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Help! 670/680/770 torment

Chevens

Chevens

Chevens

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Hi all,

currently building new haswell i5 pc (see this thread for details - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24985038#post24985038

I keep going round in circles re graphics card -
I like value for money, but I would like my new rig to remain quick as long as possible.
I can't decide on the following 4 cards -

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 680 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Batman & Splintercell PC Games £259.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **FREE SHIPPING** £199.99
Total : £981.96 (includes shipping : £10.00).






The 4Gb 670 looks great but worries me with the rather low stock clock speed.
The MSI Twin Frozr Power Edition has great stock clocks, but slightly more expensive and only 2GB (AND it pains me that I missed it at £185 a few days ago)
Not sure the extra ~£50/60 from 670 > 680 territory would produce noticeable performance upgrades, and then I keep thinking if I'm at £260 quid an extra £40 up to the 770 doesn't seem like much.

I can afford any of the cards but not sure if the 50% increase in cost from the 670>770 choices have a sweet spot on price/performance, and if 670 is the best value, which option to go for!

Please help me decide and leave this torture behind before it destroys my brain :)

Thanks



PS - I would like to stay nvidia owing to my 3dvision setup.
 
Asus 4GB would be my choice as I would just overclock it. 4GB may not be essential but it's nice to have at only £199.

770 is 680 performance so I would rule that out at £300.

The 670 is not far behind a 680/770 in performance, a bit of overclocking will make that difference negligible.
 
OP I feel your pain, I am in the same dilemma as you and its made worse that 'this week only' offers end on wed, when the AMD cards come out!

I too keep thinking well an oc'd 670 is a 680/770 so why not save £100 and get the lovely asus 4GB model.

Then I think, we don't need 4GB yet at 1080p and if I want to go SLI with 670's in the future it will be hard or impossible to source a new one.

So I think I will go with the 770 which has GPU boost 2.0 and by all counts is a decent card. I can then add another for cheap when 20nm Maxwell comes out next summer.

Its bascially that I can justify in my head £300 in one go on a GPU but not £400 in one go on two GPU's that would best mighty 780 performance.

By the time I have put a waterblock on my one 770 I could have two air cooled 670's.

Hmmm
 
I'm holding out as well.

Fingercross for the Hawaii Pro to be no more than 75% more expensive than the 7950/GTX670 (around £350), and hoping it will be at least 35-40%+ faster than them.

There's no doubt CF7950 or SLIGTX670 offer the best bang for bucks, but I doubt there's enough game titles which I play would have decent scaling with multi-GPU, so I'd rather go for the above option (Not everyone and their mother only plays FPS games by EA...and unfortunately majority of the games by other publishers won't get 100% scaling with CF/SLi).
 
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