GTX 480 to GTX 780

[Jaws2002]

why dont you save some cash get a 770 and then get a haswell based chip and board.

The GTX780 is based on GK110 GPU used in the Titan, the 770 is based on GK104 GPU used in the 680. So, the 770 is like an overclocked 680 and the 780 is more like an underclocked Titan.

I have an EVGA GTX780 Superclocked with ACX cooler for almost a month now and it rocks.

I got a 27 inch Dell 2713H monitor before Christmas and native resolution is 2560x1440. My two year old, dual chip GTX590 couldn't handle that resolutuin unless the game had perfect support for SLI.
This 780 I got beats the dual chip 590 in absolutely every game I play and in games like CLOD, that are so poorly optimized for SLI the performance gap is huge. CLOD was barely playable at my new resolution if I maxed out the settings.

Here's what my new card does in black death @2560x1440. All settings maxed out, SSAO and all:



Just out of curiosity I tried it at 1920x1080 since most people play at that resolution. Result:



My card, EVGA GTX780 Superclocked with ACX cooler, is factory overclocked and when I got it, about three weeks ago, it was the best 780 buy.
It's only ten bucks over the reference stock clocked card and it comes with an outstanding cooler, that let me add decent overclocking without heating up at all.


http://www.evga.com/Products/Product...03G-P4-2784-KR



The clocks for the base model 780 are 863MHz Base Clock and 902MHz Boost Clock. The superclocked came set at 967MHz Base Clock and 1020MHz Boost Clock and I pushed it to 1228MHZ boost for benchmarking:




It won't play games at that clock, but i'm playing with it overclocked at 1201Mhz and it stays colder than my older 590 was at idle.

This is a great model and with only ten bucks over the base price, It's a no brainer.