GTX 480 to GTX 780

BRIGGBOY · #1 06-30-2013, 02:27 PM

in my opinion the 780 is overpriced, a 770 with a non reference cooler on can be overclocked to stock 780 level and it still will be a nice upgrade from your 480 my 670 was from my 480. the reason i suggested haswell was because the 1150 socket is now redundant and has no future upgrade route. if you run 1 monitor you dont need a 4gb card. sli has been no problem for me and performance wise i am quicker than a titan for half the price.

Jaws2002 · #2 06-30-2013, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by BRIGGBOY

in my opinion the 780 is overpriced, a 770 with a non reference cooler on can be overclocked to stock 780 level and it still will be a nice upgrade from your 480 my 670 was from my 480. the reason i suggested haswell was because the 1150 socket is now redundant and has no future upgrade route. if you run 1 monitor you dont need a 4gb card. sli has been no problem for me and performance wise i am quicker than a titan for half the price.

While the 770 is a good card and theoretically you could get close to 780 performance the 780 overclocks just as good, so you'll always have a performance difference.

For example here's what I scored with mine overclocked to 1228Mhz boost and 200Mhz increase in memory speed:

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/558452

You don't get that with the 770.

BRIGGBOY · #3 06-30-2013, 08:16 PM

yes that is true there will always be a gap if you overclock 780, but is that worth the extra 250 notes? no not when you can put that money towards another 770 and have performance better than a titan.

Jaws2002 · #4 06-30-2013, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by BRIGGBOY

yes that is true there will always be a gap if you overclock 780, but is that worth the extra 250 notes? no not when you can put that money towards another 770 and have performance better than a titan.

In general you are right, but I wasn't too lucky with the SLI. There are no two games that implement SLI the same and you always have to choose settings based on how a certain game runs.
Then in most flight sims SLI is more headache than help, so I decided to get a single chip card and avoid the whole mess.

BRIGGBOY · #5 06-30-2013, 08:50 PM

ah i see. i agree it can be a pain in the ass at times