Acer 28" 4K inbound

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Eh, I don't know that it's boring times.

Check out that factory OCd 980 Ti beating a stock 980 by 33% for $690, even beats a Titan by 11%. (at 4K)

That's not bad value, a lot of power for that much money, and on a single GPU. (and it's warranted!)

Between 980Tis and 4790Ks, I'd say it is a GREAT time to build a rig.

Well, look at the 390x rehashed 290x. It is matching a stock 980, more or less. The 290x came out when? That 33$ looks a little skimpy considering how long we have had 980ish performance.

I wanted to sell my 980 and pick up fiji......until it came out slower than the titanX.
Since then, i have thought about selling the 980 and picking up a 980ti. The value on ebay is $400 and up, for a used 980. The ones with backplates are going $450 and up.
Lets see if this one sells for $485 http://www.ebay.com/itm/NVIDIA-P-N-04G-P...1ea0d8d99b

Selling the 980 and paying the difference to a 980ti is easy enough, I would be all over it if it.....if the performance was better.

You talk about a 980ti OC model being 33% faster than a 980 at stock. But i run my 980 at 1450mhz minimum. It wont be 33% faster vs an overclock 980.
If i got a 980ti and ran it at its max stable overclock too, i am thinking it might be 20% faster than what i got. Maybe? At best perhaps.

ultimately, we are looking at a card 20% faster than the 980

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDI...Ti/31.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/G...ng/30.html

If i dont/cant run the 980ti at 1450mhz, it would be a shame.

So yeah, sure the 980ti is faster. But it really isnt by all that much. The 6gb would be great for higher resolutions but i think i might wait this one out.

Perhaps i will build a skylake system and then move to pascal. Idk.

i have thought about selling the 980 but the performance in the end is just not enough to make me excited for the jump. Especailly when gsync has allowed me to play ultra grass/ultra settings on GTA 5. That was the only thing i was interested in. Had the 980ti launched months earlier, i would have had it instead of this monitor.

Anyway, gsync is something that needs to be experienced. And i am glad i went this route.
No matter what i do in the future, it will happen along with another gsync monitor.

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OK, so I've hooked up the Acer 4K G-Sync and my son and I have gamed.

Me:

Bioshock looked amazing played very well. Very smooth motion and incredible sharpness at 4K res.

Metro looked great, but had some stuttering in spots. I'll try it without the AAA next time. Nonetheless, after a few moments of my son laughing hysterically and saying I'm "keyboard impaired" I pulled it together and started capping Russkies until they were all deceased. I don't think it would have been playable at all at that res without the G-sync, but I'll need to find better settings there.

Son:

Played Counter Strike games and was amazed how different the game looked, and how smooth it played with G-Sync. He got second in the first match he played in, then first.

I was surprised at the lack of jaggies on hanging power lines, and old test of AA.

The Acer monitor is definitely lower grade than the Dell 3008 it replaces in terms of build quality, but the 4K picture quality is awesome.

I didn't notice any wash out from TN , but I didn't kneel in front of the desk either.

What is the framerate in metro?

Low framerates are great with gsync, but if you have several long frame times, i think it throws it for a loop. If your settings are really demanding, you might be better off with a frame cap in that game. Say your swinging from higher frame rates to real low, a frame cap at 40 may keep things in control. Gsync at 40fps is still nice.

4k is really a lot for a single 980ti to handle. If you get to play with anything other than medium settings, you are doing better than most.

You might try overclocking that GPU of yours