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770 or 780 msi card (none Ti)

MpfiveMpfive Member UncommonPosts: 308
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Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my 660ti to the 700 series

770 card ---   http://www.komplett.ie/komplett/product/zkb-01com/20205537/msi-geforce-gtx-770-gaming-2gb-pci-e/details.aspx

780 card ---   http://www.komplett.ie/komplett/product/zkb-01com/20207119/msi-geforce-gtx-780-gaming-3gb-pci-e/details.aspx

As you can see in the links theres a big cap in the price. Do you think I should get the 770 and save 150euro? Or get the 780 for future proof? Or just hold on to the 660ti untill the 800series arrives

Any advice be great, thanks:)

Comments

  • GruntyGrunty Member EpicPosts: 8,657

    What can't you do with your current setup?

    Other than bragging rights.

    "I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone.  It's not.  The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."  Robin Williams
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

    I certainly wouldn't buy a 770, as it's not a big enough upgrade to justify it.  It's merely a higher bin of the same GPU chip that you already have.

    That doesn't necessarily mean that I would buy a 780, though.  As Grunty alluded to, why are you looking to upgrade?  To that, I'll add, what else do you have in your system?

  • skyline385skyline385 Member Posts: 564

    Almost pointless to upgrade to a 770 from a 660Ti, as many others have said. Unless you need a 780 urgently i would say wait it out and let the prices drop further.

    Also, wait for GDC on March 20 atleast for DX12 supported list of cards. Microsoft have said Xbox One will be getting DX12 update so this Gen's PC GPUs will probably be getting it as well but still wait for the official confirmation.

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  • IncomparableIncomparable Member UncommonPosts: 1,138
    my video card is old and i still dont need to upgrade. Its older than the 600 series. But i also do not run on 3 screens or what ever other reasons a person would actually need to upgrade more than i have... since i run everyting on high settings and its smooth so far. even swtor was not that bad in the open world pvp... yea...

    “Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble”

  • Crazy_StickCrazy_Stick Member Posts: 1,059
    Originally posted by skyline385

    Almost pointless to upgrade to a 770 from a 660Ti, as many others have said. Unless you need a 780 urgently i would say wait it out and let the prices drop further.

    Also, wait for GDC on March 20 atleast for DX12 supported list of cards. Microsoft have said Xbox One will be getting DX12 update so this Gen's PC GPUs will probably be getting it as well but still wait for the official confirmation.

     

    This. Right now is an awful time to be looking at an upgrade or a system build if you can wait a while. With MS pushing Windows 9 in April, Direct X 12 coming, the crappy quality of Intel mother boards (particularly in the Z87 series) this gen, and the crypto mining litecoin craze driving AMD card prices into the nut case zone... Just wait a while man. Just wait.

  • bhugbhug Member UncommonPosts: 944

    140310
    The GTX 700 series ($230-480) was not designed to come out and replace the GTX TITAN ($1700), right.

    660ti $360-230 202-412W 30-64*C 915MHz, 192b, pcie2, 1344cuda, 2GB gddr5, 2dvi/hdmi/dp, two 6pin (Aug 2012) 114GT/s 24GP/s, 28nm;

    gtx 770 $320 114-440W 33-81* 1GHZ, 256b, pcie2, 1536cuda, 6 and 8 pin pwr, 2dvi/hdmi/dp, 11.2x4.4", 12v@42a req. 2.1 Lb, memory bandwidth 245GB/s, dx11.2, openGL 4.3 (June 2013) 147GT/s 36.9GP/s, 28nm;

    gtx 780 $500 129-460W 34-83* 863MHz-oc1.3GHz (oc1.187v) 384b, pcie2 2304cuda (Ti 875MHz, fill rate 210GT/s, memory 336GB/s), 3GB, 6&8 pin, 2dvi(i&d)/hdmi/dp, CopperMOS, New SFC, Hi-C CAPs, DrMOS4 and Dark Solid Cap, dx11.1 openGL 4.3, 10.5x4.4", 3 yr war, memory 288GB/s, (May 2013) 165GT/s 41GP/s, 28nm;
    lightning (gk110 Kepler arch [Titan with scaled down CUDA cores {2304 vs 2688} and < gddr5 memory {3GB} 384b 6GHz clock]).

    edit
    ps the ddr4 (2133MHz 288pin) mobo, 8c haswellE (rev 3 lga2011) and 14nm skylake (tABLEt) intel cpu should be out by 2015, when many of the high end systems will be updated, esp if W9 comes out.
    dp1.2 supports 2160p @ 60Hz but takes 199% transport stream; dp1.3 32.4Gbps link; 3840x2160 pixel with 10b/ch color @ 60Hz req 16Gb/s bandwidth (eg. dp1.2 [2009] 5.4Gb/s, ~hdmi2 [1309], thunderbolt2)
    dual-dvi 8.16Gb/s, dp1.3 4K@60Hz 8.1Gbps/ch (Low Latency, Zero Artifact compression algorithm, beyond Cu bandwidth limitation is 8K res 7680x4320 [16:9] 33.1Mpixel, 8192x4320 [17:9] 35.3Mp) whuxga 7680x4800 36.8Mp; uxga 1600x1200@60Hz 87MHz (@80Hz 116MHz);

    sata3 bus (6Gb/s) vs sata express and pcie (16Gb/s) attached (new I/O interface) ssd, e.g. mini pcie (< 100GB) for notebook.

    What res display are you using, 1280x720 on a 17" monitor not really need the gpu horsepower that 1920x1080 on a 27" would?
    What cpu? 2 or 4GHz, 2 core or 6c
    The diference in performance would be about 40% between a 780 and the 660, but at a $500 price. For that kind of money maby a 512GB ssd system drive and doubling the system memory may give beter results.

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  • jdnewelljdnewell Member UncommonPosts: 2,237

    No reason to upgrade to the 770 IMO.

    If the money is just burning a hole in your pocket to be spent then go with the 780. Otherwise just wait another few months. The 660ti is very capable and unless your doing something besides standard gaming should be more than enough.

     

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