770,780 Vendors

Lex1970 · 10 Feb 2014 at 20:17

If you want a perforamce card for £400 or under get Zotac check the benchmarks epic card

Ian Evey · 10 Feb 2014 at 20:32

I have a kfa 670 ex oc that i have had for 18 months, no problems at all with it and build quality is very good, not at all loud under load and overclocking is fairly decent.

I also have a inno3d ichill 780 ( just got ) and this is silent, temps are around 60c when gaming with its default boost to 1124mhz and fan never moves from 30%. Build quality is fantastic, the size of it is 30cm which is huge and its a 3 slot card, cannot comment on KFA2 or inno3d RMA as hopefully i wil never have to use them.

Digital_hero · 10 Feb 2014 at 20:47

Lex1970 said:
If you want a perforamce card for £400 or under get Zotac check the benchmarks epic card

I do like the looks of the ZOTAC cards Orange fans and all but never realy heard meany people using them so i dunno i was thinking ether Asus or gigabyte windforce

What is considered normal temps for cards nowadays i only ask as when i finally finish my build off i have some ballpark figers to compare mine with

setter · 10 Feb 2014 at 21:01

On the wf series, your looking at a ballpark figure of 60-70c, of course this will depend on case airflow, cooling, ambient temp. Mine at 70c on auto stock fan is high for one of theese but then i have virtually zero front intake. The shinobi xl has a solid front panel with two tiny mesh strips. Funny thing is too, they fit a dust filter that you never need to clean such is the poor air intake.

Lex1970 · 10 Feb 2014 at 21:34

I don't think you will be dissapointed with a Zotac the only reason I didn't go for one as when I looked at the gaming benchmarks there wasn't really much difference between most of the 780 cards which is why I went for the Gainward GLH in the end for it's quietness and low temperatures.

jimbaw · 10 Feb 2014 at 21:59

Hi guys. I've got a zotac 780 amp and it's amazing! Fairly quiet and runs cool enough as well even with a mild OC. and it looks good as well

Silent_Scone · 11 Feb 2014 at 09:02

Gregster said:
I have just had an RMA with Asus, which took 6 weeks. I would stick with Gigabyte and EVGA and even MSI for a quicker turnaround if you do run into issues. The best warranty cover is the best idea.

Yes, guy who bought mine had the same issue. I felt really sorry for him and the small outlet (on eBay) were being ****s about it as well. No way would I buy ASUS on just those grounds alone. Shocking don't want to know about it type service.

EVGAdominik · 11 Feb 2014 at 09:44

MjFrosty said:
as above, there isn't much to choose between them unless you're spending money on Classified or ASUS DC2. EVGA are great for warranty (especially under water) but as they bin there cards, you're more likely to get a lower clocker.

People tend to be getting very good air clocks with Gigabyte ref cards, so that's where I'd put my money if you're staying with air cooling.

About the binning, you can still get EVGA Ref cards with good chips running 1200+ out of the box.

Silent_Scone · 11 Feb 2014 at 10:06

1200 is monkey clocks on a Ti.

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Anyway, as I said in my next post. I'd go with EVGA / Gigabyte for warranty reasons alone

EVGAdominik · 11 Feb 2014 at 11:15

is monkey clocks bad??

I am not native english...
just wanted to share that there are still good cards available

Silent_Scone · 11 Feb 2014 at 11:25

1200 is a good overclock but it's not exactly great in terms of what a lot of reference cards can do.

Just using logic as I'm pretty sure your silicon all comes from the same pot so it's only fair to assume you're going to get less reference cards doing decent overclocks. Although I have three reference SC cards on water, one of which that does 1316

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Geeman1979 · 11 Feb 2014 at 11:40

MjFrosty said:
1200 is monkey clocks on a Ti. .

Anyway, as I said in my next post. I'd go with EVGA / Gigabyte for warranty reasons alone

So monkeys have started clocking Gpu's now hey?

Silent_Scone · 11 Feb 2014 at 11:46

lol, well it's pretty easy these days

AWPC · 11 Feb 2014 at 12:50

Rroff said:
The WF3 is fairly audiable at 60% though nothing extreme but I have no idea what you'd have to do to make it get that high other than turning it up manually - even under torture tests the fans on mine don't exceed 38% IIRC.

When you have the central heating on in cold weather it does not take long to hit the 60% RPM in my home as ambient air temps make a huge difference to me but I only have decent air cooling in my case on the CPU. I played around with the fan profile on both the std 780 & 780Ti it starts to get quite loud around 60% RPM.

Another thing which makes a huge difference is the type of AA settings you apply. FXAA seems to have the lowest FPS hit if I tried max x16/32 AA levels it would really heat the GPU up quickly in some games which are shader FX heavy.

Crysis 3 for instance as soon as you start the game its using all the shaders so ramps up the RPM. Its a shame you cannot control or disable GPU Boost 2.0 I suspect that is the culprit it seems to enable itself in some games more than others which could be why the fan RPM increases.

thefogo · 11 Feb 2014 at 12:53

My reference 780 Ti never hits 60% fan speed.
It only does so when I OC to 1200Mhz, but I would expect that anyway

Silent_Scone · 11 Feb 2014 at 13:02

AWPC said:
When you have the central heating on in cold weather it does not take long to hit the 60% RPM in my home as ambient air temps make a huge difference to me but I only have decent air cooling in my case on the CPU. I played around with the fan profile on both the std 780 & 780Ti it starts to get quite loud around 60% RPM.

Another thing which makes a huge difference is the type of AA settings you apply. FXAA seems to have the lowest FPS hit if I tried max x16/32 AA levels it would really heat the GPU up quickly in some games which are shader FX heavy.

Crysis 3 for instance as soon as you start the game its using all the shaders so ramps up the RPM. Its a shame you cannot control or disable GPU Boost 2.0 I suspect that is the culprit it seems to enable itself in some games more than others which could be why the fan RPM increases.

If your cards are throttling heavily, use the Skyn3t BIOS. One of many that disable boost.

AWPC · 11 Feb 2014 at 14:14

MjFrosty said:
If your cards are throttling heavily, use the Skyn3t BIOS. One of many that disable boost.

Thanks but think I will wait for Nvidia to offer a driver solution to this its only certain games like Crysis 3 & or if air temps are high due to central heating being on. GPU Boost 2.0 can help sometimes if your FPS are going just below your vsync.

On shader heavy games like Crysis 3 it goes too far & boost's too much!

EVGAdominik · 11 Feb 2014 at 16:55

MjFrosty said:
1200 is a good overclock but it's not exactly great in terms of what a lot of reference cards can do.

Just using logic as I'm pretty sure your silicon all comes from the same pot so it's only fair to assume you're going to get less reference cards doing decent overclocks. Although I have three reference SC cards on water, one of which that does 1316 .

Yeah, there is no guarantee that every card can hit 1300, thats why I said 1200+

EVGAdominik · 11 Feb 2014 at 16:57

AWPC said:
Thanks but think I will wait for Nvidia to offer a driver solution to this its only certain games like Crysis 3 & or if air temps are high due to central heating being on. GPU Boost 2.0 can help sometimes if your FPS are going just below your vsync.

On shader heavy games like Crysis 3 it goes too far & boost's too much!

With the precision Tool is a feature called Kboost, with this you can lock a clock if it occures issues in a specific game when the cards boost further...