GTX 780 Owners Club

ancientmariner · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:43

Literally floating over the buy button for 2 x windforce 780's. £389 seems a good price...just hesitating in case prices fall again but cant see it..at least not for a while. Anybody here using the windforce? Opinions?

MoodyB · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:47

I'd wait and see what appears in tommorows This Week Only deals.

shadow_boxer · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:49

ancientmariner said:
Literally floating over the buy button for 2 x windforce 780's. £389 seems a good price...just hesitating in case prices fall again but cant see it..at least not for a while. Anybody here using the windforce? Opinions?

Got a Windforce here. Very quiet cooler and does a great job. Idles at less than 30C and after a few loops od Unigine Heaven gets to around 65C. In games very rarely gets into the 60's. Got mine to 1267MHz in the core but the memory didnt get very far at all. (Got the A1 revision). Had the 680 Windforce and also the 460 2X one and all I can say is that for all cooling they're very good.

ancientmariner · 5 Nov 2013 at 18:53

Sounds ideal, will be putting them both under air to replace my 580 sli setup. Not too bothered about overclocking them but want the 2 cards to be as cool as possible. Using a 600t with 4 side fans so should help. Thanks for the reply. .this will be my first outing with gigabyte gpu's so hopefully no issues.

chaparral · 5 Nov 2013 at 18:57

Shocky-FM said:
R9 290 launched and only a little slower than the R9 290X, lets see nvidia react to that.

More price cuts I think.

I noticed that the new Gigabyte 780 GHz Edition has dropped £10 in price today..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-127-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

And the EVGA GTX 780 Classified has dropped in price today by somewhere between £15 to £20
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-227-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

Drollic · 5 Nov 2013 at 22:01

Got my wf3 780 through today. Not tested fully yet but so far on stock volts +70 core (1024 which is boosting to 1176) and 1605 mem (6420). Stable in benches but need to test in game. Got the three free titles to. Asic quality seems pretty good at 82.1%?

Noxia · 5 Nov 2013 at 22:09

My card has an asic of 62% and yet clocks fine to 1300 and memory at 1854

AWPC · 5 Nov 2013 at 22:17

MSI GT780 Gaming Edition arrived today

Stonking 100% silent card at all loads. Batman Arkham City is finally playable maxxed out DX11+PhysX no stuttering whatsoever its like a different game.

Big thanks to everyone @ OCUK & NVidia who made this promotion happen its an absolute steal selling GTX780's for just under £400 with 3 top games

ancientmariner · 5 Nov 2013 at 22:42

How do you find the temps with the MSI?

skylineboy · 5 Nov 2013 at 22:54

ancientmariner said:
Literally floating over the buy button for 2 x windforce 780's. £389 seems a good price...just hesitating in case prices fall again but cant see it..at least not for a while. Anybody here using the windforce? Opinions?

Outstanding! Very quiet, I haven't clocked mine yet but plays everything I have thrown at it beautifully and no stutter with room to spare. (@1920x1080)

AWPC · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:03

ancientmariner said:
How do you find the temps with the MSI?

Just download GPUZ !!

shadow_boxer · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:09

Noxia said:
My card has an asic of 62% and yet clocks fine to 1300 and memory at 1854

Very nice. Mine was 72% and tops out at 1267 but memory is totally pants. Can't even get 1600!

Drollic · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:11

Noxia said:
My card has an asic of 62% and yet clocks fine to 1300 and memory at 1854

At what kind of boost did you need to start applying voltage?

ancientmariner · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:38

AWPC said:
Just download GPUZ !!

I was inquiring about the temps you have experienced so far..idle ..load etc. You have misunderstood my question.

systemerror · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:49

getting a horrid fan noise on my classi that's a week old when on low power I'm now deflated

ancientmariner · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:51

One of the reasons i am changing from a 580 sli setup to a 780 sli is the fan problems with the msi cards..the rattle is driving me slowly mad. Rma it.

systemerror · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:55

Will try call ocuk tomorrow see what they say.

Drollic · 5 Nov 2013 at 23:56

shadow_boxer said:
Very nice. Mine was 72% and tops out at 1267 but memory is totally pants. Can't even get 1600!

It will be Elpida, not particularly good. EVGA (including the classified) and MSI (including the Lightning) are using the stuff at the moment regularly I believe, which is due to shortages of Samsung memory meaning an inflated price they aren't currently willing to pay. It's not exactly fair to ship cards off for review that are handpicked, let alone ones that for review use better brands of components.

Noxia · 6 Nov 2013 at 15:26

Flashed latest drivers and when installing my screen went black, then I got some bsod about service something or other. Reset, installed again and this time the Geforce experience part didn't install. CP does say I'm running the latest drivers but I think I'd like to do a clean install and wipe all drivers.
Is there a specialised and pref free software to do this or just uninstall from Windows and then delete any files I find using search?

JamesM · 6 Nov 2013 at 15:31

Just uninstall from control panel and then when installing do a fresh install and that should work