Why not stick with the 670's then? you stated you were happy with them and then you go and buy a 780 which you knew would not be as fast. So from being content with 670 SLI to needing do blow another £550 on a 780..
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Official GTX780 review thread
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Why not stick with the 670's then? you stated you were happy with them and then you go and buy a 780 which you knew would not be as fast. So from being content with 670 SLI to needing do blow another £550 on a 780..
I'm hoping that one 7970 and one 7950 will help with that. Optimistic? I'd say so but there's always a chance.
Ok I found the screenshots but cannot convert the .TGA, I CBA to run it again for now so I went full ghetto and screenshotted the one Unigine saved by it's own feature in MSPaint
http://i.imgur.com/Ou1ZpKB.jpg
Imagine is waaayyy to big for the forum and it will get modded, so just the link.
http://i.imgur.com/Ou1ZpKB.jpg
Imagine is waaayyy to big for the forum and it will get modded, so just the link.
Why not stick with the 670's then? you stated you were happy with them and then you go and buy a 780 which you knew would not be as fast. So from being content with 670 SLI to needing do blow another £550 on a 780..
The urge was too much. I would rather a single card and was hoping the performance loss from 670 Sli would have been less.
Personally, I prefer opinion from real users experience over average benchmarks comparison especially when the user has had a card or two
Although I do recall you saying similar things about Titan (as you were first out of the blocks with one of them.....until the gas man called)
So that beats a stock Titan and a stock GTX 780 is only a few frames slower than Titan.....
Who on earth is going to buy a Titan nowTitan is still £250-300 more. Madness pricing by Nvidia. Titan will have to drop to around £650 for it to be even considered now surely.
The extra monies is for the extra 3gb of ram. You know how expensive ram is these days
Not sure my card is too well. Running it at stock the core is boosting to 1005 but then it drops down to 830 ish when the temp hits 75.c. It seems to heat up to the point of it dropping clocks no matter what is set in precision.
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Setup a fan profile? 1000 odd sounds a bit low for it to be throttling
It seems to heat up to 75-79.c pretty quick no matter what I set. It then drops the core gradually down to around 830 ish.
It's sat now completely stock settings running heaven and the core is hovering around 830 & 870.
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Whats up with the high power consumption in the hexus review?
Just ran valley all at max settings, All card settings at default, I'm getting 73-74Degs with 980mhz boost clock.
I've just installed EVGA precision 4.2 and it's causing havic for me, Kboost on and overvolts on by default......also reads half GPU frequency. Gone back to 4.1.
Do you have stock volts too Moogleys?
Yes all stock. I have fixed the core speed issue by installing the previous drivers. It's now back to boosting to 1005mhz and is stable although it hits 79.c pretty quick and the fan ramps up but the clocks remain constant.
I'm still not happy with the performance compared to my Sli 670 though. I was expecting it to be a bit better than it is.
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You said playing metro you got 45fps with 670 sli vs 35fps with 780. That seems about right, would mean a single 670 is 23fps therefore the 780 is over 50 percent faster.
That was the benchmark. Playing with the 670 Sli it remains at 60fps pretty much all of the time with a few drops into the 40's. The 780 is a mix of anything from 40-60 but nothing consistent so it stutters quite a bit.
I was hoping to replace the 670 SLi with a single 780. I was expecting a drop but it seems you need a pair of 780's to run 1440p at least as well as 670 Sli which at £1100 is not worth it for me when at half the price the 670 sli does the job. I will have a good play around with the card this weekend but it's most likely I will keep my 670 cards now.
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I'd say 670 sli or 7950 crossfire is the sweet spot for 1440p. They will easily outperform the titan/780. That's not to say the 780 is a bad card for 1440p but it will struggle in some games if you want to keep high settings like you have showed.
It depends what your after though, some people prefer the single card for less power consumption or to avoid so called 'multi gpu issues'.
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Tbh I had a nightmare with crossfire but no issues at all with Sli. I would prefer one card though and was willing to loose a little performance in the process but it just drops past the sweet spot for 1440p for me. It really does not seem much different to my clocked 680 when you play the games.
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a lot of computer enthusiasts don't give a crap about how the game 'plays' just the FPS count. I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't tell the difference because the performance difference isn't that massive especially if the 680 is overclocked. The only way anyone could tell one from another would be on paper.
Im still playing older games on my 580 and i find it more enjoyable and get a better experience than being shafted out of nearly £650 on something that should be £400.
I would feel as if Nvidia bent me over a barrel, and well you know...
Thier loss not mine.Cannot wait to see them get crushed by 8970 @ £400.And i am a lifelong Nvidia fan as well!
I would feel as if Nvidia bent me over a barrel, and well you know...
Thier loss not mine.Cannot wait to see them get crushed by 8970 @ £400.And i am a lifelong Nvidia fan as well!
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I hear you.
I had a GTX580 from day 1. Didnt think the GTX680 was worth the upgrade so waited for GTX780. I had the money ready expecting the results it gives at £425-450 & would pull the trigger. But instead the seemed to have rebdged the gtx680 to gtx770 at same price (so pointless upgrade again) & made a faster card but with a £150 premium.
I still easily can afford the GTX780, its just im sat there thinking "I just cannot justify it". With the 7950 + games (including 2 i really want) at £250 & 7970 in similar position at £300 the cost increase just isnt there. Hell i want it & its been sicking in the basket for 2 days but despite all the reviews i reach the same conclusion on price.
Its like u put a price on things like your phone, those pants, that sweater, that chocolate bar, whatever it is, you are willing to pay a certain amount but if the prices is too high you just think "no" even when u really want it.
Annoyingly I have been waiting to upgrade since the 680 & 7970 came out, but don't feel either are an improvement really worthy of going to. The GTX780 offers this but its the wrong side of £500. And even more frustratingly I can't see the price coming down until AMD releases something that will likely be 6 months away (and would prefer if possible to stay with nvidia due to my own personal feelings on drivers)