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Im building a gaming pc this year and im going to put 2 gpus in there and I can't choose between the asus 770 or the gigabyte 770 I like asus for tge backplate and I like the gigabyte fir the 3 fabs but I can't decide
 
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At the performance level of 2xGTX770 you may wish to consider graphics cards with at least 3GB per GPU such as this Gigabyte GTX770 4GB ($380 USD): http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn770oc4gd

Very few games can take advantage of that yet, though Skyrim definitely can use more than 2GB with certain mods. There are a couple other games once you crank up anti-aliasing I believe that would break 2GB.

If that is too much then I recommend the Asus GTX770 2GB for $320:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx770dc2oc2gd5

(In SLI the VRAM is the same on both cards. You don't get 4GB with 2x2GB cards you effectively have 2GB for the game to use still)

You may wish to consider a single GTX780 3GB as well...
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At the performance level of 2xGTX770 you may wish to consider graphics cards with at least 3GB per GPU such as this Gigabyte GTX770 4GB ($380 USD): http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn770oc4gd

Very few games can take advantage of that yet, though Skyrim definitely can use more than 2GB with certain mods. There are a couple other games once you crank up anti-aliasing I believe that would break 2GB.

If that is too much then I recommend the Asus GTX770 2GB for $320:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gtx770dc2oc2gd5

(In SLI the VRAM is the same on both cards. You don't get 4GB with 2x2GB cards you effectively have 2GB for the game to use still)

You may wish to consider a single GTX780 3GB as well:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-03gp42784kr
 
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no its not the same the 3 fan gigabyte is much louder, smaller fan spin faster and tend to have higher pitch making them much more noticeable...op if you intend to sli on this defenetly go with a 2 fan design, the biggest you fans you can find otherwise you will have the impression to be sat next to a jet engine...id recommand the msi twinfrozr gaming oc, its one of the most silent and better cooled card on the market, look at the size of the fans on these...bigger fans move more air thus allow them to rotate slower...
 
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This review disagrees with you:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7392/the-geforce-gtx-770-roundup-evga-gigabyte-and-msi-compared/6

"The winner here is Gigabyte at 43.8dB under BF3, followed by MSI at 44.8dB."

I'd personally get the ASUS if I was buying a 2GB GTX770 (it's not in the above comparison).
 
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Uh, count the fans... there are two.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7392/the-geforce-gtx-770-roundup-evga-gigabyte-and-msi-compared/3

However, the LIGHTNING version which says "Twin Frozr" also is overclocked by almost 100MHz over the other Twin Frozr which does make a big difference in noise.

Under load the Lightning setup is 34dB and the non-Lighting is 29dB which is very significant (10dB difference is 2x noise difference so I believe the Lightning setup would be just over 50% louder), though I suspect you'd get more similar values if you had the same GPU frequency set.

So I apologize for using the wrong "Twin Frozr" card but it was an easy mistake since the Lightning also says "Twin Frozr" it's just clocked higher.

THIS is the quieter (and lower clocked) of the Twin Frozr cards: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_770_TF_Gaming/1.html
 
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haha looks like we both made a mistake here, the gtx 780 lightning is the one with a 3 fan cooler, not the 770...lol
but i own the gtx 780 twinfrozr gaming oc and even this 780 that i run to max overclock (1250mhz boost) is whisper quiet under load, and reviews also rated this card as a very quiet card..i can only imagine how quit a 770 would be!
 
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