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nVidia 670 GTX upgrade to?

cyber69

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Just recently sold my Asus 670 GTX for £200 cash in hand whilst I could still get some return on it and now looking to buy a new card.

Should I replace with a single 780 GTX or hold out for a while longer to see if the prices come down on them? I'm looking to stay with NVidia.

I have a Dell 27" monitor so will be gaming at it's native res of 1440p.

Just trying to justify the £550 cost of a 780 to myself (I have the cash ready to spend but keep getting a reality check of the cost).

As a compromise I have looked at the Inno3d 770 GTX with titan cooler as my case is the Silverstone FT02 which benefits from a reference cooler which exhausts the heat directly out the case.
 
Did you not consider going SLI ? could have saved yourself some cash and also got a nice performance boost with another gtx 670 :)

670 to gtx 770 is not worth it imo 780 would be a nice upgrade but at a cost :p
 
If you have to justify the £550 price of the 780 then you already think its not worth it and shouldn't buy it. You should have grabbed the bargain Asus 670 at £190 for Sli. :)
 
Same predicament here. My 670 doesn't quite cut it on my 1440 display, resulting in less than fluid play. SLI is the cost effective route, but many titles i play dont support sli, and want more vram for my flight sims! 780 is expensive, but its will serve a long time hopefully!
 
X-Plane 10 had a good laugh at the VRAM on my GTX 570. Does it use near 2GB for you or are you referring to FSX. As you mentioned neither support SLI :-(

The 4GB GTX 670 is looking like a good replacement for my GPU.
 
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Neil King said:
How does an 3GB 7970 compare to the 4GB GTX 670 on 1440p displays?

Can a 7970 handle games at that native res more fluidly than a GTX 670?
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The 7970 is a better card than the 670 - it's more comparable to the 770. It tends to increase its lead over a 670 at 1440p (bandwidth more than capacity).
 
I sold my old 670 GTX about 3 weeks ago and was hoping the prices on the 780 GTX would come down but they still remain artificially held high.

So I just ordered one of the special offer 670 GTX's from OCuK and will go back to square 1. Not spending another £120 for a 770 GTX which will only give a 10% increase in performance.

So I have £10 cash in hand and a brand new GPU on the way!

Will hang on to my i950 cpu and 670 GTX for another year I think. NVidia pricing is just crazy and I can buy a 780 GTX many many times over. Crazy prices.
 
You could also search the 2nd hand market for used GTX 780 instead of buying a brand new one !. I bought a 1 month old MSI GTX 780 TwinForzr Gaming OC 3GB for £400, which should arrive tomorrow.
 
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cyber69 said:
I sold my old 670 GTX about 3 weeks ago and was hoping the prices on the 780 GTX would come down but they still remain artificially held high.

So I just ordered one of the special offer 670 GTX's from OCuK and will go back to square 1. Not spending another £120 for a 770 GTX which will only give a 10% increase in performance.

So I have £10 cash in hand and a brand new GPU on the way!

Will hang on to my i950 cpu and 670 GTX for another year I think. NVidia pricing is just crazy and I can buy a 780 GTX many many times over. Crazy prices.
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You've struck lucky with pricing there in terms of selling and replacing. Nice one. Have to say I thought your were daft initially. If gaming at 2560 x 1440 you need SLI 670s at least, so why didn't you just get another? A single titan or whatever just doesn't cut it. With the amazing 670 offers on here at the mo I'd pick up 2 of the Asus, or even better the 4gb versions. 2x 4gb 670s for less than the price of one 780. Madness. Should see you right for quite a while that
 
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You've struck lucky with pricing there in terms of selling and replacing. Nice one. Have to say I thought your were daft initially. If gaming at 2560 x 1440 you need SLI 670s at least, so why didn't you just get another? A single titan or whatever just doesn't cut it. With the amazing 670 offers on here at the mo I'd pick up 2 of the Asus, or even better the 4gb versions. Should see you right for quite a while that
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Would i be right in saying that the performance of 2 670's vs a 780 would depend totally on how well the games scales over SLI.
On that train of thought i am edging towards a 780 for the hassle free option instead of messing with profiles and the like. However the pure grunt of 2 670's for my 1440 display would be nice on the titles that fully support. Then again i just read that SLI isnt even supported in my newest games COH2!
Really torn between another 670 or a 780, decisions decisions!
 
Took the plunge, although at the shallowed end of the GPU pool. Grabbed the Asus GTX670 to SLI with my Windforce 670 instead of the 780. Figured i might as well try this SLI milarky and if i end up tearing my hair out with bugs and glitches i will just sell them both in a few months and avail of a 780 that will surely have come down in price with the launch of the new AMD cards.
Quite looking forward to seeing just how well it works.
 
tintin82 said:
Took the plunge, although at the shallowed end of the GPU pool. Grabbed the Asus GTX670 to SLI with my Windforce 670 instead of the 780. Figured i might as well try this SLI milarky and if i end up tearing my hair out with bugs and glitches i will just sell them both in a few months and avail of a 780 that will surely have come down in price with the launch of the new AMD cards.
Quite looking forward to seeing just how well it works.
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Nice one. I don't play a huge wide range of games these days so others may beg to differ, but I have very little trouble with SLI these days. On release some new games might have the odd glitch but a subsequent driver update normally sorts it out. Part of the masochistic 'fun' of pc gaming is tinkering for many, including me, so I like having SLI personally.
 
New card arrived, after a day playing with my first SLI setup, very impressed! Unreal performance, all eye candy maxed, at 1440p, BF3 looks amazing, and all the games that don't support SLI don't real need it. Very glad I did not fork out £350 more on a 780 for less performance!
 
If it is any help I have a Dell 27" monitor and gaming at 1440p.

I had a 670 and it wasn't cutting it. Just didn't feel smooth and I thought it was the monitor lagging. But I have recently added a second 670 and it has made a massive difference.

Although I still can not max out some games at 60 fps which was disappointing, I thought it was going to be overkill.
 
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