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If you're not watercooling is a classified 780 worth it?

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Have there ever been performance tests between Watercooled and not Watercooled comparing all of the 780 cards?

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Oc'ing depends more on the binning of the gpu than the version of the card,

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Oc'ing depends more on the binning of the gpu than the version of the card,

EVGA's Classified series are highly binned, cream-of-the-crop GPUs. It's not just an OC edition.

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The classified version also has more peer delivery and better/more VRMs

Obviously water cooled will give you even more benefits, but it's still a "better" 780

So even without watercooling a classified will help a decent amount in helping me reach 120fps? That's all I'm really concerned about; being able to hit 120fps to take advantage of a 120-144hz monitor.

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It's a highly binned and extremely overbuilt card. It's for extreme overclocking. Personally, it wouldn't be worth it to me, their ftw 780 was more my speed. Still a custom pcb and binned above regular 780s. But keep in mind that there is no water block available for it. Strictly air cooling on this one. If you wanted the option open to you in the future, an EVGA card with reference pcb or the classified would be better.

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At 1080P you could hit that with a moderate OC. Go 1440P rather than 120+Hz.

I really want to wait for prices of 1440p monitors to drop more. I really want the new asus 1440p with gsync but don't want to spend $800. I'm going to wait for those prices to drop and a card to come out that take advantage of that monitor on ultra settings

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It's a highly binned and extremely overbuilt card. It's for extreme overclocking. Personally, it wouldn't be worth it to me, their ftw 780 was more my speed. Still a custom pcb and binned above regular 780s. But keep in mind that there is no water block available for it. Strictly air cooling on this one. If you wanted the option open to you in the future, an EVGA card with reference pcb or the classified would be better.

I have no intention of watercooling the 780. The next card I buy I will watercool. The 780 is to hold me over until then.

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It's a highly binned and extremely overbuilt card. It's for extreme overclocking.

Highly binned would mean getting more clocks out on a certain or lower voltage than another. Sadly this isn't really the case with classifieds, cards with lower asic quality usually tend to clock much higher on water where as high asic quality cards clock much better on air on a low voltage like 1.175V/1.21V

I haven't seen a DC2 yet below 80%, most classifieds were just around 60-70%. Mine were both at 85% doing 1300@1.20V. 

@Op if youre not watercooling avoid them, not worth their price but you're certain that you'd get samsung memory unlike most 780's these days coming with elpida memory that barely does 6300MHz.

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I really want to wait for prices of 1440p monitors to drop more. I really want the new asus 1440p with gsync but don't want to spend $800. I'm going to wait for those prices to drop and a card to come out that take advantage of that monitor on ultra settings

Oh, ok. By that time 4K will be "cheap" lol

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But keep in mind that there is no water block available for it. Strictly air cooling on this one. If you wanted the option open to you in the future, an EVGA card with reference pcb or the classified would be better.

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Oh, ok. By that time 4K will be "cheap" lol

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EVGA's Classified series are highly binned, cream-of-the-crop GPUs. It's not just an OC edition.

Yes, but you can also get a nicely binned card from a non-classified series gpu. There would need to be a large number of gpus tested to accurately find the average.

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Yes, but you can also get a nicely binned card from a non-classified series gpu. There would need to be a large number of gpus tested to accurately find the average.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't buy one unless money was no object and I wanted to show how big my e-peen was. But they are an incredibly high quality product.

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I really want to wait for prices of 1440p monitors to drop more. I really want the new asus 1440p with gsync but don't want to spend $800. I'm going to wait for those prices to drop and a card to come out that take advantage of that monitor on ultra settings

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The hydrocopper blocks are made by Swiftech, not EK.

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I was talking about the 780 ftw. There's no water block for that.

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Well classified lets you have dual bios so its safer flash it for unlocked voltage.

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I'm personally going to say no.... on air it won't honestly net you much compared to a reference card.  They really shine the cooler you can keep them.

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