Now people get 750 Ti already. Superior power consumption.

It clocks in at 1150 MHz (equivalent to Zotac AMP! and Palit Jetstream), making it one of the fastest in our market. At RM1199? What's there not to like? GTX 770 is now priced so well, guess can now start including in Nvidia cards when recommending rig builds.

What brand?

Hehe, ditch that brand. Palit and Zotac costs around RM3.5k only.

Sometimes the pricing given by the local distri very funny one.

As pointed above, there is very little difference compared to GTX 780 Ti.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/...-black-review/3

Actually the compute capability of GTX 780 / 780 Ti is crippled, and is actually geared towards normal gamers. Titan / Titan Black on the other hand has full capability, and with a significantly higher price tag as well.

What game/software makes you hit 80C at load?

You're running at non air-con room? How is your cable arrangement inside your casing?

I am running the same card as yours, Asus 760 DCUII and max temp is only 69C at BF4. Non air-conditioned room. Fans are running at stock (auto). I suppose 80C is very unusual and already on the high side. The highest I ever observed was around 72C running 3D Mark.

And no, DCUII cooler does not expense the hot air directly to back of your casing. The hot air is simply expensed and then circulated back into your case, as most axial fan coolers do. That's why it's important to have a very good casing airflow. But GK104 is not known to have a very high thermal output, meaning it will not heat up your casing/surroundings.

Depends. Reference GTX 780 actually uses a vapor chamber, but as it has a single centrifugal fan configuration (blower), the heat is dispensed to the outside of your casing. Some other vapor chamber based coolers (e.g Sapphire Vapor-X) actually uses axial fans, and the hot air is dispensed and circulated back into your casing.

You're correct. That's why reference cards (with blower style cooler) is very suitable for small (ITX) builds, since it does not heat up your casing. The hot air is expensed (almost entirely) outside of the casing.

It's actually harder to design a reference (blower) cooler, since manufacturer needs to balance between thermal and acoustic footprint. And there is only a single centrifugal fan, which usually blows out a lot of air, but also runs very loud. This is an area where Nvidia currently excels at, as you can see the Titan-style cooler used on reference 780 / 780 Ti / Titan / Titan Black is rather efficient compared to the horrible reference cooler used by AMD in its Hawaii based cards. And also the GK110 is a much more efficient chip (due to the Kepler microarchitecture) compared to Hawaii.

Cost. Manufacturer will hardly want to create a new design (even just black paintjob) just for one card, and for one that may actually sell the least.

Vapor chamber still remains one of the best cooling solution, especially for single fan blower. Why so skeptical over vapor chamber? Vapor-X and supposedly even Tri-X also uses vapor chamber technology.

LOL, tak ada LED. IINM, only the Toxic R9 280X got LED I think.

How many output (exhaust) fans do you have?

Usually, on stock settings, the GTX 780 will run at max 80 - 81C due to the GPU Boost 2.0 requirement (default temperature target).

I have Asus GTX 760 DCUII OC and from the two 760s that I have owned before (I also had Zotac 760 AMP!), the Asus version is clearly superior in every area. For more info, you can check out my review on the Asus card here. Unfortunately, it is also very pricy.

I would personally recommend you to consider these brands:

1. Gainward GTX 760 Phantom - RM845
2. Palit GTX 760 Jetstream - RM889
3. Leadtek GTX 760 OC - RM899
4. MSI GTX 760 TF4 - RM979

* Prices are referenced from lingloong (Garage Sales)

If you can live with slightly higher temps and possibly lower boost clock speed, can consider Zotac GTX 760 AMP! as well. They come with 2 + 3 years warranty, unmatched by any other cards stated above.

Actually, please don't get me wrong. There is NO problem with the temperature, as the GPU is designed to boost up to 80C, as per the temperature target defined by Nvidia. So the GPU will boost as high as possible while remaining within the temperature threshold of 80C. Cards with better cooler of course will be able to boost higher, but still remain much lower than 80C. That's what I observed with my Asus GTX 760. Max load is only 68 - 69C.

I think that was some old rumors right? Fake wan la. Current Maxwell architecture don't have up to 32 ROP/80 TMUs. Looks like a carved out Kepler GK104 chip though.

Yes, it is possible. According to Asus, they've worked closely with Nvidia to enable the world's first GTX 760 that can actually run in quad SLI mode, four GPUs in two PCI-Express slots.

Hands itchy for MARS?