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I'm getting 2 GTX 780's for my workstation PC (see below) but I'm also grabbing a bunch of 760's for clients and stock. Comments?

hey guys, i'm really stumped as to what graphics card to throw into my rig. I have a budget of $400-450 ball park, give or take if necessary. maybe you guys can help me out. I play mostly FPS games and open world games like GTA, Sleeping dogs, etc. The reason i'm so stumped is mostly having to do with memory bandwidth and VRAM. How much will i need to run these next gen games on the horizon? my goal is to run max settings at 1080p, but i'd still like the capability to get great FPS at higher resolutions as well. I dont plan on going 1440p anytime soon, but i'll more than likely make the transition at some point down the line. I highly doubt i'll ever run a multiple monitor set-up. Options which i have been considering: GTX 760 4GB in SLI: This seems to give me the best raw horsepower to get games moving at extremely high frames. Although this would be the most expensive option, i'd be able to split the cost up between 2 separate purchases so it takes the least hit on my wallet. My main concern with this option is 2-fold. Will my AX760 psu be able to handle these cards in SLI? Also, could SLI give me some problems or can i expect a 'plug-n-play' gaming experience? Are modern day games being developed with SLI mind so that i shouldnt have any problems? GTX 770 4GB: I want to think this is realistically my best option. It gives me a ton of horsepower but also a high amount of VRAM to work with which i think is going to be helpful for the games i like to play. My concern with this option is, im hearing many people saying that its 256-bit memory bus simply isn't enough to handle the 4GB of VRAM and its essentially wasting my money. So is it worth spending almost $70 more than a 7970? HD7970: This card has massive memory bandwidth, 3gb of VRAM, and should be able to handle most anything i throw at it. My specific concern with this option is that when i make the jump to 1440p somewhere down the line, im assuming another card would be advisable to maintain playable frame rates at high/max settings. that being said, crossfire seems iffy to me. im hearing a lot of problems with micro stutter and i simply dont want to wait until the end of july to hear if AMD will deliver on their new drivers or not. What should i do guys? im really confused on this one. here is my current build for anyone curious: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $369.99) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $34.99) Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $62.99) Storage: Intel 520 Series Cherryville 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $146.00) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $76.99) Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $99.99) Case Fan: Enermax UCTVD14A 90.8 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $10.00) Case Fan: Enermax UCTVD14A 90.8 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $10.00) Case Fan: Enermax UCTVD14A 90.8 CFM 140mm Fan (Purchased For $10.00) Case Fan: Enermax UCTB12P 71.2 CFM 120mm Fan (Purchased For $8.33) Case Fan: Enermax UCTB12P 71.2 CFM 120mm Fan (Purchased For $8.33) Case Fan: Enermax UCTB12P 71.2 CFM 120mm Fan (Purchased For $8.33) Power Supply: Corsair 760W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (Purchased For $159.99) Total: $1005.93 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-13 13:04 EDT-0400)

Pretty much the title says it all...are two GTX 760s good for 1440p games. Talking battlefield, titanfall, skyrim, mainly fps stuff. (I have a fx6300 processor and 8gb of RAM as well)

I have a lot of lag when playing Titanfall 3D. Can anybody guide me in the right direction to help me resolve this issue. Here is my build and i use NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 Wireless Glasses Kit. CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($309.99 @ NCIX US) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($89.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX AC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($205.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: G.Skill Trident X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-2400 Memory ($360.98 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($199.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 4GB Video Card ($298.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Cooler Master Storm Stryker (White) ATX Full Tower Case ($139.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon) Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($21.95 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit) ($94.99 @ Best Buy) Monitor: Asus VG248QE 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($269.99 @ NCIX US) Total: $2072.84

Hello, I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to PC Components and was wondering if someone could helpme choose the right graphics card for what I do. When I first picked out my components I took advice fro the wrong people and now my friend who's kind of into this stuff is telling me I could have got a lot more for my money. I have two Gigabyte GTX 760's in an SLI configuration however one of the fans, on one of the cards was burnt when one of the "wrong people", who helped build my PC plugged in a firewire lead into the motherboard when my motherboard dosent support it, so I want a new graphics card anyway. I was thinking about going for the Titan Black Edition after being told it would be perfect for gaming and creating motion graphic videos. But i've also heard that the 780Ti is pretty much the same thing and that's a big difference in price! What one should I go for? And if niether are a good idea, what should I look for with a workstation PC? All help and answers are deeply appreciated!!

Source: Pcper I'm not familiar with the Mars line of cards, and don't know whether previous Mars cards have had dual-GPU setups. It's certainly not as good a value as two GTX 760's, but in a two-slot form factor it's certainly compelling in some ways.

Hello, a friend has a computer built on an a8 (not sure which one). 4 gb of ram and unknown Mobo. He has a 260-300 W psu and he wanted to buy an Asus GTX750, since that card doesn't require any power connectors, will the 300w psu be enough to run it?

my build Corsair CX750 Builder Series ATX 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB Corsair Vengeance 8 GB ( 2 x 4 GB ) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) 240-Pin DDR3 Memory Kit MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards Z87-G45 GAMING Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.4 GHZ Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Solid State Drive Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100i GRAPHICS CARD? Should i go with a single 780 or dual 760's Thanks, Jake

Hi everyone. A few days ago I bought a Zotac GTX 760 from eBay. Seller had 100% positive feedback and said it had not been run for more than a few hours. When it arrived, I noticed when the fan was spinning there was a slight buzzing sound, as if it was catching on a wire or heat sink. It seems to be the stock cooler design with Zotac branding. After a bit of research, I found this video with a nearly identical 760 with the same buzzing sound as mine. I'm interested, does anyone know if this is normal for the card, or if it is a known problem that I could RMA the card for, even if I am the second owner? (I don't know if being the second owner gives me the same rights for replacement as I would normally have) I don't really want to have to open up the card to see what the problem is as I would probably break it in the process so if this is not a simple fix I will most likely sell on the card to buy a new 760 with a different cooler.

So I am starting to buy parts for my first computer build, and im kind of stuck on what GPU I want, should I get the EVGA 750 TI FTW and have a little more money to spend on more parts or eventually get a better GPU or spend a little more money and just get a 760, and if so which 760? I mainly play Smite, World of Tanks, Wargame, LoL, Borderlands and Warthunder but there are a few other games I do want to play that are a little high end like Battlefield 3, Arma and Mass Effect and I would like to record and livestream too. What do you guys think??

So, I'm getting a PSU in the 760W-860W range, and have pretty much settled on the Corsair AX Platinum, because they fit in really well with the look and requirements of the build. Now, the main question is what's the differences are between the AX and the AXi series. Obviously there's Corsair link, which I don't really care about as I will probably barely use it, if at all. All I'm worried about is power delivery, reliability, ripple etc. I can currently get the AX860i for about £30 cheaper than the AX860. Or I could get the AX760 for about £10 cheaper again. # So, anyone's views on this would be appreciated! And if anyone can point me to some specific benchmarks and reviews, that'd be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys :D

I have been thinking about upgrading my single MSI GTX 660 Ti OC since GTX Titan was announced, but now, some of that feeling towards sinking a Titan into my PCIe slot has somewhat gone away. I know Linus most of the time always says that 1 card will generally be better than 2. Although those benchmarks do look quite delicious at the price point. Maybe Linux should do a video? Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/07/07/crunching-the-numbers-can-dual-269-nvidia-gtx-760s-outperform-a-999-titan/

What do you guys think of the new 760? Is the price to performance good? What about the fact it has less cuda the 660 ti, and Barely beats it. Is the performance what you guys expected, or are you disappointed. Personally I am a bit disappointed, but not complianing since its $50 cheaper then 660 ti, and still out-performance it (barely). I was very excited when nvidia said its better then 7950, then when I saw the benchmark I was all like. Nooooo Y U Lie.... :P Source that nvidia said 760 better then 7950:

Getting very excited to spend around 300 dollars in 4 days haha! http://www.legitreviews.com/news/15702/ image from the link EDIT: another link http://www.tomshardware.com/news/EVGA-Nvidia-GTX-760-ACX,23198.html

I've become hooked on Linus's videos and decided I'd join the forum, and my first post will be a question of mine! I've been running an HD 6950 2GB for about 3 years now and it's served me very good. The card is still pretty up to date compared to most cards and I've never had trouble with it. I recently replaced my old Phenom II 1055T with an i5 4670 and a Gigabyte B85 motherboard. I didnt have a lot of money but was pretty desperate for a new CPU for the game I mostly play (Starcraft II), and I maybe regret the fact that I didn't save up and got a i5 4670K and a good Z87 board, but what's done is done. I'm going to be playing WildStar in June as well as the game Watch_Dogs that'll be out May 27th, and after 3 years of using this badboy, I kind of want a new card! I can't really afford them at full price and I've been told not to right now, but luckily for me, family members of mine are visiting emigrated family members of mine in the US, so I can buy a GPU off Amazon and get it here in the Netherlands without shipping. I've been looking at mostly the GTX 760. The GTX 760 is $250, that would translate to about €180,-. Is that a good deal? Some tell me it is, while others tell me to wait for the reboot of the GTX 700 series, and even others tell me to wait for Maxwell (GTX 800). Is that a better choice? Buying a 760 now will get me Watch_Dogs for free too but I'm willing to live without that if getting the card now isn't very beneficial! What do you guys think? I really need an upgrade soon because right now my GPU is my bottleneck, but am not sure if it's worth it to buy it now or to wait half a year. Thanks in advance!

Hey guys! First of all I would like to let you know that first, english isn't my mother tongue, and second, this is my first post on the LTT forums so be nice Alright so to get to the point, I have built my PC in the end of september last year, when the 700 series from Nvidia were still "fresh" and i chose a 760 as my main videocard. So now that its about half a year later, I've noticed that my card lacks that small extra kick that I was still hoping for after half a year. I mainly notice these problems in games like Dayz (which is still completely playable at 40-48 fps) but I was actually trying to upgrade quite soon. Now the question: Would you guys recommend going for 760 in SLI, or go out, sell this card, and buy an 780, or wait for a little while and get a 880. Speaking of the 800 line of cards, is there going to be a significant reason for me to wait another quarter to get a maxwell based 880? Alright that was it. Thanks in advance! Greets, from Meat

So im on a preety tight budget and want to keep my build as close to 1k as possible with tax.The 270x is $194.99, HD7950 $209.00,760 $249.00. I do plan to SLI in the future and have been debating these cards for a few days.

Hello Everyone I need some Help.. I tried to OC my Nvidia GTX 760 Hawk MSI with afterburner.. and when I hit the apply button and go with MSI Kombustor to check stability, the display start to freeze about 2secs later, and the display start to recover and display the pop up that said "Tmeout detection and recovery" Then I cannot OC my GPU at all... help me to solve the problem My spec are:: Intel i5 4670K , MSI Z87-GD65 , WD 1TB Blue , MSI GTX 760 HAWK , Corsair CX 600, Corsair H100i , Corsair Veng PC1600 8Gb Kit

I am saving for my new system and I plan to have it built by mid-end of may. As of now I have planned to get a GTX 760, but I have found cards on ebay like the GTX 680 that will give me much more power over the 760 for just $10 more. here is the link to one of the cards I found: http://www.ebay.com/itm/N680GTX-PM2D2GD5-nVidia-GTX680-256-bit-GDDR5-PCI-Express-3-0-SLI-/351051389840?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item51bc4b1b90 Is a card like that still worth it? Seeing that the 800 series wont be coming until Q4... Since it is the blower cooler I will probably get a 240mm rad and watercool the GPU it's self since it gets REALLY hot here in the summer, and I don't want to overheat anything. EDIT: I can get a 770 if I can get $30-40 more out of my parents on my birthday

I own a Dell Optiplex 760 that I use for everything. (From Minecraft to homework) I laggg alot on many games (Including minecraft)..................... And long story short, need a GPU It needs to fit in a pretty tight space and shouldn't be connected to the psu. My optiplex looks like so: Thanks!

Hello all you wonderful people I am looking for some advice on where to go with my relatively new system. Here is my list of current parts that I'm considering upgrading: AMD FX-6300 w/ Stock Cooler EVGA GTX 760 4gb with ACX cooler 1tb HDD and 120gb SSD 21 inch 1080p Monitor I mostly just play video games, but I'm interesting in things like video editing and 3d work... Amy recommendations? I'm not too heavily invested in productivity apps keep in mind. I definitely want to stick with Nvidia. But I feel like switching CPUs to Intel would just be a money pit. I have about $400 I'm looking to get rid of. Thanks guys.

Just wondering what you would choose and why, I would personally go with the 760s for higher performance efficiency, but I wonder what crossfire 270x's would be like in comparison.

I just recently build a new gaming computer and I put in an EVGA GTX 760 superclocked edition. When I first boot up the the computer and open up EVGA precision, it says that the GPU is running at around 135 mhz and around 30C. But after I fire up a game and play for a little while even after I close and game and some time goes by, the GPU is still running at over 1000 mhz and around 45C when idling. Is there any reason for this? Thanks

ASUS has announced the Asus Strix Radeon R9 280, armed with 3 GB of memory (model: STRIX-R9280-OC-3GD5). The card appears to feature the same exact DirectCU II based cooling solution as the one on the GTX 780 Strix, and likely a similar PCB to the R9 280 DirectCU II series. The cooler offers 0 dBA cooling when the GPU is running at temperatures below 65 °C, and begins to spool up only beyond that. So handling most desktop and mild 3D loads should be completely quiet. The card also offers a factory OC. The GPU is clocked at 980 MHz, and the memory at 5.20 GHz, compared to reference clocks of 933 MHz core and 5.00 GHz memory. Based on the 28 nm "Tahiti" silicon, the Radeon R9 280 offers 1,792 GCN stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. ASUS didn't reveal pricing. http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/asus_radeon_r9_280_strix_oc_edition_graphics_card.html

Welcome to my review of the ASUS ROG MARS 760 x2, I believe that is the official name of the video card, or at least that it is what it's on the box. Anyway, I would like to start the review with a brief explanation of why I bought this card, because I am sure that there will be a lot of criticism towards my choice, not only because it's a dual-gpu card, but also because there are higher-end single graphics card solutions out there. (or is it?) I bought this card, because I kind of destroyed my old MSI GTX 770 Lightning. Due to excessive overclock and BIOS flashes the card started showing artifacts and was crashing in games. That forced me to file an RMA and after a couple of weeks the retailer told me to chose a new card, since the old one was beyond any chance of repair. Since I had bought my GTX 770 at launch I paid for it around 430e, a price for, which now I could easily buy a GTX 780. But the GTX 780 isn't that much more powerful, especially compared to my super overclocked GTX 770 so I decided to step up to something better. The problem was that the cheapes GTX 780TI was 615e, money which I am just no willing to spend on a card. Here is where the ASUS ROG MARS 760 x2 comes in. It's only 510e and is significantly more powerful than a stock GTX 780TI, at least benchmark wise. Specs: Graphics Engine - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760x2 Bus Standard - PCI Express 3.0 Video Memory - GDDR5 4GB (2GB per core) Bummer Engine Clock - GPU Boost Clock : 1072 MHz GPU Base Clock : 1006 MHz CUDA Core - 2304 Memory Clock - 6004 MHz ( 1501 MHz GDDR5 ) Memory Interface - 512-bit Dimensions - 11 " x 4.38 " x 1.6 " Inch Power Consumption - Just a bit under 500W Since there are numerous unboxings and reviews out there I will share my experiences with the card. The card itself is pretty cool. The custom aluminum shroud and lid MARS logo on the side do really make it awesome looking. It looks exceptionally well when paired with a ROG motherboard, in my case the Rampage IV Gene x79. The entire ASUS red/black theme is insane.The ROG logo on the backplate is in the correct position as well, I am mentioning this because some manufacturers (Gigabyte) obviously don't know the orientation of a video card when installed in a case. there is also no sagging at all thanks to the backplate and entire aluminum shroud. One thing that I don't like though are the two horrible green LEDs that show whether the PCIe connectors are plugged in properly. That is the stupidest thing ever. Why do we need those? If the connectors are not plugged in the card won't start, simple as that... Performance wise I have no complaints. The card is rock solid and performs really well, especially with the latest Beta driver from nVidia - 337.50. There is quite a significant performance gain in many of the games and benchmarks compared to the older software. The benchmarks are done with the card at completely stock speeds, with no overclock whatsoever. The 2GB of VRAM can be an issue for future games though. I would have liked to see a 4GB of effective VRAM being implemented on such an expensive card. In terms of overclocking at lest my card doesn't have that much potential. This is manly because the card runs quite hot at stock speeds. Both cores go as high as 80C (the built-in threshold), however if I start overclocking I would get as high as 95C, which is too much for me and just not worth the extra 1-2 FPS. Having said that, I must acknowledge that the airflow to the card is somewhat restricted by the HDD cage, which I do plan to take out in the not too distant future. Despite the lack of overclocking potential, my card does boost quite well, even maybe too well. At idle it sits around 1076MHz on the core with 50C on both cores, but when under load it goes as high as 1200MHz with up to 80C on both cores, without any tinkering in the GPU Tweak. This is quite impressive for a dual-gpu card. Now a few words about the GPU Tweak. It is horrible, especially compared to something as perfect as MSI Afterburner. The fact that the button "Sync Across Both Cards" doesn't work from time to time is unacceptable. In addition to that, the graphs cannot be cleared... You are forced to restart the program to clear them... Really ASUS?! Is it so hard to make it like the Afterburner? Conclusion: Pros: - Looks outstanding - Has a unique design - Performs really well for it's price - GPU Boost 2.0 works perfectly - No sagging Cons: - Runs hot, really hot - Only 2GB of effective VRAM - Practically no overclocking - Pricey