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ASUS or Gigabyte gtx780?

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DooKey said:
Just do a google search on Asus RMA and you might find that you want to go with Gigabyte.
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Exactly!

I have had a bad experience and have been lied to directly by ASSUS so I will avoid them when possible. I'd have to check but iirc it was the Indiana office which I had problems with.

EVGA +1
 
Good call on EVGA. If you aren't happy, you can step-up to something better within 90 days. Hurts a little less if you end up spreading out a $700 card, and the ladies usually aren't as upset. :biggrin:

What kind of sale price are you getting?
 
My first custom card EVER. I've only ever bought reference. Must say, the silence is pretty nice. Going to work on some overclocking now.

Got a B1 steppipng with Hynix. This should be entertaining.

Are there any guides to overclocking kepler based GPU's? All this boost stuff is a foreign language to me right now. Seems Precision only allows me to up the power target 5%. Any way around that?

Is there any reason why it's stuck at 575mhz core clock?
 
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I wasn't best pleased with my Gigabyte 5770 because the default fan management settings must have been devised by someone whose hearing aid had run out of batteries.

I've worked around it with MSI AfterBurner (it now runs at 1000rpm when idle and 41C, pretty much silent, as opposed to a pretty noisy 1750rpm idle spin by default), but my feeling is that if they failed on such a basic point of detail, then how much of a crap did they give about the product.

What's EVGA's fan management like? Pls report fan RPM on idle because "it's really quiet" is a relative term.
 
mikeymikec said:
I wasn't best pleased with my Gigabyte 5770 because the default fan management settings must have been devised by someone whose hearing aid had run out of batteries.

I've worked around it with MSI AfterBurner (it now runs at 1000rpm when idle and 41C, pretty much silent, as opposed to a pretty noisy 1750rpm idle spin by default), but my feeling is that if they failed on such a basic point of detail, then how much of a crap did they give about the product.

What's EVGA's fan management like? Pls report fan RPM on idle because "it's really quiet" is a relative term.
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EVGA's is just like afterburner.

I'm using a really agressive fan profile while I find my stable overclocks. It's going up to 75% fan speed, but the highest temperature I saw was 61C. It's still virtually inaudible over my case fans, and far more silent than my reference 7970 was.
 
VulgarDisplay said:
I got the gigabyte. Should be here tomorrow from amazon. It was the same price as the EVGA.

Back to nvidia after 4 years away.
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Just a friendly warning from a user coming from 2 Windforce 780 Rev 2.0 cards. 2 cards and 3 sets of fans later and finally got a good set of fans. Replacing the fans requires you to disassemble the entire heatsink too. It was a nightmare to say the least.
 
OCGuy said:
Afterburner is showing 575 as the max clock, or the card is idling @ 575mhz?
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Precision is showing the max clock as 575, but gpuz is reporting the correct clocks. May try out afterburner instead. I also can't get on screen display of everything to work in precision.
 
OCGuy said:
Yea I would just DL the latest AB beta and be done with it.
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Just did. Core clocks are reporting correct now, but my memory looks to be showing half speed. 3005 is the highest it goes in afterburner, but gpuz shows 1502Mhz for 6008mhz. Not sure why Afterburner is only reporting 3005.
 
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Just did. Core clocks are reporting correct now, but my memory looks to be showing half speed. 3005 is the highest it goes in afterburner, but gpuz shows 1502Mhz for 6008mhz. Not sure why Afterburner is only reporting 3005.
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3005 is correct since it is Double Data Rate.......if you download Kombuster for AB, it will put 100% load on your card. Then check the AB graphs and see what your card actually spins up to.
 
bigsnyder said:
Don't pick a card based on which one might overclock better, the Gigabyte Ghz version is not a guarantee that it will clock any higher, the only guarantee is the out of box speed.
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+1 this. The 780 is an excellent card, and the chip is the exact same from any manufacturer/ reseller. Yes, they do have some bin testing, but in all actuality it is still a lottery. The nice thing with the 780's though, is that I haven't heard of people not getting a good overclock out of their card, providing they give it sufficient cooling. They are also very easy to overclock with the new software, so I wouldn't bother getting a pre o/c'd card.
 
Might not be a very good overclocker...

Throttled to 1080mhz in crysis 3 and had artifacts on desktop when I exited the game.

Will a different bios allow higher power limit because I think that's what I hit?

Temps were around 60C.
 
VulgarDisplay said:
Might not be a very good overclocker...

Throttled to 1080mhz in crysis 3 and had artifacts on desktop when I exited the game.

Will a different bios allow higher power limit because I think that's what I hit?

Temps were around 60C.
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Isn't the reference base clock 863mhz? But yea with those good temps it sounds like you are hitting power limits, someone here with a 780 will chime in hopefully about other BIOS. Good luck!

Edit: Seems like you are doing better than the review sample, which was given a + review. (This is with default voltage, however)

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GeForce_GTX_780_OC/29.html

Maximum overclock on our card is 1035 MHz GPU clock (8% overclocking) and 1850 MHz memory (23% overclock).

The GTX 780 overclocks really well, reaching clocks that go beyond those of an overclocked GTX Titan. Memory overclocks just as well and makes this card an excellent GTX Titan alternative for overclockers who just can't spend $1000.

Gigabyte's card reaches slightly lower maximum clocks than the NVIDIA reference design that we also tested today, but the difference is rather small. What is important to highlight here is that Gigabyte's cooler design allows the card to deliver higher performance anyways. Boost 2.0 will reduce clocks once the card reaches 80°C, which happens on the NVIDIA reference design but never with the Gigabyte GTX 780 OC.
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VulgarDisplay said:
Might not be a very good overclocker...

Throttled to 1080mhz in crysis 3 and had artifacts on desktop when I exited the game.

Will a different bios allow higher power limit because I think that's what I hit?

Temps were around 60C.
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VD is this the Gigabyte GTX 780 Ghz (1017/1071) you bought in the link below? If so you should be around 1167 in game boost out of the box and most likely has the B1 chip and I believe comes with Samsung or Hynix memory? If you went with the Gigabyte GTX 780 I would return it imo and get the Ghz model below if you can.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125488
 
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Remember, there are three clock rates with Kepler - core clock, boost clock, and actual in-game clock.

When you mentioned 1080MHz, was that in-game (shown in Afterburner), or boost clock (shown in GPU-z)? 1080MHz would be quite low for an in-game clock rate, but fine for the Kepler boost rate.

Is this your card? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125471

It has a default boost clock of 1006MHz, which would translate to about 1095MHz in game, so 1080MHz would be good for the boost clock, bad for the in-game clock.

By the way, hitting the power limit will not cause artifacts. If you're getting artifacts and you were overclocking, the core or memory clock was too high. If you got artifacts at default clocks, you have a defective card.
 
In heaven benchmark I had set my offset to +104 so my boost clock was going all the way to around 1147 I think. In crysis 3 it only went to 1080mhz. I can only assume I hit a power wall.
 
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