any GTX770 users???

[amenx]

if you got 1300 then that's very impressive. Even the Lightning reviews I've seen for this card are usually only around 1250.the higher power target really doesn't help though because even at my max overclock I'm only using just 82 percent of the power at peak loads. I really expected much more out of the memory though.

Yep, memory can only get around 7460 or something.

 

[jetlitheone]

How good is this card?

 

[Boondox]

I just purchased the eVGA reference GTX 770 and waiting for it to arrive, along with the rest of my parts. Hopefully using a Xeon E3-1240 won't bottleneck it too much.

 

[RussianSensation]

The new MSI TwinFrozr Gaming has the new upgraded cooler/fans. It should even be better than the MSI Lightning version of the 770.

The noise levels should be very good. However, I can't see how spending ~$320-330 on a 770 2GB is a good deal right now with R9 290 after-market cards imminent and smoking it by 25% while delivering DX11.2, double the VRAM and Mantle update.

770's performance in BF4 also leaves much to be desired, where a $70 R9 290 is faster by 34%!

Toyota, I think this time you really should have switched to AMD.

 

[manko]

What is the MSI Twin Frozr 770? I do not believe such card exists.

http://us.msi.com/product/vga/N770-TF-2GD5-OC.html

 

[RussianSensation]

http://us.msi.com/product/vga/N770-TF-2GD5-OC.html

I see that. To me MSI is now placing their after-market cards into 2 categories: MSI Gaming and MSI Lightning. The naming TwinFrozr refers to the cooler which is used in both of those cards.

The actual cards are called Gaming & Lightning series. This way you instantly know what card is being talked about.

 

[toyota]

It had a promo code and a MIR so I paid $298 for mine. plus I still have the games to sell so that should make it around $250 when its all said and done.

the 290 cards with aftermarket coolers will be way over 400 bucks so at that point might as well get the 780 now if that is the case.

 

[RussianSensation]

But 780 is $500, still $100 more. Anyway, if you are going to upgrade to 20nm cards next year, this is just a stop-gap card for you

 

[toyota]

But 780 is $500, still $100 more. Anyway, if you are going to upgrade to 20nm cards next year, this is just a stop-gap card for you

yes but the 780 SC ACX was $485 last week. sell the games and thats $435. we dont even have any non reference 290 cards so again they could cost as much as the 780 after selling the games anyway. plus the 780 SC ACX is a wee bit faster when both the 290 and 780 are oced while using WAY less power.

lets try to get back on topic.

 

[Boondox]

The new MSI TwinFrozr Gaming has the new upgraded cooler/fans. It should even be better than the MSI Lightning version of the 770.

The noise levels should be very good. However, I can't see how spending ~$320-330 on a 770 2GB is a good deal right now with R9 290 after-market cards imminent and smoking it by 25% while delivering DX11.2, double the VRAM and Mantle update.

770's performance in BF4 also leaves much to be desired, where a $70 R9 290 is faster by 34%!

Toyota, I think this time you really should have switched to AMD.

I don't know where you got your price quotes from, but any R9 290 that I see is $80 to $90 CDN higher than a reference GTX 770. Bare in mind that BF4 is new to the market, and GPU vendors have yet to play catchup with driver optimization. Something tells that those scores were done with a driver set prior to R331 being released.

 

[Carfax83]

770's performance in BF4 also leaves much to be desired, where a $70 R9 290 is faster by 34%!

It was like that with BF3 as well upon release, but NVidia is now faster..

That's not to say the GTX 770 will ever equal or surpass a 290 (it won't), but you can't really judge hardware performance on a PC game upon release, because patches and driver updates will make a huge difference as time goes by. BF4 will perform much better on NVidia and AMD hardware once the driver optimizations and patches ramp up..

This time though, Mantle is AMD's hidden ace so to speak. I don't think NVidia will be able to optimize their drivers for BF4 to the extent that it would equal Mantle's performance.

 

[Carfax83]

I don't know where you got your price quotes from, but any R9 290 that I see is $80 to $90 CDN higher than a reference GTX 770. Bare in mind that BF4 is new to the market, and GPU vendors have yet to play catchup with driver optimization. Something tells that those scores were done with a driver set prior to R331 being released.

Not that, but that review was done on Windows 7, which is known to perform poorly in BF4 compared to Windows 8, particularly on NVidia hardware.

It seems that on Windows 8, NVidia gets a very large performance increase in BF4..

 

[amenx]

Nvidia drivers need improvement. Especially when the 780 in RS chart = 7970ghz performance.

 

[skipsneeky2]

The 770 is pretty beast at its current msrp but man that chart makes it look like one stall looking card when compared to the $400 290....the chart looks goofy and possibly even questionable even with the $500 780 getting outran by the $400 290 by a good margin.