980ti is a cutdown version of TitanX, you can approximate their different in term of performance from there.

Upgrading every generation is consider a luxury to many of us here. I personally can't afford an upgrade cycle of only 1 gen, worse for top of the tier card...

Again, it depend on whether you have the money to be spent. At current price point (650USD, not MY's pricing of over 3k + GST), 980TI indeed is an interesting card.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 15 2015, 06:07 AM

If you take a look back at when 960 just launched, it disappointed a lot Nvidia fans as 970 is one of few Nvidia card with exceptional performance for a cheap price. People are getting their hopes high up and anticipating 960 to follow proportionally.

By the previous trend too, 960 should be able to take on 770 easily. But Nvidia decided to scale it just barely better than the old 770. On specs it's basically half a 970.

Hence I also feel that if they aren't ready to launch Pascal anytime soon, they will announce 960TI when the time comes, let's see if the announcement of AMD new lineup is the trigger (but by AMD's trend, their refreshed cards are actually pricier than their prerefresh counterparts...)

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 16 2015, 11:14 AM

If you want the "best" time, it is last year before MYR to USD gets weaken. Asus Strix cost under 1.4k back then, now 1.7k+. Another worth mentioned history is the Leadtek 970 with SSD bundle ranging from Xmas to around CNY iirc.

Anyway, as for now, I don't think there's much thing to wait. Nvidia's lineup is pretty much completed, except may be a 960ti or so on in future which should be weaker than 970, and not affecting 970.

Yeah AMD have new cards upcoming, but the things aren't what we hadn't expected/speculated (except for Fury which is still a pretty well kept secret till now on the details).

970 should be rivaling 390 non-x or 380x, which should be a beefed up version of 290(x). Since it's rebranding, the pricing is not expected to be lower than current retail price of 290x which had being dropped down all the way since 2k+/- to almost 1k.

In other words, I expecting AMD to have a card more powerful than 970, but probably more pricy too.

But whatever, as Goldfries said, the announcement is just hours from now, let's wait and see how true the predictions/speculations are.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 16 2015, 09:50 PM

Yup, that's why I said AMD's rebranding tactic tend to jack up the price than lowering it. Their rebranded price probably higher than current retail price.

I thought RRP is 3.2k?
http://www.lowyat.net/2015/06/asus-geforce...ced-at-rm-3199/

I more often found gigabyte to tweak the power limit of their cards, which vaguely translate to more headroom for overclocking.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyt..._960_OC/25.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyt..._Gaming/28.html

But again, OC is still more about the luck of the draw, depend on the potential and capability of the chip itself. If you are lucky enough for a good chip, you may hit the OC potential before being capped by the power limit.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 22 2015, 12:15 PM

By that time games starting to chunking 8GB VRAM already.

Maxwell is an OC beast, my Zotac 970 (cheapest model) reached 1.5k boost clock with stock voltage and cooler.

TitanX killer

Many ways,

Higher details
Developers getting lazier with console ports
Bigger resolutions

The thing I like bout HBM is the interposer thing, since memory chips are integrated together with graphic chip, we won't be seeing something ridiculous like 4GB VRAM low end cards anymoar...
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-p...spx?pid=5036#ov

But again it gonna be a loooooonnnnnggg way till HBM become mainstream and entering low end cards, GDDDR3/5 is here to stay for low ends...

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 22 2015, 07:30 PM

Nvidia is very restrictive on their Titan series before this, so probably won't be seeing custom PCB version of it (but rumored that Nvidia had also start compromise a little, allowing custom water cooled version from EVGA and so on, not sure how true is that).
http://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.a...N+Series+Family

As for 980TI, yeah, custom PCB/cooler/whatever it is, its very versatile. I am curious if they will ever came out with a custom version with 12GB VRAM to further troll TitanX, LOL.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 22 2015, 07:59 PM

Actually non-reference 980TI is never an issue, Nvidia don't have restriction on it AFAIK.

Here's Gigabyte G1, it come with custom PCB with modified power limit somemore.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyt...1_Gaming/3.html

I just hope some vendors will come out with a 12GB version of it, should provide more headroom for people on SLI, which should give it an edge over the 4GB HBM of FuryX particularly on multicards setup.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 22 2015, 08:44 PM

It's normal for SLI to have 2 different temperatures. And I assume you are on non-ref cards.

Nothing much you can do apart from some repaste of TIM or getting a fan dedicated at the hotter card.

Don't looks too stripped for me, go for a wider Philips screw driver with tighter fit and try again. Also can try tons of methods suggested online.

Worse come to worse, get a small rotary and make the screw into a "-" instead of "x" so you can remove them with a flathead.

Not even officially launched yet IINM.

Get a gigabyte, their cards are always solid and this 980ti is of custom PCB and have much higher power limit.

Another thing, their cards are available in our local shops already. If you continue the waiting game, who know how much more they will jack up the price when MYR conversion rate getting worsen...

This post has been edited by Human10: Jun 28 2015, 08:28 PM

My bad then,
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-266...rd-release.html

Anyway, my point is just grab the best readily available option, which is gigabyte in this case. With worsening MYR conversion rate, soon we might see the price get further jacked up.

Go google around, many of Zotac's cards are 2.5 slots.

That one is for 980, since 980TI is more TITAN than a 980, you probably need to wait for them to launch a new one?

My bad, they said it is TitanX compatible.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 5 2015, 04:07 PM