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770 series GTX cards

Why are you buying another psu when you already have a decent enough 850w psu. If its just the cables you can buy spares. Buying another zalman 700w would be a waste.
Also that 280 is a good card, the chip inside is actually just a 7970 and they've just changed the name.
 
I have the GTX 770 MSI Gaming Edition (got it at launch for £329 from OCUK). It is fantastic, quiet and a good overclocker and a bargain at the current price. As you are planning on buying only one gfx card your current PSU should have no problems and as for the connectors, my MSI card came with two 4pin Molex -> 8pin PCI-E adaptors, so no worries there.

I chose Nvidia for 3DVision support and because I have had better experience with their drivers in recent years. The MSI Gaming Edition is also much quieter than the new AMD 290 series cards due to them having the reference cooler design, but it might be worth considering the AMD 280X as it is in the same price bracket and has aftermarket coolers (so should be quiet too).

Contrary to what has been stated above, 2GB is absolutely fine for gaming at 1080p resolution. There is no real point in getting the 4GB GTX 770, as you'll run out of GPU power before you can utilise the full 4GB of RAM.
 
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Not sure why you are making a mistake get the 770... I have it and it runs everything including BF4, metro last light etc on ultra at very high frame rates. Thats all at 1080p i suppose in a few years when 1440p monitors are cheaper it will not be perfect, but how long do you wait on tech to get old?

For me the 2gb is not a problem, not that i found anyway, im really impressed with my EVGA sc 770 and would recommend it to anyone all i would say is that there are some new cards coming out soon i believe maybe it would be wise to wait for them to come and see another price drop...
 
MoRT489 said:
Contrary to what has been stated above, 2GB is absolutely fine for gaming at 1080p resolution. There is no real point in getting the 4GB GTX 770, as you'll run out of GPU power before you can utilise the full 4GB of RAM.
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This really, the was a big debate about it on this forum a while back and when everyone started presenting their "dataz" it turned out that some cutting edge games with everything maxed out at 1080p were already causing 770/7970 cards to run out of grunt so the 2GB thing won't be an issue.
 
ubersonic said:
This really, the was a big debate about it on this forum a while back and when everyone started presenting their "dataz" it turned out that some cutting edge games with everything maxed out at 1080p were already causing 770/7970 cards to run out of grunt so the 2GB thing won't be an issue.
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A lot of people seem to think though that if your game is running at less than 60fps minimum that your GPU is "running out of grunt", playable framerates are subjective. Also the "you'll run out of GPU power before you can utilise the full 4GB of RAM." argument seems stupid to me because you don't buy the 4GB version so you can utilise the full 4GB of VRAM, you buy it should you ever need more than 2GB, maybe even only 2.1GB. I know I'd rather have a 4GB card even if I only needed a few hundred mb more of vram in a game rather than have stuttering because I don't have enough.
 
jimfowler_82 said:
Not sure why you are making a mistake get the 770... I have it and it runs everything including BF4, metro last light etc on ultra at very high frame rates. Thats all at 1080p i suppose in a few years when 1440p monitors are cheaper it will not be perfect, but how long do you wait on tech to get old?

For me the 2gb is not a problem, not that i found anyway, im really impressed with my EVGA sc 770 and would recommend it to anyone all i would say is that there are some new cards coming out soon i believe maybe it would be wise to wait for them to come and see another price drop...
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+1

Just bought a 1440p monitor and have a MSI 770 lightnings in SLI and all my games run smooth as butter. No issues at all.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Try BF4 with maximum settings.
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I know I might be limited with 2gb at 1440p (I could turn down the settings a little and it would run fine) 1080p I'll be fine, but I don't play that many FPS on my PC. Racing, Sidescrollers and 3rd person mostly.

I love Battlefield games. It's the only FPS I like. so I bought a Xbox One to play BF4 on. I'm sorted.
 
ive just brought a 770 2gb and running bf4 with all setting on ultra and it super smooth but i only game at 1080p :)
 
i personally would check and see how much v ram bf4 is actually using at the setting u got before i turned anything down.
 
RetrogamerX said:
I know I might be limited with 2gb at 1440p (I could turn down the settings a little and it would run fine) 1080p I'll be fine, but I don't play that many FPS on my PC. Racing, Sidescrollers and 3rd person mostly.

I love Battlefield games. It's the only FPS I like. so I bought a Xbox One to play BF4 on. I'm sorted.
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I don't know if you will be limited though. Matt's been making a lot of noise about it so it would be good to find out.
 
marv: I did BF4 on my 1080p 144hz on ultra and mine ran great too. I haven't even tried it on 1440p only because I'm getting it on Xbox One so I thought I would wait. I'm in not hurry to play. I have like 8 games I'm in the middle of right now.

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I don't know if you will be limited though. Matt's been making a lot of noise about it so it would be good to find out.
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I'll give it a go and see what happens.
 
there is nothing wrong with 770gtx same performance or faster 7970. i had 7950 witch i sold and 7970 matrix platnium witch was absolutely worst card in years big , hot , loud .

i got my self msi gamer oc 4 gig version 280 £ sold games for 30 £ and 7950 for 150 £.

even do 7950 was very good card the annoying flicker on 120hz monitors when going in 2d clocks.

also 770 cool quiet impressive boost features boost down in not demanding games boost ups in more demand games, overclocks very well and power consumption is not so high.
 
Regarding actual gaming performance I can assure you that even a cheaper GTX 760 would give you a very nice experience In 1080p. For the last few weeks I had the chance to play with a GTX 760 SC and everything I tried was playing fine (although loud). Some examples are Metro LL and BF4...
So I xm absolutely sure that the GTX 7H would be a great performer for the coming 2-3 years.
 
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