New GFX Card for Whino

[Rhino]

Yep noted cheers

[Careless]

Btw, I'm also planning to buy a USB 3.0 powered monitor for college.

Essentially it's just a monitor that doesn't requires a powercord, only one single USB 3.0 cord.
This guy hooked up 7 monitors to one computer!

You'll have to compensate for the size though, the maximum size I found is 22 inch. Also don't overkill like this guy, as it might get laggy.
7 Monitors on Windows 7 with USB 3.0 - YouTube

[[R-DEV]Mineral]

AnandTech | NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 780/770 Price Cuts; GTX 780 Ti Launch Date & Price

wait a week, pricecuts announced for 770 (edit: here in Belgium/Netherlands pricecuts have already been applied. About -20% to -30% here on 770,probably buying one now myself soon.)

(thx Desmo for sharing the link btw)

[DesmoLocke]

Originally Posted by [R-CON]Mineral

(thx Desmo for sharing the link btw)

You're welcome. Thanks for the credit.
Just passing it forward really as it was posted by a friend of mine on another forum.

And like I said, it's a great time of the year to buy for people looking at high end graphics cards!

[Daniel]

Yeeeeah!!! Nvidia press release announced GTX 770s will be dropped to 329 $ ! ! !

Some online stores already applied new prices, some not yet!! Check it! I would definitely go for MSI N770 Lightning ! ! UBER clocks, 1150MHz, Boost: 1202MHz o_O Memory 1752MHz, 256bit, 224GB/s, Shader-units/TMUs/ROPs: 1536/128/32 - 3533GFLOPS (Single), 147GFLOPS (Double), 9.84W on idle! (measured!)

MSI GTX 770 OC Lightning - The GeForce GTX 770 Review: Calling In A Hit On Radeon HD 7970?

MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning review - Article


in german shop availible for ~ 320 € already.


Hopefully price will drop here too...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127742

[[R-DEV]Mineral]

the lightning here is about 50€ more expensive, mostly gives your 2 to 5 extra fps and consumes more power. Really not worth the money for me. I'm buying the normal one

MSI GeForce GTX 770 Gaming review - Conclusion

[Rhino]

Bumpy, looks like Star Citizen's dogfight module might be coming out soon, which was the purpose of this topic a few months back when it looked like it might be coming out in December last year

OP still applies so if anyone has any suggestions post below, cheers!

[LITOralis.nMd]

Bump up to a single GTX770 and you'll be retired from gaming by the time your future SLI GTX 770's kick the bucket.

same ebuyer, just a reference point to start your search:
MSI GTX 770 GAMING LE 2GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI.. | Ebuyer.com

Edit: MSi has some funky terminology for their 770 lineup. Make sure you read up on that. The 770 Gaming LE is a binned GPU. IDK if it will matter.

Edit 2: If you can wait, get a 4GB GPU, Roberts has mentioned that VRAM will be an issue .

[Rhino]

Cheers

Originally Posted by [R-COM]LITOralis.nMd

Edit 2: If you can wait, get a 4GB GPU, Roberts has mentioned that VRAM will be an issue .

What would waiting achieve? looks like there are a few 770s with 4GBs of RAM?

MSI GTX 770 GAMING 4GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort.. | Ebuyer.com

This Gigabyte one also has a pretty good discount?
Gigabyte GTX 770 OC 4GB GDDR5 Dual-DVI HDMI.. | Ebuyer.com

[LITOralis.nMd]

I can't personally say much about the MSI GTX cards.

on the The Gigabyte , I have the Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 2GB, with same cooler, and the card is superb, extremely extremely quiet. I've had it OC'ed +100 mem clock +100 core clock since the first week I bought it in late 2012 and it's been rock steady and dead quiet when non-gaming and barely audible when gaming.

At the OC it is beating a stock reference design GTX 680 in synthetic benchmarks. (670 has less pipelines but the clock boost makes up for it)
for reference on the GTX 600 series: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/G...dforce/31.html

I was referring to waiting for the bank account to afford a 4GB card. Or buy it today if you have the cash. Your original choice was 200 Pounds at the time.

And finally, if you plan to game with a 1080p monitor the GTX770 is going to perform pretty close to optimal cost/benefit ratio. The GTX 770 is a refined GTX 680 (literally). The GTX 780 uses the Titan chipset which is a totally different GPU. Simply overclocking a GTX 770 (even heavily) will not get you 780 performance.

So without putting cash down to make the huge jump from the 680/770 to the 780/780ti/Titan , the 770 is the way to go.

I'm not trying to spend your hard earned money... there aren't that many options in the NVidia family, a 680 4GBor 770 4GB will last a very long time I believe.

IF Roberts properly supports SLI, later on picking up another 680 or 770 will keep you happy at 1080p for the first several years of Star Citizen.