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Originally Posted by Dawelio
Yeah, that’s true, but I meant more if it’s worth getting a 1080 Ti or wait for the next gen cards?... As the principle is the same as this thread.
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Absolutely not. If any one is buying right now they should buy the best value they can get, as it will take less of a kicking when the new stuff arrives.
This is the time to buy. It's going to be a buyer's paradise man. I always used to buy around a new launch, and get the previous gen card. Mostly because you get such amazing value.
When it launched the GTX 470 was £350 or so. I waited until Nvidia released the 570 and 580, then got a 470 for £179 on OCUK. I threw on the best cooler you could get for it (Zalman, £25) and ended up with a hefty OC that was easy to keep in check.
I then bought a 6970 Lightning for the same price (£179, new) from OCUK when the 7970 launched because I needed more VRAM for BF3. The 470 was texture streaming from my paging file (on the hard drive, far from ideal).
I wish I had stuck to those principals over the years to be honest. I wouldn't have wasted so much god damn cash. The funny thing is I have totally stuck to those principals when it comes to CPUs and Mobos, just not GPUs. I bought a 10 core Xeon that performs way higher than the current cost of perf - price (I paid £140 IIRC, it easily beats any CPU at that price) and same with my 14 core. Paid £360, you still can't get a retail CPU to beat it for that price and I have had both for 15 months.
Yet for many years all sense went out of the window when buying GPUs.
And then I finally played a console that can put out a respectable image with an acceptable frame rate and sense was restored lol.