[SmG Blade]

It's what you should expect when you buy the top of the line and pay the price premium. Imo, im leaning more to picking up a 980 ti around ~$300 as when the 1080 ti does come up, the 1080 and 1070 would also get a price cut.

Why not grab a 1070? It's still more powerful than a 980ti, you'd be paying a few more, but getting the new features, and a bump in performance. If you can't spend the extra bit, then that makes sense, but if you can, then might as well go for it

ill prob have to wait until july to pick one up since all the aibs are gonna be out of stock for a couple of months after release
i could prob pick up the founders edition but i prefer custom coolers for better power delivery, overclocking, and temps

Or I could buy a R9 380X.

with this

I can use my old laptop and make a custom shit.

Planning to do this in June.

your "old laptop" is just going to bottleneck your gpu

i3 with 4 gigs ram. Would it be enough?