770 to Maxwell or Pascal?

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Right now I have a 770 2gb that at the time I thought would serve me well until my next computer. The thing is that while the rest of my components have aged with grace and not left me wanting, my graphic card has been less forgiving. When I bought the card I wasn't too concerned with vram as my previous card had 512mb and thus thought that 2gb was more than enough to see me through, however without a doubt vram is the bottleneck in most of my games. So I'm left with the question as what to do. I could get a new maxwell based card that has 4gb of vram and hope that's enough for the life of the computer, or I can wait till late summer for a pascal card whos' vram limit is 16gb. I know some of you are going to recommend that I wait till pascal is released to pick up a 980ti on the cheap, but I guess the real question I have (using your crystal ball), is waiting and paying for a new pascal card worth it? as it relates to the upgrade in vram and games use of it?

Thanks for the help,
Cheers

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I'd say wait and if not for pascal or polaris, then for the inevitable price drops on the current cards. Honestly people will be trying to sell their current setup for the new stuff, I see it every year. You can get a pretty good deal on a used card once the new ones come out.
The 770 is still a very very capable card for 1080 and 1440

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I would also say wait for a few reasons.

Cheaper cards when people seel then old stock and second hand cards.

DX12 looks like it is going to be heavily used and maxwell is just not up to the while task, not bad but there is some shadyness there I would not risk especially with nVidias propensity to downgrade features after the line is done.

AMD will also have new cards and the ones out right now are very good indeed and will get cheaper too.

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Have you considered a dirt cheap used second 770 in SLI while waiting for what you really want? Just a thought.

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A 380 at $200 wouldn't be too bad while you wait if you know someone you can sell it to later

but I'd wait for polaris more than pascal, mostly because you're going to save money with a free-sync display vs a G-sync display

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I have, but I still run into the problem of vram limitations-SLI will still only uses 2gb and does not take advantage of the second cards vram, correct?

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My bad. Since getting two chips to work together is harder then getting 2 sets of ram I assumed you would get 4 gb. Someone at Nvidia needs to be shot, fired, given a bad eval and lose their parking spot. Not necessarily in that order. I have a 2 gb 770 and was thinking along those lines. Thanks. I had no idea.

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