To Titan or not to Titan.....

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Alright. Had a chance to run these cards through some of their paces. Ran a slight overclock. Core at 1202 and Memory at 3100. Single card, non-sli and I was getting anywhere from 100-144fps with vsync on. The majority of the time I was in that 120-130 range. This is at 1920x1080, 144 refresh rate with everything on ultra settings. I would say that a single card can easily handle BF3 very well. I was using the second one for physics, but even if I didn't have a second 780, I would have something minimal for physics anyways. I would say start with single 780 and add a second if it just isn't enough. :)
 
Thanks for the testing. Much appreciated. It sounds like these cards are beastly. Can't wait to start my build.
 
Alright. Had a chance to run these cards through some of their paces. Ran a slight overclock. Core at 1202 and Memory at 3100. Single card, non-sli and I was getting anywhere from 100-144fps with vsync on. The majority of the time I was in that 120-130 range. This is at 1920x1080, 144 refresh rate with everything on ultra settings. I would say that a single card can easily handle BF3 very well. I was using the second one for physics, but even if I didn't have a second 780, I would have something minimal for physics anyways. I would say start with single 780 and add a second if it just isn't enough. :)
What temps are you getting on the single 780 on full load?
 
What temps are you getting on the single 780 on full load?

They never saw above 68c. That was just while I was benching them but still..... My basements also pretty cool though.
 
Thanks for the testing. Much appreciated. It sounds like these cards are beastly. Can't wait to start my build.

Man, they are beastly. I was really surprised how bad SLI scaled in BF3. With vsync off, I expected to be in the 160's but was rarely over 144 in SLI. Not sure if there was some other frame cap going or not...
 
They never saw above 68c. That was just while I was benching them but still..... My basements also pretty cool though.
That's pretty good.

Hopefully with 2 cards, it'll drop a bit more down in temp while playing.
 
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....currently idling at 16c.
 
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Pretty sure you have more cooling fluid in your rig than I do in my car. :lol:

Looks great! :cheers:
 
Oh, I want that now! :D


Do post some more pictures yeah!

Not a lot left to take pictures of.... :) No leeks to report, life is good! 👍


TB
Pretty sure you have more cooling fluid in your rig than I do in my car. :lol:

Looks great! :cheers:

:lol: Thanks. I am using a VW radiator after all.... haha

Just ran a few benches and it never broke over 21c on the first card and 22c on the second. Mission accomplished!
 
Clocks so far:

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P19161 on beta drivers.

It will take quite a bit to break that 20k mark. I might get my CPU back up to 5ghz for a run or two....
 
Not a lot left to take pictures of.... :) No leeks to report, life is good! 👍

There is always something to take pictures of. ;)


It's great that there are no leeks. Hopefully you can break the 20k mark, just for show. :dopey:
 
Just ran a few benches and it never broke over 21c on the first card and 22c on the second. Mission accomplished!
You're kidding. Right?

22°C under load? Holy mother of silicon...!
 
I find the "mission accomplished" part disturbing because that makes it sound like Pako is done upgrading. And we all know better than that!
 
There is always something to take pictures of. ;)


It's great that there are no leeks. Hopefully you can break the 20k mark, just for show. :dopey:

Yeah, not sure without some serious voltage mods. I'm already seeing the limits on these cards. Still, a 1254hz clock on a 893hz stock clock, it's still pretty good I think.

You're kidding. Right?

22°C under load? Holy mother of silicon...!

Had a 4 hour BF3 session last night and never saw either of the cards go above 24c. These water blocks seem to be doing a very good job at keeping things chilled.

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I find the "mission accomplished" part disturbing because that makes it sound like Pako is done upgrading. And we all know better than that!

:lol: I will never be done upgrading, EVER, but I did manage to get the water blocks installed on the two cards and managed a decent clock on them. Is it good enough? Well, no but....I may not have much more of a choice as I stated above, I am up against the power limits of the vrm's. I definitely have enough cooling on the GPU and memory modules, but not sure if the caps and vrm's can really handle more voltage. There are some other things at play as well, but knowing I can aggressively clock these cards and play an extended session without heat limits, I would call that mission accomplished. :D
 
Those temperatures. Wow. It would appear that I must investigate liquid cooling because I thought 32C idle and 69C peak load were decent. Come to think of it, isn't most of the gear (tubing, pump, radiator, reservoir) transferable? You'd just need a water block for whatever graphics card you have. Seems like a worthwhile investment... Right?
 
It is expensive to get into, but I have been using the same core equipment for some time now so even as the technology changes, I can use the same pumps, radiator(s), etc. For the most part, you would want to change up your hose or at least cut the ends off and install with fresh ends when swapping parts.

I also have the CPU overclocked to 4.8ghz at 1.3v on the same water loop and it's max temp was around 37c. To me, keeping thermals in check, will help extend the life of my equipment. Of course throwing voltages at it doesn't help things, but temps are kept at a minimum.
 
So I've been looking at water cooling gear. I don't think it's going to happen yet! I'd rather upgrade my i5 to an i7 (which will also mean getting a new motherboard because of Haswell's new socket) first, and I can only afford one or the other at the moment. One day, though...
 
@dice - :lol:

@neema - yeah. For a decent loop that would cool your CPU and gpu's you be invested $400 to $500usd.

If it were one or the other, I would upgrade hardware all the way. 👍
 
A couple Metro 2033: First Light screenshots. Everything is cranked and making these two 780's work a bit. I was hitting 70-80 FPS pretty consistent. I expected much better, I mean, Crysis 3 I was hitting my 144 mark. Crazy stuff. Bad drivers maybe...., although I know there's a lot of physics stuff going on here.

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I am trying not to look at all those images too much, because I know when I've got my 7950 and I'm really happy to hit 80fps on a 1080p monitor in BF3, suddenly Lord Pako, Gatekeeper of nVidia shall descent down from the realm of 144Hz and make me cry with my 40 fps in Crysis 3 at 1080p :lol:

Seriously, though, beastly rig! :cheers:
 
:lol: It's all relative man. Today it's a beast, tomorrow it's a paper weight! Enjoy it while it lasts I guess. :D
 
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