What would you replace a 7990 with?

[Phunky]

I got rid of mine for a 780, for the games I play it is just as good and a hell of a lot quieter.

Was lucky with the mining as ended up selling mine and being able to buy a 780 and still be £100 up after fees.

 

[Choimaloy75]

So Matt are you looking at the 290x x-fire option, with the prices the 7990's are going for I'm really thinking about It I knew I should have bought another 7990 when they were cheap and now I'm kicking myself.

 

[LtMatt]

So Matt are you looking at the 290x x-fire option, with the prices the 7990's are going for I'm really thinking about It I knew I should have bought another 7990 when they were cheap and now I'm kicking myself.

I was looking at 290 pro crossfire but not sure ill bother now. I might try one last time to see if i can get a good price for it but unless i get £550-£575 im not really interested in selling it as nothing else comes close to the bang for buck aside from 290 reference crossfire.

 

[Gregster]

780 Ti Classy and never look back. If I had the cash, I would be all over one of these.

 

[Nelly]

Cheers pgi.

I seem to be drawn to the 780 classified and lightning. I'm familiar with 780s in terms of overclocking etc. as have 2 in another system.

Am I missing something with the OCUK MSI lightnings? There seem to be 2 on sale. One for £399 and one for £419 - both on offer. I know the classi is top quality but is it worth the £20 or so more than the lightining?

I'm pondering over the same cards, I think MSI did abit of a balls up with the lightning, put crap Ram on them... Elpida because their was a shortage of Samsung chips.

Also if you was going to go SLI they take up virtually 3 PCI slots, so if you use a soundcard you might be screwed, depending on the mobo layout.

Are the MSI GTX 780 Lightnings cherry picked GPU's? The Classifieds are supposed to be anyway.

 

[pgi947]

Cheers pgi.

I seem to be drawn to the 780 classified and lightning. I'm familiar with 780s in terms of overclocking etc. as have 2 in another system.

Am I missing something with the OCUK MSI lightnings? There seem to be 2 on sale. One for £399 and one for £419 - both on offer. I know the classi is top quality but is it worth the £20 or so more than the lightining?

Lightning LE is an un-binned chip, pulled out of a random pile of Gk110 chips as any other card would be.

Regular 780 Lightning is binned version, it would seem MSI didn't see the 780Ti happening, thus 780 LTG efforts were completely cut, LE's created to shift the last of the PCB's so all efforts could be put into the 780Ti & 290X lightnings.

As mentioned the Lightning may well come with Elpida memory which won't clock as well as Samsung/Hynix IC, on average hit around 6500mhz, which, to be fair, I've seen Samsung IC's struggle to hit.

The EVGA Classified is (or was, EVGA may have also cut efforts) binned and EVGA also guarantee Samsung IC memory.

I think this "OMG Elpida, what are they playing at" attitude being developed by so many is a little over sighted, only those benching should be annoyed at it, it makes next to no difference for gamers, 99% of your gains will come from core clock.

 

[LtMatt]

Wow.

 

[Defy Belief]

I still tempted to list mine but I know I'd be in this situation, buy a single GPU and then be annoyed it's not as good performance.

 

[LtMatt]

I still tempted to list mine but I know I'd be in this situation, buy a single GPU and then be annoyed it's not as good performance.

Unless you're going multi gpu you will face this situation unfortunately. Next gen this won't be a problem though.

 

[Kaapstad]

Unless you're going multi gpu you will face this situation unfortunately. Next gen this won't be a problem though.

I don't think the first mainstream next gen cards will be much faster than the 290X, it will be a few months before you see the real high end beasts that could be 40% or 50% faster.

 

[LtMatt]

I don't think the first mainstream next gen cards will be much faster than the 290X, it will be a few months before you see the real high end beasts that could be 40% or 50% faster.

I would hope the first 20mm cards would be, but we'll see.

 

[rolypolyman]

I still tempted to list mine but I know I'd be in this situation, buy a single GPU and then be annoyed it's not as good performance.

This.

 

[Kaapstad]

I would hope the first 20mm cards would be, but we'll see.

Remember what those rotten people at NVidia did with Kepler.

They gave us the GK104 and said it was their high end card.

Then they gave us a year later the GK110 and Titan and blew the GK104 away.

Maxwell anyone, even the name sounds dodgy.

 

[Diagro]

2 x 290 would be my choice. can be had for little over 600 for two and will pen everything. Why go nvofia? No mantel and more expensive

 

[alex_123_fra]

I may regret it but just placed an order for a 780 (non Ti) Classified.

The sensible part of my brain was saying "wait for the R9 290s with custom coolers and buy 1 or 2". The issue with 2 x 290s is I feel my 860W Seasonic PSU would probably struggle and I don't fancy changing that yet.

The upgrade-itch part of my brain won though and when looking at a windforce 290X vs a 780 Classified, I'm afraid there was virtually no scenario where I felt the 290X was better.

 

[arc@css]

2 x 7990's.

I would buy a GTX780.

 

[andrewohare]

I'm pondering over the same cards, I think MSI did abit of a balls up with the lightning, put crap Ram on them... Elpida because their was a shortage of Samsung chips.

Also if you was going to go SLI they take up virtually 3 PCI slots, so if you use a soundcard you might be screwed, depending on the mobo layout.

Are the MSI GTX 780 Lightnings cherry picked GPU's? The Classifieds are supposed to be anyway.

love the case!!

 

[arc@css]

Very, very nice colours / design indeed.

 

[andrewohare]

Self modded or bought like that?

 

[Orangey]

Looks like a Cosmos S Sport with custom carbon fiber-style paneling?