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    Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Is it possible for you to start including cost equivalent sli/cf setups in the high end reviews? My gut feeling says that 2 £300 cards would be faster (subject to the usually driver based fun and games) but it would be interesting to see.

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Drop down the price by 20% and you got a buyer !

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Quote Originally Posted by herulach View Post
    Is it possible for you to start including cost equivalent sli/cf setups in the high end reviews? My gut feeling says that 2 £300 cards would be faster (subject to the usually driver based fun and games) but it would be interesting to see.
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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    You can get the Gigabyte card for much less, £526.54(scan.co.uk). You can get a nzxt set up or get a EK waterblock, pump, and 120mm or 240mm for the saving on the EVGA. Thus, getting better performance.

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Classified is one of the few Nvidia cards equipped with a second BIOS
    Really?
    Isn't a dual BIOS switch a standard feature on AMD cards? I know mine has one and I understand it's positively ancient by comparison...

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Really?
    Isn't a dual BIOS switch a standard feature on AMD cards?
    Nope.

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Quote Originally Posted by herulach View Post
    Is it possible for you to start including cost equivalent sli/cf setups in the high end reviews? My gut feeling says that 2 £300 cards would be faster (subject to the usually driver based fun and games) but it would be interesting to see.
    Yep. I'm eternally forcing myself to be 'sensible' in my old age. Just added a second 4Gb 770 to my PC. 60-70fps on BF4, everything turned to ultra on a 1440 screen.

    I'm sure this is dandy if you're running 4k, or playing in a competition, but I genuinely can't see why anybody would *need* to buy a card like this. Sure I'll need to replace my card first, but on a bang-for-buck basis I fail to see how anybody could justify this.

    Scan were flogging "no-name" (MSI I think) 2Gbs for a smidge over £200 last time I looked - and a couple of those..for less than this..

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    I must have a right cherry of a card then; I have 2 x EVGA gtx 780 SC ACX's and, without touching the voltage, have managed to get both (in sli of course) to 1,150mhz core (boosted to something like, 1,283?) and an effective 8,000mhz memory. Already supplied a link to the fire strike score for this on the thread "what does your main PC get in firestrike" or whatever it was called.

    I realize that, not all card perform the same etc but for me to have gotten 2 cards that can both OC that far without voltage tweaks, either I'm really lucky or the normal SC ACX you guys got wasn't exactly the pic of the bunch.

    Either way, can't rate the ACX cooler highly enough. It's a beast of cooler, very quiet and so tiny compared to the competition.

    What's also worth noting is, you say this card boosted to a constant 1,150mhz core during bench? When I run my normal SC ACX (which I believe is supposed to be 1,0006mhz at "stock") they booth boost to a constant 1,150mhz core. So, as you said in the review, really no point getting this card unless you plan to over clock further as, at factory clocks, it appears to run the same as the far cheaper SC ACX
    Last edited by peterb; 25-01-2014 at 12:38 AM. Reason: Correct typo

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    I cant help but think that they look damn ugly. Just two small fans stuck into an expanse of cheap looking black plastic... The smaller versions look much nicer because the fans are more proportionate to the size of the rest of the cooler. Just my opinion ofc!

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    ^^ true but, even with a windowed case, you can't really see it once it's installed can you? And I'd rather they focus on/put the money into performance and practicality (size of cooler vs MSI, Palit, Gigabyte etc) than aesthetics. That's just my opinion though

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Well if you have a mini-ITX case with the mobo flat then you can see it really easily or if you have one of the Silverstone cases with a rotated mobo then it is also visible. Also the MSI Lightning cards are really good performance and cheaper and look better so I wouldn't really say that the EVGA is so much better than everything else that they can afford to ignore aesthetics.

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    I understand where you're coming from but, as you said in your post, looks are in the eye of the beholder. I love msi too and in my last 4 builds have always had their mobo's and normally their gpu's too but I can honestly say, no cooler (on a gnu) has ever impressed more than the ACX and I'm not an EVGA fan boy, this is the first time I've ever owned anything EVGA. The cooler, even with me over clocking it further than the out-of-the box, barely goes above 60%(with ambient temperatures ranging from 20-25c) and is so quiet. At 100%, fair enough it's loud, but the only way you'd need it so high is with voltage increase and I doubt anyone could actually OC this card and max the cooler out.

    All this from a card that is actually a dual slot (MSI is more like 2.5). That I have personally had the experience with, this is the best 3rd party cooler I've used in terms of size, performance and noise and I have had MSI lightning and gaming, gainward phantom, xfx (ghost is it?) and a friend has had gigabyte windforce 3 and asus dcu2.

    At the end of the day, I'm far more bothered about performance with all my components than aesthetics and I would wager that the kind of people willing to shell out £600+ on a card, probably feel the same. Not all, but most

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Never ran the test without sli enabled before but here is a regular 780ti SC ACX, no voltage change at all, running at 1,150mhz core and effective 8,000mhz vram

    http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2307361

    Really don't see the need for this "classified" edition if I'm being honest but I would highly recommend the regular SC ACX edition

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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Classified is one of the few Nvidia cards equipped with a second BIOS
    Really?
    Isn't a dual BIOS switch a standard feature on AMD cards? I know mine has one and I understand it's positively ancient by comparison...
    [removed] it says NVIDIA, not AMD... [removed]

    Mod edit: I've removed the personal attack and swearing in your post. For future reference, it's not acceptable on HEXUS.
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    Re: Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified

    Quote Originally Posted by havok585 View Post
    [removed] it says NVIDIA, not AMD... [removed]
    Jeez, mate... Are you having a bad day at work, or do you simply not like people using AMD?

    JUST for you, I shall rephrase - I have an AMD card. It has a dual BIOS switch. I have heard other AMD cards have this feature and since it seems like such a good idea that reviewers really rated it, I assumed the oh-so-wonderful Nvidia cards would have had something similar already...
    Last edited by jim; 30-01-2014 at 10:51 AM.

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