Hey,
I'm looking to buy a GTX980Ti i have made up my mind on which brand so please don't say a different brand.
First off i'm in Australia so prices are way different to America so i was wondering should i buy the normal GTX980Ti with BP or the Classified bearing in mind there is a $70 price difference i may OC and i may WC but down the track just not atm may use is gaming and also don't say just wait for Pascal cause i don't believe hype and speculation until we see real world testing, Also i understand it's overkill i'm only using 2 1080p panels atm but i'm planning on going ultrawide at some point
Prices are:
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ $1029
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Classified ACX 2.0+ $1099
Wait for the next generation GPUs.
Not because of hype or anything. Wait for it, check the benchmarks, don't read the praise Nvidia usually gets, look at the numbers, and if the numbers don't justify the price difference, 980Ti will not go anywhere.
Also Nvidia likes to gimp the drivers to tank the last gen GPU's performance to show huge difference with the newest gen GPUs ...
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I can't really wait i'm using onboard GPU atm.
From what i have seen Pascal is not going to be a world beater wattage wise it going to be using the same amount of watts.
Check out the FTW version too. Also don't worry about waiting like people are saying cause you will be waiting tell September at the very earliest or even 2017 fir the 1080ti if they call it that.
I have read too that they could be changing model numbers it might not be GTX it could be just X series.
Yeah i know about the FTW a friend of my said miss the FTW and go straight for the Classy since there sort of the same card but isn't it harder to water cool the FTW verison cause of the PCB same guy told me if i'm going to water cool i would be better go going for the normal 980Ti cause of the PCB on the normal GTX980Ti
The current understanding with pascal is at the high end we will see a 10x jump in performance, whether or not that's true, only time will tell.
Anyway. I buy strictly evga cards as like you, I lived in Australia and now new Zealand and evga is the only company with a decent warranty. In 2013 I bought a gtx 780 classified. Got insane over clocks on it but burnt it out last month. They replaced it under warranty with a 780 ti classified.
Having pushed both cards to their limits, I would say stick with evga, but only buy a classified of you're willing to pay that extra for another 10% performance. Or you are like me and push the card on voltage it should never have seen with a modded bios and other technical manipulations. It's really up to you. The extra 10% isn't a lot when you realize how fast the cards are getting. 2 years after the 780, the 980 Ti is twice as powerful. Would you rather 10% performance or save 10% of your next card in 2 years?
I'm going back to a EVGA since i last own a EVGA GTX760 GPU i've had since then was ASUS GTX780, MSI GTX970 (which was a mistake) & Sapphire R9 390.
I have never really OC a GPU (i think i'm just too lazy too lol) before and for that matter i have never OC a CPU that is why i'm thinking about it this time there is also the FTW card but it's just like the Classy but less Power Phases.
TBH looking at the specs they all look very similar just coming down to the power phases.
Classifieds are larger cards. Larger heat sink and so on theory cooler
Yep i know that, Still trying to work out for it for me if it's worth the extra $70 tho.
I have been reading up on reviews for it.
They are better cards but if you don't plan to overclock, just stick with and acx oc or ftw. The classifieds are designed with ln2 cooling in mind. Ie 0.35v over stock voltage. The kingpins go even further than that being designed by the overclocker kingpin
Isn't the FTW hit or miss some people like them and some people don't and have more issues with the FTW over the other 2 i know it's comes down to luck of the draw tho
Difference between the oc and ftw is binning. Ftw cards are better binned. That's pretty much it
Yep i understand, I just check EK website and it looks like no full water blocks are going to be for the FTW which sucks
http://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=2379350&p=1
Tl;dr classified is more geared towards watercooling
I think phyco_666 makes a great point.
Yeah he does make a good point but like i said i just can't wait cause i don't like using on board video, Also my plan is to get one 980Ti now and if the prices drop get a second one and sli them just to me my system look even better.
That forum post from EVGA seems like half and half some people say get the normal and then the other half say get the classy lol