Video Card Help Needed

[Mynock]

Replacing my video card that died last week. RIP GTX 580 SC........

Narrowed my replacement options to these two:

GTX 980 Classified
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814487084

GTX 980
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814487078

Seems like a no brainer, the Classified version offers a slightly higher clock speed and higher quality fans........so why is it $50 cheaper?

[dlodoski]

...Seems like a no brainer, the Classified version offers a slightly higher clock speed and higher quality fans........so why is it $50 cheaper?

Could be a for a couple non-nefarious reasons. Most likely, the product folks at Newegg don't realize the reality of the pricing and just left it as a 'cost plus' thing, or they got their pricing indexing from competitors that don't offer both cards.

Must be a heck of a system, if that card is part of an economy of scale....

But then, I might need something along those lines if I need to start editing 4k stuff.

[micky3277]

GTX 1080 and 1070 were just announced, will be on sale soon. You'll get far faster speeds for the same price if you can wait. (Or at least get a much better deal on a 980 and soon as the 1080's are on sale. Prices are bound to drop significantly.)

[Mynock]

Holy price point........I wasn't even looking at the 10 series cards because I figured they'd be out of reach. Thanks for the heads up, definitely going to wait for the 1070 now.

System Specs:
CPU: Intel I7 LGA 1366 I950 @ 3.06Ghz
Mobo: EVGA X58 SLI3
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz 12Gb (6x2Gb Tri-Channel)
Video: Was EVGA GTX 580 Super Clocked Edition (RIP)
Hard Drives: (1) Patriot Inferno 60Gb SSD (OS and boot programs) & (1) Western Digital Caviar Black 250Gb HDD (Everything else).
CD/DVD: Asus something or other
PSU: Corsair AX750 750w Modular
Case: Antec Lanboy (Red)

Built back in 2011, still happy with it. Could use a hard drive upgrade in addition to the new card but not quite a necessity yet. Really want to wait for that till the PCI Express hard drives become reasonably priced.

[Jon Smith]

I have a GTX 970 TI in my gaming desktop currently, I am pleased with it. I think this graphics card is really overkill, I don't see a point in having more than that. I never bothered to go for a 980... They are a ludicrous gaming graphics card, and I don't see them as lasting that long as they should. I am knowledgeable about computers, but not as much about gaming, I am just too busy to do that very often. I don't spend much money on gaming stuff, only enough to keep up with the joneses. I have a gaming desktop (which I only use occasionally), a work desktop, a server, and 2 laptops.

[Mynock]

The one advantage to buying the top end hardware is that it stays viable for longer. The card I was running from 2011 was still holding it's own pretty well, probably would have run it for another year or two if it hadn't died.

Here's the money shot......Doom IV on a GTX 1080......200 frames per second with all the goodies turned on......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3LaLJoo0s

[Mynock]

It's been a super shitty 2 months running on an ancient quadro card.......FINALLY got my hands on a 1070. Could've had an MSI or Zotac a few weeks ago but held out for EGVA.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814487248

[nachtjaeger]

Speaking of hardware upgrades, now that TigerDirect as gone the way of the Sears Catalog and the 8-track, where is the best place online to get the sort of stuff they sold? I don't necessarily mean price- their website worked great.

[dlodoski]

Speaking of hardware upgrades, now that TigerDirect as gone the way of the Sears Catalog and the 8-track, where is the best place online to get the sort of stuff they sold? I don't necessarily mean price- their website worked great.

Once you know what product you want, Amazon Prime.

Works great, especially if you live in the boonies.

[Fred588]

Speaking of hardware upgrades, now that TigerDirect as gone the way of the Sears Catalog and the 8-track, where is the best place online to get the sort of stuff they sold? I don't necessarily mean price- their website worked great.

I would say Amazon for price and B&H Photo for technical info. Its probably not fair, however, to pump the brains of B&H and then buy elsewhere - the price difference between the two is USUALLY fairly small.