Jupi :
Hi.
I'm thinking about selling my 680SLI 2GB and replacing them with a 780Ti OC card. I play in 1920x1200 at 60Hz but will buy a 120Hz next year.
What do you guys think?
Hi Jupi. I was in the same position as you. I had a Zotac 780GTX. Bought June 2013 (upgrade from 680GTX) for £550. Then the 7880Ti was released. I decided to sell my Zotac 780GTX. It sold on ebay for only £315. I was furious. I lost £235 on a card only 6 months old and which had 5 years warranty!. I needed a new card. I saw on UK Amazon the Asus 7990HD reduced from £975 to £438. I snapped it up. Been using a month. Intial feelings were its a good card, but it gets too hot and forced my cpu, mb and overall temperatures up. My pc kept crashing. Also, AMD software/drivers were a total ball ache. I decided to send the 7990HD back to Amazon and I got a Palit 780Ti from Dabs for only £501.99 (free delivery and 3 years warranty). Got it yesterday and ran benchmarks. This is what I got:
Asus 7990HD Heaven 4 = Score 1621, FPS 64.3, minimum FPS 8.6, maximum FPS 157. CPU temps 51c, GPU temps 75c at 70% fan speed (I'm not sure why FPS dropped to 8.6).
Asus 7990HD Valley 1 = Score 2897, FPS 69.2, minimum FPS 26.6, maximum FPS 123.1. Extreme HD. CPU 55c, GPU 75c, mobo 40c at 70% fan speed.
Compare this to Heaven benchmark results for my Zotac 780GTX (also ultra settings):
Heaven 3 = Score 1519, FPS 60.3, minimum FPS 28.3, Maximum FPS 155 (I didn't have Valley 1 at the time, so didn't test).
Now compare my Zotac 780GTX results to my palit 780Ti -
Palit 780Ti - Heaven 4 score = 1343. FPS = 53.3. Minimum FPS = 9.9. Maximum FPS = 119.1
Palit 780Ti - Valley 1 score = 2325. FPS = 55.6. Minimum FPS = 8. Maximum FPS = 120.2
I am really shocked with the Palit results. I don't know why it is so low. I don't know if I should go back to the 7990HD or keep on using the 780Ti. All I know is that I truly regret selling my Zotac 780GTX. That was a damn good card. The Palit was made in China and I have read on Amazon reviews for SSD's that the ones made in China performed poorly when benchmarked.
The 7990HD has got potential but it was too much of a ball ache to use (overheating, games crashing, BSOD, etc). Also I was a bit disappointed by the 7990HD bench results as it beat the 780GTX by only 101 points. It should have accrued a lot more points. See my Amazon review -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-Radeon-Graphics-GDDR5-Express/dp/B00CP1FPWK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1386926963&sr=8-4&keywords=7990hd