Best 780 ti?

[Kevin Spring]

What is the best 780ti out of the box? Is there one that is the obvious winner? I've heard great things about the MSI Gaming, but I want to be sure before I spend that much money. I'm going from 1 1080p monitor to 3 so that's why I'm upgrading my GPU. I have an i7-4770K and 750W PSU. I plan on playing games like skyrim, BF4, total war games and other modern games.

 

[enemy1g]

If you're into overclocking your GPU heavily, I -think- the EVGA k|ngp|n edition would be the winner. Otherwise the MSI 780 Ti Lightning (not sure if it's out yet) would likely be the winner. But in all honesty, any GPU from the major manufacturers will perform all about the same, and cool roughly the same as well. ASUS w/ DCU II cooler, MSI with Twin Frozr (have two 780 Twin Frozrs myself, which I believe is now the gaming series GPUs), Gigabyte has Windforce, which I believe is closer to MSI's Lightning, EVGA has ACX, and I think that's it.

 

[Au_equus]

msi gaming is the best one of the bunch. 33.6 fps in BF4 (5760x1080/ultra/4xMSAA)
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_780_Ti_Gaming/9.html
wouldn't bet on the lightning edition, due to an extremely limited supply.

 

[Derza10]

I have the 780 ti gaming and I love it... I play on 3 1920x1200 monitors and it can play bf4 on high settings with ~60 fps... I do have mine overclocked to 1200 Mhz though. it never goes over 70c and you can't hear the card at all.

 

[Kevin Spring]

The kingpin is probably the best, but probably overkill for the majority of us. Also the Lightning is amazing but it is now confirmed that the card will never go to retail because of Nvidia's green light program... So maybe the gaming is the best option

 

[Phaydze]

Kingpin will be great for OCing, but you can get coolers nearly as good for much cheaper. Do some shopping around: Gigabyte's Windforce, EVGA's ACX, MSI's Twin Frozr, ASUS' DirectCU II are all great coolers with positives and negatives. If I were you, I'd wait for real gaming benchmarks, temps and noise as well as OCing capability, before buying a card that you may well regret. Well, that's my opinion anyway, I'm still waiting to see the comparison's in benchmarks with the R9 290x and 780 Ti with AMD Mantle released.