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So....what you think?

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bernaby

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I am replacing the 6970 and the OCZ 700 watt PSU in my sig with a Gigabyte 780TI OC and a Sea Sonic Platinum 760 watt PSU. For now I'm staying with my 1080p monitor, but I may get a 2560x1440 down the road. So what do you think? Decent gaming rig?
 
Absolutely. Even @ 1440p an Intel quad core 4.2ghz paired with a GTX 780 Ti should be enough for quite some time. Unfortunately for all of us, these "next gen" consoles running on the equivalent of netbook class cpu/gpus (apus) will yet again be holding back any significant graphical technology leaps so not a bad investment your 780 Ti. (my biased opinion)
 
Dude, that's going to be an absolutely insane upgrade from a 6970. You'll love it.

To put this into perspective, a 780ti overclocked past 1200mhz is faster than the GTX 690. Needless to say...even with a single card, it will perform very well at 1440p.
 
you will barely notice a difference. very minor upgrade at best. You will only notice a difference with 2133 ram.

BWAHAHA just kidding, your mind = blown when you turn it on
 
I have the same card and am looking at Gigabyte Ghz edition of the 780Ti. I built a new computer to play the latest games this fall and the only thing left to upgrade is the video card. I wanted the 290 really bad and have been waiting for the AIB cards to come out, but with the hike in prices and desire to put it on water, this pushes the cost beyond 780Ti MSRP, so 780Ti it is and this card will perform much better than 290 AIB. I really wish AMD would go AIB out of the gate when it moves to 22nm on its flag ship models rather than this non-sense of reference design and cheap ram. I want to stay AMD, but the wait has pushed me into the other camp. I want to get to gaming, I don't want to wait any longer.
 
xoleras said:
Dude, that's going to be an absolutely insane upgrade from a 6970. You'll love it.

To put this into perspective, a 780ti overclocked past 1200mhz is faster than the GTX 690. Needless to say...even with a single card, it will perform very well at 1440p.
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Yep, he'll have one hell of a good time :D. I "only" have an oc'd GTX 780 (non-Ti, at 1228mhz core solid never dips and very quiet) and enjoy the heck out of it with my 110hz 2560x1440 PLS monitor. BF4 runs at 85-120fps full-time with everything on Ultra and HBAO on, except 2x msaa and "Medium" post-process effects for me on rush/air superiority/conquest. Other games run similarly well at near-max settings, and anything older than 2013 is crushed by it.

Looking to upgrade to 4k sometime in 2014 (probably the dell 28" 4k panel) though so I'll be looking at the newer cards, maybe with Maxwell which is now rumored for late Jan through mid Feb on 28nm for the "enthusiast" segment (not extreme, but purportedly GM104 is incoming as 28nm).
 
Yeah I got tired of waiting for the 290/x AIB cards myself and then I saw what they were asking for them on NCIX....699.99 for the 290x. I was wanting the 780Ti ghz but figure I can clock the OC model up to what the ghz does myself.
 
bernaby said:
Yeah I got tired of waiting for the 290/x AIB cards myself and then I saw what they were asking for them on NCIX....699.99 for the 290x. I was wanting the 780Ti ghz but figure I can clock the OC model up to what the ghz does myself.
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I didn't consider this as an option, but you're right, the OC version appears to be the same cooler, correct? If so, then its just a matter of OCing to the Ghz version. Are you using the Gigabyte software to over clock it or ?
 
I am going to see how it goes with the Gigabyte software but from what I've read Afterburner may be better.
 
Well......I installed the new PSU and The Gigabyte 780 Ti OC Friday. Holy cow! Overclock? I've got no reason to screw with this card as it sits. Every game I have runs at max eye candy. I'm talking Crysis 3, Metro 2033, Last light, Battlefield 4 and all the rest of the over 90 titles on my system. The frame counter that is part of Call of Duty, Black Ops 2 reads between 320 max and 173. You cannot hear the fans at all and my system is running cooler than it did with the 6970 installed. I wanted a card that would be good for a couple of years at 1080p. Looks like I got one.
 
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