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GTX 780 Owners Club

Got my Gainward today, think it's running pretty well. Haven't messed about with OCs much

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Please make your pictures to the forum size standard in the future.
 
EVGA GTX780 SC ACX

Just an update regarding my multiple problems.

Had a driver not responding and recovered message last night with only one programme running – Outlook! So removed all NVidia software and installed 320.18 with GeForce experience. Bit the bullet and ran Metro 2030 – two hours later it was well past bedtime. No crashes. Really good visuals @ 2560x1600.

Switched on this morning and no signal to monitor. Tried my old monitor on the DVI port and had a display, tried both monitors and had one display, swopped both leads over and display swopped. So one DVI port on my card is broken and I think the second may be flaky. Quick web note to OCuk and have an RMA. Really pleased I paid slightly extra to buy from OCuk. Did try to contact EVGA support, but their reply came after I had contacted OCuk. They also offered a RMA. Think it best to send it to OCuk?

Should be within the seven days for a refund – so what do I buy? HD7970? (LOL)

Thank you for all the help.

OCuk Titan Goliath. EX58-UD3R(1.6) FK BIOS.. i7 920 DO @3.6 on air. OCuk Radeon HD6970. 256 Gb Crucial M4. 12Gb Corsair Vengeance. Corsair TX750W. Cooler Master Cosmos.
 
I've RMA'd my WF 3X, not putting up with coil whine for a card that cost me £600. Going to go for the EVGA ACX once OCUK get their stock.
 
Spikey said:
I've RMA'd my WF 3X, not putting up with coil whine for a card that cost me £600. Going to go for the EVGA ACX once OCUK get their stock.
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Scrap that. Out of curiosity I got my brother in law to try the same test on his system, same CPU/Board/PSU however he has a HIS 7950. He's getting the exact same whine on that same 3D mark test.
 
I have a WF3 & dont have any coil whine apart from with FIFA 13 opening screen but its has happend to all my GPU's !... Does it happen when gaming or only in the 3D mark test ?
 
Finally had the chance to do some proper OCing with the new rig.

Got my i5 3750k running at a nice stable 4.2Ghz. It ran happily enough on 4.3Ghz but the temperatures got as high as 87 degrees in Prime 95, so stepped back to 4.2.

The Windforce 3x 780 is so quiet! Got it oc's to +125 on both core and memory using EVGA Precision. That gave me a clock of around 1200 on the core. Lovely. And despite repeated tests the GPU temperature never went above 63 degress (air cooled rig).

That gave me a 9211 on 3DMark Fire Strike with a physics score of 7986 and a graphics score of 11100.
 
Andi-C said:
I have a WF3 & dont have any coil whine apart from with FIFA 13 opening screen but its has happend to all my GPU's !... Does it happen when gaming or only in the 3D mark test ?
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Just in 3D mark on first few tests. Runs fine on BF3@ultra at 1080p. I will keep it unless it starts in games.
 
DaveLove said:
Just got my 780 windforce 3x oc. But I have a slight concern if any 1 can help. There are no clips on the power connectors to hold the wires in place. The writes just slot on and pull out of the connectors without pressing the release clip on the wires coming from the psu. Wondering is that's how it's ment to be.

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These are the clips i am talking about. mine are not like this picture, they look like they have been snapped off of something.
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I'm pretty sure mine has these! I need to sort my case out tomorrow so I will double check for you.
 
ok thanks guys, just mine dont feel like they fit the card, those clips are non exsistant on my card. looks like they have broken off.
 
DaveLove said:
ok thanks guys, just mine dont feel like they fit the card, those clips are non exsistant on my card. looks like they have broken off.
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Just checked mine and it has them mate, tried to pull them out and the are pretty tough. Does it feel easy to pull them out?
 
Spikey said:
Just checked mine and it has them mate, tried to pull them out and the are pretty tough. Does it feel easy to pull them out?
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I can pull them out with little/no effort at all. With my old gpu I had to press the release clip to get the connector out, but not with this 1
 
DaveLove said:
I can pull them out with little/no effort at all. With my old gpu I had to press the release clip to get the connector out, but not with this 1
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I would maybe return it then? Mine are really hard to release from the clips, so much so I didn't force pulling it out. :o
 
Saying that, though, even if the clips aren't there it would surely only be a problem if something physically reached into your case and pulled them out? Can't imagine how they'd come loose under normal use.

Still though, expensive card to have a 'fault', even if really minor. Depends if you're happy with it or not really.
 
anyone gone from a single 780 to sli, notice any real upgrade?

stock clocked / ref cooler etc.

thinking of getting another next pay as i maybe upgrade to 27"
thanks
 
Quite a few SLI owners around here but I think all of us have had two since the start. Benchmarks aside I've only tested single vs SLI in one game, which is known not to work well with multi GPU setups (at least at the high end as it quickly becomes CPU limited), and didn't encounter any problems. Didn't really gain anything either. All the reviews I read at the time of release showed good scaling in SLI so if you're playing modern games there is no reason not to go for it :)
 
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