GTX 780 Owners Club

Captain · 22 Nov 2013 at 22:16

Akasa venom 750W, my seasonic platinum 1000W should be here monday!

MOOGLEYS · 22 Nov 2013 at 22:26

Clov!s said:
Akasa venom 750W, my seasonic platinum 1000W should be here monday!

I would just wait until Monday and save using adapters etc.

Captain · 22 Nov 2013 at 22:29

MOOGLEYS said:
I would just wait until Monday and save using adapters etc.

Ye i think that's best!

Panos · 23 Nov 2013 at 15:32

The GTX780 arrived this afternoon, and what a monster card is. I thought the 7950s were big, after upgrading from GTX570, but this one is huge, with a lot of metal plates to provide strength. Hell, never thought that a graphics card will be 55mm longer than a motherboard. However width is smaller than the 7950 so is height.

Plugged it on, downloaded drivers fixed bit the colours and settings and opened the GPU-Z to be greeted by this sight.

78.7%, hopefully going to be a good clocker. Unfortunately the VRAM is Hynix, even if all reviews looked at were Samsung, however at least are not Elpida.

I haven't overclocked it yet, nor touch anything. Is pretty quiet card at "idling" speed, and cannot be heard above the 4 Magma fans that are attached on the H100 radiator. (and they are 18db fans).

I will run few benchmarks, and let you know how it is.

Unfortunately the new 4820K is arriving on Monday, so I will have to do it with the FX8350@5Ghz.

(or FX8350@4Ghz because it seems the CPU CCC Overdrive refuses to overclock since removed the 7950).

alex_123_fra · 23 Nov 2013 at 16:14

Welcome to the club Panos. Sweet looking card.

MoodyB · 23 Nov 2013 at 16:26

Panos said:
78.7%, hopefully going to be a good clocker. Unfortunately the VRAM is Hynix, even if all reviews looked at were Samsung, however at least are not Elpida.

Hynix is alright. Managed 7100mhz with mine.

illuz · 23 Nov 2013 at 16:56

Hynix is awesome man, get clocking it

Panos · 23 Nov 2013 at 18:45

Cheers guys.

Quick update. Decided to try the EVGA precision for a change. I am kinda lost how it works compared to MSI Afterburner which I am more familiar with.

These are the settings I managed to fiddle with over the last 1 hour.

Still cannot understand how 1005+195 = 1293 which was running most of the time.

Here is the Valey result along with the GPU-Z screenshots of max temps (60C) etc.

Managed to OC the FX to 4700 stable. Seems refuses to go higher up now with the Overdrive (used 5193). And I do not dare to to back again to Bios with the unstable voltage the motherboard provides as "stock" (GA-990FXA-UD3).

(patience until Monday to use the 4820K)

I do not know if all these are good or bad. Idk if I can push the voltage to +50mv to pass the 1300 barrier. It's getting all way to scene 17 at 1310 and crashes the engine. See how it goes.

Btw the max TDP was 107.7% and VDDC 1.2v during benching, and at 2438 rev (81% speed with custom fan profile) the card is quiet.

Any feedback to improve the overclocking, is welcome

chaparral · 23 Nov 2013 at 20:56

Panos said:
Here is the Valey result along with the GPU-Z screenshots of max temps (60C) etc.

You got fell sorry for all them R290/x owners that can only dream of having temps and noise levels like that...

By the way that looks like a very nice 780 you got there...

Panos · 23 Nov 2013 at 21:13

Thank you

Yes indeed. However I am baffled. I was playing WOT and while the game settings haven't changed, I get bit less fps than with the 7950@1100/1550 and is more "grainy" also. They do not look nice and sharp.

Wiry · 23 Nov 2013 at 23:39

Hello!

I just thought I'd share my experience with my new 780 so far.

It's definitely handling the oc's very well actually, I've been lucky for once.

Only downside is that it has hynix as oppose to samsung ram, however, no problems so far

It's this one if anybody wants to know: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-218-EA

And of course, the overclock so far...

I'm rather happy so far considering my cpu is still at stock - overclocking once i get the watercooling sorted. I reckon I can squeeze a bit more out of the 780 too.

Panos · 23 Nov 2013 at 23:46

Nice one

Max3 · 24 Nov 2013 at 00:19

Anyone here upgraded to a TI? My 780 feels a bit lacking sometimes - in particular batman origins has me using fxaa with everything else maxed at 1920x1200. Surprised I can't use msaa and maintain 60fps

AWPC · 24 Nov 2013 at 06:38

Max3 said:
Anyone here upgraded to a TI? My 780 feels a bit lacking sometimes - in particular batman origins has me using fxaa with everything else maxed at 1920x1200. Surprised I can't use msaa and maintain 60fps

Yep bought a GTX780 then bought a GTX780Ti & moved the GTX780 to my secondary gaming PC. I would say the Ti is a good 20-25% faster than the vanilla 780 the difference is noticeable when you max games out the Ti does not stutter at all @ 1920x1200 whereas the vanilla 780 in some games needs a slightly lower AA setting.

Both cards are still stonking monsters though :eek:

the amount of (untapped by recent games) grunt the Ti has is frightening it has so much headroom to brute force any near future gfx tech upgrades

RavenXXX2 · 24 Nov 2013 at 08:43

Max3 said:
Anyone here upgraded to a TI? My 780 feels a bit lacking sometimes - in particular batman origins has me using fxaa with everything else maxed at 1920x1200. Surprised I can't use msaa and maintain 60fps

Overclock the 780 and will be just about at 780ti performance level. Mad to upgrade from it to ti, that is only for harcore benchmarkers.

Panos · 24 Nov 2013 at 10:09

Indeed Raven.

If someone in doubt look here
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/powercolor-r9-290x-oc-vs-gtx-780-ti-overclocking-gloves-come/4/

The GTX780OC settings (from stock) were

The offset was +150MHz core/+550MHz memory. Maximum Boost was 1162MHz

Which means the card was working at 1013Mhz with boost at 1162Mhz.
These are the speeds of my factory overclocked GTX780

While with just 15 mins fiddling went to 1201 normal and 1293 boost only.

I bet can get more than that but waiting for tomorrow.

And that is why I choose the GTX780. I only have a 1080p monitor, so I am fine with that very quiet monster.

It will be better value for money if you have a GTX780 spend 30-40 quid, and get a GTX650ti for Physx. No need to spend 200 for a 780Ti.

chaparral · 24 Nov 2013 at 10:39

RavenXXX2 said:
Overclock the 780 and will be just about at 780ti performance level.

Till you OC the 780ti...

chaparral · 24 Nov 2013 at 10:46

Panos said:
Indeed Raven.

If someone in doubt look here
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/powercolor-r9-290x-oc-vs-gtx-780-ti-overclocking-gloves-come/4/

Taken From that link

Crysis 3 /very high/4xAA/1920x1080
OC 780 = 50.9fps
OC 780ti = 57.8fps

Metro last night
OC 780 = 61.9fps
OC 780ti = 74.9fps

Tombraider
OC 780 = 56.3fps
OC 780ti = 68.6fps

Panos · 24 Nov 2013 at 11:15

Nobody said going to beat a Ti OC, but at that +150 overclock, is similar to the 780Ti stock from the chart. And most can get more than that from their cards.

Hell I get +347 if we calculate the pre-factory overclock also and just started.
That is 2.3 times more.

Look this 1 fps a factory overclocked 780 that cost £340 after selling the games, to a +£200 Ti.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/11/15/pny-geforce-gtx-780-xlr8-oc-review/6

chaparral · 24 Nov 2013 at 11:42

Panos said:
Nobody said going to beat a Ti OC, but at that +150 overclock, is similar to the 780Ti stock from the chart. And most can get more than that from their cards.

Hell I get +347 if we calculate the pre-factory overclock also and just started.
That is 2.3 times more.

Look this 1 fps a factory overclocked 780 that cost £340 after selling the games, to a +£200 Ti.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/11/15/pny-geforce-gtx-780-xlr8-oc-review/6

What am saying is you cannot compare an OC card against a stock clocked card when both cards can OC to around the same speeds and you can also buy overclocked versions of both cards...