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Hello guys, first time post here on linustechtips!

 

Black friday is coming up and I want to upgrade my GPU for all the next gen stuff. I am having trouble deciding a 770, 780 and maybe a 780 ti (still debating though)

I just want to know which would be a better deal overall. I play only on a 1080p monitor (planning to upgrade a 120hz monitor) and I want to max my games out, I like nvidia because of their shadowplay which I am highly interested on. Many thanks!

 

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Ivy bridge i5-3570

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Welcome!

 

Obvious choice would be the 780ti if you can afford it.

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The best card: 780ti :)

 

The best value: 780 :)

 

The cheapest: 770 :)

 

What do you want?

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Wow Super fast response! Should have joined earlier haha.

Well black friday is coming up soon (I live in Cali) and soon after is Cyber Monday. It's not definitely between the 780 and 780ti, I guess the deal breaker is is that eventually I want to go triple monitor setup and have the graphics be decently well.

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Welcome!

Obvious choice would be the 780ti if you can afford it.

The 780 ti is a bad value.

i would advoid the 770 since it doesnt really have enough ram or the bust to keep up with the next gen games.

2GB is fine for 1080p.

Wow Super fast response! Should have joined earlier haha.

Well black friday is coming up soon (I live in Cali) and soon after is Cyber Monday. It's not definitely between the 780 and 780ti, I guess the deal breaker is is that eventually I want to go triple monitor setup and have the graphics be decently well.

If you want to for triple 1080p, you should really consider getting a 290.

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The 780 ti is a bad value.

 

Every cream of the crop card is. Doesn't stop people from buying them.

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3 monitors use alot of ram tho? O.o

If you're gaming across them, yes. That's why I recommended a 290.

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+1 for the 290 especially for triple monitors. Only issue with that is that the non reference version might not be out by Black Friday.

I have seen a lot of suggestions of that card, but as I said before, the shadowplay that Nvidia has definitely has got me interested especially since I don't have a good recording software yet, but at the same time if its that great of a value card,might as well aim for that too. Although I heard the R9 series is noisy, which I am not a fan :P

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buy an SSD with your Graphics card purchase.. it'll help with boot time and game loading time :)

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Get yourself 2x 290s, unlock them to a 290x, you have more than double the performance of the 780  for less buck than the 780ti.

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Since you have interest in Shadowplay and budget seems to be of importance for you, I'd suggest the regular 780.  Its not as fast as the Ti but much cheaper and still very fast.  The 290 is, IMO, the very best value in terms of performance at $399 but you won't have Shadowplay and the stock cooler is pretty bad...

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Since you have interest in Shadowplay and budget seems to be of importance for you, I'd suggest the regular 780. Its not as fast as the Ti but much cheaper and still very fast. The 290 is, IMO, the very best value in terms of performance at $399 but you won't have Shadowplay and the stock cooler is pretty bad...

Budget isn't that much of an issue, I saved up throughout the year plus birthday money.

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Well, 780Ti is definitely the fastest but not sure its really worth $150 more than the regular 780...

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Well, 780Ti is definitely the fastest but not sure its really worth $150 more than the regular 780...

That's my issue as well :P if it actually goes on sale sometime in Black Friday or cyber Monday then it looks good but till then, I'm on the fence on 290 and 780
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Budget isn't that much of an issue, I saved up throughout the year plus birthday money.

 If cost and price to performance ratio are not concerns of yours, then you know what to do...

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