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GTX 770/780/Titan: Have we all been duped?

I like the boost, when it sits doing nothing its half asleep @ 150 / 300, in game menus it clocks down to 300 or 500Mhz (whatever it needs to keep up a solid 60 FPS) instead of running at 479868 FPS fully clocked up.

No... I like it :)
 
I like to have full control personally. I don't want to see my core clock jumping around all over the place. I have different overclock profiles for different games, so i can use different overclocks based on that. I hope its something AMD don't start doing on a regular basis and it was just a one off to make the 7970/50 more competitive with the 680/670.
 
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Overclocking is directly related to e-peen, and by association Overclockers is a hub for e-peen enlargement enthusiasts. How many people on here overclock their GPU's, CPU's and RAM in order to get a higher score and climb up some benchmark chart? How many benchmark table threads exist here and how many people have posted scores within them? How many people spend much time and effort trying to get nearer the top?

Not many people will upgrade from a GTX680 to a GTX 780 because they actually have to. Like when upgrading from an iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 (or SSG3 to SSG4), we do it because it makes us feel good, boosting our ego (e-peen).

It is not a bad thing to want a big e-peen. We all want a bigger house, better car, prettier girlfriend, fame and riches for no reason other than to feel better about ourselves. Deny it if you want, but most of us do it in one way or another.

I buy top-end graphics cards and cpu's because it builds my e-peen, and I am not ashamed to admit it. There, I said it! However I will not be paying £830 for Titan because my e-peen cannot justify the expense. My misses would also chop it off and I would be left totally e-peenless. I would rather have a healthy e-peen (even a small one which everyone ridicules or sympathises with) than be an e-neut.
 
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LoL, I'm 58 done a lot epeening when l was young, bike's, car's etc, when l think back of the money l spent :eek:.

Now l'm old a tiny bit wiser shall l say, l now go for bast bang for buck and how long it will last. Well looking at Haswell, l'm just going to upgrade my GPU instead looking at a 770, my 920/x58 set up been good value.:)
 
OLDPHART said:
LoL, I'm 58 done a lot epeening when l was young, bike's, car's etc, when l think back of the money l spent :eek:.

Now l'm old a tiny bit wiser shall l say, l now go for bast bang for buck and how long it will last. Well looking at Haswell, l'm just going to upgrade my GPU instead looking at a 770, my 920/x58 set up been good value.:)
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My GTX 690 goes really well on X58 (it scored 700 points more in 3dmark11 than on X79) so you should be fine with a GTX 770.
 
I guess even some millionaires woudn't justify paying £500+ for a new graphics card, let alone £830+ for a Titan - tight *****. I don't smoke, don't drink that much anymore, it's easy to save when you have a semi-decent job.

Was never what I call a massive outlay for myself, sold GTX 670 Windforce back in September for £260, saved up the equivelent of £40/month, and put £290 towards my new GTX 780 Windforce, inc cashback.

Even if these cards drop £100+ within the next 6-12 months, thats 6-12 months use I've already got out of it for that £100 compared to someone that waited, that's the way I look at it anyway.
 
555BUK said:
Overclocking is directly related to e-peen, and by association Overclockers is a hub for e-peen enlargement enthusiasts. How many people on here overclock their GPU's, CPU's and RAM in order to get a higher score and climb up some benchmark chart? How many benchmark table threads exist here and how many people have posted scores within them? How many people spend much time and effort trying to get nearer the top?

Not many people will upgrade from a GTX680 to a GTX 780 because they actually have to. Like when upgrading from an iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 (or SSG3 to SSG4), we do it because it makes us feel good, boosting our ego (e-peen).

It is not a bad thing to want a big e-peen. We all want a bigger house, better car, prettier girlfriend, fame and riches for no reason other than to feel better about ourselves. Deny it if you want, but most of us do it in one way or another.

I buy top-end graphics cards and cpu's because it builds my e-peen, and I am not ashamed to admit it. There, I said it! However I will not be paying £830 for Titan because my e-peen cannot justify the expense. My misses would also chop it off and I would be left totally e-peenless. I would rather have a healthy e-peen (even a small one which everyone ridicules or sympathises with) than be an e-neut.
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There is always exceptions to the rule, I OC for myself and not benchmarks, even when my GPU cards were the fastest on the planet i didn't enter any Epeen contests + if Epeen mattered to me i would have stopped using AMD CPUs long ago..
 
555BUK said:
Overclocking is directly related to e-peen, and by association Overclockers is a hub for e-peen enlargement enthusiasts. How many people on here overclock their GPU's, CPU's and RAM in order to get a higher score and climb up some benchmark chart? How many benchmark table threads exist here and how many people have posted scores within them? How many people spend much time and effort trying to get nearer the top?

Not many people will upgrade from a GTX680 to a GTX 780 because they actually have to. Like when upgrading from an iPhone 4S to iPhone 5 (or SSG3 to SSG4), we do it because it makes us feel good, boosting our ego (e-peen).

It is not a bad thing to want a big e-peen. We all want a bigger house, better car, prettier girlfriend, fame and riches for no reason other than to feel better about ourselves. Deny it if you want, but most of us do it in one way or another.

I buy top-end graphics cards and cpu's because it builds my e-peen, and I am not ashamed to admit it. There, I said it! However I will not be paying £830 for Titan because my e-peen cannot justify the expense. My misses would also chop it off and I would be left totally e-peenless. I would rather have a healthy e-peen (even a small one which everyone ridicules or sympathises with) than be an e-neut.
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I overclock to get more performance and FPS in games and applications that I use.

I'll run the latest bench marks for fun because they usually represent advancements in visual quality, but realistically I'm not that bothered about bench mark scores and tables.

As long as I'm getting good FPS and my programs are running faster (rendering applications) I'm happy, as that's why I overclock, free performance.
 
555BUK said:
Overclocking is directly related to e-peen
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This was never originally the case though, originally and for years it was merely about getting the most for your money, hence why most of the overclocking was done with AMD hardware as people bought cheap and clocked high. Even today I would say overclocking isn't about e-peen for normal use, just for benchmarking.


Biffa said:
3Dgfx Voodoo 1 1996
Launch Price: $299
Adjust for Inflation: $443

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3DFX Voodoo 5 6000 - Y2K
Planned launch price*: $600
Adjust for inflation: $810


*3DFX wen't bankrupt before launch
 
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I did explain why I enjoyed the bench threads and it is epeen in a way I guess. I played football for years (only Sunday league) and gave everything I had in those games. That is the competitor in me and I hated losing.

I am to old (and fat) to be running around a pitch now, so I look to other things for that competitiveness and Golf + overclocking are just 2 things I am competitive at. I spend a fortune on golf gear in an attempt to improve my game but I guess non Golfers would call it a waste but Golfers would understand where I am coming from.

Who spends what on what they want is upto them and nobody should be chastised for it. I know spoffle has a massive dislike of nvidia but must we read this in every nvidia thread?
 
i haven't read all this thread but am i correct in thinking the 680 came in faster than a 7970 - AMD's top end card? so regardless of whether it was originally intended to be a "high end" part it turned out that way anyway because it was still on par/faster than the competition.

i do agree that they are taking the mick on pricing a bit, yeah the 780 is a big step up from a 680, but a 480 was a big step up from a 280 and that didn't have a big price hike to go with it.
 
jamiehavok said:
i haven't read all this thread but am i correct in thinking the 680 came in faster than a 7970 - AMD's top end card? so regardless of whether it was originally intended to be a "high end" part it turned out that way anyway because it was still on par/faster than the competition.

i do agree that they are taking the mick on pricing a bit, yeah the 780 is a big step up from a 680, but a 480 was a big step up from a 280 and that didn't have a big price hike to go with it.
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7970 was clocked very low, gave nvidia a chance to make the 680 beat it with a boost clock. Fast forward a couple of months, AMD bring out 7970 ghz and reclaim the performance crown, by a whisker. 12.11 drivers 7970 ghz pulls clear of 680 and doesn't look back. Rebadged 680 ala 770 comes out with higher core clock and new memory and retakes the lead, just.
 
555BUK said:
I buy top-end graphics cards and cpu's because it builds my e-peen, and I am not ashamed to admit it. There, I said it! However I will not be paying £830 for Titan because my e-peen cannot justify the expense. My misses would also chop it off and I would be left totally e-peenless. I would rather have a healthy e-peen (even a small one which everyone ridicules or sympathises with) than be an e-neut.
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Pure, sweet poetry :D
 
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