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Just watched the Twitch livestream Nvidia Pascal GTX1080/70 reveal.

 

Im sold.

 

599$ for 1080GTX.. 699$ for the founder edition.

 

debating on building a whole NEW PC around it...

 

should i compliment it with a 6700K, for the best possible DCS experience? or continue to hold on to my i7-2600K, but add water cooling to it?


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after 7 years of building my sim chairs... and after the release of oculus rift..

now this announcement of the pascal,

i can finally move ahead on building a dedicated computer high performance computer for VR gaming and DCS flying.

 

i did suggest to myself to push the 4 year old i7-2600K that i have and wait until early 2017 for the 1080 Ti version..

 

but i dont think i can wait any long, especially see you guys that fly DCS with the rift!!

 

proceeding to spec out a PC for 6700K and GTX1080!

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Yup. I have a case just waiting for new build wrapped around this.

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Yup. I have a case just waiting for new build wrapped around this.

 

what case are you looking to get?

 

i want a case that handles water coolers like the H100i

i was looking at the fractal designs arc mini R5, or the NZXT MANTA..

Im trying to go for a microATX motherboard..

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I'm keeping my 2600K, but i'll probly buy two 1080s.

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Is Pascal just a Maxwell refresh with higher clocks and a cheaper price for 8GB of GDDR5?

 

MAYBE ... but it represents some nice perf for the price and you KNOW it can deliver that perf in DX11 titles (like DCS).

 

For DX12 it is very possible that cheaper AMD cards might out perf BUT not many DX12 titles out there right now.

 

Unless I'm mistaken this is also the first NV card with HDMI 2.0 so that might figure into some peoples decision. 4K@60 over HDMI.


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i was about to buy it day one, but this:

Simultaneous multi-projection announced as well. Independent viewport detection, no perf losses. Basically is solves warping in a virtualized surround view mode.Multiple monitors surrounding you will give proper picture as if you are looking around in real-world.

 

it sounds like it might be a built in solution for image curving for surround projection. HOPE hOPE HOPE :pilotfly:

heck, this will be the first time i will try to pre-order a vid card. 3 weeks...


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what case are you looking to get?

 

i want a case that handles water coolers like the H100i

i was looking at the fractal designs arc mini R5, or the NZXT MANTA..

Im trying to go for a microATX motherboard..

 

This is a mid-tower Cooler Master HAF ATX that my current sim rig is in. It is nice and roomy. It is setup for water but I have never bothered going that route.

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Damn I want that 1080 , need to sell my gtx 980 tho

it would go so well with the 4k monitor and rift that i don't have :(

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They say the 1080 is better than SLI 980 (remember 2x 980 doesn't mean twice as powerful, though at higher resolutions it tends to become more true) and 3x more power efficient than a Titan X (that is very impressive, 80W TDP?) . Not to mention the first card to be optimized for stereo rendering which hopefully will be a big help with VR.

 

That's a good leap forward. I'll still wait for the reviews though.

 

But I'll be waiting for the 1080ti early next year (unless they decide the ti should sell for 1000 euros in which case I'll probably fall back to a second hand 1080 around 400 euros). My GTX 970 can still hold it alright at ultrawide 1440p and should do just fine for another year or so. Then again, maybe I'll change my mind once the Vive arrives.

 

@hannibal I wouldn't upgrade your "old" i7-2600K. Intel hardly improved their processors since Sandy Bridge in term of raw power. you can spend a lot of money on a new CPU but you won't see much improvement in gaming, going from Sandy Bridge+ CPUs to the more recent CPUs is probably the worst fps per dollar investment. You'd get a much better experience by keeping your CPU and getting a second graphic card.

 

As for "water cooling" it with H100i, I wouldn't do that either. These all-in-one water cooling solution won't give you anything close to a proper custom water cooling solution. AFAIK they're not better than your usual air cooling solution. Get a proper pump, a nice wide radiator and push pull it with enough fans and you'll get yourself a much better cooling solution. Personally I have a 3570k OC'd at 4.5GHz with 6 Noctuas cooling the fluid, it's not that it allows you to get a higher OC, but rather having it run cooler (in the 40s °C personally at full load), more silently and reliably.


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Already ordered my rift a week ago and now just waiting for Pascal 1080 to go with it. Will put my two 780 ti's on sale.

 

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6700k is an awesome processor... I have not encountered any instability issues on it for the past 3 months I had it... Was just waiting to mate it with the Pascal series GPU... Guess the wait is over...

Good price for a good performance upgrade...

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I just built a new PC two months ago, and I never buy any hardware right when it hits the market. Too pricy, too many driver glitches to fix, just too many downsides altogether. Ask again in a year when the 1080 TI has been on the market for a couple of months. ;-)

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The 1080 isn't faster than 2x980ti. It's allegedly faster than them in VR, with their new stereo rendering technology. It should be 20% faster than a 980ti in normal situations.


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There are some report of the 1080 being only 20%-30% faster than a 980ti on most applications (I guess that's simple deduction from the TFLOPs specs etc) while Nvidia is claiming it's about 1.5x- 2x as fast in normal use and 2.5- 3x as fast in case of VR. All in all more powerful that 980ti and Titan X.

 

Hopefully the reviews will come soon to see exactly where it stands. To be honest I think 980ti owners are safe this year.


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I just built a new PC two months ago, and I never buy any hardware right when it hits the market. Too pricy, too many driver glitches to fix, just too many downsides altogether. Ask again in a year when the 1080 TI has been on the market for a couple of months. ;-)

^^^^This, especially the pricey part.

 

Actually, I look forward to when 1070 and 1080 hits the market:

Then I can finally replace my ageing second hand GTX 670 with a likewise second hand 970 or 980 for a reasonable price. ;)

 

PS: Not that I wouldn't like a 10x0 series, my economy is just not for it. ;)

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I just built a new PC two months ago, and I never buy any hardware right when it hits the market. Too pricy, too many driver glitches to fix, just too many downsides altogether. Ask again in a year when the 1080 TI has been on the market for a couple of months. ;-)

 

for me this is a good time. 6-700$ not that bad, i feel like im throwing 100-200$ away off of what it would be in 3-4 months just to enjoy it as an early adopter.

 

im running 2 580GTX, and its time for an upgrade for me, especially when im going to need to have a PC capable to run the rift CV1

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