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GTX 780 Owners Club
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Soldato
New 780...I'm sure it's about three times the size of the reference one. Absolute beast.
Haven't had a chance to play with it yet; that'll have to wait until tomorrow morning. Had a quick check of the memory, though: Hyinx.
Must dust my case window.
Haven't had a chance to play with it yet; that'll have to wait until tomorrow morning. Had a quick check of the memory, though: Hyinx.
Must dust my case window.
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^^Welcome back to the 780 club 
Soldato
Back with a 780 after a short spell with AMD. Feels nice to be back....
Do you prefer that offer the reference 780 you had?
This one is running 1250 on the core and stays under 65.c and is very quite. I don't think it looks as nice as reference but its a much more effective cooler.
Man of Honour
Aftermarker cooler in cooler than reference shocker
I'm quite surprised at how much better it is tbh.
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Good offer on this one.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-209-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914
Good offer on this one.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-209-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914
I had a 290 and would never have another.
Man of Honour
Yep nice price on that MSI GE 780. Not had any problems with mine so far.
Proud owner = EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC
This is my first top-tier card,
Previous cards have been,
Sapphire 8800 GTS 320MB
Palit GTX 260 SP216 1792MB
EVGA GTX 470 SuperClocked 1280MB x1
Then purchased another, so GTX 470 SLI
And now,
EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC 3GB.
So yeah, coming from an SLI setup the performance hasn't really blown me away as much as I expected, however...
I can see the appeal, the card is sitting idle now at 15*C, yeah, that's fifteen degrees centigrade. Never been above 51*C, and running GPU at stock.
Monitor is Asus VG278HE 144Hz, 3D performance is OK, kinda hovers around 55-60FPS.
Not gonna overclock her, yet... No need, even when FPS 'drops', like to 90FPS, it doesn't seem to chug like 470 SLI setup seemed to, everything really is smoother...!
Already thinking of SLI, gonna wait for massive price drops though, like £300-350 before I buy another.
But, must be honest. I'm impressed with the quality, EVGA all the way, and the card really is beautiful.
One happy customer...
This is my first top-tier card,
Previous cards have been,
Sapphire 8800 GTS 320MB
Palit GTX 260 SP216 1792MB
EVGA GTX 470 SuperClocked 1280MB x1
Then purchased another, so GTX 470 SLI
And now,
EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC 3GB.
So yeah, coming from an SLI setup the performance hasn't really blown me away as much as I expected, however...
I can see the appeal, the card is sitting idle now at 15*C, yeah, that's fifteen degrees centigrade. Never been above 51*C, and running GPU at stock.
Monitor is Asus VG278HE 144Hz, 3D performance is OK, kinda hovers around 55-60FPS.
Not gonna overclock her, yet... No need, even when FPS 'drops', like to 90FPS, it doesn't seem to chug like 470 SLI setup seemed to, everything really is smoother...!
Already thinking of SLI, gonna wait for massive price drops though, like £300-350 before I buy another.
But, must be honest. I'm impressed with the quality, EVGA all the way, and the card really is beautiful.
One happy customer...
I'm quite surprised at how much better it is tbh.
Is that housed in a fractal r4? If so does it affect your temps much with the cooler dumping all the hot air inside?
Man of Honour
either you're a scrooge with the heating or your PC is in the shed. That's lower than room temp
Hehe, house is toasty!
PC in loft, ran DVI, USB network into plumbing pipe fixed into wall through main bedroom, then through living room.
Got access to it in main bedroom, so can game there as well.
Temp in loft is 8-10*C at moment, honestly, I'd recommend it to anyone, just plaster up the damage afterwards!!!
Summer's not too bad, not as bad as you'd think...
PC in loft, ran DVI, USB network into plumbing pipe fixed into wall through main bedroom, then through living room.
Got access to it in main bedroom, so can game there as well.
Temp in loft is 8-10*C at moment, honestly, I'd recommend it to anyone, just plaster up the damage afterwards!!!
Summer's not too bad, not as bad as you'd think...
Associate
After waiting for ages for the 780's I wanted to be available, and the EVGA step up program (took two 760's while waiting), and Parcel Force loosing the first one I sent back for weeks (yup lesson learned, never trust our mail service) I decided enough was enough, trawled through a ton of reviews to find the highest performing 780 I could (non TI) and went and bought two GTX 780 AMPS (was a toss up between OCUK's KFA2 HOF offer and these, but saw the AMPS getting better benchmark results + decided the HOF's would be too wide in my case).
They are pretty good, sat in the current set up:
MSI G45
4770k @ 4ghz
NT 1000W Modular PSU
16gb Ripjaw 2133mhz
Sandisk Ultra SSD
Haven't had chance to do much in the way of benchmarks, have done some but just compared online in furmark and heaven, they are putting out some decent scores.
The 780's are running 5910x1080 quite nicely, maxed out Arma III with all effects and post processing / eye candy on the heaviest, same with Crysis 3 although VRAM is maxing out on max post processing, I still think 4gb would be ideal for them (not sure why they decided to bin the 4gb on the 760 and 770's, perhaps it was a move to offset the titan so it wasn't so competitive in terms of VRAM). Bioshock is also consuming all VRAM with everything maxed out on 5910x1080 but still a high frame rate for the most part, occasional stutter though, need to tune the pool size I think.
I think VRAM is the only let down, other than that, they are pretty quick cards, certainly more than enough for 1920 or 2560 res I would think.
Can't speak for the reference blowers, but it seems the Zotac cooler is pretty decent.
Wasn't sure about the build quality of Zotac tbh, but took the gamble because of the figures, the box and accessories were 'no frills' a little poor TBH but the cards are what count.
I'll report back when I've had chance to put them through their paces a bit more.
Cheers,
They are pretty good, sat in the current set up:
MSI G45
4770k @ 4ghz
NT 1000W Modular PSU
16gb Ripjaw 2133mhz
Sandisk Ultra SSD
Haven't had chance to do much in the way of benchmarks, have done some but just compared online in furmark and heaven, they are putting out some decent scores.
The 780's are running 5910x1080 quite nicely, maxed out Arma III with all effects and post processing / eye candy on the heaviest, same with Crysis 3 although VRAM is maxing out on max post processing, I still think 4gb would be ideal for them (not sure why they decided to bin the 4gb on the 760 and 770's, perhaps it was a move to offset the titan so it wasn't so competitive in terms of VRAM). Bioshock is also consuming all VRAM with everything maxed out on 5910x1080 but still a high frame rate for the most part, occasional stutter though, need to tune the pool size I think.
I think VRAM is the only let down, other than that, they are pretty quick cards, certainly more than enough for 1920 or 2560 res I would think.
Can't speak for the reference blowers, but it seems the Zotac cooler is pretty decent.
Wasn't sure about the build quality of Zotac tbh, but took the gamble because of the figures, the box and accessories were 'no frills' a little poor TBH but the cards are what count.
I'll report back when I've had chance to put them through their paces a bit more.
Cheers,