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Titan or 2x 780ti - thats the question...

gerico

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So I'm probably not going to be able to afford this, BUT it doesn't stop me thinking about it and pondering over things.

My thought process is, if I can afford to, get the Titan and have the option to throw in another down the line. But then is the performance gain of the titan compared to the price really worth it? Would I be better to just get a 780ti and then throw in another in a few months time.

Thoughts please gents — you all know far more than I do.
 
Take a loan and get 2 x Titan Black. Then you can spend the next few months grovelling to your other half
 
gerico said:
That because the performance boost of the titan isn't really all that great over the 780ti?
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There isn't a performance advantage to the titan black as far as I know. It uses the same core as the 780ti running at similar clock speeds. It offers 3Gb more vram then the 780ti and has its compute functions enabled (which are normally reserved for tesla only and disabled on the gaming chips)

If you don't need the vram and compute then there is no point even looking at the titan really. Its great if supercomputing is your thing and you don't fancy shelling out for a tesla though :p
 
For gaming the Titan Black has the same performance as the 780TI, they are the same card with less vRam and FP32.

The only real difference is cost, if you use it for gaming you would be flushing £300 down the toilet going Titan Black over 780TI.
 
i see this differently. ( according to pricing in france )
780 Ti 620€
780 450 €
sapphire vaporX R9 290 420€
a single 780Ti should be enough to play 1080p, if you want more go sli regular 780 or r9 290, and you save up 400€, you can even 3way sli or crossfire with what you saved,makes the performance even better than sli 780Ti, 3way crossfire r9 290 makes it even playable at 4k around 60 fps.
personaly i would take 3 r9 290 vaporx, or take 2 and buy a 4k monitor with the extra money :p, then add 3rd card later on
 
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AlamoX said:
i see this differently.
780 Ti 620€
780 450 €
sapphire vaporX R9 290 420€
a single 780Ti should be enough to play 1080p, if you want more go sli regular 780 or r9 290, and you save up 400€, you can even 3way sli or crossfire with what you saved,makes the performance even better than sli 780Ti, 3way crossfire r9 290 makes it even playable at 4k around 60 fps.
personaly i would take 3 r9 290 vaporx, or take 2 and buy a 4k monitor with the extra money :p, then add 3rd card later on
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If you were to run 3 non ref 290 Vapor X cards, how would you keep them cool ?
 
Kaapstad said:
If you were to run 3 non ref 290 Vapor X cards, how would you keep them cool ?
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i specificly said the vaporx because they are one of the coolest r9 290 cards out there, backplates, trix cooler and vapor chamber, 2 of the 3 fans turn off according to the gpu loads keeping the noise at a minimum, beside i am not here to do marketing for sapphire lol, but these cards are really good, if your case wont have a probleme cooling sli it wont have an issue with 3 way either.
but to me i dont see the value of 200€ per card compared to 780 or r9 290, when it comes to perf especialy at 1080p, yes you will have less fps, but the extra fps wont make your games play better, sli since 780 and r9 290 already provide extremely comfortable gameplay, so having 80fps instead of a 100 wont make much of a diff other than bigger hole in your pocket.
i have corsair 540 air, with R9 280X vaporx crossfire ( old vaporx ) my temps never went above 71°( crysis3, infestation, most hotter games iv played) while most games are around 65°
 
You still have not answered the question, how do you keep 3 non ref 290s cool.

Do you have any first hand experience of the above.
 
Kaapstad said:
You still have not answered the question, how do you keep 3 non ref 290s cool.

Do you have any first hand experience of the above.
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nop never had 3 slot mobo, this crossfire is my first, but i didnt experience any problemes so far, to led me to believe that 3 way would run at alarming temps compared to 2way but you are probably right, you must have more experience than me on the matter.
 
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AlamoX said:
nop never had 3 slot mobo, this crossfire is my first, but i didnt experience any problemes so far to led me to believe, that 3 way would run at alarming temps, compared to 2way but you are probably right, you must have more experience than me on the matter.
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Sorry if I sounded awful in my previous post.

Two non ref cards in CF with a gap between them work very well providing you have got good air flow.

Three cards though mean that at least two of them will be right next to each other on the motherboard and things can get quite toasty. All three cards will be dumping nearly 1000 watts of heat into your case when flat out.

Three reference cards work ok as they dump the heat out of the back of the case but for this ear plugs are recommended.:D
 
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