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Go for GTX 780Ti's or not ?

Gripen90 said:
Narrow things down now and found the cheapest cards available in Denmark for what I'm looking for.. either:

1) Two Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB for £303 each (total £606)

2) Single Palit GeForce GTX 780 SUPER JETSTREAM 980MHz core/6.2GHz mem. 3GB for £392

3) Single Palit GeForce GTX 780Ti (reference) 3GB for £539
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The 290s will offer the best performance in games that scale (and more performance for your money than the 780Ti) but can you really accept the extra heat/noise they may produce from your 7970 crossfire setup?

I think the single 780 would be a downgrade from the 7970 crossfire but maybe you feel like getting another 780 in the future sometime?

The 780Ti may be also a good option for now and the future if you wish to sli sometime.
 
RanxZy said:
The 290s will offer the best performance in games that scale (and more performance for your money than the 780Ti) but can you really accept the extra heat/noise they may produce from your 7970 crossfire setup?

I think the single 780 would be a downgrade from the 7970 crossfire but maybe you feel like getting another 780 in the future sometime?

The 780Ti may be also a good option for now and the future if you wish to sli sometime.
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Yea the heat, noise and power consumption of those R9 290 do worry me albeit the performance would be great....


At the moment I'm considering whether I should go for one of the fastest GTX 780 available either :

Palit GTX 780 SUPER JETSTREAM 980MHz core/6.2GHz mem & 3 games Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell & Batman: Arkham Origins placed at £392 (I'm not really going to be playing those games to be honest)

or

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 780 AMP! Edition 1006MHz core/6.2GHz mem. for £433

I don't know if the Palit GeForce GTX 780Ti (reference) 3GB for £539, is significantly better than these "fastest GTX 780" cards and is worth the extra £100.
 
Gripen90 said:
At the moment I'm considering whether I should go for one of the fastest GTX 780 available either :
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Well its none of those for a start, these two are the fastest mine were boost, GPU 1-1189, GPU-2 1176 out of the box on the Inno sli. They were £500 a pop 3 weeks ago.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-033-IN&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

Then this one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-051-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341
 
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zuludawn said:
Well its none of those for a start, these two are the fastest mine were boost, GPU 1-1189, GPU-2 1176 out of the box on the Inno sli. They were £500 a pop 3 weeks ago.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-033-IN&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

Then this one

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-051-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341
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That's true ! but I can't find them in Denmark and I doubt overclockers.co.uk can guarantee delivery to Denmark before dec.20th ;)
 
Gripen90 said:
Just looking at this review of Zotac GTX 780Amp! Edition (£433) vs Zotac GTX 780Ti Amp! Edition (£629) http://us.hardware.info/reviews/504...amp!-edition-review-extreme-780-ti-benchmarks
Such a small performance margin but a whooping £188 Price difference !
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I've never seen them that close together in gaming benchmarks. But it's worth noting that yes as you get from 770 > 780 > 780Ti you increasingly get less performance per £. It's just that some people feel the need for that bleeding edge performance anyway.

What you may find is that the 780Ti really starts to pull away from the other single GPU's with a decent overclock. This yet to be released 780Ti Windforce Ghz Edition is quite impressive with the stock clocks boosting around 1200MHz:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...gigabyte-gtx-780-ti-ghz-edition-review-3.html
 
I bought Zotac GTX 780 AMP!:
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It's almost performs as it's bigger brother Zotac GTX 780Ti AMP! that's £100 more expensive. http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/504...amp!-edition-review-extreme-780-ti-benchmarks
Had the GTX 780Ti's been equipped with 4GB og 6GB memory I would have bought one, but
I'm skipping the 780Ti's and going for Maxwell when they come.
 
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RanxZy said:
^^ Looks like a 780 to me, maybe a typo in the orange letters :cool:
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Yea you are right. I kept getting time out errors when trying to post for some wierd reason (IE 11 and*overclockers.co.uk don't seem to get along) so by writing the same for the 5th time I forgot to correct it :-)
 
I cancelled the Zotac GTX 780 AMP! after research I saw early shipments came with a very restrictive BIOS that limits the cards boosting abilities (1059Mhz max instead of 1162Mhz as absolute max boost), and I don't want to risk getting an old BIOS card - I don't want to play with BIOS updates on GPU.

So I ordered the Palit GTX 780 Super Jetstream 980MHz core (1033MHz Boost) & 6.2GHz ram instead. Coming tomorrow.
It was cheaper and came with 3 games.
 
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