PC Case Gear is selling the ASUS GeForce GTX 680 DirectCU II Overclocked for $439 pick up. Delivery cost extra $13.
ASUS GeForce GTX 680 DirectCU II Overclocked - PC Case Gear - $439
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get 680 for the price of $440 and flash it to 770
OR
get 770 for the price of $650
Has this been confirmed yet, or was it just a bios mod with a text string change?
Bios mod ATM.
im waiting for the 780. retarded idea to buy a 680 just before the new cards come out
Why? The 680 presumably will be able to flash to a 770, and a 780 will be a hefty price.
Could you explain what flashing is to me? Never heard of this concept before, would be sweet if you could let me know.
I don't really see the benefit of flashing. What does it accomplish that couldn't be done with a regular overclock?
If the rom actually has new code, there would be underlying improvements to allow the overclock to be more stbale.
Installing different firmware onto hardware. Some video cards can be flashed to unlock extra features which in turn can lead to an increase in performance.
Double post
Retarded idea to buy the 780 on release.
Knowing how we get extremely overpriced with regard to technology in general in Oz, compared to other countries, I would just say get the 680. The 770 will probably be in the $650+ range or $550 minimum, and i think for the price to performance ratio in comparison to the 680, it wouldn't be worth it.
Actually I would not even consider the 680, and instead go with the HD 7950. Cheaper, once overclocked, is very close in performance and 3GB Vram. Also you get great game with it now, and also they have really been improving the drivers as of late.
Or if you want the best bang for the buck I think the HD 7870 is the best price to performance card currently on the market, but the 2GB Vram makes it kind of not worthwhile to me. With the new consoles around the corner, and games being developed for the PC and then ported down (supposedly Ubisoft have already said this), i would say more Vram is going to be essential.
Therefore once again I would recommend the HD 7950 if you want the go the AMD route that is, some people just prefer Nvidia.
I personally have had the HD 7970 for about a year now, and im completely satisfied with it without even overclocking it.
Nvidia fanboy here haha :)
Lol alright then, fair enough. Then i still think the 680 will be better in a price to performance ratio compared to the 770 and 780.
here is the benchmark for the 780 incase you haven't seen it: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/17213-gtx-780-benchmarks…
Thanks :)
And there's no point SLI/Crossfire'ing ATi cards at some future point in time unless they can fix their frame time issues.
Practically a GTX Titan with two SMX disabled. Performs exactly where you would expect it to. Not surprised by figures. Since I already have Kepler, I'm gonna wait until the next generation Maxwell GPU. Thanks for link, though!
Why did someone down vote Lukian?
His right, a lot of games have issue with SLI/Xfire from not just an FPS standpoint.
2 cards are tricky right now until you know how they interact with the game you wish to play.
Also I just noticed Amazon are starting to send more tech products here! Well the GTX 680 they do.
Have you guys seen the specs for that new Nvidia Titan card?
Sweet babby jebus.
http://www.nvidia.com/titan-graphics-card
If I had cash-to-splash I would buy one of these.
One day if I ever have "cash-to-splash".
It's reasonable to assume though that once the 770 releases, the 680 will drop in price even further.
$13 was the cheapest postage you can get to SA. Good deal, $20 cheaper than the weekend deal that was on (excl. shipping) however 680 is overkill for me. Just waiting for a 7970 equivalent.
good price
Question: Is there any PC game that can actually make use of such a powerful graphics card? I am happy if I can get 30+ FPS with the graphical settings turned up on high. I have a GTX 670 and it is awesome. The 2 GB of video Ram is good for Oblivion, Fallout and Skyrim with custom high res textures. Perhaps if you have a 30 inch monitor and run the game at 4 x Anti Aliasing?
I haven't paid much attention to tech lately and didn't realize than were producing triple slot Video Cards.
Depends on the resolution and refresh rate of your monitor. If you are gaming on a nice 2560x1440 120Hz monitor you'll need a GTX680 or better to hit that 120fps sweet spot on newer games.
Not really unless you want run 100 mods on skyrim at once http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/what-skyrim-looks-like-when… Even then most of it is rendering grass :p
meh. the fps isn't that playable… though it's a stunning collective of mods for skyrim.
it's a pity.
Hence the requirement of the better video card. I have a friend that recently purchased a 680 gtx with 4gb ram for all the high rez textures etc. She reports that a high number of mods is very playable. I doubt it's the exact mods used in the article I linked (since from memory each one of those screen shots were running different sets of mods too) but know she just keeps adding them without caring and says it looks great and runs at a good rate.
And if you still have problems just tone down the grass mods, since some of those are rending each individual blade of grass.
a single 680 still isn't going to cut it tbh. not even if you run 3 of them in parallel.
yes you can run more mods to make it prettier, but it's not going to be anywhere close to that reference screenshot in any degree of honesty.
screenshots are like photography, it's staged, and you have <=1fps to work with.
Isn't 30FPS really laggy? Even 50FPS in some games looks choppy to me.
Don't know why you got negged. 30FPS is abs dogshit.
Anything <60fps is not fluid.
It's a subjective thing. Can use http://hiresreset.tumblr.com/post/47287084062/space-left-int… to see if it's bearable to you (due to gifs being max 50fps those gifs are 25fps vs 50fps).
There are also flash fps comparisons that can have a higher frame rate and the difference can be more or less pronounced depending one what it's showing you. http://boallen.com/fps-compare.html for example. I personally prefer the ones with the images side by side in the same window synching perfectly though.
In the end it's up to the person playing what they're happy with. Personally I'm a bit weird in that if the frame rate is too high it gives me a headache and I'm content with around 30fps.
Running a DCUII GTX 670 and my frame rates can drop to <40 in BF3. Even with a few newer games like Far Cry 3 and Max Payne 3, my FPS dropped to <40 on several occasions. And all this is at 1920x1080.
If I had a 120Hz monitor, I'd definitely get a GTX 680 as it just wouldn't be worth it otherwise.
Yikes. This card is 3 slots high?
It's a monster!
I'd be more interested if it had 4GB of memory.
Texture memory is going to become a HUGE issue as soon as the next generation of consoles comes out. Games will be targeting about 4GB of texture memory and that's going to leave PC users with less memory at a disadvantage that pure graphical processing power will not be able to compensate for.
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Whats everyone's thoughts. Wait for the 770 and get that or a 680 in around 1 month odd.