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780 GTX Price Drop + Free Games

Guys im building a PC and this could not come at any better time but i need your opinion on what GTX 780 card to get.. im really thinking about getting HOF gtx780 but i aint a overclocker..i can walsy start overclocking since i have been watching video's and it just looks straight forward, but i aint gonna go insane with overlocking.. so what gtx 780 card you guys reccomend let me know.. this is crazy offer
 
HoF is great if you don't really want to overclock as it comes with some nice out of the box clocks, change the power/temp target in afterburner/precision and up the volts by +38mv and it will boost to over 1100 by itself.
 
im comparing cards with the out of the box clocks and here it goes:

KFA2 GeForce GTX 780 HOF 3072MB -- Core: 1006MHz, Memory: 3072MB
Shader Clock: 2012MHz price: £449.99 inc VAT

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC 3072MB -- Core: 954MHz, Memory: 3072MB
Shader Clock: 1908MHz price: £409.99 inc VAT

MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning 3072MB -- Core: 980MHz, Memory: 3072MB
Shader Clock: 1960MHz price:£469.99 inc VAT

can anyone tell me what GTX card to choose please, and also let me in on what shader clock means..basically want the best cooling and clock speed out of the box (which i assume gives slightly more fps rates) and maybe with overclocking aswell if it really easy to do
 
ollie2k13 said:
im comparing cards with the out of the box clocks and here it goes:

KFA2 GeForce GTX 780 HOF 3072MB -- Core: 1006MHz, Memory: 3072MB
Shader Clock: 2012MHz price: £449.99 inc VAT

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC 3072MB -- Core: 954MHz, Memory: 3072MB
Shader Clock: 1908MHz price: £409.99 inc VAT

MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning 3072MB -- Core: 980MHz, Memory: 3072MB
Shader Clock: 1960MHz price:£469.99 inc VAT

can anyone tell me what GTX card to choose please, and also let me in on what shader clock means..basically want the best cooling and clock speed out of the box (which i assume gives slightly more fps rates) and maybe with overclocking aswell if it really easy to do
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It depends if you will OC the card or volts. The MSI and KFA2 there are known to be binned chips (they are chosen good chips that clock higher). The gigabyte one is random, so down to your luck.

If you don't overclock much or are happy with mild oc, go with the gigabyte. All 3 have good warranties/rma in this country. I believe KFA2 is 2 years only tho.
 
nicnik said:
It depends if you will OC the card or volts. The MSI and KFA2 there are known to be binned chips (they are chosen good chips that clock higher). The gigabyte one is random, so down to your luck.

If you don't overclock much or are happy with mild oc, go with the gigabyte. All 3 have good warranties/rma in this country. I believe KFA2 is 2 years only tho.
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if i never overclock and have money to spend is it worth going with the KFA2 because it has the biggest out of box overclock?
 
ollie2k13 said:
if i never overclock and have money to spend is it worth going with the KFA2 because it has the biggest out of box overclock?
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honestly they are all good. the only thing with the KFA2 is the heavy heatsink and no backplate and i wonder if it's too heavy maybe?

i got the asus one myself but they are all good to be honest. i got the asus because i believe it has the best cooler
 
Suarez7 said:
lol no, AMD had to release a new gen eventually anyway, shame it came 3 months too late.
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You are constantly using gapingly flawed logic.

Both sides eventually release new gen like they have done since there existence.
The being late in this case and the end results of NVs actions contradict your claims of effect and why.
A simple example when the 7990 came out late NV didn't drop the prices of the titan/690 cards and even after the huge price drop of the 7990 because its not seen as a threat even at the cheaper price, so no just having a competing card on the market does not automatically mean better prices because that was a real case of too little to late, AMD set the price of the 7990 at where it is now on release that may of been another matter.

The 7970 beat the 580, no price drop on the 580.
The 7xxx priced was dropped plus free games and again no price drop from NV on the 6xx for a long time and again the same performance segment.

All of the above AMD card were initially priced equal or higher in there competing class-= no price drop from NV.

AMDs latest card is seen as a threat because of performance and the initial price but if they priced it at the same price as the original 780 price then you would not have seen a price drop from NV even though NV would not have a monopoly in the segment because lack of a competing card just like the 7990 and 7xxx situation.
So you claiming the price drop came from NV just because AMD released a card in that performance segment and for no other reason is wrong and its far more complex this time around than just AMD having a similar performance card at a much cheaper price, AMD having all the consoles has an influence plus AMD being much more aggressive with marketing and having a competing product that is much cheaper from the get go makes a difference just like the GTX 280 example below and NV is not even waiting for the R9 290 version to be released and priced because that version has/had the potential to be the best value of the lot.

NV has surprised many with this action + free games and i have not seen anything as dramatic in price cuts from NV [bar EOL products] since the GTX280 plus giving money back to people who already bought the card before the price cut and we know why that happened and while NV gets away with milking on prices they know a real potential threat when they see it no matter if the user base can not, but some like to play on words and be absolute and literal because its upto NV what they do and AMD can't force NV do do anything that they are not willing to do and throw feasibility and being realistic out of the window and that goes both ways as both are out to make as much money as possible and they will not give out price drop without damn good reasons and just because they felt like it is not going to be one of them.


And i may be wrong but aren't the 780 cut down Titan chips which are cutdown Tesla, if then is the case then 3 months late is nothing seeing as AMDs 290x is not a cut down chip from arc that has been around from November last year.

I think the prices are just about right now for the top tier single GPU cards, Titan not included. I was playing £399 in 2006.

People should really not be arguing over good price cuts, i made an exception for you because in my opinion some of your comments are way off.
 
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Price drops are really good but i'm a little surprised that most seem to have dropped warranty time to 2years, kind of shows a lack of faith in their hardware.
 
smilertoo said:
Price drops are really good but i'm a little surprised that most seem to have dropped warranty time to 2years, kind of shows a lack of faith in their hardware.
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the warranty depends on the manufacturers. my asus card came with a 3 yr warranty but some other cards only have 2
 
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