, without putting it back into my pc. Considered the oven, but it would melt the plastic and they'd be able to tell. Benchmark with fans off might work, but I don't want to break any other part of the pc in doing so
>>54780184
>recommend me a cheap card
>all the answers are AMD
>>54784031
>$20 per year on electricity?
I'm not the same guy you're replying to but even the 40W less a typical Nvidia card can save from idle power is more than worth it in most parts of Europe by the 12th or so month if you never shut down your system.
Needless to say I never shut down mine.
>>54783896
You don't need to worry about that.
There won't be any gaming PCs by 2030.
Intel is pulling out of desktop PCs.
All Nvidia does is pointing towards an all professional terminal style future for workstations as well.
It's all dumb consoles and clouds from now on baby. Better learn to accept it because there is nothing you can do to change it, whether you buy shitty AMD cards and cpus or not.
>>54778262
>pre ordering a gpu
sounds like the retarded things a nvidiot would do
>>54778262
you only have a 1080p display dont you
>>54784292
>3 Nvidia responses
>2 AMD responses
>1 shitpost response (You)
What sort of sideways ass bait action is this?
>>54784644
>spends money on SSDs and quick-bootable mobo
>never shuts down his machine
>>54784644
You're an idiot. The GPU will not be drawing max power if it's just sitting there idle and the idle draw for all GPUs released in the past 6 years is chickenshits short of identical.
>>54786764
Looks like you took the bait
>>54787010
I can't resist sideways ass bait action. It calls to me like a siren in the mist.
>>54787033
Honestly it wasn't even meant as bait, I didn't even read all the reactions, just wanted to shitpost
>>54786933
>>spends money on SSDs
I only have one Samsun Pro for my OS and my applications famlam. Rest of my machines is WD Blacks back to back.
>>54783229
I also know how to non-deliver scam Amazon.
>>54787198
Oh. Stealing. They were talking about stealing one. Here I thought they were talking about some kind of promotional deal. I didn't think they would stoop to thievery. I feel bad now.
>>54778347
I don't think they ever offer their SC, Classified or FTW models in the step up program.
Evga Classified or Asus Strix?
I feel like the 3-fan design is going to be able to hit lower temps, but evga cards have that nice monolithic vrm/memory heatsink.
I cant decide!
>>54789141
I'm in the same boat, I also like the ACX 3.0 design more than the edgy Strix.
>>54778887
My 780 can do that.
>>54789217
You're no fun.
