I am upgrading the platform and everything else except the GPU because Polaris and Pascal are worth waiting for from what i hear, and well if not i can get a deal when the 900 series GPU's drop their prices, i will consider AMD if it's significant enough to leave the GSYNC portion of my monitor.
As you can tell i want to push 144hz for competitive gaming only, and perhaps enjoy it in some casual titles.
I am a CSGO player and often have mouse lag occur etc from dips in frames, though frames are higher in relativity to what people expect, the Source engine behaves VERY differently at lower frame rates.
I currently run 1080P 75hz which is hard to feed with my CPU on some harder to run games, or my GPU is the limit of course.
CSGO i have no issues at 75hz, however as stated the engine it's self behaves strangely.
So what do you guys think? any news on Pascal and Polaris really? and if i don't go for that new tech should i just grab a 980Ti?
Definitely wait for Pascal or Polaris If you already have a Gsync then you'll need to stick with Nvidia, but yes wait for the 1080 and 1070 launch And if the performance benchmarks show that they aren't that much better than anything currently available then you'll probably be able to get pretty good deal on a used card.
If you already have Gsync then stick w/ Nvidia, but, an equivalent freesync monitor will be about 100USD cheaper (at least that's the case on this side of the pond). I recommend you wait to see what polaris and pascal have to offer before making a purchase decision (also worthy to note here that the prices of the current gen cards may drop for new cards and there will be an influx of them as used cards because ppl be upgrading).
not sure if 580 supports GSync, well it might - worth researching before you take steps to buy gsync monitor and spend additional $ on it... gsync will lock you down to ~40-90Hz so 144Hz is kinda ... yeah.
Polaris is going to be a better option, or Pascal if they finally implemented ACE's (hardware based async compute engines) else Pascal won't be that good of a choice v Polaris.
in your case of cs:go i'd recommend disabling gsync/freesync and running this shit 144Hz or more. a gpu is mainly required for performance in online games.
Why aren't you getting the free-sync display for 100 pounds less? If you already bought it, and paid like 300 pounds for it, just return it and go free-sync, you'd almost get a 380 with the new display.