GTX 780 Ti build under £1000 possible?

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Anthony OBrien

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So my mate asked me a question, the gist of that question is, Can I build a PC from the ground up with a 780Ti for under £1000?

So I started looking into this and I've come close, at between £1087.81 - £1173.29 (Linked below)
Now the cheaper of the two is going with some of the bits my mate wants (namely case and he doesn't care what ram as long as it is cheap)
The more expensive of the two is mine, basically that one is black/white themed (Thus why paying extra for the ram) also i personally like the case.

Now of course I have made one with limited knowledge and one with wanting to keep it pretty (at least my version of pretty)

So I leave the question, with your knowledge could you do this? Would it be viable? Is there really any reason?

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Low: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/fusiomax/saved/2QBz
High: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/fusiomax/saved/2QEc
 
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Anthony OBrien

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Why? Because!

No really, it's just to see if it is possible, and yes a 780 would probably be a better choice, I do really want to see if it is possible though. It's one of those silly things, and maybe I should have marked it as silly at some point in the title or body.

His monitor resolution is... like 900p or something, but he is planning on getting a 3x 1080p setup.

 
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In my opinion using a 780ti for 1080p gaming is a bit of a waste, especially if his monitor is 60Hz. Those cards are great for higher resolution monitors like 1440p. I can understand wanting the biggest baddest GPU on the market but you're having to sacrifice so much in order to fit it into your build.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£83.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£68.45 @ Dabs)
Memory: PNY XLR8 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£38.23 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (£569.98 @ Dabs)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£47.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£88.26 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £986.86
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-17 21:27 GMT+0000)
 
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here is a build that gets pretty close to what you're looking for

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£83.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.98 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: GeIL EVO CORSA Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£60.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£68.99 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (£569.98 @ Dabs)
Case: Silverstone SST-RL01B-USB 3.0 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£33.61 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Be Quiet 700W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£62.99 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1029.52
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-17 21:32 GMT+0000)

However i wouldn't do it. The 780ti performs about on par with the r9-290x which is quite a bit cheaper. when you look at what a r9-290 does on a custom fan profile (or with a custom cooler) you can get within 5% of 780ti performance for nearly £200 cheaper.

That much saved bling lets you do a lot with a build.

Simply put the 780ti is too expensive to justify it's performance. Furthermore, 3gb of vram makes it highly unactractive from an SLi perspective, as a card of that power is designed for 4k resolutions, and at 4k you'll probably want 2 in SLi. At 4k games will bump up against and start to pass through 3gb of vram (a year or two down the road they will... currently 3gb is fine).

I like what nvidia is trying to do with the 780ti but the performance isn't there to justify it... and when you consider the significant QC issues they're having with these cards, i would probably pass on it for a cheaper and almost as good r9-290/290x or 780.

I would much prefer this build

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£113.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£80.94 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£95.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: GeIL EVO CORSA Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£60.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£70.95 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.00 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB Video Card (£320.88 @ Dabs)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£58.98 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Be Quiet 700W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£62.99 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£65.99 @ Aria PC)
Other: ARCTIC COOLING Xtreme III (£47.90)
Total: £1021.59
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-17 21:48 GMT+0000)
 
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