MSI GeForce GTX 780 Gaming edition gets reviewed and tested

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/03/2013 08:36 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

In this review we test the GeForce GTX 780 Gaming edition from MSI. Overall the card is almost as fast as a GeForce GTX Titan, 100% cool and extraordinary silent. The graphics card comes with a nice factory overclock and the very lovely TwinFrozr IV cooler that has two silent 90mm fans. We test the product with the hottest games like Grid 2, Metro: Last light, Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Company of Heroes 2, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more.

Read our full review right here.

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GenClaymore
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#4629383 Posted on: 07/31/2013 10:51 PM

You test the gpu in your computer to make sure it works?

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#4629417 Posted on: 07/31/2013 11:34 PM

i have q6600 2.4ghz and 550 ti.

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#4629464 Posted on: 08/01/2013 12:25 AM

i have q6600 2.4ghz and 550 ti.

Same thing, please give me the link of 3dmark11 score.

You test the gpu in your computer to make sure it works?

I did, no problems at all.He can't even run 3dmark11 without booting his computer.

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#4632595 Posted on: 08/06/2013 01:25 AM

Not sure what's this topis is about, but my experience with Q66 is kinda interesting...

I had HD7850 and felt like my CPU(same freq as now - 3.3Ghz) was bottlenecking it really bad as I couldn't find any other reasonable explanation for the the benchmark results which were totally off:

Now recently I got an GTX560, and now the results are as follows (taken with stock gpu clocks):

To this day I don't know what had caused HD7850 to underperform so badly (not drivers, not CPU, not PSU, not software... Plus judging from the monitoring data it didn't look faulty. The only games it worked OK with were BF3 and COD), but bottom line is that Q6600 with a overclock to at least 3Ghz should handle a decent GPU with no major problems. And if for some reason you just can not overclock Q6600 (doing it for no real reason is just plain stupid with this CPU), then at 2.4Ghz the GTX460 would be a pretty much the most powerful gpu it can go with without having a constant bottleneck.

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#4632606 Posted on: 08/06/2013 02:16 AM

A q6600 @3ghz bottlenecks even a hd 6870 pretty bad. From my personal experience. In some games I gained 20fps + when I upgraded to 2500k.

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#4632608 Posted on: 08/06/2013 02:22 AM

A q6600 @3ghz bottlenecks even a hd 6870 pretty bad. From my personal experience. In some games I gained 20fps + when I upgraded to 2500k.

It depends on the game, but the majority of them with overclock above 3Ghz should do well, while some will load it only to some 40-60% with GTX560 being at 100% . Don't forget that your upgrade wasn't just simply CPU, it was MB and most probably DDR2--->DDR3 RAM as well. Even a new HDD could give a couple of FPS in certain games.

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#4632609 Posted on: 08/06/2013 02:22 AM

A q6600 @3ghz bottlenecks even a hd 6870 pretty bad. From my personal experience. In some games I gained 20fps + when I upgraded to 2500k.

Well back in the day i was using Q6600 3.2Ghz +GTX460 stock, didn't notice any bottleneck at all.

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#4632612 Posted on: 08/06/2013 02:28 AM

Well back in the day i was using Q6600 3.2Ghz +GTX460 stock, didn't notice any bottleneck at all.

You are right, but you don't prove him wrong as GTX460

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#4632622 Posted on: 08/06/2013 02:41 AM

I have a q6600 at stock and 2 gtx460's in sli. I often wonder if it is bottlenecking my cards. I'm not really confidant in overclocking the cpu, if some one could give me a blow by blow description of how to achieve a bit more out of it I would be most grateful.

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#4632623 Posted on: 08/06/2013 02:52 AM

Hm that's interesting... Take some in-game benchmark with sli on and sli off and give us the results. As for the tutorials, just google it, there are plenty of them..

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#4632652 Posted on: 08/06/2013 04:54 AM

So, it appears that my friend did another mistake, kinda.He bought an used i5 750 bundle thinking that his old system/cpu had some sort of problem.Guess what, the system that he bought is having the same issue with the 560ti and giving him bad performance on 3DMARK11.

He finally listened me and ordered a brand new XFX 550W Core Edition.His old PSU(Bequiet 600(?) with 5 yrs of usage more or less) seems to be in it's final days.

Another friend of mine bought a msi 7850 2GB, he said that the graphics card was having that well known issue, the coil whine.Then he bought a 7770 and bam, coil whine again...Another one that will buy a XFX 650W and return the 7770.His PSU is the Corsair CX500M.

In resume, if you care for you system watch out for the PSU.

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#4632662 Posted on: 08/06/2013 06:28 AM

Well, coil whine yes, but it would be unusual for PSU to cause performance issues, normally the system would be simply unstable.

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#4632676 Posted on: 08/06/2013 08:13 AM

Hm that's interesting... Take some in-game benchmark with sli on and sli off and give us the results. As for the tutorials, just google it, there are plenty of them..

K thanks, I installed 3D Mark 11 demo and in default mode I got this score.
P4873 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460(2x)
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6972079

Then disabled sli and got this
P3284 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460(1x)
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6972171

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#4632694 Posted on: 08/06/2013 09:19 AM

->big ROBOT bill

U must OC CPU! those scores are realy low with that cpu... check my thread with e8200 and i get about p5k in demo 3dmark11. u should hit 1 k more with simple fsb adjustment. that dosnt even requires any skills in oc. hit 3.4Ghz and won't even notice temp increase.

p.s i would chop my arm off if i could get hands on that baby

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#4633267 Posted on: 08/07/2013 08:39 AM

Just overclocked a bit, raised the fsb from 1066 to 1333 the cpu ratio from 8 to 9 and the cpu voltage by +0.1875v (the max it said was safe) now running at 3000

did 3d mark11 again and got p5113

compared to P3284 with sli disabled
and P4873 with sli

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