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What gtx 780 brand do you recommend for overclocking?

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Would it be better to buy a card like EVGA overclocked with a ACX cooler or the ASUS DirectCU II OC.  Or would you recommend a reference card

with the stock cooler.

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DirectCU II because of the re-designed PCB. ACX just uses an aftermarket cooler. Even if you decide to liquid cool, I'd still go with the DirectCU II because of that re-designed PCB.

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Go for the reference card, It's extremely silent and looks beast! They'll all overclock very well, but gpu boost 2 will pretty much do all the necessary work for you ;)

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For overclocking, definitely the aftermarker coolers. And I'd recommend DirectCU II like the others have suggested.

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Thanks for the suggestions. I do not care how the card looks,only how it performs

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Wait for MSI to release their 780, MSI has always made the best overclocking GPU's

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probs MSI lightning when it does finally get revealed and is launched

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Asus Direct CUII, it's just a boss cooler. And they overclock like a beast. (when they release it that is)

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MSI 780 Lightning.  Of course I'm a total Lightning fanboy though...

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just be careful with the new design

 

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should you want to SLI, you'd have a problem there....

only have a problem there if you have a motherboard that doesnt space well for your 16x

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YES, fricken finally they made a new look for directcu2. Their old design even if it was good looked like ****. Im happy with the new design even if its a bit snazzy.

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Asus Direct CUII, it's just a boss cooler. And they overclock like a beast. (when they release it that is)

When does the asus 780 direct cu come to market?

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YES, fricken finally they made a new look for directcu2. Their old design even if it was good looked like ****. Im happy with the new design even if its a bit snazzy.

Snazzy means stylish and attractive.

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Snazzy means stylish and attractive.

just a figure of speech. how about crazy simply because using two different fans.

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gigabyte 780 kicked the titan in nearly every benchmark

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If only nvidia would of let people build non reference coolers for the Titan and let us OC the crap outta it, thing wud be a monster I bet

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OK, this is a noob question I admit it, but can you actually buy the Nvidia branded card?  If so, where?  I see the term "reference" listed on different web sites, which to me indicates that they might be available - but I thought I would ask to see if I was missing something.

 

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Here's a whole bunch of the reference cards on Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=GTX+780&N=-1&isNodeId=1

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i would recommend the gigabyte card

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Thank you. I was not sure if they were using a stock image and that the card would not actually look like that. I notice that there are no 770's for example that use the Nvidia housing and fan.

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