GTX 970, buy now?

blaaislaai

blaaislaai

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Sup folks!

So, I have decided to upgrade my 6month old R9 270x to the GTX970.
Going Nvidia for a change as I would look to take advantage of the Lightboost function of my Asus 144hz monitor.

Currently looking at:

SC-G970iXoC 4489 N Gigabyte GV-N970iXoC-4GD , 170x121x43mm short-depth design for miniPC , Ultra Durable 2 ( with Low RDS(on) MOSFET + Low Power Loss - Ferrite Core Choke All-Solid Capacitor ) , gold plated HDMi connector , geforce GTX770 , 28nm , 3-way SLi support , Pci-E 3.0 16x , support Adaptive Vertical Sync , support 4xdisplay , FXAA+TXAA ; 4Gb/4096mb 256bit DDR5 , RoPs : 32 , 224.3Gb/sec memory transfer , 1536 cuda cores ( pixel shader engine + vertex pipelines ) , 3213GFLoPS , 134GTexels/Sec , 128x TMUs , core clock : 1076/1216mhz ; memory : 7000mhz , 2x dvi+ 1x HDMi +3x DP with Flex Display upto 4x displays
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Simply because it will be convenient for my ITX system

The card works out around R5117 inc VAT.

Question is: Are there any price hikes/cuts happening anytime soon that I should know of before I buy?


Thanks
 
i reckon the rand will continue to slide this year, which will probably mean price hikes. thats a pretty darned good price you go. i picked up an MSI GTX 970 for about 5800 a few months back.
 
Hiro said:
i reckon the rand will continue to slide this year, which will probably mean price hikes. thats a pretty darned good price you go. i picked up an MSI GTX 970 for about 5800 a few months back.
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Thanks, I will buy before the end of the month then, just incase.

It's the price direct from Frontosa (supplier) vat inclusive :)
 
CyberDemon said:
If you don't mind, can you please post your build? Always interested to see the ITX builds. Is it a LAN PC?
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Will take pics when I get home after work. :) It's my Main PC, never really went out to LAN with it though and not That great either.


Chassis: Coolermaster Elite 130
PSU: Corsair 650w
Mobo: Gigabyte ga-H87N-WiFi
CPU: i5 4670
GPU: R9 270x
RAM: 16GB ADATA
HDD: 256GB Lite-on SSD
 
If you can afford it now, it won't hurt.

R/$ gonna take a record dive sooner or later, and it'll be the year of the budget cards and overly expensive premium ones.
GTX 960 coming to compete with AMD's mid market, Nvidia got the power consumption advantage so AMD can't really bring out newer cards that's efficient enough to beat Nvidias 900x range.

So there's nothing really better coming out at the R5000 price range next year and no reason really to justify a drop in price at that range.
 
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