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WOW, just thought I would check how my complaint was doing after writing this, they've just confirmed they found it and it's with the courier in Germany en-route to EVGA:

Date
Time
Parcel status
GLS Location

12/30/13 8:19 PM Outbound from GLS location United Kingdom
12/30/13 8:19 PM Inbound to GLS location United Kingdom
12/13/13 10:39 PM Information transmitted, no shipment available now United Kingdom


Not bad for Euro Proirity 48 hour delivery that they collected 11am on 16th December!!!!

Anyway I digress, I might take a look at the reference card when it gets here just to see what it is like, certainly looks nicer than aftermarket ones in all the pictures and vids I have seen.
 
My R9 290 got picked up for RMA today and I am never going to have another. My MSI 780 Lightning LE is getting delivered tomorrow, it looks like a good card and is my first Nvidia card. Is there any good 780 overclocking guides?
 
matty114 said:
My R9 290 got picked up for RMA today and I am never going to have another. My MSI 780 Lightning LE is getting delivered tomorrow, it looks like a good card and is my first Nvidia card. Is there any good 780 overclocking guides?
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Not really much too it overclocking wise - one thing to remember is that the 780 core speed is in 13MHz bins and the memory clock in 6MHz steps - so doing i.e. 5MHz at a time increases to find where its stable is a waste of time.

I've found that a quick and dirty way to test it is to grab heaven benchmark - for most cards you will get:

[stable bin]
[black screen during heaven benchmark bin]
[artifacts/crashes out bin]

So finding where it black screens on the core in heaven and backing off to the next lower bin usually results in completely stability... usually.

See my post here also: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25527473&postcount=18 (keep in mind those figures I put there are just for illustration purposes).
 
My Gigabyte card is running a custom BIOS......

Voltage increased to 1.212v
Boost disabled
TDP increased to 500w

Card is locked at 1.3Ghz and FLIES..... 30%+ overclock out of it...
 
Clov!s said:
What do you guys reckon? 780 or 290x?
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Depends

If we talk about non reference cooler 290X at the same price of a GTX780, then the 290X.

If not, then the GTX780. I love mine.
Went over Christmas on a Crysis marathon (1, Warhead, 2, 3). Everything maxed out, including the enhanced mod for 1 & warhead.

Was stunning experience to say the least. Took 6 years for the hardware to catch up with that game. At 1080p :rolleyes:
 
For normal gaming without an OC mine stabalises about 56C, stress tests will push it a bit above that. Rarely see above 64C except under the most extreme loads with the intake fans on silent.
 
When I was hitting 70s benching with oc I was ok with it but not impressed on standard clocks whilst gaming at 2560*1080 well can't have it all good thing it's soon going under water in my new rig. Just was expecting lower.
 
70C is pretty good really (especially if you look at 290s :P) mines in a 540 Air case which helps a ton (atleast 5C cooler than it would be in a standard case) plus the GHZ backplate seems to help a bit.
 
Yeah it's not too bad, shame I can't get anymore out of it even with 1.2v. Ah well good enough I suppose for now until Maxwell ;).
 
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