Ordered my GTX 780!!.

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murkris118

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Hi all, I just wanted to share my enthusiasm with you guys on my GTX 780 purchase. I will get in another 4 days I think!. I just hope it pawns all current and future games at 1080p and I dont plan to upgrade to 1440p anytime soon. It better be future proof because I am not thinking about an upgrade for atleast another 3 years especially since I have upgraded in successive generations. I sold my 680 for a good price in my country :D.. Sig changing very soon :D...
 
Nope. Stock.. I just love the sexy aluminum cooler. I had the opportunity to buy non reference designs but stuck to the stock cooler plainly because of aesthetics :D...
 
I love my gtx 780 and i'm sure you will too. I jumped from a 1gb 6870 crossfire which was okay but couldn't push the settings like my new 3GB 780.

I feel like i'm part of the pc master race yet again with this card :D
 
I've never had so much fun with a video card than when I got my GTX 780. That thing is a beautiful beast (love the EVGA ACX design myself). Maybe it's just because it was my first time being able to afford a high-end x80 Series version, but man it makes me think if this is the future we're heading too it's going to be a helluva ride going into 4K. :D
 
Grats, hope you enjoy it. I fully understand buying for aesthetics, picked up a Galaxy GTX 770 GC (Black fan shroud) so it would look good in a TT Armor A30 case. Planning on going 2x EVGA 780 Ti's w/ACX cooler for a silver Corsair 600T case as soon as I am able.

Is your 780 going in the NZXT Phantom in your sig?
 
Same here--bought the reference model because I thought the aluminum shroud was classy--looked like the Titan which I couldn't afford and didn't really need. Never the first problem with it--it just works.
 
Is your 780 going in the NZXT Phantom in your sig?
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Yeah...

Will I see a good performance boost going from a 680 to a 780?

Buying new stuff is always awesome!
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It is is it not:D...

should have went with 6gb even if its for 1080p.
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Too expensive mate!!. sorry...

Actually thought of buying the R9 290 Tri-X from Sapphire tech but then I thought most of the games I would be playing this year and next year are Gameworks titles so I decided to stick with the green team :D... AC Unity, The Division, Witcher 3, etc...
 
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I am pretty scared about the 2500k on my rig bottlenecking the 780. Will it. I cant overclock the cpu by the way because of my damn motherboard and I cant afford another motherboard now. I thought my 680 bottlenecked the cpu in some games.
 
murkris118 said:
I am pretty scared about the 2500k on my rig bottlenecking the 780. Will it. I cant overclock the cpu by the way because of my damn motherboard and I cant afford another motherboard now. I thought my 680 bottlenecked the cpu in some games.
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Stock.. Yes I would expect some bottlenecking. At 4.2-4.5ghz the 2500k keeps up with the 780.
 
jmilcher said:
Stock.. Yes I would expect some bottlenecking. At 4.2-4.5ghz the 2500k keeps up with the 780.
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I agree. 4.3ghz was a sweetspot for me in regards to avoid bottlenecking my 780 and at the same time being able to run the CPU with a single fan on low rpm (Noctua NH-C14 cooler) to lower noise. I don`t feel the need to overclock the CPU further.
 
I got my 780. The retailer told me that the stock version was out of stock so I got the Zotac OC edition triple fan design. I must say the card is pretty silent even at 85% fan speed and the temp rarely touches 66 deg. My only gripe is the card is not a good overclocker or atleast my sample is not. I could barely push the oc upto 1.1 Ghz core and +250 Mhz on Memory. I dunno whether I want to play with voltages right now itself as the card is brand new. The performance is astonishing even at this speed. I am getting around 55-60 Fps avg in Crysis 3 Very High SMAA Medium. Getting around 45-60 fps in Watch dogs Maxed out, TXAAx2, Textures High. How do u think my card is performing guys. I can already see some bottlenecks due to my measly stock 2500k.
 
Odellus said:
i take it you haven't played watch dogs yet
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I have a 3GB 780 and I don't have any VRAM limit issues. Then again, I don't play newly released games that have the graphics quality of an XBox2...even though it's apparently all the Rage. Well shit, I suppose not everyone plays every PC game out there, afterall.

If it's about the gameplay over the graphics, then what would be the point of getting a 6GB 780 just to get a very mediocre change in already shitty graphics by cranking all the eye candy up...and still get the same gameplay?
 
Odellus said:
i take it you haven't played watch dogs yet
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That's the only one I know of and from what I read, we're not missing that much. I've got a 2GB GTX 670 and according to PrecisionX, I'm seldom close to using it all. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with getting extra VRAM but for a $100 premium, it ain't worth it if you're budget limited. If you can afford it great. If not, don't sweat it cause you're not gonna need it.
 
I just got a used Msi Gaming GTX 780 TI for $550 its awesome and dead quiet and great temps...
 
murkris118 said:
I got my 780. The retailer told me that the stock version was out of stock so I got the Zotac OC edition triple fan design. I must say the card is pretty silent even at 85% fan speed and the temp rarely touches 66 deg. My only gripe is the card is not a good overclocker or atleast my sample is not. I could barely push the oc upto 1.1 Ghz core and +250 Mhz on Memory. I dunno whether I want to play with voltages right now itself as the card is brand new. The performance is astonishing even at this speed. I am getting around 55-60 Fps avg in Crysis 3 Very High SMAA Medium. Getting around 45-60 fps in Watch dogs Maxed out, TXAAx2, Textures High. How do u think my card is performing guys. I can already see some bottlenecks due to my measly stock 2500k.
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That is around the same performance I was getting in Crysis 3 with an EVGA GTX 780 SC. Adding a second card for SLI made around a 66% improvement in frame rates with the same settings. Watch Dogs doesn't really have any mGPU scaling to speak of, even after the new drivers.
 
murkris118 said:
I got my 780. The retailer told me that the stock version was out of stock so I got the Zotac OC edition triple fan design. I must say the card is pretty silent even at 85% fan speed and the temp rarely touches 66 deg. My only gripe is the card is not a good overclocker or atleast my sample is not. I could barely push the oc upto 1.1 Ghz core and +250 Mhz on Memory. I dunno whether I want to play with voltages right now itself as the card is brand new. The performance is astonishing even at this speed. I am getting around 55-60 Fps avg in Crysis 3 Very High SMAA Medium. Getting around 45-60 fps in Watch dogs Maxed out, TXAAx2, Textures High. How do u think my card is performing guys. I can already see some bottlenecks due to my measly stock 2500k.
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I am thinking about upgrading to a 780 since I am seeing them coming down on price in the used market. Can you please give me an idea of the performance increase you've experience on the games you are playing? (FPS wise)
 
2k3eblade said:
I am thinking about upgrading to a 780 since I am seeing them coming down on price in the used market. Can you please give me an idea of the performance increase you've experience on the games you are playing? (FPS wise)
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780s give great performance in FPS...........

As far as an increase, that depends on what you want to upgrade from. If it's from the 680 in your sig, wait for new card releases.
 
BroHamBone said:
780s give great performance in FPS...........

As far as an increase, that depends on what you want to upgrade from. If it's from the 680 in your sig, wait for new card releases.
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Thanks for the advise. I think I am going to order the 8xx series cards then.
 
Thanks for the advise. I think I am going to order the 8xx series cards then.
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You might wanna hold on to that thought. Benchmarks for the 880 have rumored to have been leaked and they indicate only a 20% increase in performance compared to the 780 or in the case of the 780Ti even less.
 
murkris118 said:
You might wanna hold on to that thought. Benchmarks for the 880 have rumored to have been leaked and they indicate only a 20% increase in performance compared to the 780 or in the case of the 780Ti even less.
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Benchmarks for a product that has not even been paper launched yet :rolleyes:.
I have a bridge to sell you ;).
 
For video cards I dunno, some rumors tend to be correct. I would take rumors about other products with a pinch of salt though. I am from Bangalore, India and I have a friend working at NVIDIA here. I got nearly the same info from him. The leaked board seems to be legit though.. All from his info.:rolleyes:...
 
murkris118 said:
Benchmarks for the 880 have rumored to have been leaked and they indicate only a 20% increase in performance compared to the 780
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Stock vs stock, that seems like a pretty small performance increase... if that's true, that means an overclocked GTX 780 would likely still be faster.

Heck, I'm currently sitting on a GTX 780 that's managing a 44% core overclock. Hearing about 20% generational improvements is pretty uninspiring...
 
Unknown-One said:
Tell you what man, I'll let you know when RAM hamstrings me at 5760x1200 with a single GTX 780 3GB :rolleyes:
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I have GTX 780 (reference, OC'd,watercooled) SLi and in Surround games like Crysis3 will put a huge dent in performance..........it's clearly not VRAM associated; but I'd like to see try to run that game on it's maximum settings in Surround with one 780.....you simply can't do it.

My R9 290Xs have a hard time with that game in Crossfire.....

You can look at my signatures, I can run side by side, and neither set up is superior across the board.

The GTX 780 will be just fine at 1080p for a long time.:D
 
magoo said:
I have GTX 780 (reference, OC'd,watercooled) SLi and in Surround games like Crysis3 will put a huge dent in performance
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I never said anything about SLI. I was talking about surround gaming + single GPU. In the scenario I outlined, having only 3GB of video RAM is not going to be what kills performance.

Going SLI gives you double the GPU horsepower to work with, which means you might finally have enough grunt to actually make use of more than 3GB of video RAM effectively at these resolutions... but then you run into all of those god-awful multi-GPU quirks. I'd rather just stick it out with a single GPU.

magoo said:
..........it's clearly not VRAM associated; but I'd like to see try to run that game on it's maximum settings in Surround with one 780.....you simply can't do it.
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WHICH WAS EXACTLY MY POINT. You can't do it, and it has nothing to do with the amount of available video RAM.

Current GPU's aren't fast enough for the 3GB of RAM they come with to be a primary point of concern.
 
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