GTX 780 or an R9 290/x

[AlienALX]

They do run extremely loud compared with a reference nVidia cooler and considering they sit being held back at 95°C rather than boosting up to stay at 80°C it really isn't surprising that they got so much disrespect when the prices weren't so far apart.

JR

They may well have gotten disrespect but they still sold by the bucketload. Titan power for half the monies.

That's why there are so many for sale now. Me? I would just do what I always do now and bung an AIO on the bugger.

 

[shambles1980]

i have no problems with adding a gpu to the loop (i already have the loop so all i need is a new block any way)
But i wouldnt bother doing it unless i could and was messing with the bios to adjust TDP..
The TDP of a card will always throttle the stupid thing even if its at a perfectly adequate temp because of the other variables "voltages etc" once it starts using a bit of voltage which would generally be enough to produce more heat than the stock cooler could dissipate the bios throttles the card.. after all it does not know that you changed the heat sink for a water block.
Without changing the TDP on my 780 my max oc clocks without throttling was the same if i had air cooling or water cooling, the only difference was temps. After changing the TDP my self (all other bioses you can download locked the voltages so you had no idle mode i did not want that) then at the same voltages i could push the card much further (within temp restraint) i didnt even need to adjust voltages.
But without risking potentially bricking my card to change the tdp, there was absolutely No reason to water cool it.

 

[ZeroInfinity94]

Wow been a what 3 days since I last checked this thread and I can't believe the amount of posts it's got haha.
Anyway as far as watercooling the card when I buy it it's been a long time in coming I've been saying am going to do it for about a year and as far as last gen v's current card well to be honest this is kind of a once in a blue moon opportunity for me, I have never had and probably will never have this kind of cash that I can spend without thinking about it for a month of Sundays before hand. So I pretty much have £200 and that's all, so I want to buy something that's going to last me a few years at 1080p and there are R9 290's on ebay going for around the 160 mark so that's the reasoning behind that.