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GTX 780 Ti Specifications Leaked – Full Blown Gk110 Core with 2880 SP

BigBANGtheory said:
I've nothing against Nvidia, but I must confess I am struggling with the concept of a 780 Ti (3GB version) @ £550+

The 780 Ti will have to overclock very well for that price point to make any sense vs. the AMD offerings even when making allowances for an Nvidia price premium.
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Remember the 560Ti cards....the success was built on super speed and undercutting the competition, those in the know (or knew how to look up benchmarks) could by a super fast card for less than the performance equivelent (either AMD or Nvidia themselves)

Pricing is key here......more than £300 and it will be a FAIL :confused: !
 
Gregster said:
Is a water block essential then? I have not read up on it in honesty.
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Not essential no, but I haven't had a GPU on air since 2005, so I always have to factor a waterblock in the cost along with what the card will do under water, and the 290 on water looks like it could be something special for the price.
 
BubbySoup said:
Not essential no, but I haven't had a GPU on air since 2005, so I always have to factor a waterblock in the cost along with what the card will do under water, and the 290 on water looks like it could be something special for the price.
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Fair play and I have been water cooled now for about a year. If I wasn't big into overclocking, I don't think I would go for it again (Buying all the rads/pumps/fittings), as the outlay is expensive but once you have it all, just the block is a good move. If I was just regular over clocking, I would stick with air.
 
Yeah initial outlay is a bit of a downer, but after that it's not as bad as people think.

Having watercooled for so long, not sure I could go back to air. My biggest problem is I haven't heard an aftermarket GPU cooler since 2005, so I have no idea how loud/bad the ones that come on modern GPU's are, as I always have to buy reference cards with their ghetto coolers.
 
I think 2 years I have water cooled...Man time flys :D

My gripe is the pump hum. I have mine all wrapped up now with paper towells to dampen the noise. I have it on speed 2 (D5) but I can still hear it over my other computer, which has a noctua Cooler with a 6970 Ice Q and a couple of case fans.

It evens out when I turn my rad fans down mind but still not the quiet I was hoping for but a small gripe and nothing more.
 
That's what I don't get, people say watercooling is silent yet they have these massive rads with 3 or 4 fans on them? Surely that's louder than a 2 or 3 fan windforce, obviously the cooling is way better on water but it can't exactly be labelled silent can it?
 
starmanwarz said:
This card comes out in 2 days and no reviews are available yet? Isn't it kinda weird?

Also, are the 780's likely to drop even more in price?
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Reviews usually come on the launch day, not before it.

Don't think Nvidia will slash the price of GTX780 further, but you'd still keep an eye on OcUK and hope for nice deals to come up.
 
Suarez7 said:
That's what I don't get, people say watercooling is silent yet they have these massive rads with 3 or 4 fans on them? Surely that's louder than a 2 or 3 fan windforce, obviously the cooling is way better on water but it can't exactly be labelled silent can it?
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Silent compared to reference cooling lol. I thought usually people go for the big rads so they can have the fans running on lower RPM to keep things running less noisy. But you're right in what you saying as water-cooling involves more mechanical parts which can only add more noise to your rig!
 
Suarez7 said:
That's what I don't get, people say watercooling is silent yet they have these massive rads with 3 or 4 fans on them? Surely that's louder than a 2 or 3 fan windforce, obviously the cooling is way better on water but it can't exactly be labelled silent can it?
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There is no silent with water cooling and picture a fish tank with the pump going and that is what you get. It isn't that loud but I was expecting pure silence.

I have 5 rad fans but they can all be turned down and inaudible in truth and I have them on high when benching but this time of the year, 800 rpm is fast enough and silent (ish). 3 case fans also add to the noise but they would be there with water or air cooling, so they don't count.
 
Suarez7 said:
That's what I don't get, people say watercooling is silent yet they have these massive rads with 3 or 4 fans on them? Surely that's louder than a 2 or 3 fan windforce, obviously the cooling is way better on water but it can't exactly be labelled silent can it?
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Gentle Typhoons and a fan controller make it silent.
 
Suarez7 said:
What about whilst benching or extended periods of intense gaming?
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I run 2 rads (360 and 240) with all fans on lowest RPMs possible, after hours of gaming my 670 SLI cards will max at 50c and my i7 3770k @ 4.4Ghz will max at 55-60c.

It could run like that for days without issue and it is silent, I refuse to have HDDs in my system now because I can hear them more than the rest of it.
 
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