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Poor AMD fanboys.

They had their hopes set so high that aftermarket coolers would save the poor R9 290X.

Then EVGA comes out with this best GTX 780 Ti and just destroys the R9 290X.

No aftermarket cooler could ever make the R9 290X as good as this card.

It is extremely sad that AMD can't make cards to compete with nVidia.

At this point nVidia is just re-using their year old technology and AMD still can't catch up.


Cool story bro. You're fantastic, aren't you :shadedshu

You going to upgrade your 660 to a 780ti? Didn't think so.
 
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Cool story bro. You're fantastic, aren't you :shadedshu

You going to upgrade your 660 to a 780ti? Didn't think so.

I don't have to.

I bought an nVidia card that is bad ass already.

It is the AMD fanboys that have been waiting all this time for a card that can finally compete with nvidia so they could upgrade and AMD failed.

AMD just released a bunch of rebrands of cards the AMD fanboys already had and one that requires a nuclear reactor in your house to power and overheats if you use it for more than 2 minutes at a time.
 
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Did someone learn a new word today? Yeesh! Tone it down man!
 

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That's an Nvidia fanboy if I have ever seen one.

Nvidia cards are good, but the prices can get bent.

AMD just released a bunch of rebrands of cards the AMD fanboys already had and one that requires a nuclear reactor in your house to power and overheats if you use it for more than 2 minutes at a time.

I guess you do not remember Nvidia and their rebranding frenzies of a few GPUs in every generation since the 8000 cards....

If Nvidia does that, AMD can too.
 
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I don't have to.

I bought an nVidia card that is bad ass already.

It is the AMD fanboys that have been waiting all this time for a card that can finally compete with nvidia so they could upgrade and AMD failed.

AMD just released a bunch of rebrands of cards the AMD fanboys already had and one that requires a nuclear reactor in your house to power and overheats if you use it for more than 2 minutes at a time.

Look, I'm an NVIDIA owner who loves his cards and gets your sentiment, but you should realize that this domination by NVIDIA isn't a good situation for us customers.

What we want is two (or preferably more) competitors that are more or less equal duking it out in the marketplace. That gives us the best graphics cards at the cheapest prices. Hopefully with a full-on price war. ;)

Great example: don't you think the 780 Ti is the card NVIDIA should have released 8 months ago instead of the crippled Titan at a ludicrous $1000? The minute AMD comes back with something moderately competitive we get a better product at a much cheaper price, the 780 Ti. If AMD were equal to NVIDIA in everything just think how good the products would be that we could choose from both companies.

This is where we want to be. Not feeling smug at the other side for having a supposedly inferior product.
 
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This is where we want to be. Not feeling smug at the other side for having an inferior product.

Not inferior, cheaper.

All these arguments remind me of people talking trash about sports cars and all when they drive a Prius.
 

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Not inferior, cheaper.

All these arguments remind me of people talking trash about sports cars and all when they drive a Prius.

:laugh: :roll:
 
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I don't have to.

I bought an nVidia card that is bad ass already.

It is the AMD fanboys that have been waiting all this time for a card that can finally compete with nvidia so they could upgrade and AMD failed.

AMD just released a bunch of rebrands of cards the AMD fanboys already had and one that requires a nuclear reactor in your house to power and overheats if you use it for more than 2 minutes at a time.

very strange few posts you made as no one was throwin mud in yours or nvidias direction.

Lots of bile considering your running an Amd cpu and (at least in my eyes) an overpriced mid range gpu with no intent of changeing up, note im not calling the 780Ti as i already stated a while ago in this thread ,nice card would have one but a bit too dear for my pocket.

are you feeling butt hurt that 660Ti's are not worth what you paid now, or back then:p.
 
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very strange few posts you made as no one was throwin mud in yours or nvidias direction.

Lots of bile considering your running an Amd cpu and (at least in my eyes) an overpriced mid range gpu with no intent of changeing up, note im not calling the 780Ti as i already stated a while ago in this thread ,nice card would have one but a bit too dear for my pocket.

are you feeling butt hurt that 660Ti's are not worth what you paid now, or back then:p.

Who cares. It's off topic anyways. I asked him to tone it down from a moderator standpoint. Best way to combat these posts are to ignore them completely.

Cheers. :toast:
 
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I've heard these ACX coolers resonate around 1300 RPM, that still apply to this?
 

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I've heard these ACX coolers resonate around 1300 RPM, that still apply to this?

It's in the review:

Under load, I did notice the two fans emitting a whine from time to time (depending on RPM), which appears to be due to air interference. Not much noisier, it is just of a higher frequency, which makes it noticeable. The noise has more of a whoosh-like quality to it once fan speeds change.
 

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Not inferior, cheaper.

No, I meant inferior, but I don't think you quite understood my context because perhaps it could have been worded a little more clearly. I've now edited it to read "This is where we want to be. Not feeling smug at the other side for having a supposedly inferior product."
 
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How does this compare against the EVGA SC model without the ACX cooler? Kinda interested in the boost MHz chart for that one too.
 
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I have one on order should be getting it by the end of next week :D .
 
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Right now I don't see the point. I'm hitting frames equal to this card at stock with my GTX 780 Classified (overclocked it gets like 10.02% over mine on Battlefield 3) so three months earlier I would've bought one of these or the upcoming GTX 780 Ti Classified but right now I see it as a more viable option to buy another 780 Classified, put them both together and then make them have babies. Seriously I think two Classys in Sli would tide me over for a couple of years at the least and right now it is on special at the Egg for $554.99 so yeah I think that thats the plan. Really powerful Sli for $1254.99 (If you buy both now instead of like me then it would set you back to $1110.00, 350 bucks cheaper) instead of $1460.00. And then Explain this to me:

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Awesome

Dammit I want one!
WOW! DITTO! Super fast, quiet, and so friggin cool! Amazing job Nvidia and EVGA>
I want this and a Gsync monitor. That should be enough for the next year or so, no problem.
 

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WOW! DITTO! Super fast, quiet, and so friggin cool! Amazing job Nvidia and EVGA>
I want this and a Gsync monitor. That should be enough for the next year or so, no problem.

I tell you, this card, even more than the stock one shows up NVIDIA's Titan as the hyped-up marketing exercise that it was.

I couldn't believe it when they released a card for an eyewatering $1000 (£800 in English money) with an effing crippled GPU! It looks like they named it "Titan" and gave it a completely unnecessary 6GB RAM as shiny baubles to get the gullible to buy it. :shadedshu That company certainly knows how to milk their customers.
 

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I tell you, this card, even more than the stock one shows up NVIDIA's Titan as the hyped-up marketing exercise that it was.

I couldn't believe it when they released a card for an eyewatering $1000 (£800 in English money) with an effing crippled GPU! It looks like they named it "Titan" and gave it a completely unnecessary 6GB RAM as shiny baubles to get the gullible to buy it. :shadedshu That company certainly knows how to milk their customers.

Qubit, sometimes your mouth runs away with you. :shadedshu

How was buying a Titan being gullible. It's inane comments like that that make folk like you sound like you're on some kind of fascist finance gang.

One last time for the very cheapest seats. It's called Titan because it is what is used in the Titan super computer. All they did was remove the ECC from it. It has the same memory, same DP compute function and the same memory size. It's a compute card made viable for a gaming set up. It costs so much because it IS a compute card.

And where are all these amazing time machines people have? Titan came out 8-9 months ago. I've been enjoying blistering frames and/or ultra settings with playable frames in every game I've played. My Titan replaced two misfiring 7970's and made a huge improvement to my gaming quality.

Nobody buying a Titan was gullible. It was at the time the most powerful single gpu that could render the highest frames for me. It still kicks ass. It's been replaced by other cards but it still is a superb card. Overpriced? No. Not if you wanted to buy it. Would I buy one now? Of course not. There are better options. Back in Feb? It was the best option to replace my crossfire cards.

Think before you post Qubit. Sometimes you seem clever, other times you sound really naive.
 

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54th, I stand by my statement and I don't sugar coat these things either as you can see. I see that you have a Titan, which would give you a reason to feel miffed about it if you took it the wrong way. Rest assured I wasn't directing this comment at you specifically. :toast:

Look, Titan is actually slightly less of a compute card than 780 Ti for the simple reason the GPU is crippled. The only reason that it's "better" at compute functions is because NVIDIA have artificially crippled the 780 Ti in the driver to protect sales of their crippled $1000 card. Hack the driver (or convince NVIDIA to remove the performance loss! lol) and the 780 Ti will handily beat Titan on this, to. It has too, because it's got the full GPU, with both GPU and memory running at higher clock speeds than Titan. Ok, it's got half the memory, but does that matter so much even for compute? I dunno, but I'll bet that extra 3GB doesn't actually cost that price difference to put on and don't forget the crippled GPU and slower clocks too, lowering the price difference. Titan should actually be cheaper than 780 Ti, not the other way round. Finally, the original compute card, the K20 or whatever it's called, has the full GK110 while Titan doesn't.

Yeah, it was named after a supercomputer called Titan. Very convenient for marketing, no? ;)

Gamers who bought Titan were gullible, because it was quite obvious from the start that in a few months NVIDIA would bring out a better, uncrippled card (you can tell I really don't like crippled GPUs can't you? lol).

Ok, I'll give you a let in that some people have money to spare and wanted the fastest thing on earth now in some cases and didn't give a damn that there would be a better version at a cheaper price in a few months' time. Fair play there, but I think most people that bought a Titan didn't see this coming and were cought out.
 
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This card kicks serious butt! It's another league of refinement and power from the 290x, which is noisy, much hotter, and slower. IMHO $150 premium is reasonable over the life of the card. I'm amazed at the temps. It's made for overclocking.
 

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This card kicks serious butt! It's another league of refinement and power from the 290x, which is noisy, much hotter, and slower. IMHO $150 premium is reasonable over the life of the card. I'm amazed at the temps. It's made for overclocking.

The 290s are made to withstand higher temps then the 780s.

That being said, the reference 290s is definitely noisier and, being hotter, switching the cooler to an aftermarket non-blower type would most definitely increase the temps of other hardware which could prove troublesome. Not everybody is able/willing to water cool.

Personally, and if i had the need for such a card, i wouldn't go for the 290s unless they came up blower cooler with a far far more acceptable noise level. On the other hand, i wouldn't go for the 780 Ti either because of it's stupid prices: the 780 would do just fine, in that regard.
 
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The 290s are made to withstand higher temps then the 780s.

That being said, the reference 290s is definitely noisier and, being hotter, switching the cooler to an aftermarket non-blower type would most definitely increase the temps of other hardware which could prove troublesome. Not everybody is able/willing to water cool.

Personally, and if i had the need for such a card, i wouldn't go for the 290s unless they came up blower cooler with a far far more acceptable noise level. On the other hand, i wouldn't go for the 780 Ti either because of it's stupid prices: the 780 would do just fine, in that regard.

You see people, sound reasoning. It's not about which card is pricier, hotter, louder or who has money to burn. It's about which card you choose and which card gets you where you want to be thats all. All became real quiet about the GTX 780 but in reality that is a really great card. It doesn't have the huge price tag (although it had one), it is a little bit slower than a GTX 780 ti, a tad slower than the 290x but it overclocks really well and it doesn't heat up as much or create a racket when set to full blast. In other words, the product that actually covers the most bases is the original GTX 780, it's a more versatile, mature and affordable product. Do the math and please can someone explain why on the same hardware two GTX 780's in Sli trounced the 780 ti on the guru's reviews.
 

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Do the math and please can someone explain why on the same hardware two GTX 780's in Sli trounced the 780 ti on the guru's reviews.

Because two cards are faster than one.
 
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Do the math and please can someone explain why on the same hardware two GTX 780's in Sli trounced the 780 ti on the guru's reviews.

Because two cards are faster than one.

I see what you did there :D ... what he probably meant was why sometimes SLI 780 is just as fast as SLI 780 Ti ... or even why sometimes single 780 is just tad slower than SLI 780 Ti ... in any case answer is bad SLI scaling in drivers for that particular game, CPU bottleneck or both. Dat Hitman Absolution.
 
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You see people, sound reasoning. It's not about which card is pricier, hotter, louder or who has money to burn. It's about which card you choose and which card gets you where you want to be thats all. All became real quiet about the GTX 780 but in reality that is a really great card. It doesn't have the huge price tag (although it had one), it is a little bit slower than a GTX 780 ti, a tad slower than the 290x but it overclocks really well and it doesn't heat up as much or create a racket when set to full blast. In other words, the product that actually covers the most bases is the original GTX 780, it's a more versatile, mature and affordable product. Do the math and please can someone explain why on the same hardware two GTX 780's in Sli trounced the 780 ti on the guru's reviews.

now, it covers most of your bases now, just yours and a few others though.
as even that was and is too deer for me now(780)

you need to realise there are a great many perspectives out there, and for me id go xfire 7970s as its cheaper cooler and runs better(xfire on these is well sorted) but then thats from my perspective
 
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