Be prepared for:
RX 480 is cheaper and has option of more VRAM (but destroys your motherboard, house and marriage depending on who you ask)
Not enough VRAM for 4k gaming.
Not enough VRAM for 1080p gaming.
Old card should be £100 by now.
Buy a GTX 1080 like me 'cos I'm rich, look at me!!
GTX 1070 will beat this in every benchmark out there.
Cold, NVIDIA.
LOL Reference Cooler be prepared for the fiery pits of Mordor to emerge from your PC when you overclock with THAT cooler!!
Needs 4 8-pin connectors if you want to REALLY overclock it.
Only 3 Year warranty LOL I'd expect at last 9 years if they have any faith in their product.
Cold, bought this on Black Wednesday in 2004 for £15.
Cold, only Amazon has customer service.
Wonder if this has 3.5GB or 4GB LOL!!
The new 1060 released on the 7th July will beat this and be cheaper.
Wrong time to buy, just wait three years for the next generation of cards to come out!
Have I missed any?
I've voted hot, it still holds its own, but prepare for the onslaught I see on every graphics card thread I've ever read!!
neural1 to moneybag
4 Jul 163#9
Should post this in every GPU thread ever, well done.
mamboboy
4 Jul 163#5
Its a very bad time to post GPU deals... both last and the current generation ones almost always get voted to beyond freezing. People are mad because they (stupidly) expected the 980 and 980 Ti's to drop to <£200 and they are even madder that the 1070/1080 are so much.
BTW, this ref 980 isn't good value when non-ref Ti's can be had for not much more. They go for around £320 on eBay..
All comments (54)
catbeans
4 Jul 16#1
You are about to get a lot of cold votes.
Though that I a good price.
peter1969uk to catbeans
4 Jul 16#2
I'm still running a 660 on my pc, and still playing Black Hawk Down. So not really up to date on these, though I did search and couldn't find it cheaper.
catbeans
4 Jul 162#3
Yeah it's a great price but with the release of the latest generation of cards people will cold vote. Also stock cooler.
moneybag
4 Jul 1666#4
Be prepared for:
RX 480 is cheaper and has option of more VRAM (but destroys your motherboard, house and marriage depending on who you ask)
Not enough VRAM for 4k gaming.
Not enough VRAM for 1080p gaming.
Old card should be £100 by now.
Buy a GTX 1080 like me 'cos I'm rich, look at me!!
GTX 1070 will beat this in every benchmark out there.
Cold, NVIDIA.
LOL Reference Cooler be prepared for the fiery pits of Mordor to emerge from your PC when you overclock with THAT cooler!!
Needs 4 8-pin connectors if you want to REALLY overclock it.
Only 3 Year warranty LOL I'd expect at last 9 years if they have any faith in their product.
Cold, bought this on Black Wednesday in 2004 for £15.
Cold, only Amazon has customer service.
Wonder if this has 3.5GB or 4GB LOL!!
The new 1060 released on the 7th July will beat this and be cheaper.
Wrong time to buy, just wait three years for the next generation of cards to come out!
Have I missed any?
I've voted hot, it still holds its own, but prepare for the onslaught I see on every graphics card thread I've ever read!!
danielmcelhinney to moneybag
4 Jul 16#7
Best comment ever.
Opposable_Dan to moneybag
4 Jul 16#8
Nail. Head.
neural1 to moneybag
4 Jul 163#9
Should post this in every GPU thread ever, well done.
mcon to moneybag
4 Jul 16#14
hahaha awesome comment. i second the motion that this should be copied and pasted to every gpu deal. :laughing:
Kindsaver to moneybag
5 Jul 16#19
Yeah been hearing a lot of those!
mamboboy
4 Jul 163#5
Its a very bad time to post GPU deals... both last and the current generation ones almost always get voted to beyond freezing. People are mad because they (stupidly) expected the 980 and 980 Ti's to drop to <£200 and they are even madder that the 1070/1080 are so much.
BTW, this ref 980 isn't good value when non-ref Ti's can be had for not much more. They go for around £320 on eBay..
This card:
Core Base Clock: 1152MHz
Core Boost Clock: 1252MHz
Memory Clock: 7010MHz
Dean2k14
4 Jul 16#10
Doesn't matter about the heat people looking for this product can price compare and find a deal that is the whole point of this site after all. Bring on the and fan boys. and blows by the way
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Core Clock: 1152MHz
Boost Clock: 1252MHz
Memory: 4096MB 7010MHz GDDR5
Stream Processors: 2048
SLI Ready
PhysX/CUDA Enabled
3 Years Warranty.
Top comments
RX 480 is cheaper and has option of more VRAM (but destroys your motherboard, house and marriage depending on who you ask)
Not enough VRAM for 4k gaming.
Not enough VRAM for 1080p gaming.
Old card should be £100 by now.
Buy a GTX 1080 like me 'cos I'm rich, look at me!!
GTX 1070 will beat this in every benchmark out there.
Cold, NVIDIA.
LOL Reference Cooler be prepared for the fiery pits of Mordor to emerge from your PC when you overclock with THAT cooler!!
Needs 4 8-pin connectors if you want to REALLY overclock it.
Only 3 Year warranty LOL I'd expect at last 9 years if they have any faith in their product.
Cold, bought this on Black Wednesday in 2004 for £15.
Cold, only Amazon has customer service.
Wonder if this has 3.5GB or 4GB LOL!!
The new 1060 released on the 7th July will beat this and be cheaper.
Wrong time to buy, just wait three years for the next generation of cards to come out!
Have I missed any?
I've voted hot, it still holds its own, but prepare for the onslaught I see on every graphics card thread I've ever read!!
BTW, this ref 980 isn't good value when non-ref Ti's can be had for not much more. They go for around £320 on eBay..
All comments (54)
Though that I a good price.
RX 480 is cheaper and has option of more VRAM (but destroys your motherboard, house and marriage depending on who you ask)
Not enough VRAM for 4k gaming.
Not enough VRAM for 1080p gaming.
Old card should be £100 by now.
Buy a GTX 1080 like me 'cos I'm rich, look at me!!
GTX 1070 will beat this in every benchmark out there.
Cold, NVIDIA.
LOL Reference Cooler be prepared for the fiery pits of Mordor to emerge from your PC when you overclock with THAT cooler!!
Needs 4 8-pin connectors if you want to REALLY overclock it.
Only 3 Year warranty LOL I'd expect at last 9 years if they have any faith in their product.
Cold, bought this on Black Wednesday in 2004 for £15.
Cold, only Amazon has customer service.
Wonder if this has 3.5GB or 4GB LOL!!
The new 1060 released on the 7th July will beat this and be cheaper.
Wrong time to buy, just wait three years for the next generation of cards to come out!
Have I missed any?
I've voted hot, it still holds its own, but prepare for the onslaught I see on every graphics card thread I've ever read!!
BTW, this ref 980 isn't good value when non-ref Ti's can be had for not much more. They go for around £320 on eBay..
Ref 980:
1126 Base Clock (MHz)
1216 Boost Clock (MHz)
7.0 Gbps Memory Clock
This card:
Core Base Clock: 1152MHz
Core Boost Clock: 1252MHz
Memory Clock: 7010MHz