As the title asks, ill be ordering the rest of my parts in about a week. GPU is one of them. On amazon the Classified gtx 770 is only 10$ more than the 4gb 770 SC ACX. Is it worth it? Ive read that its huge and honestly my only concern is the weight. Im afraid it will bend my PCIe slot or damage my motherboard. I plan to SLI in the future. which is why i want the 4gb version so dont recommend the 2gb please. Do i have to worry about any weight sagging it? My case has plenty of room for it. Thanks guys!
EVGA GTX 770 Classified vs EVGA GTX 770 SC ACX
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The Classy is a "special" card .... I'd take the Gigabyte Windforce, Asus DCII and N Gaming Series but not an SC.
4 GB might have an impact someday but will provide no benefit to SLI ....even at 5760 res, it has little discernable impact. BF4 will use more than 2 GB if it's there but I have not seen it change the user experience to any extent.
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/gtx-770-4gb-vs-2gb-tested/3/
4 GB might have an impact someday but will provide no benefit to SLI ....even at 5760 res, it has little discernable impact. BF4 will use more than 2 GB if it's there but I have not seen it change the user experience to any extent.
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/gtx-770-4gb-vs-2gb-tested/3/
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Since the R9-290's price has come back down to reality, it really puts pressure on both the the GTX 770 and the GTX 780. Unless you are a diehard Nvidia fan, I would recommend a Sapphire R9-290.
If you have to have a Nvidia, then I would go with the GTX 780.
The GTX 770 has just enough performance to make you want to kick yourself for not spending the extra bucks on the GTX 780.
The 4GB is only really useful for use with multiple monitors. Otherwise it is not worth the extra money.
If you have to have a Nvidia, then I would go with the GTX 780.
The GTX 770 has just enough performance to make you want to kick yourself for not spending the extra bucks on the GTX 780.
The 4GB is only really useful for use with multiple monitors. Otherwise it is not worth the extra money.
terry4536
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The EVGA "Classy" graphics cards are high end products. The one I would look at is the GTX 780 Classified. The motherboard looks a lot like the Asus GTX 780 in construction, so it is definitely a custom PCB. And it is only $20 more.
I wouldn't recommend starting out with SLI in mind. It is better all around to have a single high end card rather than two in SLI. You avoid most of the heat issues and all of the micro stuttering. I would recommend a single GTX 780ti instead.
I wouldn't recommend starting out with SLI in mind. It is better all around to have a single high end card rather than two in SLI. You avoid most of the heat issues and all of the micro stuttering. I would recommend a single GTX 780ti instead.
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Micro stuttering is a feature almost exclusively linked to low budget cards. I have never seen micro stuttering on any card in SLI from the top 3 tiers.....
760, 770, 780 ...nada
660 Ti, 670, 680 .... nada.
560 Ti, 57, 589....nada.
Since the 5xx series, I have done more x60 SLI build than x80 single builds by far..... with the 560 Ti being $205 and the 580 at $500, you got 40% more performance for 80% of the cost of the 580..... NVidia saw that and adjusted pricing accordingly as the 580 kinda bombed once the public picked up on that. That performance / cost ration made the 560 series the best selling DX11 card ever till recently when it was passed by the 660 IIRC. I'd say that since the 5xx series, about 6/10 builds I have been asked to do were SLI with most o the single card ones being single cards solely because of budget considerations ..... every one of them had SLI capable MoBos and PSUs
As for heat issues, if ya stayed away from the reference cards and the SC series, you were generally OK as long as ytour PSU, case and cooling were selected accordingly. Now however, with nVidia's new reference cards, you see some manufacturers dropping their custom PCBs and using the new reference one. MSI for example has the top rated 780 Ti (9.9 per TechPowerUp) with the rating to a large part associated with it having the best balanced cooler available from a heat and noise perspective.
If you into water cooling, most WC builds are have at least 2 GFX cards.....my cards are running at 39C under Furmark.
760, 770, 780 ...nada
660 Ti, 670, 680 .... nada.
560 Ti, 57, 589....nada.
Since the 5xx series, I have done more x60 SLI build than x80 single builds by far..... with the 560 Ti being $205 and the 580 at $500, you got 40% more performance for 80% of the cost of the 580..... NVidia saw that and adjusted pricing accordingly as the 580 kinda bombed once the public picked up on that. That performance / cost ration made the 560 series the best selling DX11 card ever till recently when it was passed by the 660 IIRC. I'd say that since the 5xx series, about 6/10 builds I have been asked to do were SLI with most o the single card ones being single cards solely because of budget considerations ..... every one of them had SLI capable MoBos and PSUs
As for heat issues, if ya stayed away from the reference cards and the SC series, you were generally OK as long as ytour PSU, case and cooling were selected accordingly. Now however, with nVidia's new reference cards, you see some manufacturers dropping their custom PCBs and using the new reference one. MSI for example has the top rated 780 Ti (9.9 per TechPowerUp) with the rating to a large part associated with it having the best balanced cooler available from a heat and noise perspective.
If you into water cooling, most WC builds are have at least 2 GFX cards.....my cards are running at 39C under Furmark.
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This are great prices....the Classy on newegg is $569 .... only the SC is in $480 territory. The Asus is priced low cause it's 889 Mhz much slower than all the others.... MSI is 954, Giga is 1017 now and EDVGHA even bumped the clock to 967. I wonder if they have all switched to the new nVidia PCB and dropped the custom PCBs. Asus is still using their custom PCB AFAIK. Very good overclocker (I have 2 in my own rig and done 12-15 builds with them).
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The SC's I have found not to be very OC friendly.... the Classy's very much so.... I can usually get ? 1175 core and 7400 memory on the Asus tho it depends on which memory it comes with. The Elpida ones don't do as well.
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