Video/Graphics Card upgrade

brick4956

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Debating on Wether to purchase a new graphids card for the rig I buiit years ago have been looking at the Nvidia 1070 & 1080 edition cards. Anyone think I should wait till more custom cards are released later on. Rig has a 1500 watt power supply so has more than enough power for me to run the card in dual sli if I go with that type of setup.
 

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Debating on Wether to purchase a new graphids card for the rig I buiit years ago have been looking at the Nvidia 1070 & 1080 edition cards. Anyone think I should wait till more custom cards are released later on. Rig has a 1500 watt power supply so has more than enough power for me to run the card in dual sli if I go with that type of setup.

If you don't know what the improvements on the new cards will be, why wait?
 

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Debating on Wether to purchase a new graphids card for the rig I buiit years ago have been looking at the Nvidia 1070 & 1080 edition cards. Anyone think I should wait till more custom cards are released later on. Rig has a 1500 watt power supply so has more than enough power for me to run the card in dual sli if I go with that type of setup.

No need to wait, or even bother with SLI for now. The bandwidth on a single card dwarfs everything out there right now and they're cheaper than the Titans. Besides, since everything is carried on the backs of more limited platforms, which can't update hardware, a 1080 should be more than enough for a while.
 

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I just don't really like the current reference card designs hoping evga will come out with a card that has a liquid cooling block
 

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so asking.... what are you trying to do... game... porn..... compute....
just get a great CPU and enough RAM
 

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My current setup is liquid cooled also have 32 gigs of ram for memory, just need to upgrade video card so I can get my rig to run 4k relatively smooth
 

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I honestly don't know anything about this, more interested in who you are going on a date with during this bye week
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