Ordered the GTX780 on release day

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NewEgg is sending me the EVGA superclocked GTX780 in the next couple of days ($662 total with shipping). There cannot be many folks to be able to buy the card as it went out of stock just after I got in my order! It is replacing a EVGA superclocked GTX680 which will go to another deserving computer with my relatives.
I have been waiting FOREVER for big Kepler to be for sale but the $1K Titan was just too much. This is JUST right.
I will let you know if there is any glitches with Win8 but I doubt it....
Is this a bragging post? Yes, yes it is.
 

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Why not?, everyone loves new toys! :)

Let us know what drivers you are using as well, thanks!
 

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Nvidia Releases 320.18 WHQL Drivers with Support for GTX 780 | Maximum PC

NVidia released the driver the same day as the card...

Speaking of toys, I was wandering through the toy section of Target yesterday. There are some great toys out there! Legos has the Hobbit House, MEGA World of Warcraft goblin dirigible and Halo vehicles, and there was a neat clear plastic Lego like LED lit building toy set. Mind you, I am 60 years old! Geez, looking around my desk I have a 1:18 scale Sherman tank, a 1:18th scale Japanese Zero and P-38 Lightning, a reproduction of the US Airborne Normandy cricket (and their British police whistle), a 30mW green laser, and an engineer's slide rule. Besides my computer...
 

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NVidia released the driver the same day as the card - this seems to be logical, there is no need to rush drivers release, when there is no hardware, and releasing it after would be fail too, so that like the only good choice.

No triple titan ? well, that is shame :)
 

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Cripes, what kind of power supply would you need?
 

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Well, thats nvidia's problem to keep it cool :cool: Everything must work perfectly with standard cooling systems as it is, no matter which gpu is or how much, if not, then its nvidias problem, for not being able to manufacture not broken vgas, or motherboard manufacturers problem, for not being able to give enough space for one vga, if it can hold more than one. Maybe i will sound silly, but i would sent broken card or mb back to manufacturer with "nice" message, if their product would have problems with cooling and it wouldnt be just one bad card, not the whole product series, and never buy their products again.
 

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Bassfischer :My question; how the heck to you keep them cool enough being stacked so close together....the psu would be the least of my worries.
Good question! The titan and the GTX780 are both rated at 250W when fully engaged. That would be a 1000W! I don't think you can get a bigger power supply than 1,500W and you better have a 20 amp breaker on that line!
That said, the air flow is good on the Titan and it's ilk. All the heat is thrown out the back. There is enough room to pull air between the cards so as long as you don't try to massively o/c them (and why would you bother with FOUR of them? heh), they should work OK. There are water cooling kits for the cards now.
 

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The question I'd ask is: what programs/games can use all that power for instance?
 

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The question I'd ask is: what programs/games can use all that power for instance?
Monitors, LOTS of monitors, big mothers of monitors. Imagine have three (or even six) 2560x1600 monitors
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Lol! " Big mothers of monitors"! I guess that answers a question sufficiently. :D

In portrait no less. Very nice and very nice wallpapers. :D
 
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The question I'd ask is: what programs/games can use all that power for instance?
Monitors, LOTS of monitors, big mothers of monitors. Imagine have three (or even six) 2560x1600 monitors
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Ha ha, I see.

The cluster of 3 or 4 cards should compensate for the fps but fps will drop quite rapidly if size is increased too high. 2560x1600 three or six times is a lot... but I like the big setup. :cool:
 

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I cannot stand the gaps between the screens. My games have to stay on one monitor. On the flip side, it saves me lots of money on video cards.
 

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LOL! I stand corrected. I was on my phone when I first viewed the three screens. I thought they were wallpapers, but now I see it's a game as Parks pointed out. :eek:

Still very nice, though.
 

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Sorry guys, NOT my monitors! Just some random image off of Google images for multi-monitors to show why a big ass multi-graphics card setup could be useful. I could set up a 3 24" Dell U2411 monitor setup but I find a 27" single monitor fine for my wants and needs.
I too find the monitors edges to be obtrusive.

An interesting observation. I have progressive glasses (a continuously variable "bifocal" type setup). I COULD go to a 30" monitor but my glasses would make reading the bottom of larger 16:10 ratio screen harder to see. The 16:9 ratio for my Dell U2711 is just right.
 

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Makes me a little jealous I don't have the extra cash to do things like that. But, in all honesty 99% of modern games run just fine on a single 650ti(on max for the most part), even my old HD5850 could play anything I tried(on high for most games) up until Battlefield 3 came out.
 

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Makes me a little jealous I don't have the extra cash to do things like that. But, in all honesty 99% of modern games run just fine on a single 650ti(on max for the most part), even my old HD5850 could play anything I tried(on high for most games) up until Battlefield 3 came out.

Frankly, I had no issues with my GTX680 and a 27 inch monitor. MY son really needs an upgrade tho on his computer so I am bumping my graphics cards down the line to other machines which gives me a good reason to upgrade. Just keep your monitor size down and the graphics cards work fine for games.

As I said in another site, I drive a 10 year old minivan but have a nice computer system. Depends on what you want to spend your money on...
 

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Makes me a little jealous I don't have the extra cash to do things like that. But, in all honesty 99% of modern games run just fine on a single 650ti(on max for the most part), even my old HD5850 could play anything I tried(on high for most games) up until Battlefield 3 came out.

Frankly, I had no issues with my GTX680 and a 27 inch monitor. MY son really needs an upgrade tho on his computer so I am bumping my graphics cards down the line to other machines which gives me a good reason to upgrade. Just keep your monitor size down and the graphics cards work fine for games.

As I said in another site, I drive a 10 year old minivan but have a nice computer system. Depends on what you want to spend your money on...

Yea, if you are trying to play on a 30+ inc with 2560x1600 for example, it will take more GPU power to play most modern games on max settings. Resolution is on of the biggest factors in FPS.

Like I said, I would do the same if I had the money to do so atm. I'm having to save up to get a new HDD, and finally get an SSD lol.
 
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    This was my first true build from scratch.The PC was built with gaming, and multi-tasking in mind. I tried to get the best parts I could get for under $1,000. The Keyboard was a gift, and the HDD was one I had bought for my old machine. The entire build came out right around $900. Only regret is I didn't get an SSD
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