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How long will 780 SLI last me ?

Dicehunter

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With the release of the 780 Ti super juice black steroid edition is it worth me keeping hold of my 780's, Trading them in or waiting for Maxwell ?

*EDIT* Bearing in mind I did only get both about 4 months ago.
 
well the 780's have already started price dropping so that would reduce the amount you would get trading them in and really sli 780's will handle pretty much everything you can throw at them. Personally i would be happy with the setup you had but all depends if your someone who must have the *best*
 
I would definitely stay with what you have - you have nearly the most powerful graphics hardware on the market. You have a very powerful system! ;)
 
flinco said:
They will easily last 3+ years.
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I wouldn't say that..
with next gen consoles being released this month and 4K displays starting to come down big time in price ..

I would guess quiet a few PC gamers are going be using 4k displays in much less then 3 years
You can already buy a 39" 4k display for $699..;)



Plus the OP may already be gaming at 1600p...
 
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chaparral said:
I wouldn't say that..

with next gen consoles being released this month and 4K displays starting to come down big time in price ..
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We talk about 2 GTX780 here, not 2 GTX580. :confused:

Seriously the GPU power inflation is not that bad that will render 2 GTX780 useless before 2016. The consoles are having much less powerful GPUs.

And to put into perspective.
[ignore]For 4K monitors to be at around 400-500 quid, we will be well into 2016-2017.[/ignore]

And to operate one of these at high settings,going to need 4x the power a GTX780/R9 290X/TITAN provides, on a single chip.

Losing money now by selling those GTX780s, when there is no alternative to provide the power needed for a future 4K monitor is sensible?

Even if the 4K monitors were reasonable priced today, still we gonna need a QuadFire or QuadSLI to run them with the current gen of top cards (780/TITAN or 290X)

chaparral said:
You can already buy a 39" 4k display for $699..;)
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Oops, just saw them in UK for around £500. 290X quadfire!!!!! We going to need some pretty big radiators.

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How are we going to get 4K with HDMI only? We do need display port that this TV doesn't provide, and any GFX card with HDMI 1.4 will only show 1920x1200
 
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As you as you stick to 1600p or less sli 780's should last you a good few years ( of playing games at max settings).
 
If you spill water in your case they wont last long.
If you play games at max settings you've got a few years with them still
 
Well with 2x 780 you can easily go for BF5 or w/e the next one will be :D

I always buy new GPU every 2 years (before bf3-4-5-6-7 comes out) or just after a year buy another one to get it into SLI or Crossfire!

Depends on how deep your pockets are if you can afford new cards every year go ahead! but going from 2x 780 to 780ti with the price drop it's just not worth it imo.
 
Got to be a couple of years at least. Even if you had to tone down the settings a touch. The PS4 and XboxOne are based on vastly inferior GPU's and that's what most games will be based on for the next 5+ years.
 
I run either SLI or Xfire cards and only upgrade when a new single card matches or betters what I have then buy two of those so I don't expect to upgrade my 780s for 3 years.

Maxwell will be much better than a single 780 but it wont get near SLI 780s or Xfire 290x.
 
johny dolan said:
I run either SLI or Xfire cards and only upgrade when a new single card matches or betters what I have then buy two of those so I don't expect to upgrade my 780s for 3 years.

Maxwell will be much better than a single 780 but it wont get near SLI 780s or Xfire 290x.
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A Single card matching SLI is normally around every 2 years (every other gen release)

Like a single GTX 780 roughly matches my SLI GTX 580 setup..;)
Single GTX 580 roughly matched a SLI GTX 280 setup
Single GTX 285 roughly matched a SLI 8800gtx setup
Single 8800gtx roughly matched a SLI 7800gtx setup
 
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2 years at least probably 3-4 in reality ;)

DX11 is only now going to start hitting the mainstream for PC expect DX11 to have the same shelf life as DX9 (IE: Forever it seems ;))

DX11.2 will go nowhere unless MS back-port to Win 7 so that's not an issue either as MS appear to be doing everything to sink Win7 :rolleyes: Expect some Win 8.1 only Azure cloud based PC games ported from Xbox One in perhaps a year or so which will require DX11.2 but I doubt they will be worth upgrading for looking at the launch titles they are all pretty pathetic :rolleyes:

MS also rejected Mantle in favour of Direct X so that will not gain mainstream traction either which removes the need to upgrade to DX11.2 anytime soon.

Recently all the cards have fallen in Nvidia's favour they are looking very strong for PC gamers in the next few years (probably why Valve favour them in the Steambox OS right now).
 
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My m8s think im mad spending £1300 on gfx cards if I spent that every year id think I was mad.

Plenty if not most game on 5 year old midrange cards just fine they just run medium details and while gaming with plenty of things moving fast and exploding you don't stop to look at the super AA or dx11 on objects.

My brother still uses my old 5870 card I gave him years ago and he plays the same games I do without any major loss in settings at all.

Id expect 3 years easy from SLI 780s to still run most games maxed and 5 years before you need to start turning down settings unless you have 4k monitors.
 
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You really think 5 years old GPU's (Ie GTX 280 in SLI ) could run crysis 3 at almost max details at 1440p
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He said 3 years for most.
Crysis 3 is 1 game.

And yes, most games run max settings at 1440p in SLI 480s which are 3 years old (April 2010 in fact). The main limitation being vram.
So top cards in SLI do have approx 3 year life span for most games maxed @ 1440p.
 
If you bench and need the most up to date hardware, yes change up to 780 ti cards. If your 780s clock well (which they seem to from your sig), you may actually end up with similar performance anyway (the latter remains to be seen).

If you just game, consider what you aren't able to do with 780 2x in SLI. At 1440p, I can't find any game that prevents max settings with extremely good frame rates and neither should you. Re: 4k displays, the 780ti will have similar limitations as 780s, i.e. not worthwhile. Even if it has 6GB, it will likely run out of GPU grunt with games coming out around the time 4k displays become mainstream (unless of course you are about to buy a 4k display now).

If you sell your 780s now, you will lose a fair chunk over the price you paid at launch (probably £150+ on each card). That plus the premium on the 780ti and you get the picture. Lots of £ for potentially little performance increase. If you really must change up, I'd actually consider the 290x with non-reference cooler. They are putting out some incredible GPU scores and I have a feeling the 780ti won't perform much better.

I won't be changing to 780ti cards mainly as I can't be bothered to reconfigure my water loop. Lots of effort for miniscule performance increase. Will wait for Maxwell and do a full system refresh.
 
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