I am buying a 980ti tomorrow but I cant decide which one...

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These are the cards I am stuck between.
Can you guys help me decide?
I am looking for best performance/price I can get.

Here is the comparison of the cards

http://bit.ly/1MtcaXg

I am planning on upgrading to another one around christmas for SLI. I currently run 4 monitors.

1x ROG Swift 1440p 144hz 1ms in the middle.
2x Acer H236HL BID 1080p
1x Vizio Smart TV above

Thanks for you guys help!

I currently own 2x GTX 970 G1s in SLI
I am ordering this card tomorrow as a present plus some of my own money, and I will be selling my 970s to get some money back as well.

 

[guanyu210379]

2xGTX970s config is slightly faster than a single GTX980Ti as long as the VRAM usage does not go above 3.5GB and SLI config could have issues.
Unless you are getting 2of those GTX980Ti, you will not see much improvement but only quite waste of money.

 

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Currently with the games I primarily like to play there are SLI issues that net me anywhere from 17 frames in 7 days to die to only 30 frames in arma (cpu dependent game) I feel as if I need to upgrade to get any sort of improvement as I have tried everything else.

I will upgrade to another gtx980ti in december or I will get the new pascal gpu later in 2016.

For now, I think I am pretty sold on a 980ti as I can sell my 970s for about $250 each and make back $500. So I would only really be paying half of whats left considering I am getting half of the card paid for as a present.

If the card is lets say $670 and half of it is paid as a present then that leaves me only $335 to pay.

I pay the $335 and then I sell both of my 970s for $500.

I would actually make $165 to upgrade to a 980ti.

 

[guanyu210379]

Yes, SLI could have problems and not all games support SLI.
If you see any of those, well, that is unfortunate and the solution is no other that going back to single GPU solution.

Any of those GTX980Tis are not that different from one another, I would simply pick the cheapest one or the one suites the color scheme of your rig.
I see no real benefit going to the more expensive water-cooled one.
If you can find a GTX980Ti from KFA2/Galax, those are also good and quite a lot cheaper.

 

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So you think the price differences are mumbo jumbo? The core clocks and other things?

 

[guanyu210379]

1. The stock OC settings (core clocks and RAM clocks), if you see the list, is not far from each other.
2. nVidia Maxwell lines are really well made, it is very cool and very OCable. You can OC them yourself further. How high you can OC depends more on your own luck (how good is the chip you get) as long as the cooling is good enough. All of the GPUs you listed have all already good cooling.

If you search through internet, there are differences on benchmark results but the difference among GTX980Tis with the same OC setting is quite minimal.

Save your money get the cheapest GTX980Ti from your list and OC your GTX980Ti on your own