EVGA 03G-P4-2881-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

Pros: There are so many positive things you can say about this card, it really is hard to know where to start.

First off, you are talking about a blazing fast card that gives single card performance that is out of this world, over 13% higher G3D mark scores versus the previous flagship Nvidia card, the GTX Titan and 14% faster than the GTX 780. I think that was one of the most surprising things about the GTX 780... the fact that with a minor overclock out of the box it was already beating the Titan which (at the time) was over $300 more expensive than the GTX 780. Now prices have changed in the last month and the standard 780 can be found for around $500, and the Titan is still double that, and the GTX 780ti now resides in the $700 price point that the 780 occupied.

Whereas the 780 was an even match for the Titan, the 780ti just blows it out of the water, the G3D mark score to price ratio is fantastic for a bleeding edge card like this, and the value compared to the Titan is just amazing.

I was upgrading my system from a 3-way GTX 580 SLI setup to a 2-way GTX 780 setup just a few weeks ago, but thankfully I was able to return the 780s for their full price and upgrade to the pair of 780ti cards for only an extra $40, so you can imagine that I was incredibly lucky and thankful.

The two cards didn't arrive at the same time, so I haven't had the opportunity to test them in SLI yet, but I went ahead and installed the 1st one today and in a lot of games (World of Warcraft, Rift, War Thunder) where SLI scaling wasn't super efficient or well optimized I am already getting better frame rates than I did from all 3 of my GTX 580s, so I can only imagine that it's going to be absolutely ridiculous once I get the 2nd card installed.

For a single card to handle the work of 3 previously flagship cards is just fantastic, and that's without even touching the clock speed.

The card has taken to overclocking like a fish to water, and I've had no problems getting a huge increase in speed. The fan remains incredibly quiet even at the higher end of the spectrum, and the temperatures are just wonderful. Even during stress tests you can barely hear the fan and the temperatures never rise out of the low 60s, with the card staying around 45 or so even during most gaming sessions.

The card is also just beautiful, and the lighting effects on it are really neat, I like the breathing setting, but I also like the ability to use the lights to indicate performance readouts.

And Shadowplay.... being able to record full 1080p gaming sessions with 0 GPU or CPU overhead is absolutely amazing and one of the best features I have ever heard of. You never know when something worth recording is going to come up, so having a 20 minute buffer of gameplay is fantastic, not to mention how efficient it is for regular gameplay recording - goodbye Fraps or pricey capture cards.

There are so many more pros, like being the only single card solution for 4K gaming, wish I h

Cons: I really can't find many cons to this card at all.

Some would say the price, but considering it's outpeforming the $1000 GTX Titan for 2/3 the price, and even it's power increase over the regular 780 really makes that argument fairly weak. Any cutting edge card is going to be expensive, and this card is more than worth the money.

It is a very large card, but I compared it to a spare GTX 260 I had lying around and it's the exact same size that any of the full-size GTX cards has been for the past 4 generations so most serious gamers aren't going to have a problem fitting this in their case.

If I had to say anything negative it would be that the animated LEDs on the edge of he card are only green, and green really doesn't go with my color scheme, but my case window on my Corsair 600T has been replaced with the optional 4 120mm fan holder instead, so I can't see it anyway for it to really bother me.

You do need a beefy power supply, they recommend 600 watts, so if you are going to run these in SLI you will certainly need a beefy power supply, but again that's hard to call that a con when they use less power than the previous generations flagship cards due to the chip design changes, and once again it's a bleeding edge card it's going to use a lot of power. Enthusiast grade equipment usually is purchased by computer enthusiasts who aren't going to be running tiny 500 watt power supplies. I have this hooked up to a 1250 watt OCZ power supply that handled my 3-way GTX580 setup without any stress whatsoever so I don't anticipate any problems.

Some people will call my lack of cons to be "fanboyism" but I'm far from a fanboy. I do prefer Nvidia equipment, but I was buying the best cards out there, I didn't care what side of the ATI / Nvidia battle I ended up on, if the ATI cards had been clearly better I would have bought them, but this is the fastest card that is out there so that is what I ended up with.

What it comes down to is that this is an incredibly well designed card that provides an incredible amount of power for a reasonable price (for a high end brand new cutting edge card). Call me a fanboy all you want, this is just an amazing card in every sense of the word.

Overall Review: Like I said earlier, this card really is just fantastic. For the price you get an incredible amount of performance and it's very reasonable considering what you get. The addition of Shadowplay reduces the need for any sort of capture card and that right there is a huge step in the right direction. I always would run Fraps when I expected to be doing something that might be worth documenting, but you can't always know when the best events are going to occur. And constantly wasting hundreds of gigs of space and tons of CPU/GPU cycles to make sure I didn't miss anything was a terribly inefficient way of documenting my game play. By being able to be always-on and never missing a moment you can worry about playing, not worrying about if you remembered to record that last duel or not. The whole near-zero overhead provided by the H264 encoding chip is fantastic. I had debated using a dedicated recording card to take that load off my system, but this saved me a lot of money by being able to handle this by itself.

I look at it this way, the GTX780 was a great card for the price and it beat the Titan which was over $300 more than the 780 just a month ago, and it was a great deal then. So now when you can get the 780ti for the same price, and considering the 20% additional CUDA cores and the addition of Shadowplay, not to mention the free games in the bundle right now (Arkham Origins, AC4 and Splinter Cell), it's clearly evident that this is the card to buy.

There isn't another card out there that is outperforming it, and the price is only going to go down, so there really isn't much to say besides BUY BUY BUY.

If you are in the market for a high end card, and you like to stream or record your gaming, this is certainly the card for you. And if you get the bundle it brings the effective cost of the card down to $580 which is only $80 more than the regular 780 which equates to at least 15% more performance for a mere $80.

Any new card is going to be expensive, and when it's this powerful and new it's going to be doubly expensive, so to be able to pick up this for that sort of price is really a great deal.

For reference, I'm running these along side of an Intel i7 3930k (6-core) on liquid cooling at 4.5ghz with 32gb of ram, a RAID-0 SSD array and an Asus P9X79 motherboard and this system can handle anything thrown at it and then some. When you buy the right components you can build a futureproof system that will serve you well for years. This card is a great foundation and will serve you well for years to come.

Remember, 4k gaming is going to be the norm on PC soon, and this is really the only card that is capable of acceptable performance at those resolutions in a single card setup. And with an SLI setup like mine I should be good for a long time coming.

If you are on the fence, don't be - you really cannot go wrong with this card. EVGA and Nvidia have always been a killer combo and this is no exception.

Pros: very fast card is most powerful than two gtx 680sli

Cons: ihave change driver but still crashing all my games, I have gtx 680 and never crash any game

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