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780 still a good option?

tezza192
By tezza192
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My E-tailer has a firesale on old stock of the MSI GTX 780 gaming editions, I can pick one up for £160. Is this still a decent card, Ill be using it in an HTPC on a 1080p TV. 

 

thoughts?

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Yes, it's similar in performance to a 970 with less of vRAM. 

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For 1080p it's a cakewalk in ANY title.

Will smash current games at 1080p.

And next years games no doubt,.., will be aces too, will fare better on a 980 than anything below it, so why not :)

 

You're really gonna get a GTX 780 for an HTPC.

Maxed out games, still a thing last time I checked...
I have the Itx 970 in my HTPC for my 1080p TV, hardly gets used, but when it does, can play anything.

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Yes, a 780 is still a fantastic card. If the card is brand new in box £160 is a good price.  However if you wanted to look at another option the 780 Ti used sells from anywhere between 200 and 250.

edit: NEW 780 Ti MSI Gaming for £230

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-304-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

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if you can get them on the cheap, why the hell not?

 

hell.. i've gotten a legacy PCI usb 1.1 card before because it was on the cheap. turned out to be useful one day xD

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If it's £160, why not? It's still great at 1080p.

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