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GTX 780 6Gb SLI a good idea?

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Hey so im getting my friend's GTX 780 6 gb and I would be perfectly fine with it as I currently have a 560ti 1 gb. But i'm looking into running the 780 in sli with another 780 is it worth buying another card or should I just buy a powerful single GPU and throw the GTX 780 in a LAN build? (This 780 in preticular is very good, getting +130 fps in BF1 medium.)

 

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1 minute ago, Linus The KEK Tip said:

Hey so im getting my friend's GTX 780 6 gb and I would be perfectly fine with it as I currently have a 560ti 1 gb. But i'm looking into running the 780 in sli with another 780 is it worth buying another card or should I just buy a powerful single GPU and throw the GTX 780 in a LAN build?

What's your budget?

 

Arguably you might be able to get better performance by buying some of today's lower end cards for the same amount of money.

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2 minutes ago, Linus The KEK Tip said:

Hey so im getting my friend's GTX 780 6 gb and I would be perfectly fine with it as I currently have a 560ti 1 gb. But i'm looking into running the 780 in sli with another 780 is it worth buying another card or should I just buy a powerful single GPU and throw the GTX 780 in a LAN build?

All depends on your budget

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id throw it in a LAN build but what CPU do you have?

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780 is between 1050Ti and 1060, still good card

I'd keep the money in case it dies tbh

idk

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1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

id throw it in a LAN build but what CPU do you have?

I need a new one, the LGA 1155's are pretty cheap now but I'm probably going to pair an E5 Xeon 1650 with the sli 780s if I decide to buy them. Budget about $1250 USD for everything including monitor I can send a pc part picker list here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WmZWLD

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11 minutes ago, Linus The KEK Tip said:

Hey so im getting my friend's GTX 780 6 gb and I would be perfectly fine with it as I currently have a 560ti 1 gb. But i'm looking into running the 780 in sli with another 780 is it worth buying another card or should I just buy a powerful single GPU and throw the GTX 780 in a LAN build? (This 780 in preticular is very good, getting +130 fps in BF1 medium.)

 

keep your money and get a better one in the future

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6 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

keep your money and get a better one in the future

Keep in mind that the first GTX 780 is free.

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1 minute ago, Linus The KEK Tip said:

Budget about $1250 USD for everything including monitor, pc part picker list here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WmZWLD

Very solid

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If you can get the second 780 for around $150, then yeah, I think it would be a worthwhile investment. But if you can't find a second 780 for less than $200 or so, it might be wiser to hold off on buying one and save up for either a 1060/1070 or wait for Volta. It's not like the 780 is a slouch ;)

 

Here's how it stacks up to more modern GPUs https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1060/26.html

 

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4 minutes ago, Linus The KEK Tip said:

Budget about $1250 USD for everything including monitor, pc part picker list here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WmZWLD

you don't need a network adapter, the one came with mobo is more than enough

I would avoid 120mm coolers as they are generally shit and loud, for that price get air cooling

save a bit for some real cherry mx switch keyboard instead, eagletec is a cheap board

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1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Above 1050Ti in most tests, they'd agree

damn did they change the pic or smt. I must be really tired looking at them and thinking they were close to 1050Ti

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This is absolutely under no circumstances a good idea. The number of games that support SLI well is fewer than the number of fingers on a hand.

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10 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

you don't need a network adapter, the one came with mobo is more than enough

I would avoid 120mm coolers as they are generally shit and loud, for that price get air cooling

save a bit for some real cherry mx switch keyboard instead, eagletec is a cheap board

And uh I cant seem to find many all white Cherry MX keyboards.

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theres a 6GB 780 ?

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Just now, treeroy said:

theres a 6GB 780 ?

yep

i've seen it running games using 6gb of vram

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3 minutes ago, Linus The KEK Tip said:

And uh I cant seem to find many all white Cherry MX keyboards.

Custom paint it like I did with my uh not so good job

 

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1 minute ago, treeroy said:

theres a 6GB 780 ?

Before Maxwell, most of Nvidia's high end video cards came in two variants - a base model and a model with double the memory. The 780 had a 3GB and 6GB model, the 680 had a 2GB and 4GB model, the 580 had a 1.5GB and a 3GB model, etc.

 

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40 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

780 is between 1050Ti and 1060, still good card

I'd keep the money in case it dies tbh

no, 780ti is more 470 level and the 780 is a 1050ti (very generous) 

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