Pandamonia
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Reference 780 SLI ftw.
When the Lightning LE is such a good deal why buy reference?
Reference 780 SLI ftw.
Because of the reasons already outlined in this thread.
You mean like not having to remove your side panel and place a box fan next to your case?
What I'm wondering is that if I get some windforce cards, even if the top does throttle slightly, it will still be faster and quieter than the reference cooler overall... How noisy is reference 780sli, I don't mind a whooshing air noise but when is starts to get like a hairdryer it annoys me..., what I'm worried about is the 780sli reference being just as noisy as a single 7970, it probably is right? Anandtech noise measurements seem inconsistent across reviews. In the 7970ghz review its a totally different dba rating to the same card in another review, I think the 780 review, I don't know whether it's a typo or what... I wish they would have the card model in the graphs....
Thanks for all the info guys, sorry I've gone a bit quiet but works been mental!
True Audio and Mantle are two new ideas looking for a problem.
The 290X series after market cards are fine GPUs,perhaps a little Mantle fairy dust will make them shine a bit brighter,its a free performance upgrade hard to ignore.
I wonder how much faster it will make them in a Mantle based BF4?
Much better on board sound processing is a bonus,there maybe plenty of tricks and effects the game devs can exploit...hard to find that unappealing.
Im wondering who needs Mantle? My 780 GTX SLI is doing 140FPS...
Its hardly a hard game to run now.
Im wondering who needs Mantle? My 780 GTX SLI is doing 140FPS...
Its hardly a hard game to run now.
Im wondering who needs Mantle? My 780 GTX SLI is doing 140FPS...
Its hardly a hard game to run now.
I will be getting 2x gigabyte windforce 290s and stick them into my 750D. But that's only in about a week so I don't know if you will wait that long.
I didn't know people still played games at 720p