GTX 780 with Intel i7 960

[Boklauw]

I can't buy all the parts at once. So, right now i could buy the GPU as an upgrade for the upcomming 5 months untill i've got the money for my final setup.

Currently i'm using
-750W Power supply
-I7 960 @3.8GHz (on a asus rampage 3 extreme motherboard)
-2x3GB DDR3-1333
-GTX260 Lighting Black

Right now, i could buy an MSI TF GTX780 to replace my current gpu, but will the GTX780 and i7 960 work well together? It won't be for long, just untill i can upgrade my motherboard and cpu.

Final setup will be
-750 Power supply
-i5 4670k (i'm not sure if going with 4770k will be usefull for what i'm doing)
-2x4GB DDR3-1600MHz
-GTX780

I'm a gamer and want to play most games on as high as possible. I'm learning video editing and using photoshop. My old monitor supports 1920x1080 at 60Hz, this will be replaced with a new monitor (i'm not sure wether it will be 1080 again or 1440) but i do know i'll buy the monitor around end of summer this year.

Edit: i am using single 1080p monitor for gaming, but have another monitor hooked up for multitasking.
When i bought a new monitor, i'll be using newer monitor for gaming and my current gaming monitor next to it for multitasking.

 

[pyr0_m4n]

That will work just fine. I've got a 780 with a 3570k and have no issues and my CPU is slightly slower than yours..

 

[Boklauw]

I'm glad that will work just fine. Do you have any opinion on what brand i should get? i've looked up some benchmarks and they all come pretty close to eachother. MSI is cheaper and i know it has good cooling. What are your opinions?

 

[pyr0_m4n]

I prefer MSI. Their Twin Frozr cooling system is the best in the industry. I've got a pretty hefty overclock on my card and its rare that I ever break 70C. And I don't even turn up my fans past 60% either!

 

[clau_aclx]

check EVGA SUPERCLOCKED 780 ACX.
EVGA works closely with NVidia so you understand that they cool and OC very well. 520 $ on newegg.

 

[Boklauw]

Sweet! Do you know if there will be a new gpu release that causes the GTX780 to drop in price? and when would you concider adding another GTX780 in sli?

 

[Boklauw]

check EVGA SUPERCLOCKED 780 ACX.
EVGA works closely with NVidia so you understand that they cool and OC very well. 520 $ on newegg.

I love its design very much. I'm gonna look up some reviews and differences between the Classified version, thats one with nice aesthetics

 

[clau_aclx]

You dont need to consider SLI until the games you play get more FPS than your monitor Hz.

The EVGA I suggested is the one I own. (there are better and fancyer ones for more money).

With my 780 EVGA superclocked ACX i have above 120 fps in BF4 with no antialising all ULTRA, no OC. (it can OC VERY well and get 10-20% more performance, but I dont need that extra FPS since my monitor is 120HZ).
I had a great AMD 7950 Gygabyte before, got around 80-90 fps average under maximum OC, without Oc only 60-70 fps. so the difference in games is over 50+ % stock to stock and over 20-30 % 780 stock vs 7950 oc. I will repeat myself : for full HD 1920x1200 rezolution, this will get over 100 fps in any game.

As for when to go SLI usually when you use more than one monitors. (this card cand take 2 monitors well enough but for more you would need SLI).
The extra FPS that SLI would give you with just one monitor are not worth it for 1920x1200 resolution, only for above than full HD resolutions with multiple monitors.

EDIT: Just saw the 1440p monitor information

check this out
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1965585/buy-1440p-monitor-gtx-780.html

Anyway for any card over 100-200 $ you should investigate and make sure you get the best worth for you $.

Cheers

 

[Boklauw]

You dont need to consider SLI until the games you play get more FPS than your monitor Hz.

The EVGA I suggested is the one I own. (there are better and fancyer ones for more money).

With my 780 EVGA superclocked ACX i have above 120 fps in BF4 with no antialising all ULTRA, no OC. (it can OC VERY well and get 10-20% more performance, but I dont need that extra FPS since my monitor is 120HZ).
I had a great AMD 7950 Gygabyte before, got around 80-90 fps average under maximum OC, without Oc only 60-70 fps. so the difference in games is over 50+ % stock to stock and over 20-30 % 780 stock vs 7950 oc. I will repeat myself : for full HD 1920x1200 rezolution, this will get over 100 fps in any game.

As for when to go SLI usually when you use more than one monitors. (this card cand take 2 monitors well enough but for more you would need SLI).
The extra FPS that SLI would give you with just one monitor are not worth it for 1920x1200 resolution, only for above than full HD resolutions with multiple monitors.

EDIT: Just saw the 1440p monitor information

check this out
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1965585/buy-1440p-monitor-gtx-780.html

Anyway for any card over 100-200 $ you should investigate and make sure you get the best worth for you $.

Cheers

Thanks. I've decided to go with the GTX780, altough i'm not quite sure what model yet.
MSI and Asus are more within my budget.

I can live another year gaming at 1080p at 60Hz untill i'm willing to spend money on a better monitor for 1440p or 1080 @120Hz. If the GTX780 with the upcomming games will get me 60fps on high/ultra with or without anti-aliasing, for about 2 years, then i'm happy. I don't necessary need ultra or antialising, but i like to max out.

 

[Ahmednyc]

I'm glad that will work just fine. Do you have any opinion on what brand i should get? i've looked up some benchmarks and they all come pretty close to eachother. MSI is cheaper and i know it has good cooling. What are your opinions?

I just ordered "EVGA GeForce GTX780 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384bit, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready (03G-P4-2784-KR)" from Amazon. I will let you know ( in few days) how it behaves with my i7 960 and EVGA X58 FTW motherboard.

 

[Boklauw]

I'm glad that will work just fine. Do you have any opinion on what brand i should get? i've looked up some benchmarks and they all come pretty close to eachother. MSI is cheaper and i know it has good cooling. What are your opinions?

I just ordered "EVGA GeForce GTX780 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384bit, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready (03G-P4-2784-KR)" from Amazon. I will let you know ( in few days) how it behaves with my i7 960 and EVGA X58 FTW motherboard.

I've already bought one bought the MSI GTX 780 Lightning, so far with the games i tested it with, it performed so much better than my old GTX260 Lightning With heavy gaming and benchmarks my cpu load will stay around 10-20% (1080p) so it will work just fine.
I did overclock my cpu to 4.02GHz though, haven't tried on the stock 3.2GHz.
Tried to overclock the GPU too, can't get it further than 1150MHz stable on air, with a thirth party bios flash (no boost enabled) i could get it stable at 1250MHz. My GTX780 Lighting uses Elpida memory and that sucks cuz it wouldn't handle +200 on memory clock.
With all that said, im happy with it as it is.