Astralogic
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What's the absolute BEST 780 TI in terms of performance?
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Well I'd prefer one that is already overclocked to the max. I didn't know you could buy GPU's with water cooling on them.
Price is not an issue I just want to buy a card that is going to give me the best performance. I understand that the cards above the 780TI aren't really very good for gaming correct?
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Well I'd prefer one that is already overclocked to the max. I didn't know you could buy GPU's with water cooling on them.
Price is not an issue I just want to buy a card that is going to give me the best performance. I understand that the cards above the 780TI aren't really very good for gaming correct?
If you want max, then the EVGA Classified is going to be your deal.
Dollar for dollar, I'd get this one.....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127770&cm_re=780_ti-_-14-127-770-_-Product
MSI makes quality products, and you can probably push this one harder.
The Frozr coolers are very quiet and efficient.
Asus DC U II
Unless you have X79 which allows 2+ (more preferably) between cards, I would suggest just getting reference for SLI.
You can make custom cards work in SLI but it is very difficult on mainstream motherboards (eg Z87, Z97) because they typically only allow 1 slot in between. This means you're dumping 500W of heat inside of your case and I dont' give a crap what anyone says, there are no amounts of case fans that can sustain that amount of heat / airflow for hours. I was in the same situation with a CM Cosmos 2 case with Lightning GPUs, 1 space between, and it was a headache. And BTW, the mobo at the time, a Z77 Deluxe board from asus had limited space between cards in the PCIE 3.0 CPU lanes (1.5 IIRC) and it was not enough.
Reference will avoid any such headaches. Unless you're running an open test bench or an EATX case with a gabillion fans and/or perhaps X79. X79 or a PLX platform would be best for custom cards in SLI. Test bench will also make this easy, but who the heck besides reviewers do that.
Otherwise. Reference is way less hassle for SLI since it exhauts air out of the REAR, meaning you don't have 500W TDP of hot air at 100% GPU utilization floating around your case. Like I said. No amount of case fans can expel that EASILY, period. What happened to me was, the top card would slowly heat up over time and after an hour or so i'd get TDR's. I was able to make it work, but it was a PITA. Just get reference to make life easier for SLI IMO.
What do you mean by "reference"? Any card that blows the heat out the back?
Would you happen to know what the best reference 780ti is?
I think the EVGA 780Ti Superclocked is the best one I've come across.