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akrickyboby
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780 ACX edition from EVGA get about 16 gigs of 1600 Mhz ram, and a samsung or kingston hyperX ssd for boot drive, 

Without looking at prices i think that is about 900, If it wasn't i'd go with a 780Ti

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What do you have now?

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sold both my 7970's for over 450 $ on ebay. My cpu is a water cooled i5 3570k over clocked to 4.5 ghz. I have one stick 8 gig 1600 mhz ram and im using a 6870 until I make a descision on what to spend the money on.

1080 monitor?

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sold both my 7970's for over 450 $ on ebay. My cpu is a water cooled i5 3570k over clocked to 4.5 ghz. I have one stick 8 gig 1600 mhz ram and im using a 6870 until I make a descision on what to spend the money on.

$450 a piece?

780ti another 8GB and a 120GB Kingston HyperX

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770, 16GB Patriot  viper, 256GB 840

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yes there is a very high demand fr them for mining right now

 

780 ti, 1 stick of 8gb , and the cheaptest 120 gig ssd you can find.

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Depends. Rest of specs? Use case?

 

Or do you mean for our personal rigs?

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Hm... I would wait till next gen GPUs and just saved your $900 till it is more than $1k and buy two of whatever the best are next year :P

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yes there is a very high demand fr them for mining right now

I know they are :P I listed mine and I REALLY am hoping to get $425+

Big Bertha3570k @ 4.5GhzASRock Fatal1ty Z777970 DCUII TOP EVGA GTX 780Swiftech H220 w/ NF-F1216GB RAM128GB Kingston HyperX 3K1TB Western Digital Black40GB Western Digital Raptor 10K PeripheralsMionix 3200 MouseCMStorm Quickfire Rapid w/ Cherry MX Blues2 x Dell U2713HM AudioAsus ROG Orion Pro HeadsetSony XB-500AKG K240Bose AE2i​Fiio E10

Samsung Galaxy S45.0" 1920x1080p Super AMOLED screen16GB Storage2600 mAh battery1.9Ghz quad-core Krait CPU2GB RAMCyanogenMod CameraNikon D310018x55mm NIKKOR VR Lens14.2 MP
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Good luck I saw one go for 482 $ but I felt awesome getting 450 for each!

If it sells.....

I hope I didn't miss out on this

Big Bertha3570k @ 4.5GhzASRock Fatal1ty Z777970 DCUII TOP EVGA GTX 780Swiftech H220 w/ NF-F1216GB RAM128GB Kingston HyperX 3K1TB Western Digital Black40GB Western Digital Raptor 10K PeripheralsMionix 3200 MouseCMStorm Quickfire Rapid w/ Cherry MX Blues2 x Dell U2713HM AudioAsus ROG Orion Pro HeadsetSony XB-500AKG K240Bose AE2i​Fiio E10

Samsung Galaxy S45.0" 1920x1080p Super AMOLED screen16GB Storage2600 mAh battery1.9Ghz quad-core Krait CPU2GB RAMCyanogenMod CameraNikon D310018x55mm NIKKOR VR Lens14.2 MP
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I wish the best of luck!

Thanks :D

I say grab a 780ti, an SSD and an NVidia shield

Big Bertha3570k @ 4.5GhzASRock Fatal1ty Z777970 DCUII TOP EVGA GTX 780Swiftech H220 w/ NF-F1216GB RAM128GB Kingston HyperX 3K1TB Western Digital Black40GB Western Digital Raptor 10K PeripheralsMionix 3200 MouseCMStorm Quickfire Rapid w/ Cherry MX Blues2 x Dell U2713HM AudioAsus ROG Orion Pro HeadsetSony XB-500AKG K240Bose AE2i​Fiio E10

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which one do I get?

None? The 780 ti is a bad value. I'd settle with a 780/290 and spend the rest on something else.

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