A new Titan?

Sweet&Dandy

Sweet&Dandy
It’s always a tough one.. I went from 780 ti to 980 ti and from dk1 to dk2 to rift

On my second pc I went from 980 to 1080 - vive to odyssey

I held off on buying a 1080 ti because the HMd’s ran really well in the current setups.

But now the pimax will need a power bump so I need to upgrade.

Seems a 1080 ti is just about hitting the mark after all, so I think I’ll stick with the original plan of a 2080 ti.

It’s not about being the fastest, just wanna play :)
 

Desert63

Desert63
Sweet&Dandy said:
It’s always a tough one.. I went from 780 ti to 980 ti and from dk1 to dk2 to rift

On my second pc I went from 980 to 1080 - vive to odyssey

I held off on buying a 1080 ti because the HMd’s ran really well in the current setups.

But now the pimax will need a power bump so I need to upgrade.

Seems a 1080 ti is just about hitting the mark after all, so I think I’ll stick with the original plan of a 2080 ti.

It’s not about being the fastest, just wanna play :)
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Agreed, and that was one of the reasons I stepped into this thread as I thought people were coming down a bit hard on the idea of what you were considering for an upgrade. Don't get me wrong, I love this forum and the input I get from everyone here is critical - some of the best hardware advice comes out of here. And I like that people speak their mind too and call video card manufacturers when needed. But at some point someone has to wade into these new cards and if you have the money (I don't!) have at it. I know most of what we get from these cards is dictated by the hardware - but configuring them across all the settings in your PC and in Elite for your personal preferences is still a bit of an artform, so who know if you don't find something that works perfectly for you.
 

Sweet&Dandy

Sweet&Dandy
I miss the good old days sometimes... ED alpha / dk1 with custom “riftup” screen. Testing every setting possible and finding what works best with which gear. I have thoroughly enjoyed the explosion of VR, though not quite mainstream yet - it’s almost there. It will be cool to say “... I remember when ...” when our grandkids are playing in the “matrix” on their portable holodecks!
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Gortron

Gortron
Sweet&Dandy said:
I don’t think anybody in their right mind would say its worth the money, but it may well be the only card that can currently drive the pimax pr0perly.

I want to play ED in a wide FOV with a decent frame rate. This may be currently the only way to do so...
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I don't think it will do what you want. It isn't out yet so I could be very wrong but the way they are promoting it sounds like it is aimed at Science and AI applications. The thing is aimed at driving your car more than running a VR headset.


If you have the cash to spend on the highest level GPU on the market then good for you man but it is looking like the Titian RTX isn't actually more powerful than the 2080ti for gaming and VR.
 

Sweet&Dandy

Sweet&Dandy
Gortron said:
I don't think it will do what you want. It isn't out yet so I could be very wrong but the way they are promoting it sounds like it is aimed at Science and AI applications. The thing is aimed at driving your car more than running a VR headset.


If you have the cash to spend on the highest level GPU on the market then good for you man but it is looking like the Titian RTX isn't actually more powerful than the 2080ti for gaming and VR.
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Like you say the benchmarks aren’t out yet, but the speculation is that it will yield approx 20% more performance than the 2080ti for gaming and VR. As I already said though I am confident that the 2080 ti will do the job I need it to do ��
 

GJ51

GJ51
There's currently no price differential between a 1080Ti and a 2080Ti

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...eId=1&bop=And&Page=2&PageSize=36&order=PRICED

Doesn't seem to make sense to buy the 1080Ti currently when you can get the 2080Ti for the same price or less... if you can find the one you want. Too many are consistently out of stock.

I've been looking to do a new build for a long time, but I still find it frustrating to find a reasonably good match of top end hardware that doesn't seem like something isn't in sync.

The PCI lanes nightmare is frustrating, which leans me toward Threadripper just to avoid having to get overly detailed adding up lanes to hardware just to make sure everything works.

PCI 4.0 is looming.

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...-pci-express-4-0-standard-officially-released

Zen 2 Q1?

I was almost decided on Intel 9900k, but it doesn't seem like an upgrade of much significance over Gen 8 plus the 28 PCI lane limit, plus no cooler included.

If you go Threadripper, is it worth waiting until they start using the new chips?

It still feels like building now puts you in a bind of feeling like you're getting old tech with new unlike a few years ago if you built a 1080Ti machine when you could build with all the components being top gear at the same time.

I'm hoping things converge a little better H1 19 so there's better alignment of the tech integration and better inventory on the video cards.

A bit frustrating.
 
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Sweet&Dandy

Sweet&Dandy
GJ51 said:
There's currently no price differential between a 1080Ti and a 2080Ti

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...eId=1&bop=And&Page=2&PageSize=36&order=PRICED

Doesn't seem to make sense to buy the 1080Ti currently when you can get the 2080Ti for the same price or less... if you can find the one you want. Too many are consistently out of stock.

I've been looking to do a new build for a long time, but I still find it frustrating to find a reasonably good match of top end hardware that doesn't seem like something isn't in sync.

The PCI lanes nightmare is frustrating, which leans me toward Threadripper just to avoid having to get overly detailed adding up lanes to hardware just to make sure everything works.

PCI 4.0 is looming.

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...-pci-express-4-0-standard-officially-released

Zen 2 Q1?

I was almost decided on Intel 9900k, but it doesn't seem like an upgrade of much significance over Gen 8 plus the 28 PCI lane limit, plus no cooler included.

If you go Threadripper, is it worth waiting until they start using the new chips?

It still feels like building now puts you in a bind of feeling like you're getting old tech with new unlike a few years ago if you built a 1080Ti machine when you could build with all the components being top gear at the same time.

I'm hoping things converge a little better H1 19 so there's better alignment of the tech integration and better inventory on the video cards.

A bit frustrating.
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I wish I’d needed a 1080 ti when they launched because then I would be upgrading now. The real questions are... 1. What do you need it to do? What can you afford?

I have now asked the missus for shiny new 2080 ti for Xmas, so that should suffice. Ill transfer the 1080 to the second rig and await the pimax... the cpu might also need a rethink though but I’ll wait and see...
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
GJ51 said:
The PCI lanes nightmare is frustrating
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This is a very good point that needs better clarification in the industry. Many people have no idea what this means, and even today there's precious few tools that can show or explain the importance of this.
 

Sweet&Dandy

Sweet&Dandy
Flowey said:
Why not buy two 2080 Ti in SLI mode instead of a single Titan?
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It’s not not an option, but I had two 980s at one point and they didn’t perform spectacularly with ED in VR. The general feeling around here is there is still no point to SLI. Besides the goal is to power the pimax 5k in ED and (as mentioned several times now) the 2080 ti will do the trick.


Glock_N_Load said:
The man that dies with the best toys wins
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Never actually owned the best at any point since alpha one in terms of pc hardware... only what was required to power the best VR of the moment. It’s the VR side of things I’m interested in, not the pc side.
 

Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
Sweet&Dandy said:
It’s not not an option, but I had two 980s at one point and they didn’t perform spectacularly with ED in VR. The general feeling around here is there is still no point to SLI. Besides the goal is to power the pimax 5k in ED and (as mentioned several times now) the 2080 ti will do the trick.
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I doubt the 2080 Ti can pull off the trick, 5K at 90 FPS sounds incredibly ambitious.
 

Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
Dooguk said:
SLI is not supported in ED unfortunately.
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