Keep SLI GTX 980 SC setup or buy the Fury X

[Simman521]

I am considering purchasing a Fury X on Wednesday, however I have a SLI GTX 980 SC setup currently. Would I be seeing a performance decline by moving over to the Fury X? Would anyone recommend this hardware swap? Thanks for the advice.

 

[rcald2000]

Simman, you should wait. In my opinion, we won't really know until the card comes out and reviewers test it. Btw, GTX 980's in SLI is a sweet setup. What resolution do you play at? I think your GPU setup is already cool-as-s#$!

What's the rest of your specs by the way? I don't need to know; I'm just simply curious. Your two 980's would kick the crap out of my single card by the way. I envy the position that you're already in.

 

[Simman521]

I'm currently running 4K on my Samsung. 3840x2160 is the exact resolution.

My setup is as follows:
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770k @ 3.50GHz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz 32GB
PSU: Corsair 1200w
SSD: Two Samsung 450 1TB
GPU: SLI GTX 980 SC

Surprisingly still has difficult time running Witcher 3 on Ultra. :/

 

[rcald2000]

I know nothing about 4K gaming except what I read here and see on YouTube. I've heard Witcher 3 at 4K is tough. Only thing I could suggest are obvious things like turn off hairworks and turn down AA. You think it's tough now, imagine if you upgraded from ultra to uber settings. I game at 1080p, but will upgrade in the future to 1440p.

Corsair Ax1200i - You own this? (http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=300). Wow. You appear to like Corsair, how I like EVGA. Two Samsung 850's? Are they in RAID 0 or just independent drives? 32 GB of RAM, nice. I'm building a new machine now and I honestly would have been more than happy with the 4790K, but I want to add more than 32 GB of memory; hopefully 64 GB. Maybe I could pick your brain.

I started out seeking the 5820K but I'd like to eventually SLI 980 Ti's and the thought of combining that with two PCIe drives... Well I was worried that the 28 PCIe lanes to the CPU might be limiting. Then I was thinking about getting the 5940K for 6 core 40 lanes, but I'm also considering purchasing the 5960X because microcenter sells the extreme edition processor under cost for walk-ins. I also need to select a motherboard, if you have any suggestions.

 

[Simman521]

I'm heading to sleep at the moment. I definitely want to answer, I'll post more later. Real quick though, I have an old CPU. If I was getting one I'd be eyeing the 6-core Haswell Refresh I believe that is the 5960k.

Edit: My drives are Raid 0 for best speed.

 

[rcald2000]

Thanks man. Sleep fast. Yes, if you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate your input later in the day, after you get a full night's sleep and have your afternoon coffee. Later.

 

[hatib]

Hey if you want an overkill build and if you have money then go for this build and if you have slightly more money than go for asus rog extreme 5 it i is a x99 build i used almost same components infact i have 5960x
pc partpicker link
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/hat237/saved/#view=zzzgXL
you will get 30-50 fps with all settings to ultra and 4x mfaa

 

[Mister Darius]

2x fury xs

 

[hatib]

Never get 2 fury x because it doesn't give the best picture quality like amd ambient occlusion vs nvidia hbao+ and amd sharp shadows vs nvidia soft shadows etc if you money go titan x sli or then go 980 ti sli