Not sure what to do

Excalabur50

Excalabur50

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Hey all I'm trying to decide whether to go over to a single card solution for my system as it seems less gaming houses are supporting SLI and micro stutter in games added heat ETC so I'm thinking maybe a MSI 1080 seahawk x or EVGA 1080 hybrid or should I maybe wait and get a 1080TI if they come out or just stick with what I've got now?

I mostly play Mech Warrior Online and BF4 on ultra @ 2560x1440 and some Crisis 3 and Just cause 3 and a few others.

So what do you think? Any input or suggestions would be most welcome :)
 
If you want the best long term investment Titan XP. Face it, it costs less than two 1080s and will last twice as long or more.

The 1080ti will not come out until AMD either release Vega or roll over and die. It sucks, but why would Nvidia sell a £1100 GPU for £800-£900 when they can charge £1100?

At first I thought the Titan XP was a complete rip off, then I saw the figures. It can actually do 4k properly.

I guess it depends whether you see it as a long term investment on something you use all day every day or whether you would prefer to replace more often.

But yeah if you are waiting on the 1080ti don't dude. It just won't happen until it has to, and AMD have constantly stated that Vega will not hit until the absolute earliest of next year. SLi is dead as you have noticed so that only really leaves you with the 1080 or Titan XP. The 1080 is 15% faster than my OC Titan X (both OC) and my Titan X is just about good enough for maximum settings at 1440p (I mean Fallout 4 all maxed out with Godrays on ultra is giving me a min of 42 FPS on a 70hz monitor).

Personally I would go Titan XP.
 
Yeah thanks Alien I had thought about the Titan XP my only concern with it is heat as where I live it's not uncommon to get upto 42 degree days in summer and I don't want to get into dedicated water cooling so that's why I was thinking about the hybrid cooled cards now if I knew for certain the NZXT or Corsair are going to release the cooler to allow AIO's then I'd seriously consider one
 
tinytomlogan said:
I know they have an Asetek based 1080 on the cards, Im pretty sure there will be other 'plates' you can mount an AIO on too.

Thats on of the things Im personally waiting for tbh.
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It was a good idea for them to go back to the drawing board in terms of the bracket plate. Before if the design changed they needed to release a whole new cooler. Now they can just change the shroud and plate as they go.

I've noticed that their shroud designs are becoming less model specific too, and only say "Geforce GTX" or whatever instead of having the model number on. Good idea IMO.

Mind you if mine had said Titan X I probably would have paid a lot more than the £40 I got it for with an unused shroud because it had "GTX 980" on it :D

AIO cooling on a GPU is more important than the CPU IMO. Well, unless you can afford to go full water that is. Oddly I see lots of build logs with an expensive water system cooling only the CPU :confused:
 
Well it seems the choice has been made for me as the guy's who were going to buy my cards aren't so I've contacted my mate at MSI to see if these twin frozers can be turned into seahawk editions since they aren't making 980ti seahawks maybe Taipei has some spare shrouds lying around so it may improve the temps for me and the longevity of them too
 
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Mate us poor buggers in Straya cant buy from Nvidia as it's US or Canada only and we don't have any Asia Pacific either it's Japan or China or Taiwan so guess it means we can't get them :-(
 
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