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Just ordered 2 x GTX780Ti. Am I mad?

wunkley said:
Cheers fellas:)
I do suffer from buyers remorse sometimes and hate it. I think what I'll do is test one out first of all pretty rigorously and see how it stacks up to my current pair of 670's.
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I can vouch for the performance of 780Ti SLI. Blown away tbh, I'm using ref cards and both they run nice and quiet even with large OC's.

You can always sell them later on and re-coup a large amount of the cost towards your next GPU's.
 
if you have the pennies and you dont need them for anything then great, but i would personally gone with 2 290X purely because of the savings.

I hope you have a monitor that can make use of the speed of those GPU's!
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
My seasonic 660w keeps up with 2x780's with modded bios' and a 2500k at 5GHz all under water :)
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Your doing well then!
Dont know if the Ti's are different, but i have just changed my 1000w seasonic as ocp was being triggered and shutting pc down in a flash, the card was heavily over volted mind and thats on 1 card.

A guy on ocn had 2x 780Ti classy's again lots of volts and it pulled 1720w at the wall.
 
Nick the ref Ti's are quite conservative. They top out at 1.212v So they are not even half as juicy.

Superflower 1200W doesn't even bat an eye lid with three Ti's at 1.212v and 4960 @ 1.4v so there's no way mines pulling anywhere near 1700w lol.

Any who, one 780Ti will do you ok at 1080p, but in some instances you will benefit from two cards.

1440P in most instances you will benefit from two cards. But in truth, I don't think there is any one situation I'd be happy going back to one card even at 1080p.

Once you go SLi...
 
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Diagro said:
if you have the pennies and you dont need them for anything then great, but i would personally gone with 2 290X purely because of the savings.

I hope you have a monitor that can make use of the speed of those GPU's!
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Nividia only I'm afraid, should have mentioned but I need the CUDA for premiere pro work. Otherwise I would definitely look at crossfire 290's I think, great value.

Nickolp1974 said:
Your doing well then!
Dont know if the Ti's are different, but i have just changed my 1000w seasonic as ocp was being triggered and shutting pc down in a flash, the card was heavily over volted mind and thats on 1 card.

A guy on ocn had 2x 780Ti classy's again lots of volts and it pulled 1720w at the wall.
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MjFrosty said:
Nick the ref Ti's are quite conservative. They top out at 1.212v So they are not even half as juicy.

Superflower 1200W doesn't even bat an eye lid with three Ti's at 1.212v and 4960 @ 1.4v so there's no way mines pulling anywhere near 1700w lol
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Yeah I've ordered the inno3d ones, reference only. To be honest if I do end up keeping both I won't have any need to overclock them at all for any games for quite some time I would think.
 
MjFrosty said:
Nick the ref Ti's are quite conservative. They top out at 1.212v So they are not even half as juicy.

Superflower 1200W doesn't even bat an eye lid with three Ti's at 1.212v and 4960 @ 1.4v so there's no way mines pulling anywhere near 1700w lol
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Ah thats good, need to get myself a watt meter thing and run some tests!! I was hoping to get another classy in a month or so and didn't fancy running 2 psu's!!
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
My seasonic 660w keeps up with 2x780's with modded bios' and a 2500k at 5GHz all under water :)
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But for how long?

MjFrosty said:
I've three, so if you're mad...
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You're a lost cause :D

wunkley said:
Yeah I've ordered the inno3d ones, reference only. To be honest if I do end up keeping both I won't have any need to overclock them at all for any games for quite some time I would think.
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You'll be fine at with your current PSU running your cards at stock

the ti's are pretty much locked down power wise.( good old Nvidia) :(
 
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Nickolp1974 said:
Ah thats good, need to get myself a watt meter thing and run some tests!! I was hoping to get another classy in a month or so and didn't fancy running 2 psu's!!
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I have one, but I've not ran it with 1.212v through all three cards. Was on stock BIOS so voltage flucuates like mad. I don't think it was pulling more than 1000w though in Heaven 4.0! It's when you add the big volts things spike


whyscotty said:
But for how long?



You're a lost cause :D
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Truth. :D

wunkley said:
Well if you've got 3, you might as well get...

Actually, can you do quad 780Ti's? I'm guessing not, or you would be :-)
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Yah :) CPU bottleneck is pretty pungent though :D

Put them on water, best thing I ever did :)

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No, you are not mad.
But you would, if you bought many of them and started to build a wall in front of your house (instead of bricks) ;-)
 
MjFrosty said:
1440P in most instances you will benefit from two cards. But in truth, I don't think there is any one situation I'd be happy going back to one card even at 1080p.

Once you go SLi...
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+1 I would put up with one card for a while and go SLI when l had the money for the other.
 
wunkley said:
Well if you've got 3, you might as well get...

Actually, can you do quad 780Ti's? I'm guessing not, or you would be :-)
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Quad 780ti's can be done.

As to keeping both cards, I think you should as the 780ti is a fantastic card and you can never have too much GPU power. If you were to send one back, in a years time you could regret it when Crysis4 or BF5 turns up (assuming BF4 survives Mantle).
 
I would get 1 for now, but then it depends on how "fully modded" you mean. If it's every mod every created then you'll struggle.

The XFX pro are average PSU's. I looked into them and many reviews when I was deciding on PSU's. they are not bad tho. 750W should be enough but don't be surprised if the PSI whines much louder if you overclock.

If you have the money then keep them.
Personally I will try both and see how they perform with your games and the PSU, then make the decision after.
 
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