I want to upgrade to the 1080Ti; how long should I wait?

I currently have an AMD FX-8350, a Gigabyte GTX-970, 32GB of RAM, and various SSDs, and I'm thinking that the next logical step for Oculus Rift would be the 1080Ti. I'll upgrade the CPU later with an I9 or I7, but I'll also need a new mobo, so I'll defer that for now. My questions: Is this really a good logical next step and 2: When should I take the plunge? Rumor has it that October would be a good time, price-wise. I'm anxious to do this, as my 970 is pretty much maxed out, even with that mod that everyone's trying (with the new metacaches and whatnot), so I can barely wait to try this, but if it's going to save me a couple hundred bucks or so to wait, I will.

I'm thinking (and hoping) maybe you can get a 1080ti at a decent discount after the 20 series is released. The prices are stilling to fall a little. Nothing like it was in the summer of 2017. You have a nice setup and a 1080 Ti would work nicely for VR. I also would recommend the i7 8700k over the i9 unless you have a specific need for the i9. if not, its just going to be over kill i believe.

Why buy ancient almost 3 year old tech? Makes no sense.

I'm thinking (and hoping) maybe you can get a 1080ti at a decent discount after the 20 series is released. The prices are stilling to fall a little. Nothing like it was in the summer of 2017. You have a nice setup and a 1080 Ti would work nicely for VR. I also would recommend the i7 8700k over the i9 unless you have a specific need for the i9. if not, its just going to be over kill i believe.

Not sure that the assumption of dropping prices is correct. in my experience, older Nvidia cards hold their pricing far longer than actually makes any sense.. (I have seen brand new GTX 780s that are still priced higher than current gen cards are. It makes no sense whatsoever, but it is what it is.. Probably retailers are stubborn and don't want to take a loss and so won't drop the prices.. And then they will sit on them forever because of it.

I thought the same as you when the 1000 series cards arrived and I bought a 1070 simply because it made no sense to buy the previous gen due to the process being very close to the same.

Time will tell however..

Why buy ancient almost 3 year old tech? Makes no sense.

Because the 2080 is "just" slightly overclocked 1080Ti where the main performance addition is in the raytracing performance.

If Vulkan somehow works with mGPU I might get another 1080ti at the end of the year, if Vulkan then has entered Alpha or Beta testing in DCS for the public.

Why buy ancient almost 3 year old tech? Makes no sense.

because trying to stay on the ragged edge of technology is a money trap.

I just got a 1080ti and it is incredible and will last me years in performance.

because trying to stay on the ragged edge of technology is a money trap.

 

I just got a 1080ti and it is incredible and will last me years in performance.

Exactly! It's almost the same reason I never, ever buy new cars. Five years old is the sweet-spot; just enough time to bleed off most of that new-car cost, but new enough to still have lots of life and tech innovation left.

So, when is this supposed to happen with the new card driving down the cost? About October or so? If theyre about $750 now, what do you think they'll go down to, approximately?

I would be surprised if it drives it down all that much, there is such a large gap in pricing with the release pricing of these 20x cards. I would think there will still be a decent market for the 1080 series of cards. Lot of folks I am sure are not going to be keen on paying the pricing levels they have set for the new cards.

1080ti's have come down below $600 US. I would buy now if you are dead set on going with Pascal instead of Turing.

Turing is 30%-50% faster than Pascal. I think getting Turing is a no brainer, but I guess people like spending top dollar for 3 year old technology

I'm thinking (and hoping) maybe you can get a 1080ti at a decent discount after the 20 series is released. The prices are stilling to fall a little. Nothing like it was in the summer of 2017. You have a nice setup and a 1080 Ti would work nicely for VR. I also would recommend the i7 8700k over the i9 unless you have a specific need for the i9. if not, its just going to be over kill i believe.

How well does your rig work with the Oculus? I'm currently getting nauseating 25 fmp rates with my fx-8350 and GTX-970, even with that shader mod.

Turing is 30%-50% faster than Pascal. I think getting Turing is a no brainer, but I guess people like spending top dollar for 3 year old technology

Well Jesus Christ, man; spit it out! What would you recommend? (BTW, I have no idea what the difference is between Turing and Pascal; I'm assuming that's the CPU?)

Edit: Oh, it's a graphics card; the RTX 2080. Only $1200 ! Yeah, I'll get right on that.

How well does your rig work with the Oculus? I'm currently getting nauseating 25 fmp rates with my fx-8350 and GTX-970, even with that shader mod.

My system runs VR very well at the moment. I have everything set to high but im not using MSAA of course. (huge frame it) I get a constant 45fps on the ground and I get 90fps while up high and not over a large city. And I have FSW disabled. Using a PD of 1.6

Hey, so I was thinking of getting the i7 8700k and an Asus ROG Maximus X Hero MB, but I'm also looking at the new i7-8086K. They're pretty close in price, but the last one is 4GHz/5GHz. Any preference for VR?

I really do not know much about the 8086k. haven't really read up on it much. heck even with the 8700k, its not being pushed to hard with DCS.

I want to upgrade to the 1080Ti; how long should I wait?

heck even with the 8700k, its not being pushed to hard with DCS.

just took a glance at my cores and yes 1 core does have a few high spikes and im guessing that is from DCS but over usage is still pretty low.

8086K is just a refined, bined, and overclocked 8700k marketed by Intel. If Silicon Lottery got a new batch in, go with one of theirs. They sort and bin all their chips and delid for a nominal cost above MSRP. I like overclocking and tinkering but I still buy from Silicon Lottery.

1000 series GPU have dropped a lot on Ebay used and Newegg new assuming you live in the States. Good time as any to upgrade. Realistically the 2070's are going to be hard to get a hold of at MSRP for a while if not indefinitely till 3000 series cards are released if the high end cards are outside your budget. Hopefully Nvidia has contingency plans for demand spikes.

you are not seeing any of your cpu cores at 90% or higher?

Well I do have 1 core that high and my peaks for CPU Total are >80% at times, often 60ish% when not down at 13-25%

I agree with the five years old car.

Turing is 30%-50% faster than Pascal. I think getting Turing is a no brainer, but I guess people like spending top dollar for 3 year old technology

Lol nv fanboy

So, I got this on eBay for $600, coming tomorrow. Going to see how it does, then decide if I'm going to get the 8700k CPU and Asus Maximus X Hero MB now or a little later:

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-HYBRID-GAMING-Technology/dp/B074D7S8HR

The new 2080 ti series have plenty more cuda cores and faster memory. The prices of 1080ti will definately drop. I am also waiting for the price to come down.