damn I have an evga and just looked at that, you have 90 days from purchase date to step up and just pay the difference although there is a down time between when you send in your old card and get your new one (they don't cross ship).So glad I bought evga. With the step up program I am just paying the difference for a 1070
BTW aprons you keep saying gflops but I think they're tflops
I have a feeling we're going to see a similar situation that we did when Maxwell released - IE, the retail channels were FLOODED with purchases - the instant 970s went on sale, 5 minutes later, they sold out. There was actually a website dedicated to capturing whenever a retailer put new 970s on sale, that's how I managed to get one in the first month after release. It was absolutely crazy how short the inventories were on 970s that first month. So if this is the case again, I think it pretty likely that EVGA will wait until the retailers aren't selling out instantly to ship you your step-up. So we'll see how you feel about them as the good guy game company when they have to choose between selling a new retail unit or shipping you your almost-free step up.Yeah but I just built the pc and needed something. Someone in this thread told us about rhe evga thing. I can live with out a card for a couple weeks.
Also makes me believe evga is a good guy game company
Nice build, Noodle. I am waiting on monoprice to drop their 3440x1440p 21:9 monitor for $499. That'll use the lg panel too. They said April/May timeframe for release.I think that cpu is still good, no real use upgrading that now. Everything else looks good to me, just the gpu you could upgrade.
I finally got my pc built and it's amazing. For reference my last desktop was a Dell xps410 with a Core2duo and a Radeon 9800gts (upgraded from 7900gs). My last gaming pc was my laptop, a g73jh with a Radeon HD something or other. It was good in 2010...
This computer is such a beast: 6700k, 970gtx, 16gb ram, 500gb ssd. Blown away by the performance. I don't think you could get much more of a crazy difference between two desktop computers as mine.
Still have a fairly shitty monitor. I might buy a 24 inch Asus with 144hz and gsync pretty soon. Also eyeballing some corsair mechanical keyboards, I have a razer Arctosa now.
Sorry, just pretty excited after a pretty terrible weekend. And I'm drunk.
With the price of SSDs being down, I'd grab another one and sit tight on the GPU to see the reviews and what AMD releases. You have options for sure.I built this a couple years ago:Intel Core i5-4670K, Asus Radeon R9 290, Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) - System Build - PCPartPicker
Added another 8gb RAM about a year ago. If I were to upgrade something, what would be the best bang for the buck? I'm not terribly experienced with mobo/cpu compatibility, is there a recent CPU that I could plop into this mobo for a noticeable performance increase? Regardless I'll probably be getting a second SSD so I can put some games on it, the 120 only really fits system shit.
New intel cpus are on a new socket, so you'd need a new mobo. Wouldn't bother with that route anyway, you'd see negligible gains in gaming from a new cpu right now.I built this a couple years ago:Intel Core i5-4670K, Asus Radeon R9 290, Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) - System Build - PCPartPicker
Added another 8gb RAM about a year ago. If I were to upgrade something, what would be the best bang for the buck? I'm not terribly experienced with mobo/cpu compatibility, is there a recent CPU that I could plop into this mobo for a noticeable performance increase? Regardless I'll probably be getting a second SSD so I can put some games on it, the 120 only really fits system shit.