khicharkumar said:
Well MSI and ASUS and both great. I would go blindly for anyone if I was not to go deeper. Otherwise you can make the choice upon the goodies the GPU offers like free games or some accessories. If you want to dial deeper about cooling performance and overclockability check the reviews of both one by one and you can note the load temps and max stable clocks and make the choice.
http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/4639/10/nvidia-geforce-...
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All four manufacturers - ASUS, EVGA, Inno3D and MSI - made something special out of their GeForce GTX 780. The card that impressed us the most, however, was the ASUS GTX780-DC2OC-3GD5. The new cooler works like charm, and its performance is clearly reflected by the test results. The card also manages to stay very quiet and offers the best overclocking potential thanks to the new cooler. ASUS earns the Gold Award for its card.
We can't leave out the card from MSI. While it's slightly less overclocked and has less overall overclocking potential than the cards from Inno3D and EVGA, it's extremely quiet under load, the most silent of them all. It's also significantly cheaper than the other three, so if you're not planning on extreme overclocking, this MSI card is the best option.
An honorable mention goes to the Inno3D card. Out of the box it's the fastest, and while you can yourself get the other cards to the same level of performance, it's nice to have it guaranteed if you're not an experienced overclocker.
The EVGA ACX Superclocked also isn't a bad card. The only problem is that about the same amount of money will net you the ASUS card, a card which is superior in terms of cooling, noise and overclocking potential. EVGA will have to drop its prices to MSI levels to keep its card interesting.
If you don't OC, then among the normal factory OC'd cards, the MSI is probably the best choice as it's the fastest clock "outta the box". I chose the Asus based upon the fact that it consistently reached the highest OC's in this and several other reviews who basically all said the same thing..... I have a pair of the Asus 780s (w/ EK Water Blocks and Backplates) with a 25% OC on the core (1189 ..... Boost Clock gets well above 1250) and a 20% OC on the memory.
However, that MSI card has been replaced by the new N Gaming series which is a faster, better and quieter card. I can't say a bad thing about either one of the two and both PCBs are 10.5" long which will be of significance if water cooling.
The only one I'd avoid is the EVGA SC series as unlike just about all other factory overclocked cards with custom PCBs and beefed up VRMS, it uses a reference PCB and VRM..... heat is generally more of an issue for the VRM than it is for the GPU and being able to spread it over more phases is an advantage.
The EVGA Classified and MSI Lightning are completely different animals..... they take the multi-phase VRM concept to the extreme and produce a very unique product...... of course there's a corresponding price increase to go with it and the PCB size can cause problems in some builds.
I'll add another one to the mix..... if ya thinking of water cooling, the Asus 780 Poseidon can be installed "on air" and then upgraded to water later without disassembly giving you 780 Ti performance levels. Paired with the Asus Maximus VI Formula which also has a MoBo Waterblock, you can move quite easily to water cooling by just adding a pump, reservoir and CPU Block.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...