murphy7801
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Can't work out if the extra cost is justifed anybody got any experience of both 780 and 780 ti?
gtx 780 lighting or gtx 780 ti gaming
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yassarikhan786
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If you have the cash, buy the best you can afford. That's my policy and that is what I did quite recently.
murphy7801
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Well my 2 gtx 580's or just old now. Umming and arring about. Reason I'm splashing is because Im working in america for few months with UK wage so comes out favourably.
yassarikhan786
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If you're only looking to buy a single card, you should go for the 780 Ti. It really depends on how much you're looking to spend. Where are you purchasing from and what is the price difference?
murphy7801
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Nah I would buy two of either
SieB
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Personally, I don't think the extra over other options is worth it. For the amount you pay extra for the Ti you don't get that moneys worth back in performance.
At the moment MSI Gaming 780s are on sale for £360 and the MSI 780 Lightning for £390 at OCUK. Or there are 290s coming in at £380-£390 both the AMD and Nvidia options aren't that much slower than a 780Ti but they are a lot less expensive.
If you have the money and don't mind spending it grab the 780Ti but you get much more value for your money with a 780 or 290.
At the moment MSI Gaming 780s are on sale for £360 and the MSI 780 Lightning for £390 at OCUK. Or there are 290s coming in at £380-£390 both the AMD and Nvidia options aren't that much slower than a 780Ti but they are a lot less expensive.
If you have the money and don't mind spending it grab the 780Ti but you get much more value for your money with a 780 or 290.
yassarikhan786
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Well, a good place to start would be to look at the benchmark results.
780 Lightning:
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/msi_gtx780_lightning_review/11
780 Ti (Reference):
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/nvidia_gtx780_ti_review/19
If you compare the scores/fps for the common benchmarks you can see that the 780 Ti beats the 780 Lightning by 10 - 20%.
murphy7801
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290 isnt an option for couple reasons let alone fact there is little improvement under water.
murphy7801
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Also US cost converted to UK money Ti's are about £450
SieB
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Whatever you want dude, just throwing options out there. Aftermarket coolers for 290s are out and they perform just as well as a 780 as far as performance, noise and temps go.
I just don't think 10-20% extra performance from the 780 Ti is worth an extra £150-£220+ over a 290 or 780. Especially were in most cases it's a ~10fps difference and you aren't really going to notice it.
If you have the money and can afford it, then by all means go for the 780Ti. It is an epic card, just very expensive with a very bad price to performance ratio
murphy7801
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It's fine again I'm getting input. But yer Cards we be watered.Whatever you want dude, just throwing options out there. Aftermarket coolers for 290s are out and they perform just as well as a 780 as far as performance, noise and temps go.
I just don't think 10-20% extra performance from the 780 Ti is worth an extra £150-£220+ over a 290 or 780. Especially were in most cases it's a ~10fps difference and you aren't really going to notice it.
If you have the money and can afford it, then by all means go for the 780Ti. It is an epic card, just very expensive with a very bad price to performance ratio
murphy7801
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Oh btw the lighting on overclockers is LE version so its lower quality gpu chip since normal lightnings are cherry picked.
NeverBackDown
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290 doesn't improve under water? Well that sounds ignorant? Its temps improve along with OC potential? The fact its stock cooler allows it to outperform a 780 would just mean under water it would further beat it more.
290 under water is the new high performance/budget combo for watercooling on the market.
290 under water is the new high performance/budget combo for watercooling on the market.
murphy7801
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Every bench test iv seen on it under water the 780 comes out ahead.
I bought myself the GTX 780 TF OC from MSI and I love it really. So far I've been running everything at max settings without any trouble. One of my friends bought the GTX 780 Lightning and it runs slightly better than mine. The GTX 780 Ti is a really neat card, but isn't worth the extra money IMHO since mine already runs everything (out of the box). Still, it's your choice whether to buy it or not. The Ti is definately the better one and for some people it's worth the extra money. For me it wasn't.
NeverBackDown
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I have seen the 780 only pull ahead on Nvidia favored games. All others the 290 is either ahead or tied.
murphy7801
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Under air yer but the limitations of archtecture of 290 are not the thermal limits to much there inst just much head room to squeeze more juice out of. Also if look on this site the 290 powercolor review it rarely pulls ahead of the gtx 780 msi gaming bar hitman and the lightning is quicker. I really dont get why your arguing the point for the card Tom hardly has said anything kinda about it?!
Dicehunter
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Come to the Green team, We're faster, Queter, Cooler, Use less power and we have bonuses such as Physx and CUDA ^_^
Here is a great video from Linus of the 290 vs the 780 *Non Ti* both under water, 2 seperate water loops we're used, 1 for the CPU and 1 for the GPU to make sure the heat from either component wasn't interfering, The 780 still pulls ahead.
Here is a great video from Linus of the 290 vs the 780 *Non Ti* both under water, 2 seperate water loops we're used, 1 for the CPU and 1 for the GPU to make sure the heat from either component wasn't interfering, The 780 still pulls ahead.
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murphy7801
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290 was never an option I have to use cuda for some programs I use and have no interest in litecoin mining.
Dicehunter
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I know I just like using that sentence I said above ^_^
