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my came yesterday - gainward. i run it with 3570k and gigabyte gaz77-d3h. but the card didnt work out of the box. I had to update bios on mobo to be able to use the card.
and now my cpu and ram overclock doesnt work on new bios so I need to have a closer look at it, but the card is worth all the trouble though. its amazing.
 
uzairzaidi said:
I'm way too poor to be posting in this thread. I think I'll hang on to my beloved 7870XT :D
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Nothing wrong with the 7870XT, awesome bang for buck card that one.

wojsku said:
the card is worth all the trouble though. its amazing.
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Agreed surpassed my expectation. It really is within a whisker of the Titan. Doesn't represent great value at RRP but if you can get one that's falls in line with previous X80 pricing than it is one hell of a card.. When AMD drops HD 9XXX I imagine Nvidia will issue a 7XX price cut and then the 780 will be great value...

Witcher 3 is going to use Phsyx? May have to stick with this 780 all the way upto the 880. Witcher 3 needs all the setting turned on :p.
 
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is it worth putting on it fresh thermal paste? i have some of meesy cool laboratory paste left. i dont remember what its called but i have it on my cpu and its really good.
 
illuz said:
Get EVGA Precision X / MSI Afterburner.

Increase the core speed, say +100 and run a benchmark with it... If it crashes out, decrease by 10mhz and try again, if it doesn't crash, up by 10Mhz. Just push the card to it's limits until it crashes, then drop back down a touch. It's as simple as that! (Same with the memory also)

Keep an eye on temperatures etc, but don't worry about frying your card - it won't happen.
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I've never done this before, I'm scared haha :/
I have downloaded MSI Afterburner, but don't know what setting to change?! Just the "Core Clock"?
 
NeoReloaded said:
I've never done this before, I'm scared haha :/
I have downloaded MSI Afterburner, but don't know what setting to change?! Just the "Core Clock"?
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Download EVGA Precision X and set power target and temp target to maximum and you will already see increase in performance. then slowly adjust gpu offset lets say every 25mhz and run some stress test on it to see if it is stable. furmark or unigine valey will be really good. just make sure you max it out so gpu load is close to 100%. when it fails the driver will stop working and you will get windows popup message that it failed and then your clock will drop to save frequency. at that point you have to close precision x and reopen it. after that slightly drop clock on gpu and test. if fails drop again. if working fine try to get as close to the point where it fails as you can. then go to voltage and increase it and you will see even better clock. if fails you will have to decrease clock again. after you have gpu clock done do the same with memory clock.

Im doing my now and I have gpu offset on +180 and voltage on +38mV and clock with boost is 1175Mhz but i cant really push it any further unfortunately. so will start doing memory clock after some more testing. i may also put fresh thermal paste on gpu just to get to 1200MHz :D
 
Stay away from Furmark, it is not a representation of any of the real everyday stresses ur card will go through, stick to Heaven and Valley.
 
MoRT489 said:
Stay away from Furmark, it is not a representation of any of the real everyday stresses ur card will go through, stick to Heaven and Valley.
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+1

Furmark has been known to be a card killer - quite literally in some cases. Furmark is not necessary.
 
wojsku said:
Download EVGA Precision X and set power target and temp target to maximum and you will already see increase in performance. then slowly adjust gpu offset lets say every 25mhz and run some stress test on it to see if it is stable. furmark or unigine valey will be really good. just make sure you max it out so gpu load is close to 100%. when it fails the driver will stop working and you will get windows popup message that it failed and then your clock will drop to save frequency. at that point you have to close precision x and reopen it. after that slightly drop clock on gpu and test. if fails drop again. if working fine try to get as close to the point where it fails as you can. then go to voltage and increase it and you will see even better clock. if fails you will have to decrease clock again. after you have gpu clock done do the same with memory clock.

Im doing my now and I have gpu offset on +180 and voltage on +38mV and clock with boost is 1175Mhz but i cant really push it any further unfortunately. so will start doing memory clock after some more testing. i may also put fresh thermal paste on gpu just to get to 1200MHz :D
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Cheers, will have a play tonight. When new GPU drivers are installed does it put everything back to default so you have to do it again and do you have to keep EVGA Precission X open to allow the Overclock to take effect when playing games etc?

Thanks.
 
NeoReloaded said:
Cheers, will have a play tonight. When new GPU drivers are installed does it put everything back to default so you have to do it again and do you have to keep EVGA Precission X open to allow the Overclock to take effect when playing games etc?

Thanks.
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Updating GPU drivers doesn't affect the overclock but EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner must be running in order for them to be applied. Both can be set to start automatically with windows and to apply the overclock. Each time u update EVGA Pre or MSI AB when a new version comes out you just select the option to keep current settings. In case you do lose the settings at some point tho, take a screenshot and u can always refer back to that.
 
my overclock of 1175MHz with boost run for nearly 4 hours of valley on 1440p maxed out with no issues at all. so this morning i thought i test on some games. 3.5 hours of metro last light on 1440p absolutely fine but when tried grid 2 on 1440p it didnt last 30 minutes.
do you think its the overclock or issue with the game cause surely metro will stress gpu a lot more than grid 2? after that i tried witched 2 maxed out on 1440p for about 3 hours and again no issues. I really start thinking that it must be something else and not the card.
 
Evening all,

I know its probably been asked before but I am currently hoping to upgrade my ageing Radeon 5870 1GB to one of these new fangled 780`s.

Checking the warranty comparison thread and EVGA look like one of the leaders for RMA`s etc. Just wondering what the real world difference is between the standard EVGA GeForce GTX 780 and the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Superclocked is?

I wont overclock it straight off the bat as my monitor at the moment is only a 1680x1050 one but might want to change that later for something larger. I can play on the TV (Occasionally!) which is a 1080p one.

CPU is a i5-3570k (Ivy) and the PSU is a Coolermaster 850w modular one.

I just wondered if I could save a few quid whilst still having some longevity.

Thanks!
 
So... using EVGA Precision X I've managed to get up to;

+180 Gpu clock offset
+170 Mem clock offset
+38Mv Voltage

Does that seem about right or still a bit low because any higher on either setting and it crashes half way through valley bench mark! Also GPU goes up to 87 oC when benching, is that ok?

Thanks.
 
^^ My card does 1228mhz / 1604mhz rock solid 48c max during games. Very happy with this card. 780 is a beast. Crazy to think that next year even more powerful cards will be out :p.

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