Upgrading to 7780ti

[ReliefWithBeef]

If I had to buy a 780 now it's be this one with out a doubt.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (C78V-1SDN-L5HSX) £369.95
Total : £379.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Easily the best overclocking and coolest running car I've ever owned... Outperforms my 780 Lightning in the benches (That's why I've bought another to SLI them )

After checking out some reviews I'm going for this one. Is it as super cool and super quiet as I've read? Just got to hope it fits in my case.

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

I had absolutely zero issues with it, the cooler is as good as the reviews would have you believe... I felt bad watercooling it!

 

[ttaskmaster]

Sold the Inno3D on the basis that the LTG is one hell of a card despite not being a huge OCer

What happened to all those threads claiming that a Lightning could OC to Ti and potentially stock Titan levels?
I'd heard it was the most overclockable card of the 780 generation?

 

[Resa69]

What happened to all those threads claiming that a Lightning could OC to Ti and potentially stock Titan levels?
I'd heard it was the most overclockable card of the 780 generation?

SILICON lottery is the answer to your question!

For example let's say you had two 4790k processors.

Chip A can overclock to 5ghz no problem on 1.25 volts on a £70 motherboard
Chip B can overclock to 4.5ghz on 1.4 volts on a £300 motherboard

Chip A is a good clocker, a decent chip so it doesn't need a "ultra extreme overclocking ln2 motherboard" to reach a much higher speed than Chip B because the B chip is a dud at overclocking and even with the best motherboard it gets beaten by a chip on a crap motherboard since the silicon on Chip A is better.

Now relating it back to graphics cards manufacturers like MSI and EVGA change up the "motherboard" of the GPU if that's what you want to call it. It's still the same Kepler core however the VRMs allow much more volts to be sustained, a higher power limit blah blah but if the silicon is a dud then it's no use! The extra volts available will only help push the core a few more Mhz.

Now you're thinking why should I invest my money into these high end cards? Manufacturers bin their chips for their high end cards so only the best clockers are given to the end users... Apparently MSI don't bin their chips that we'll.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Apparently MSI don't bin their chips that we'll.

Again, not what I'd heard, although I know they changed a couple of things and the latest versions are supposed to be all pretty solid and 'lottery-proof'... kinda why I bought one.

Then again, ask 100 different people and get 100 different experiences, I guess. Would probably have had the same with a Ti...

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

What happened to all those threads claiming that a Lightning could OC to Ti and potentially stock Titan levels?
I'd heard it was the most overclockable card of the 780 generation?

Even my poor clocker of a LTG can OC beyond Titan levels with ease. Not sure how much quicker the Ti is though. The Inno3D 780 could too