Best 780 Ti? 780 Ti coolers? Please help me :(

[NCPereira]

Hey everyone!

I'm building a new machine with a 780 Ti but I don't know which card to get :S

My favourite are Asus and Gigabyte, but I've heard EVGA is very good as well.

At first I was thinking about getting an Asus GTX 780 Ti OC because I read the Direct CU II cooler was the best. However, that card's base clock is only 954 MHz.

I then checked the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Dual Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler, which is 1020 MHz base clock, but how good is the ACX cooler?

Any other options?

Thank you in advance!

 

[NiCoM]

Really just go for the ASUS if you feel like it too, you will suffer 1-5% lower fps compared to maybe the EVGA, but for those 1-5%, you'll get a heck of a silent & cool looking cooler. 😉

Wouldn't go Gigabyte really, go for MSI, ASUS & EVGA for Nvidia.

 

[NCPereira]

Really just go for the ASUS if you feel like it too, you will suffer 1-5% lower fps compared to maybe the EVGA, but for those 1-5%, you'll get a heck of a silent & cool looking cooler. 😉

Wouldn't go Gigabyte really, go for MSI, ASUS & EVGA for Nvidia.

How much better is the DCUII than the ACX? Because I was looking for the best performance and unless it's really much better, I would rather go for the best performance.

 

[NiCoM]

Really just go for the ASUS if you feel like it too, you will suffer 1-5% lower fps compared to maybe the EVGA, but for those 1-5%, you'll get a heck of a silent & cool looking cooler. 😉

Wouldn't go Gigabyte really, go for MSI, ASUS & EVGA for Nvidia.

How much better is the DCUII than the ACX? Because I was looking for the best performance and unless it's really much better, I would rather go for the best performance.

Well, it really also depends on price, where i live, the EVGA's are always found in the top of the pricelist, as the most expensive cards, the ACX cooler is pretty good, though its beaten by the MSI & ASUS in my opinion. (because they run quieter)

 

[Kekoh]

I have the EVGA 780 Ti w/ ACX and I never hear my video card. Noise levels are irrelevant on these cards I think. The ACX coolers do a great job as well. Recently it has been 32C+ ambient where I live, and the card was hovering around 56C while gaming.

I think the ASUS is considered to be able to overclock slightly more, but the EVGA comes with the best customer service should you ever need to RMA.