New GPU 760 vs 770

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Pickster

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Hi all, it's been a while since I have been here but I'm hoping to be back on board fairly soon.

You may or may not remember (quite) a few months ago I posted saying that one of my 560 Ti's had died. I have finally been able to get on with sorting it out.

After trying to go through ASUS with no luck I went back to dabs. It's been about 25 months since I bought the card which came with 3 years warranty, and it seems I will (or should be) get a full refund so I can then buy another.

So I'm wondering if I should be going for a 760 (or 660 Ti - I'm counting them as equal although the 660 would be faster for folding in my estimation) or 770.

I know the 770 is basically the old 680 rebadged with 'tweaks' and the 760 is what you would get if a 660Ti and 670 made a baby.

What I don't know is how all this fits into the current folding situation. Is the extra £100 (give or take) worth it... and that's taking into mind both folding and gaming.

Gaming benchmarks I can look at myself, folding figures are a bit harder to come by, but some advice from the folders on here is always worth a listen.
 
here are some compute benchmarks from anandtech

it also shows a hd 7950 as a good folding card, between or above the 770 and 760, it may be a good option for you.
 
Thanks for the advice, but I'm staying away from ATI/AMD (I still think of it as ATI).

Just personal preference.
 
I don't really know how the 770/760 are performing so consider this a bump. Myself, I just ordered two 7950s. Steve has had good luck with them and they are pulling in massive points ATM, around 100k PPD. As a comparison, my 680 gets a max of 60k and these 7950s were almost half the cost.

Who knows how the points will be in the future, but I'm giving AMD a shot. Haven't had an AMD card in my rigs since the 9800pro.

As an uneducated guess, it looks like the 760 is better value for the money than the 770.
 
Pickster said:
Thanks for the advice, but I'm staying away from ATI/AMD (I still think of it as ATI).

Just personal preference.
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Seems a little arrogant when your trying to get the best PPD possible? Why not just go with the better card? Not trying to insult you but i'm just saying from purely a PPD point of view.
 
NeverBackDown said:
Seems a little arrogant when your trying to get the best PPD possible? Why not just go with the better card? Not trying to insult you but i'm just saying from purely a PPD point of view.
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For starters we don't know how long ATI/AMD will have the edge. This card isn't going to be just a 6 month investment.

I prefer Nvidia cards, so unless something happens like the 9800 Pro vs Nvidia 5k series (which had me buying two generations of ATI cards at the time) then I will stick with Nvidia.

Also, like I said, this will be for both folding and gaming.
 
mArTyN said:
Not sure, but this may help Pickster,

http://compdewddevelopment.com/projects/fah-gpu-statistics-database/index.php

Regards,
mArTyN
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Thanks for the link, it's a bit out of date though.

My problem is, the way I'm looking at this, I (should) have most of the money for the 760 GTX due to the refund on my 560 Ti.... So I'm thinking, why not just spend the extra bit of money and have a nice upgrade.

The sensible part if me knows the 760 GTX is the better bang for the buck, but once I have gone that way, I fear I will regret not having that extra power, just knowing it was there for another £100.

Going Dual/SLI 760 would be even better, but then I'm looking at finding £200 rather than £100 and I don't think I can justify that.

If there was something else I could put the extra £100 towards in speeding up the computer I'd do that, but there is nothing I can do. Already have SSD, 8gb RAM is more than enough for now and the only upgrade from my CPU is a i7 3770k which is way beyond the £100 and not really worth it over the 2600k... esp when there is no (over)clock guarantee.

Who knew an RMA could be so stressful lol
 
Pickster said:
For starters we don't know how long ATI/AMD will have the edge. This card isn't going to be just a 6 month investment.

I prefer Nvidia cards, so unless something happens like the 9800 Pro vs Nvidia 5k series (which had me buying two generations of ATI cards at the time) then I will stick with Nvidia.

Also, like I said, this will be for both folding and gaming.
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Understandable but a 7950 is faster than a 760 in some games and not in others. Should check it out to see which performs better for your games. Keep in mind a decent 7950 will overclock to around 1100/1150 on the core and can pass 680 speeds and comes with game bundles. But if are really going to be the hardcore nvidia guy then a 760 isn't a bad choice either for gaming. I would try to pony up for a 770/7970ghz card if possiblr though, more performance by quite a bit.
 
Pickster said:
Thanks for the link, it's a bit out of date though.

My problem is, the way I'm looking at this, I (should) have most of the money for the 760 GTX due to the refund on my 560 Ti.... So I'm thinking, why not just spend the extra bit of money and have a nice upgrade.

The sensible part if me knows the 760 GTX is the better bang for the buck, but once I have gone that way, I fear I will regret not having that extra power, just knowing it was there for another £100.

Going Dual/SLI 760 would be even better, but then I'm looking at finding £200 rather than £100 and I don't think I can justify that.

If there was something else I could put the extra £100 towards in speeding up the computer I'd do that, but there is nothing I can do. Already have SSD, 8gb RAM is more than enough for now and the only upgrade from my CPU is a i7 3770k which is way beyond the £100 and not really worth it over the 2600k... esp when there is no (over)clock guarantee.

Who knew an RMA could be so stressful lol
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In this situation go for the 770. I always go for the fastest single card I can afford and if an RMA is paying most of the bill anyway, why not?
 
Mine as well get a 780 if you're going down that route hmmblah:p OP stated it's a long term investment and a 780 will far outlast a 770 in performance and resale value. Mine as well get that and in the future sell it back and use that money for the current single fastest card.
 
Na, £500 (so spending just over an extra £300, is way out of my reach. As much as I would love a slightly 'chopped' Titan (or a Titan itself).

Really a 770 is what I can stretch to, but a 760 would only cost me a few pounds (so in my head that's free :p)

I would certainly be satisfied with a 770 because I know a 780 is out of reach. What I don't know is if I will be satisfied with a 760 as I would know that the 770 was within my reach even if it didn't quite add up value wise.

Extra money in my pocket vs warm fuzzy feeling .... Tough call.
 
Well in all honestly save up for a 780 if possible. The PPD and extra power it has for games will be worth it. This isn't only a gaming rig, it's more of a do different type of everything rig which extra power is always accepted and rewarded. It has more value than it would if it was just for gaming. So in my mind it would be more worth it. Last longer as well which helps ensure a long term investment. As i said in my last post it has more resale value in the future which will allow you then to get a better card for not much more money. This is my full opinion and what i would personally do. It's whatever you feel is worth it is the real correct answer.
 
It's a good point but then we start getting into 780 vs 760 SLI territory.

My initial thoughts were just settling for a 760 (or 660Ti) and not spending much on it, but the more I think about it the more I'm leaning towards the 770.

I have a few bits to put on ebay. I might see what I can fumble together. I might be able to get a 7950 for my folding rig and a 770 for the multi use PC, which would probably be a better way to go than a single 780.

I keep giving myself more options to pick from. God damn folding at home :lol:
 
Because the Folding rig could fold while I'm using the other to game. I also assume 770 + 7950 folding would be more PPD over a single 780 (I could be wrong on that front, like I said, just a guess).

Also it would allow me to get the multi use PC up to speed while sorting out the bits on ebay for a possible 7950 for my other rig.

I haven't made my mind up yet, but I'm pretty certain I can't bring myself to get a 780. It just costs too much for me to spend on a single item.
 
Well from what i know a 7950 gets more PPD than a 770 so get that for folding, and a 770(or 7970ghz) for the gaming multi rig. When it does fold it will be more than a 780 combined with the 7950(i'm assuming).
 
Yeah, thats pretty much what I'm thinking.

Providing the RMA goes through ok, I will have the money back from that card.

On top of that I have two options. I have two further graphics cards, a 560 and a 560 Ti.

I can sell them both or sell one and keep one for Physx in the Gaming rig.... I'll call it my main rig

I'm not totally locked into the Physx idea, in fact I'm more leaning against that.

My original idea was to sell one and use that to off set the graphics card that goes into my main rig, which makes a 770 not take to much over all out of my pocket or I have change left after a 760.

At the moment, the 560 is in the folding rig and the 560 Ti is in my main rig. I hadn't decided if I was going to sell the 560 Ti or sell the 560 and move the 560 Ti over to the folding rig.

Now I'm more leaning towards getting a 770 for my main rig and just taking the extra I have to pay over my refund to get it and then selling both the 560 and 560 Ti and getting what I can from ATI/AMD with what I make and depending on how short I am from certain targets (7870 or 7950) getting a few other pieces on ebay to make up the difference.

That above paragraph is right now what I see as my ideal cost vs performance spending on these two rigs over the next couple of weeks.

I just have to deal with that little niggle that I will miss the dedicated Physx card. I could possibly get my hands on a 8800GT for Physx (which is low profile so can fit nicely in my thrid PCI-E 16 slot) but I don't think it's really going to help.

Damn, that upgrade bug. We all know when we have been bitten.
 
If it helps you make a decision I just ordered another Sapphire 7950, but I don't game and F@H is what counts for me.

These dam ATI cards come with so many game coupons that I can't them all away...lol
 
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