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no more ATI so what Nvidea card?

£420 is steep for a 780 and for £80 more you can get a Ref Ti like the offer last week at just under £500 and still can get a KFA2 "own design" Ti for £480
 
jh30uk said:
£420 is steep for a 780 and for £80 more you can get a Ref Ti like the offer last week at just under £500 and still can get a KFA2 "own design" Ti for £480
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Personally would say the 780 GHZ edition is worth it - had a great experience with mine so far and boosts to reference 780ti performance out the box - mine still has a good 10% ocing headroom on top of that but can't guarantee all of them will have that.
 
I know you love to justify all your GPU's Roff and you seem to get lucky with "special versions" that clock well but its not worth it today.

And clocking to Ti speed is not same performance due to less Cores and a Ti can clock well also, many 1250+.
 
jh30uk said:
I know you love to justify all your GPU's Roff and you seem to get lucky with "special versions" that clock well but its not worth it today.

And clocking to Ti speed is not same performance due to less Cores and a Ti can clock well also, many 1250+.
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Depends if you can justify spending the extra money or not how worth it it is but its certainly not a bad buy for the money, far from it. While it might not be quite as value for money as some of the 290s purely for performance how cool and quiet it runs (aslong as you don't have poor case cooling) alone tends to make up for a lot of that.

I'm talking actual benchmark performance numbers not clock speeds - sure a 780ti can overclock to performance levels you aren't likely to achieve with a max clocked 780 but due to the quality of the cooler + backplate most of these GHZ editions are managing around 11xxMHz boosts out the box putting them on par or within a hair of reference clock 780tis in benchmarks and most of them will continue on to 1267MHz on average on stock BIOS and ~1300MHz with custom BIOS. Granted mine is a good example but it only manages 1 maybe 2 speed bins more than the average for these cards.
 
The msi and the wf models both have great cooling systems, (also own an msi twin frozr card here). I personally couldnt justify the price tag of the ghz wf myself, though it is a bit faster out of the box than the standard wf rev 1/2 oc models.
 
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jaydam said:
so what is this Core: 1019MHz, compared to this Core: 954MHz

is that a massive difference and worth the money?
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Thats the guaranteed boost but with the quality of the WF3 cooler + backplate the actual boost (every card will boost to different actual levels) will usually be a fair bit higher - IIRC 1149MHz is the average for the 780 GHZ cards out the box.

Whether its worth the money is debatable - the non GHZ model with a good chip will potentially boost very well also likewise other models but you don't have the same guaranteed level.
 
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wicked thanks guys....

not worth the extra few quid... got ya :) i will look over the links .. some of these things look really kool like radiators :)
 
Just for your reference
My MSI 780 Gaming Edition (like the one you linked to) boosts to 1058 as standard, out of the box with no overclocking.
 
smart now thats good to hear :)

if i am entirely honest and i do appreciate your help i am looking at the gigabyte one as it has three fans and will run cooler.

does that do the same or is the MSI better? i saw an earlier reference on noisy fan troubles on the msi and imagine you might not have seen this but im just trying to get all me ducks in a row :)
 
jaydam said:
smart now thats good to hear :)

if i am entirely honest and i do appreciate your help i am looking at the gigabyte one as it has three fans and will run cooler.

does that do the same or is the MSI better? i saw an earlier reference on noisy fan troubles on the msi and imagine you might not have seen this but im just trying to get all me ducks in a row :)
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I went for the MSI because they allow you to remove the cooler without voiding the warranty (if bought from OCUK). I was fitting a water block so it made sense :)
 
MY non GHZ Rev 2 Windforce boosted to 1110 out of the box
But the backplate is snazzy and for the extra few quid atm its why if i was buying today i would get :)
GHZ is also a guaranteed b1 core iitc which should clock better But silicon lottery doesnt mean it may not
 
Yeah was pretty happy with it skys bios its pretty happy at 1267 at 1.212v .
Laterly havent been playing much that warrents that though so been playing with it at stock volts on skys bios and have settled at 1200core which i'm pretty happy with
 
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