Should Intel17 buy a GTX Titan?

[Arachnotronic]

Your votes will help me decide whether I drop a cool grand on a GTX Titan or not!

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Are you happy with mid-range?

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Buy a titan if you can afford it.

 

[A.josiah11]

buy a titan and give me your 680

 

[ZipSpeed]

Do it. You live only once.

 

[Lonyo]

Not sure how a GTX680 counts as mid-range in anyone's book.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Simple logic.

 

[Rubycon]

Not sure how a GTX680 counts as mid-range in anyone's book.

It's bigger than a tweeter but smaller than a woofer it has to be midrange.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Why?

I've yet to play anything where I've felt my 680 is letting me down, but I play at 19x12 on a single monitor without 3D. And I don't care about bragging rights.

Edit:

Antec TPQ 1200W |

Given this absurdly overpowered PSU, perhaps you needs to run 2 x Titans in SLI to justify owning it?

 

[The_Golden_Man]

Intel17

If you play your games fine then don't do it. Then again, if you have alot of money to burn and love hardware, then by all means.

I wouldn't go 680 SLI at this point due to 2GB VRAM.

 

[Ferzerp]

There is not enough information to answer your question.

Personally, I don't find it very compelling except in two scenarios.

1. You want/need to stick with single card and want more than a 7970 will give you.
2. 680 SLI isn't enough performance for what you're trying to do and so you buy two of these (fewer scaling issues than 4 680s)

Those are the two scenarios that I'd buy 1, or 2 in.

I'm still trying to decide if 2 applies to me or not.

edit: I'd be all over these at a $700 price, and probably so at an $800-850 price as well. That doesn't tell me it's a bad product, or that it is overpriced (it obviously isn't as they're selling as fast as they're stocked still). It just tells me that I'd rather have $2k than 2 of these right now.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Why?

I've yet to play anything where I've felt my 680 is letting me down, but I play at 19x12 on a single monitor without 3D. And I don't care about bragging rights.

Edit:

Given this absurdly overpowered PSU, perhaps you needs to run 2 x Titans in SLI to justify owning it?

lol why does mid-range need to be a letdown?

Think everyone with 6870s and 560 Ti's were let down?

If you're still confused, go look up GTX 560 Ti vs GTX 580, you'll find a similar performance delta. :thumbsup:

 

[RoboChobo]

My vote is yes, sell your 680 and upgrade to a Titan.

I'm trying to find buyers for my 680's and then I will upgrade as well.

 

[Qbah]

Games run slow? Yes.
Games run fine? No.

 

[DooKey]

Titan

 

[Imouto]

Why in the world would you stop with just one Titan? Four is the way to go.

 

[AdamK47]

I say go for it. Even at $1,000 these things seem to be flying off the shelves. Gotta get on that hype train with the rest of us. You don't want to be left out.

 

[Maximilian]

 

[paul878]

You got the $$$, buy it!

 

[DaveSimmons]

lol why does mid-range need to be a letdown?

Think everyone with 6870s and 560 Ti's were let down?

If you're still confused, go look up GTX 560 Ti vs GTX 580, you'll find a similar performance delta. :thumbsup:

I wasn't questioning calling the 680 midrange, just to spending $1,000 for no particular reason.

"Because it's there" ?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Sell off your GTX 680, then it won't appear to be so bad to you

 

[tviceman]

DO IT. I like to see people spending big money.

 

[jaqie]

*shrug* save your money until others are selling their titans off to upgrade to the next iteration, then buy one, if you must have one.

I still have my hd6850 and I am just now finally wanting something better. I see much more useful ways of spending that much money, like on an old car to go sunday cup racing in.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Act now or wait it out imo, there is no reason to believe mid-range maxwell won't beat it.

Probably at half the price, or if AMD comes correct possibly even less than that.

 

[FalseChristian]

Everybody talks about the current recession. What f*cking recession?!? If the Titan is flying off the shelves as fast as they can be made overpriced as they are I feel good about the economy now.