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Just a question, why are there no DCUII or SRX titans or 690's? with GPU boost 2.0 on a titan and paying $1000 you'd think that needing better cooling would be better.. I know EVGA has the hydro copper of both, but someone people don't want to watercool so why not a better heat sink? Does Nvidia not allow for it? I know they didn't on the 590 but they did for the 480, the flagship of nvidia's 400 series.

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Because nvidia doesn't allow manufacturers to change the cards in any way.

 

Nvidia forbids the 780 to have more than 3Gb of ram as well.

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Nvidia forbids the 780 to have more than 3Gb of ram as well.

yea,i see that. but why?

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Because nvidia doesn't allow manufacturers to change the cards in any way.

Nvidia forbids the 780 to have more than 3Gb of ram as well.

They're is a loophole, you can get an acx cooler from evga, windforce from gigabyte and possibly a dcu cooler from Asus for the titan but they cant alter the pcb

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yea,i see that. but why?

 

Because it would perform better than a Titan for half the price. Because 780 is made with aftermarket coolers (e.g. twin frzr, windforce, dcu 2...) and you can overclock the card to outperform the titan. Then it wouldn't make sense to buy the titan at all.

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They're is a loophole, you can get an acx cooler from evga, windforce from gigabyte and possibly a dcu cooler from Asus for the titan but they cant alter the pcb

 

 

You can acually buy kits with the card itself from gigabyte but you have to take the stock cooler off and put windforce on yourself. But by doing so YOU VOID YOUR WARRANTY. And you're warned about this in the manual. 

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You can acually buy kits with the card itself from gigabyte but you have to take the stock cooler off and put windforce on yourself. But by doing so YOU VOID YOUR WARRANTY. And you're warned about this in the manual. 

If you're within the U.K, overclockers.co.uk actually sells Titan's with Windforce coolers and the KFA2 Hurceluz X3 Ultra. Of course they take the original cooler off of the titan and put the aftermarket one on for you, but hey, it doesn't void the warranty since of course, they did it.

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If you're within the U.K, overclockers.co.uk actually sells Titan's with Windforce coolers and the KFA2 Hurceluz X3 Ultra. Of course they take the original cooler off of the titan and put the aftermarket one on for you, but hey, it doesn't void the warranty since of course, they did it.

 

That's nice.

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asus had leaked 4 and 5GB GTX 780's tho...

 

 

Can you provide links where I can find out more about this?

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Can you provide links where I can find out more about this?

http://www.techoftomorrow.com/2013/pc/nvidia-gtx-780-5gb-gtx-770-4gb-video-cards-coming/

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?32205-NVIDIA-GTX-780-5GB-amp-GTX-770-4GB-Video-Cards-Coming!

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Nice, thank you.

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$600 lol. Can do 280x CF. Cuda cores are great, but if I'm just gaming rather the 280x's or 7970's.

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Because nvidia doesn't allow manufacturers to change the cards in any way.

 

Nvidia forbids the 780 to have more than 3Gb of ram as well.

Exactly, its a marketing strategy.

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Some people would rather go for a single card to save money in the long run of things and to keep it quiet.

my asus 7970 CF are damn quiet. IMO all about ego. 7950 CF can still run any game 1600p with max settings(other then the new Crysis 3 engine).

Crossfire/SLI scales better then a single card in 1440p + too. 780 5g would be fucking awesome, but if your all about bang for buck then it's never the correct option to take.

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my asus 7970 CF are damn quiet. IMO all about ego. 7950 CF can still run any game 1600p with max settings(other then the new Crysis 3 engine).

Crossfire/SLI scales better then a single card in 1440p + too. 780 5g would be fucking awesome, but if your all about bang for buck then it's never the correct option to take.

Yet again, money in the long run, you'l save money on your power bill with 1 GPU over 2, my friend had triple SLI 480 and his power bill went up $150 a year. lol

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Yet again, money in the long run, you'l save money on your power bill with 1 GPU over 2, my friend had triple SLI 480 and his power bill went up $150 a year. lol

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyeM5zf8Qpk 400 watts http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_JIOwM2Rpc 655watts

400-665=265.

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Cost you a extra $89 every 4 years if you played 3 hours a day. OMG the savings.

So the short answer is NO.

Better off with CF/SLI in less single card meets your personal needs no matter the bang for buck.

Edit: If your friend paid $150 extra a year either his PC was on 24/7 or his getting ripped off. Just my 2 cents.

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyeM5zf8Qpk 400 watts http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_JIOwM2Rpc 655watts

400-665=265.

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Cost you a extra $89 every 4 years if you played 3 hours a day. OMG the savings.

So the short answer is NO.

Better off with CF/SLI in less single card meets your personal needs no matter the bang for buck.

Edit: If your friend paid $150 extra a year either his PC was on 24/7 or his getting ripped off. Just my 2 cents.

GTX 480's in SLi 3 of them is around 900W not under full load, 350 at desktop with no backgrounding. 

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GTX 480's in SLi 3 of them is around 900W not under full load, 350 at desktop with no backgrounding.

yet I'm talking about 2 video cards not 3. Bang for buck is 7950 CF(which is 625 watts). If someone wants to spend $600+ for a single card then that's on them. Just can't deny the advantage of crossfire/SLI. Even scales better in 1440p+.

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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-119-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1576

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