I had that, it was really crap. The card that I had anyway. Only good thing was good VRAM. Mine had fan issues and horrible coil whine. It ran hot and was noisy. Maybe I had bad luck and maybe I had really good luck with the GPU this time (except VRAM, although, >10% OC isn't that bad for Elpida).
I'm at a dilemma as I seem to be indecisive lol. My card is currently 18 days old. Now its the 780 w/ ACX cooler and the fan has been annoying me, just one fan and the fact that ACX design is faulty. Its an alright cooler but people can get rattling, fan noise and its slow to dissipate heat and gets loud for me (I'm anal about sound, my noctuas are usually the loudest in my case, now the acx is at load.) I have a new Accelero here next to me got it yesterday and havent installed it. Now my dilemma is either (what I'm trying to do right now) sell the card for $400, pay $50+ and get an R9 290 Gaming or just keep my card, install accelero, call it a day. Mind you I have an mATX motherboard and a 350D w/ an H80i, that being said installing an Accelero adds a slot and then some more on the bottom and the new "back plate" would interfere with my current H80i setup and would have to move it a slot down, this is why I opted to maybe get an R9 290 instead. Why the MSI? Well my bro and I have tested: 770 4GB w/ ACX = cooler was faulty, had rattling 780 3GB w/ ACX = heatsink was fine but fan whine and slow heat dissipation 780 3GB Classified = ran fine, had slight rattling.. wasnt fan of LED lights 780 DC II = super quiet, ran like a champ.. limited warranty was the turn off (since it was open box it only had 90 days) 760 Gaming = Super quiet, doesn't get hot, quieter than DCII 770 Gaming = Super quiet, doesn't get hot, quieter than DCII TL;DR, so that gave the conclusion whether I sell the card locally for $400 and get an R9 290 Gaming (for the cooler). Or stick with the card, install the accelero, looks kinda ugly in an all black/red/led case, but it will stay cool for the summer lol.
R9 290 Gaming is nice but... it can get quite hot and definitely starts to make some noise when overclocked. I wouldn't recommend switching to 290. I actually switched back from 290 Gaming. Asus DC2 is way, way quieter than the 290 Gaming when both are clocked at speeds where they are about as fast (i.e. 1200MHz for 780, 1100MHz for 290). 290 Gaming is also much hotter (about 15c).
Ah yeah thanks for your input! I was going for the 290 for the cooling and looks but was also reconsidering about the temp (living in florida doesnt help.. especially close to summer lol). I could consider the DC2 as well. Ah well if someone bites then I'll sell the card if not I'll probably just install the accelero lol.
My 290 was hitting 85c. Summer would have been unpleasent for sure. Since you have EVGA, you can change the cooling without loosing the warranty so accelero is not a bad option.
Just go for the 780 Gaming I love mine still very quite even at 80% fan (it's clocked at 1253/7008 @ 1.225V). Mind you it replaced a 6970 reference card and that was a jet engine at anything over 50% fan.
So where do I get these sky net bios my 780 only boosts to 1203mhz only on far cry 3 our other graphics inducing games. My ram got to 7000 thigh.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1393791/official-nvidia-gtx-780-owners-club Make sure you use the right version for the default bios that came with your card. For example 80.80.21.XX.XX = B1 revision.
1203 is pretty good, honestly. Even with SkyNet bios, I can only hit 1189 with the max extra voltage. Which made it kind of a waste of time, as with zero additional voltage it does 1150 without any problems.
^^thats exactly the clocks I get with the extra voltage 1189 stock voltage gives me 1150. not worth the added heat unless benching
Guys i have the OC on my sig, without moding my bios obviously. I know my memory OC is pretty conservative. But, if i choose to mod my bios, the performance gain will be significant ?
you will gain 13mhz for every 13mv of voltage added roughly. figure around 39mhz or so. whats the vram manufacturer on your 780? I got an extra 39 mhz on 680sli and 780ti sli
Okay, I'm 99% sure that this is stable at 1,2GHz with stock volts (1,139 V) and VRAM at 6660 MHz. ACIV, Batman AO, Tomb Raider, ESO and Mass Effect 2 have all run without any issues. I might try doing 1300 MHz benchmark runs but this is just so quiet now and the OC is massive compared to reference so I'm not sure I even bother OCing more. ASIC quality is completely random number in my opinion. No idea if GTX 780 Gaming % is same as 290 Gaming fan speed % but 290 Gaming started to make really noticeable noise around 62-65 % which was something around 2300 RPM if I remember correctly.
^ Ye that's around the same limit my old TF3 started to get loud, although they were only 80mm fans vs these 100mm TF4 now.. So you say this DirectCUII is great? Edit: what's the base clock for that 1200mhz boost, or is this 1200mhz base + boost? I see they're quite cheap now, 360€ no tax :nerd: http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog...DP-HDMI-DVI::23913.html?campaign=psm/geizhals And same shop I bought my haswell rig last summer
^^Latest GPU-Z can read memory maker. Nvidia Inspector can too. I am talking about the actual boost clock since base clock hardly means anything. But yeah, this has been great. I got lucky this time and 6660MHz for memory is better than what I expected since this has Elpida. MSI Gaming would be great but ASUS has better VRM area and cooling. They fixed the cooling in Radeon 290 version.
