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Right now, I have a system that is starting to show it's age a bit... though still works fine for the vast majority of games (especially if I don't attempt to max out the settings on the newer ones).
I built it late 2012/early 2013, and it's a i7 3770k (sadly stock clocks as the overclock failed) with two GTX 670s with a very minimal overclock in SLI. The CPU while slightly showing it's age is still more than enough for just about every game out there, the GPUs though are showing their age far more. Thanks to the whole cryptocurrency nonsense newer GPUs were out of my price range for a while.... plus I wanted to wait until a single GPU was powerful enough to outperform both my GPUs combined, since usually I try to buy one top-end GPU and then later add another cheap for SLI when they are older and cheaper to boost performance... rinse and repeat for when the next single card can outperform a SLI setup.
Anyway, I might have to put a stop to that now. I mean, I am impressed with the RTX cards, and while I understand what a giant deal it is to do real-time raytracing.... similar to PhysX and 3D Vision and all those other technologies I doubt it will be adapted outside of a handful of games for a while, likely not until at least one or two more generations of cards.
I was reading that the RTX 2080 has a 35% performance increase over the 1080, which honestly is impressive.... but I noticed that used GTX 1080 TI cards are going for $400-500. Considering I could buy two GTX 1080 cards for less than a single RTX 2080 (assuming they don't go the same overpriced route as 1080s did when they were current thanks to cryptomining) would it just be a better idea to go that route?
First of all, yes, I realize that not every game supports SLI, but from my understanding about 70-80%, if not more, do. And the ones that don't will still work as a single card.
I also realize that I will not have the whole raytracing feature using GTX cards instead of RTX (and honestly, as much as I don't think it will take off for a while.... I do still want that feature and am not sure if I should stick with a GTX because of that).
And finally, due to having many other cards in my system, I pretty much NEED to get the "blower" style cards that have a single fan at the end, since a card with a fan at the beginning or middle would be blocked by the other cards below it. This severely limits my choices as most cards are a multi-can setup, and even among the blowers most of them have a separate radiator which I don't have room to mount (so I would need to get cards that ONLY have a single fan at the end and nothing else), I am not even sure if the RTX 2080 would be available in that format. I also generally tend to prefer EVGA cards, I know they had a blower style like that for the GTX 1080 Ti, not so sure if they will do that for the RTX cards.
Oh, and one more thing, I doubt it but I figured it might be good to ask anyway. Would my older CPU be a bottleneck for those cards?
I built it late 2012/early 2013, and it's a i7 3770k (sadly stock clocks as the overclock failed) with two GTX 670s with a very minimal overclock in SLI. The CPU while slightly showing it's age is still more than enough for just about every game out there, the GPUs though are showing their age far more. Thanks to the whole cryptocurrency nonsense newer GPUs were out of my price range for a while.... plus I wanted to wait until a single GPU was powerful enough to outperform both my GPUs combined, since usually I try to buy one top-end GPU and then later add another cheap for SLI when they are older and cheaper to boost performance... rinse and repeat for when the next single card can outperform a SLI setup.
Anyway, I might have to put a stop to that now. I mean, I am impressed with the RTX cards, and while I understand what a giant deal it is to do real-time raytracing.... similar to PhysX and 3D Vision and all those other technologies I doubt it will be adapted outside of a handful of games for a while, likely not until at least one or two more generations of cards.
I was reading that the RTX 2080 has a 35% performance increase over the 1080, which honestly is impressive.... but I noticed that used GTX 1080 TI cards are going for $400-500. Considering I could buy two GTX 1080 cards for less than a single RTX 2080 (assuming they don't go the same overpriced route as 1080s did when they were current thanks to cryptomining) would it just be a better idea to go that route?
First of all, yes, I realize that not every game supports SLI, but from my understanding about 70-80%, if not more, do. And the ones that don't will still work as a single card.
I also realize that I will not have the whole raytracing feature using GTX cards instead of RTX (and honestly, as much as I don't think it will take off for a while.... I do still want that feature and am not sure if I should stick with a GTX because of that).
And finally, due to having many other cards in my system, I pretty much NEED to get the "blower" style cards that have a single fan at the end, since a card with a fan at the beginning or middle would be blocked by the other cards below it. This severely limits my choices as most cards are a multi-can setup, and even among the blowers most of them have a separate radiator which I don't have room to mount (so I would need to get cards that ONLY have a single fan at the end and nothing else), I am not even sure if the RTX 2080 would be available in that format. I also generally tend to prefer EVGA cards, I know they had a blower style like that for the GTX 1080 Ti, not so sure if they will do that for the RTX cards.
Oh, and one more thing, I doubt it but I figured it might be good to ask anyway. Would my older CPU be a bottleneck for those cards?
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