MSI Graphics Card GTX 780Ti GAMING 3G

Beast of a card. I ran mine on the stock BIOS and cooler for the first few weeks and it ran happily at 1230Mhz core and 1850Mhz on the memory with 0 voltage increase. I didn't even try to go any higher at the time since I had a full custom water cooling setup arriving shortly after I bought this. It may have went higher on air but I never tried. After putting it and my CPU on water and raising the GPU to the maximum voltage, I put a custom BIOS(from Overclock.net user Skyn3t ) on it and did get it up to, or maybe even a little over 1400 on the core but I backed down one bin to 1380 something. Can't remember exactly atm. 780 Ti's are set up on a 13Mhz bin increment. Basically it only OC's in 13Mhz increments so going from a hypothetical 1300Mhz to 1312 would do nothing for performance but would show up as that speed under any monitoring software as being at 1312. I said hypothetical because I can't remember where the increments start from. There is a chart that shows you each 13Mhz bin that you can find easily with a quick Google search. Before going to full water cooling I do remember it being extremely quite under normal gaming conditions except for coil whine when pushed to certain loads. It was extremely annoying when it happened but was rare. It was only doing it when at a certain load % and would come and go. Now I have it running Folding@home in Ubuntu(dual booting with Win 8.1 for when I want to game) which pushes it to the absolute maximum loads and I never hear any coil whine and temps are never over 37C. But again, that is on water. On air, it would hit 65C and maybe even 68-70 if the room was hot that day but it averaged about 58-60 when gaming. Great card on air or water, at least after you unlock the 106% power limit with a custom BIOS.

Will change it when I get more information, but I ordered two of these cards to sli, one of them looks as described, and the other looks different, with only one power port on the top and the sli doesn't fit. Did I just get a different card labeled as gtx 780ti? Why did I order the same card twice and get two different looking cards? UPDATE: After suggestion from amazon community, put in card. Turns out they sent me a MSI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (a $200 card) in a 780ti box with all the labels and skus etc. This is shady to the max and highly disappointed with MSI. How many people have they done this to who weren't aware of what the 780ti looks like?

The first one I ordered didn't work. Sadly, had to return it. Amazon has very good customer service and return policy. Purchased another one and it's working fine.

This video card is the first one I've taken the time to buy in a long while. I am pretty happy with my purchase. Its humorous that I spent more time trying to find something to test this card than actually enjoying what games it plays. There aren't many things I've found that this card won't eat for breakfast at stock clock settings. I'm not giving this card a 5 star though. The reason for this is that the coil whine that you hear from the capacitors is obnoxious. Its a high pitched squeal that can really hamper enjoyment of many titles. I've researched this problem and found very few things to help with it. My biggest deal with the coil whine is that I shouldn't be searching for a bandaid kind of fix. I've seen people advised by MSI support that coil whine is normal and that nothing can be done. MSI isn't entirely at fault here, as the 780ti chip is known to cause coil whine from multiple manufacturers, but I would have thought with the supposedly top of the crop capacitors that MSI uses this wouldn't be an issue. I wish there was some way to know I could get a card without the coil whine. Spending 700 some dollars on a perfect video card is fine. Having 700 dollars invested in a noisemaker is another thing The only games I've noticed it in are Tropico 5 and Watch Dogs. The capacitor squeal in Watch Dogs is incredibly bad though. The only way to alleviate is to set vsync at 2. I should not "have" to do that. Bah. This is probably making me sound angrier with my purchase than I am. This card is well worth the money. I just hope you have better luck than I do with a "normal" feature of this card.

Pros Can run all my games at 4k whee. 1 card even! Didnt think it was good enough. A enjoyable experience. Farcry 3 ultra [ meh 20-30Fps] bioschock 3 ultra [30-70fps give or take] Crisis 2/3 is really pretty. Terraria [ such WOWs to be had] Just a few samples, havent bothered with others. And here I thought you needed 2 cards, I hate SLI/crossfire, too much wattage and heat, especially gaming in SUMMER TIME 100F!! I go with extremely energy efficient products. Idles quite nice at 70 ish watts I think it was. At maxes out at 250-375W. I notice I had my system underclock for low temps at locked 4x1.6 ghz, still was able to game fine lols, Cons : HIGH heat! 80-92C {depending on games} Says its normal. Card IS HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big as my mini itx board. Heavy too! need crutches or something to hold its sagging butt. Edit:: not soo hot anymore... works fine. Needed more breathing room. And still running awesome march 2015. System. Samsung 4k 60hz 28" 1 x 780 Ti 1 x i5-2500 [plan to upgrade i7-4790K] 2x1TB +120SSD + 8GB ram. Other thoughts; Any HD sitting next to it, temps will raise +10c at least. Mobo Gets real hot as well. Upgraded from 660Gtx +1440p. 660 seems doable for 4k. First time upgrading to top tier grade. Usually stick to $150-$300 Range. Not sure hows MSI return police works or service works, never used them before. Havent had issues with their mobos/cards before. Do prefer evgas support than any other brand. Hope this card lasts couple of years.