GTX 780 Owners Club

[ui]ICEMAN · 30 May 2013 at 13:26

Duff-Man said:
Good to know...

I figure that anything I can play now (with a single GTX480) at 2560x1600, I should be able to play at the same settings in 7680x1600 - so long as memory capacity doesn't become an issue. 3Gb should be plenty though... Even my 1.5Gb GTX480s could play a wide range of games without running out of memory (though adding in AA would often tip them over the edge).

You'll be thrilled. These and the Titans are the first cards I've truly been able to max out a 30" display with. I like you have had a 30" since they came out and have struggled for years with sufficient horsepower to keep the details maxed with 1600p, regardless of cost. Surround gaming has done us a huge favor as 1600p screens are still so rare in the user base.

Trust me, you won't want to even entertain the idea of running just 1 card once you've tried these

Duff-Man · 30 May 2013 at 13:47

[ui]ICEMAN;24365585 said:
You'll be thrilled. These and the Titans are the first cards I've truly been able to max out a 30" display with. I like you have had a 30" since they came out and have struggled for years with sufficient horsepower to keep the details maxed with 1600p, regardless of cost. Surround gaming has done us a huge favor as 1600p screens are still so rare in the user base.

Trust me, you won't want to even entertain the idea of running just 1 card once you've tried these

Sounds good

It's certainly true - at 1600p (which I've had for about six years now), I've never been able to run everything full-on. It's always been a compromise, even when I had the 'latest and greatest' hardware. That was one of the main motivations behind my decision to go for two cards instead of one

Now I just need to upgrade the rest of my system... I'm still running an i7-920 at about 3.8Ghz. Still mulling over the pros and cons of Sandybridge vs Ivybridge. I might as well wait another week or so for some proper overclocked Haswell gaming benchmarks, but it doesn't seem like there will be a huge jump in performance. Either way, I want a new platform to unlock the power of my new GPUs

Slikz · 30 May 2013 at 13:51

Gregster said:
I would use driver sweeper pro and remove the AMD drivers - Remove your card - place in the shiny new 780 and install the latest Nvidia drivers.

Welcome to the forum

Thank you.

MoRT489 said:
Follow any of the instructions here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18481065&highlight=driver+sweeper+username_MoRT489

But just dont use the nvidia 320.xx drivers as people have stated in here, they could have problems.

Thanks that's helpful.

Kaapstad · 30 May 2013 at 14:49

Duff-Man said:
Sounds good

It's certainly true - at 1600p (which I've had for about six years now), I've never been able to run everything full-on. It's always been a compromise, even when I had the 'latest and greatest' hardware. That was one of the main motivations behind my decision to go for two cards instead of one

Now I just need to upgrade the rest of my system... I'm still running an i7-920 at about 3.8Ghz. Still mulling over the pros and cons of Sandybridge vs Ivybridge. I might as well wait another week or so for some proper overclocked Haswell gaming benchmarks, but it doesn't seem like there will be a huge jump in performance. Either way, I want a new platform to unlock the power of my new GPUs

You may find the i7-920 will be fine, from the numbers I have seen in the benches these older CPUs are very competitive with the newer SB and IB CPUs when running GTX 780s. From personal experience I have found my GTX 690 runs a lot better for benching on X58 than it does on X79.

I would give your existing i7-920 a go before spending a load of money on upgrading.

stephenb · 30 May 2013 at 14:58

Good to see some fellow SLI 780 owners join the fold

Could I request you all make a few runs in the various benchmark threads so I can get a better point of comparison on how much my CPU is bottlenecking these cards in SLI.

Slikz · 30 May 2013 at 15:37

I'm still running the i7 930 OCUK bundle.

Is it likely I will lose the oc when I install the 780? In other words will I have to update the mobo??

mrk · 30 May 2013 at 15:38

There's no reason to assume you'd lose your CPU OC by simply changing GFX card.

Gregster · 30 May 2013 at 15:42

Slikz said:
I'm still running the i7 930 OCUK bundle.

Is it likely I will lose the oc when I install the 780? In other words will I have to update the mobo??

To be safe, I would right down all your settings. This way if you do have to re-enter the OC settings, you can do it from that

Saves head scratching.

mrk · 30 May 2013 at 15:43

Write down? 1990 called and wants its utensils back!

Save BIOS settings to USB, restore if needed. A very big if.

Slikz · 30 May 2013 at 15:46

mrk said:
There's no reason to assume you'd lose your CPU OC by simply changing GFX card.

No, it's just I've read a few posts with people saying their gpu's arent being recognised by the mobo, therefore needing an update. I dont want to lose my oc as its worked really well for me and not sure I could get it back myself.

Gregster · 30 May 2013 at 15:47

mrk said:
Write down? 1990 called and wants its utensils back!

Save BIOS settings to USB, restore if needed. A very big if.

I have all my settings written down. I am old school pen and paper and none of this new fangled USB carry on. I only worked out the other day that I could screenshot my BIOS

Saved a ton of time typing it out.

Slikz · 30 May 2013 at 15:50

mrk said:
Write down? 1990 called and wants its utensils back!

Save BIOS settings to USB, restore if needed. A very big if.

lol, do I need to format a usb for that? I'm using a rampage 3 extreme in case that makes any difference.

Alz_D · 30 May 2013 at 15:51

stephenb said:
Good to see some fellow SLI 780 owners join the fold Could I request you all make a few runs in the various benchmark threads so I can get a better point of comparison on how much my CPU is bottlenecking these cards in SLI.

Can I ask - have you had any issues at all, are you running the 320.18 driver, what version of precision are you using and have you overclocked the cards?

mrk said:
Write down? 1990 called and wants its utensils back!

Kaapstad · 30 May 2013 at 15:51

Slikz said:
lol, do I need to format a usb for that? I'm using a rampage 3 extreme in case that makes any difference.

Nice mobo, I have run a GTX 690 in a couple of those and it absolutely flies.

mrk · 30 May 2013 at 15:52

Ah yes, in that case just save to a USB stick, a USB stick not being formatted is unheard of really

Any compatible stick is fine, which is really any USB stick out there. I have a dedicated 1GB stick for BIOS settings and backups.

320.18 has had no problems for me, PrecisionX is on v4.2 and at too high an OC I might find it has crashed, drop the mem OC and no problems.

delpy8 · 30 May 2013 at 15:57

Come to think of it my bios reset to default last night when I removed 4gb 670 4gb and installed 780 and that was with latest bios just amended to raid and was all ok

Slikz · 30 May 2013 at 16:00

Kaapstad said:
Nice mobo, I have run a GTX 690 in a couple of those and it absolutely flies.

Indeed, I got it back in 2010 as part of a bundle from OCUK, it runs superbly and has given me no probs whatsoever :cool:

Slikz · 30 May 2013 at 16:04

mrk said:
Ah yes, in that case just save to a USB stick, a USB stick not being formatted is unheard of really

Any compatible stick is fine, which is really any USB stick out there. I have a dedicated 1GB stick for BIOS settings and backups.

320.18 has had no problems for me, PrecisionX is on v4.2 and at too high an OC I might find it has crashed, drop the mem OC and no problems.

Great, I'll do that then. Cheers

nalla · 30 May 2013 at 16:18

well i have been running the 320.18 driver since day 1,

i have had only one problem, and that is with borderlands 2, this game does not like any sort of overclock, i can play for 5 to 15 mins the screen goes blank for a few seconds then returns to the game at about 15-20 fps, so i have to quit out to get it to play with decent fps, usually runs @ 105 - 120 fps.

all other games i have played seem fine oc'd @1150 mhz.

esoteric · 30 May 2013 at 16:34

Seeing the 770 clocks, I overclocked my 780 even further. Still at +150 GPU but now +250 MEM, 7008Mhz effective.

New overclock ran ok in Heaven 4.0 at 80c/60% fan speed, which is my own fancurve. I have not overvolted or changed the temp target and my card didn't throttle itself. I did 3 benchmark runs and had Heaven 4.0 loaded about 20 minutes idle.

Old score - 1385
New score- 1445

Gunna upload the screenshot and head over to the Heaven bench thread

As for the 320.18 drivers, I've been running them since last Friday and had 2 driver crashes when I've been idle, not gaming. Game performance everything has been fine from BL2, Metro: LL and Showdown Effect. The only game having problems is Planetside 2, quite frequently my frames drop to sub 20, can be in a huge fire fight or in a building by myself, only way I can fix it is to alt-tab. Weird.