Well don't know where to start. Been ati for years up until Bf4 and non stop issues. I had a 7870 2gig and just, I found bf4 frustrating. Weather with the newest mantle drivers or not. Stuttering and spikes and whatnot. So upgrade the gpu i thought. I wanted a new R9 card but I have an issue for paying more then i should be just cause of the mining. I found a guy selling this 680 used in town. Was asking 300.00 and i said i could go 220. He actually bite. ( not sure if i paid to much but im pretty sure i got a good deal) I read up on evga warranties and found out it follows the card and not the original owner. Looked up the number and sure enough it's all good 770 days left. Met him held my breath on startup, installed the drivers and time to test. I don't know much about hardware I was expecting some increased fps, but man what a friggin difference. Im not sure why it's so great on my system compared to the 7870 but silky smooth, the game is fantastic. I only wished i tried out the competitor sooner
Considering it's a higher end card I'd hope there would be a difference. Congrats on the new card, but I'm not sure if I'd have made that upgrade. I hope you managed to sell your 7870 for a good price.
Thanks. I was eyeballing the 770 4 gig, but i didn't want to spend that much. I know i can sell it fast for 140, so 80.00 bucks was my actual cost. Just seems to be such an increase for low cost feel kind of stunned or something. Now i just need a aftermarket cpu cooler crank it up and away we go.
Good price.....now I'm trying to figure out a way to talk TK down to that price.... =X Enjoy that 680. It's going to be a while until Mantle is a viable alternative to DirectX
It's actually a killer price and if I had $300, I'd gladly take the card off his hands. They're still going for a lot higher on e-bay which is where my 7950 is likely to be headed soon if I can figure out a way to package it so it gets shipped safely. I'm actually looking for a 660 (non-Ti) for SLI.
Sell it now while the prices are high. You may get enough to jump into a 780 for little out of pocket.
That's a good one actually, never thought of flipping it. Im just glowing right now, heck i'm even seeing stuff in games i never seen before fog and just extra detail in general. I thought these ran really hot but not seeing it yet.
The temperatures depend a lot on what cooler the card has. You're seeing new things in games because the 680 has a lot more power than the 7870 allowing for higher graphics settings. It's always nice to be able to turn up the graphics settings just a little higher. I'm planning to take Loophole's advice and list my 7950 on ebay this week. I'll have to post pictures of mine though because it has an aftermarket cooler attached to it.
I had a pair of GTX 460's, then made the mistake last year of getting rid of them and getting a pair of 2GB Radeon 7850's. What a mistake that was, had various driver issues off an on for a year, and then the last couple of months daily display driver crashes. I sold the 7850's. Not wanting to break the bank, I got a pair of ASUS GTX760-DC2OC-2GD5 which are mini ITX cards, put the cards in SLI and they run all my games including Diablo 3 far better and smoother than the 7850's ever did, and with the graphic options maxed out. When I had the 7850's I couldn't even load Skyrim up with mods, cause the Radeon drivers would cause Skyrim to crash.
Diablo3 really isn't a hard game to run at "max" settings. I used to play it with a single 7870 on "max" settings. It is a "twimtbp" title as are all Blizzard games. (even though Blizzard denies it, they are a "twimtbp" studio)
The 7850's couldn't run Diablo 3 at max setting sadly, had to set the shadows to medium to make the game playable. Worse the 7850's had frame stuttering problems with Skyrim and problems with various other games. My GTX 760's don't have the problems that the 7850's had, and I'm darn glad to be rid of the 7850's. I really like my mini ITX 760's, cause they don't take up a lot of space on my motherboard or inside my case. Haven't seen a need to overclock my cards, they're fast enough as it is.
680 is light years better than what u had, plus u get all nvidia quality stuff all around. 680/770 today are best graphic cards u can buy(if u can't afford 780). So yeah enjoy don't forget to overclock the card, use Shadowplay and have fun.
at 1080 the 680s still kick major butt, most users that will disagree are 670 owners believing the 670 is but just a ball hair away from a 680 when it just ain't.
This applied at launch when everyone realized that a 670 was $100 cheaper and only 10% slower. Also at first the 670 overclocked better on average than the 680's that is not the case now it seems. At current prices the 770 is a phenomenal card for 1080p.
Hi all, also coming to the green side after being a faithful 4870x2 user for 4 years until it died on me and then I had to RMA my R9 280x Toxic due to artefacting....a lesson well earned and learned....hope it's greener on this side..... EVGA 780 Ti SC is what I have on my mind.....
