Well they've served me well since 2010 dutifully playing Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 3 and so on. But across three displays they couldn't quite keep up.
So although I'm really not happy with the pricing of NVIDIA's latest GTX 780's I decided to buy them anyway and finally update my graphics.
I've been running my 480's watercooled since a few days after I got them because they were just so loud, I'm not exaggerating when I say when playing Mafia II the two of them in SLI sounded like a dyson being run. Even my wife could hear them in the kitchen downstairs from my office!
So that really got me in to watercooling my GPU's and I've decided to watercool the GTX 780's as-well and maybe even do a little overclocking see if I can't reach Titan performance for £300 less per card.
I ordered today two of the EVGA standard non-overclocked models with EK Copper blocks (Acetol top). I checked EK's website and they are saying that all their Titan blocks are fully compatible with the GTX 780's so that's great.
I saw some benchmarks in another forum comparing SLI'd GTX 480's to a single GTX 780 and needless to say the single GTX 780 was a good 15-20% faster at 2560x1600 (which is what I game at). So I'm expecting SLI'd 780's to more than double my current performance and maybe I can finally play BF3 at 7680x1600
So although I'm really not happy with the pricing of NVIDIA's latest GTX 780's I decided to buy them anyway and finally update my graphics.
I've been running my 480's watercooled since a few days after I got them because they were just so loud, I'm not exaggerating when I say when playing Mafia II the two of them in SLI sounded like a dyson being run. Even my wife could hear them in the kitchen downstairs from my office!
So that really got me in to watercooling my GPU's and I've decided to watercool the GTX 780's as-well and maybe even do a little overclocking see if I can't reach Titan performance for £300 less per card.
I ordered today two of the EVGA standard non-overclocked models with EK Copper blocks (Acetol top). I checked EK's website and they are saying that all their Titan blocks are fully compatible with the GTX 780's so that's great.
I saw some benchmarks in another forum comparing SLI'd GTX 480's to a single GTX 780 and needless to say the single GTX 780 was a good 15-20% faster at 2560x1600 (which is what I game at). So I'm expecting SLI'd 780's to more than double my current performance and maybe I can finally play BF3 at 7680x1600
