I've tentatively said yes to a BNIB open-air cooled GTX 1080 from a forum seller on another site for $540 (no GoW4 game code, though). However I won't be assembling a rig until Black Friday / Cyber Monday. Even still, I don't think I'll get that good of a deal on a 1080, given that most custom AIB models are $620+ right now. And given that used 980 TI's are going for ~$320, I don't think the 1070 at $400 + GoW4 is that particularly appealing outside of it's power use.
I had myself convinced I was skipping Vega/Pascal and was ready to repurchase a used GTX 980 or was going to try to snag an open boxed 1060 6gb/480 8gb for ~$200, however for less than the price of the GTX 980 when it first came out, double the vram and 80% more performance, $540 is reeally tempting since I game at 1440p and plan on getting a VR headset either sometime next year or when 2nd gen versions hit (depending on rumors, specs, etc.)
What do you guys think? Get it and be happy for 2 years or stick to the plan and get something significantly slower to tide me over until Volta/Navi? FYI, I was planning to get the 2nd tier GV104 (GTX 1170) or AMD equivalent when those cards were to come out.
I had myself convinced I was skipping Vega/Pascal and was ready to repurchase a used GTX 980 or was going to try to snag an open boxed 1060 6gb/480 8gb for ~$200, however for less than the price of the GTX 980 when it first came out, double the vram and 80% more performance, $540 is reeally tempting since I game at 1440p and plan on getting a VR headset either sometime next year or when 2nd gen versions hit (depending on rumors, specs, etc.)
What do you guys think? Get it and be happy for 2 years or stick to the plan and get something significantly slower to tide me over until Volta/Navi? FYI, I was planning to get the 2nd tier GV104 (GTX 1170) or AMD equivalent when those cards were to come out.
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