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670 vs 780... again!

Sure, as long as both have the same vram onboard you can mix vendors fine. I havent heard a reference 670 in use, but have heard the wf and asus DCII models, the asus just edges out the wf for quiet running, but saying that youll be hard pressed to hear the wf card in normal use as well.
 
I have a 850Watt Thermaltake PSU.

I've actually found a MSI GeForce GTX 670 Twin freezer at £152 and a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 WF at £195. Their not brand new but Customer returned - repaired under warranty by the manufacturer.... (90 days warranty tho...)

Im thinking the MSI, becuase at £300 there are some second hand 780 on sale (I think)...
 
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850w is more than enough. Power draw at the wall for me on the entire system (incl monitor) peaked at 586w running 3dm11, lower in normal games. Cpu @4.5ghz, cards oc'd to +80/600. Iirc the core boost figures were 1267/1228mhz respectively. Cant remember the eventual memory speed.
 
I'm in a similar position and have been umming & arrring about switching to a 780 even though I already have Gigabyte WF 670's in SLI.

Performance is good with them, but I'm on a i7 2600K @ 4.5Ghz still as I've been waiting to upgrade when the next Intel CPU's drop & for a good price on a 780 to appear :D
 
It's OK normally, but with the encoding and streaming I'm doing lately and comparing to other streamers within XSGamers, their streams have less of a system impact, but I intend to use this 2600K in a dedicated streaming box too.

I've never gone this long without updating.... and it's killing me :P
 
Would be interested in seeing some 780Ti vs SLI 670 results

benchmarks at standard clocks then overclocked and min/max/avg game results at 1080 / 1440 / 1600
 
Ok just before I pull the trigger on another 670. 2Gb of vram at 1200p should still be good for next gen games such as Watch Dogs, Dragons Age Inquisition and Witcher 3?

I know it's impossible to tell at this stage but an educated guess is good enough!! ;)
 
i went from an msi 2gb 670 to an evga 3gb 780

with, i5 3570, 16gb ram, 960gb m500 ssd

game single monitor @ 1080

didn't notice much difference
however the 780 cost me £110 so was worth it
any thing over £200 for the 780 and I wouldn't have bothered
 
If your not updating your monitor to 1440 or better i dont see the point tbh. Your 670 like mine with the i5 3570k like mine is more than enough for 1080p well ok urs is 1200 but its not that much more really. Im sure the 670 is still fine at that res.
 
I've done it now. Purchased tonight.

It's a cheapish upgrade. I was thinking about a 780, but that was too much really. Hopefully this upgrade will help out in future titles coming out this year and next.
 
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Good stuff. I got anotger 670 yesterday too.
Will post results of 1080 benches, 1440p benches and minmax avg from games. Should be interesting to see if 2gb vram holds the cards back like many people say it will. Ill see for myself in a couple of days
 
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Good stuff. I got anotger 670 yesterday too.
Will post results of 1080 benches, 1440p benches and minmax avg from games. Should be interesting to see if 2gb vram holds the cards back like many people say it will. Ill see for myself in a couple of days
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2gb will be fine at 1440p

I fully expect one of my 2gb GTX 690s to beat a GTX 780ti or 290X in nearly everything at that resolution.
 
I was in the some boat a few months ago. Second 670 or something else. Toyed with a 7990 for a while but didn't fancy paying well over £100 for a new block. 670's were on deals at the time but kept selling out quickly plus i was weary of any dual card problems. In the end i went for my EVGA GTX780 FTW. It was a nice upgrade and is a cracking card but at 1920x1200 it can't play everything maxxed out. I have had to turn down a few things in AC4 Black Flag to run smoothly and i have exited the game a couple of times now only to get the windows colour scheme message which is usually to do with running out of vram even though it's a 3gb card!!
 
I went from my MSI 670 to a 780 last week. There is a difference by quite a margin. With a little overclock I am get close to TI performace which is a big setup.

In terms of Vram, 2gb not being an issue at 1440p.... Funny that because BF4 uses 2.2gb so pretty sure 2.2 is larger than 2 :p

It looks like a lot of people are in the same boat about GTX670 upgrades, it comes down to whether you are happy to sli and have increased heat/power and have slightly higher fps or have a single card with less heat/power usage but still achieve of 60fps in pretty much all games. I am happy with what cost me about £160 to upgrade till the proper maxwells come out next year.
 
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