I'm retiring my GTX 560 Ti in the next few weeks, great card. I'm now looking to get either a 770 or a 780.
First off, I'm running a core I7 2600K at stock, cooled by a Corsair H80 on an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe mobo, with 16GB 1600Mhz RAM. I'm using a bog standard 1080p 24 inch monitor via DVI but my desk has room for up to a 27 inch, as far as I can tell.
So...
1) I plan to play using 3D vision. Can anyone recommend me a great 3D monitor? I won't be going higher than 1080p.
2) Which card do you recommend, a 770 or a 780? Which particular model e.g. Asus DirectCU II?
3) Would 3GB VRAM be enough for example on a modded Skyrim at 1080p in 3D? Is 2GB the bare minimum?
I'm retiring my GTX 560 Ti in the next few weeks, great card. I'm now looking to get either a 770 or a 780.
First off, I'm running a core I7 2600K at stock, cooled by a Corsair H80 on an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe mobo, with 16GB 1600Mhz RAM. I'm using a bog standard 1080p 24 inch monitor via DVI but my desk has room for up to a 27 inch, as far as I can tell.
So...
1) I plan to play using 3D vision. Can anyone recommend me a great 3D monitor? I won't be going higher than 1080p.
2) Which card do you recommend, a 770 or a 780? Which particular model e.g. Asus DirectCU II?
3) Would 3GB VRAM be enough for example on a modded Skyrim at 1080p in 3D? Is 2GB the bare minimum?
1. They all are the same really, so long as you get one from Benq or Asus. Just pick on your size requirements.
2. If or not a 780 is really worth it is hard to say. I used to have a 670 (which is essentially a 770), moving to a 780 hasn't really made that big a difference to be honest. Most of the time when the FPS takes a hit its either because of CPU load or the game just being poorly optimized (talking purely 3D here). If you have the cash then theres no reason not to, and it will certainly last longer.
3. 3GB is more than enough, I really don't know where all this Skyrim VRAM stuff came from. I tried Skyrim with 4x MSAA, at 4K with about 50 mods, alot of them texture and graphics stuff, never got much higher than 2GB, I was surprised myself, Helix mods breaks the Afterburner OSD so I've never known what it used until I tried it.
You'll also need to overclock the processor. 3.2 to 4.5 for me was a way bigger difference than 670 to 780.
1. They all are the same really, so long as you get one from Benq or Asus. Just pick on your size requirements.
2. If or not a 780 is really worth it is hard to say. I used to have a 670 (which is essentially a 770), moving to a 780 hasn't really made that big a difference to be honest. Most of the time when the FPS takes a hit its either because of CPU load or the game just being poorly optimized (talking purely 3D here). If you have the cash then theres no reason not to, and it will certainly last longer.
3. 3GB is more than enough, I really don't know where all this Skyrim VRAM stuff came from. I tried Skyrim with 4x MSAA, at 4K with about 50 mods, alot of them texture and graphics stuff, never got much higher than 2GB, I was surprised myself, Helix mods breaks the Afterburner OSD so I've never known what it used until I tried it.
You'll also need to overclock the processor. 3.2 to 4.5 for me was a way bigger difference than 670 to 780.
I got the wonderfull Asus VG278H as many do and loves the monitor, fast, bright with great colours so you wont be disappointed I belive or else go for Benq as Cooky said, cant go wrong with Asus/Benq.
And really really agree about O/C your CPU, that the first thing you should do.
I have an i2500k running at 4.5 Ghz so thats where you should be so start O/C that CPU at 4.0Ghz minimum shouldent be a problem :)
I got the wonderfull Asus VG278H as many do and loves the monitor, fast, bright with great colours so you wont be disappointed I belive or else go for Benq as Cooky said, cant go wrong with Asus/Benq.
And really really agree about O/C your CPU, that the first thing you should do.
I have an i2500k running at 4.5 Ghz so thats where you should be so start O/C that CPU at 4.0Ghz minimum shouldent be a problem :)
3d is awesome. Just grab the biggest 3d monitor you can :D. Agree with above posters, OC that CPU! Huge difference in cpu intensive games, and it really gave my gtx 570's sli more room to run as well. I guess at stock speeds my cpu was bottlenecking my cards. go figure.
3d is awesome. Just grab the biggest 3d monitor you can :D. Agree with above posters, OC that CPU! Huge difference in cpu intensive games, and it really gave my gtx 570's sli more room to run as well. I guess at stock speeds my cpu was bottlenecking my cards. go figure.
AsRock X58 Extreme6 mobo
Intel Core-i7 950 @ 4ghz
12gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600
ASUS DirectCU II GTX 780 3gb
Corsair TX 950w PSU
NZXT Phantom Red/Black Case
3d Vision 1 w/ Samsung 2233rz Monitor
3d Vision 2 w/ ASUS VG278HE Monitor
- With H80 cooling it you could easily get +4Ghz on your 2600K. Your motherboard may have a simple 'auto overclock' button that could get you that or even faster. Free CPU upgrade.
- While there may be some in the press that might claim that @ 1080P your 560ti (or even a 460) is all you really need I'd suggest getting as much GPU as you can afford. There usually is 1-2 titles released each year that "push" (or CAN if all the eye candy is turned on and cranked up) the limits of even modern GPU's.
Even with a 2x780SLI setup I reduced the graphics settings in 'Metro2033' (released 2010) to 'high' (from 'very high') because of a very large 'dip' in the benchmark graph. @ 'high' I have a very solid and stable 60FPS with 3DPlay.
- I play on a 3DTV/Projector so can't comment on 3D monitors.
- With H80 cooling it you could easily get +4Ghz on your 2600K. Your motherboard may have a simple 'auto overclock' button that could get you that or even faster. Free CPU upgrade.
- While there may be some in the press that might claim that @ 1080P your 560ti (or even a 460) is all you really need I'd suggest getting as much GPU as you can afford. There usually is 1-2 titles released each year that "push" (or CAN if all the eye candy is turned on and cranked up) the limits of even modern GPU's.
Even with a 2x780SLI setup I reduced the graphics settings in 'Metro2033' (released 2010) to 'high' (from 'very high') because of a very large 'dip' in the benchmark graph. @ 'high' I have a very solid and stable 60FPS with 3DPlay.
- I play on a 3DTV/Projector so can't comment on 3D monitors.
First off, I'm running a core I7 2600K at stock, cooled by a Corsair H80 on an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe mobo, with 16GB 1600Mhz RAM. I'm using a bog standard 1080p 24 inch monitor via DVI but my desk has room for up to a 27 inch, as far as I can tell.
So...
1) I plan to play using 3D vision. Can anyone recommend me a great 3D monitor? I won't be going higher than 1080p.
2) Which card do you recommend, a 770 or a 780? Which particular model e.g. Asus DirectCU II?
3) Would 3GB VRAM be enough for example on a modded Skyrim at 1080p in 3D? Is 2GB the bare minimum?
2. If or not a 780 is really worth it is hard to say. I used to have a 670 (which is essentially a 770), moving to a 780 hasn't really made that big a difference to be honest. Most of the time when the FPS takes a hit its either because of CPU load or the game just being poorly optimized (talking purely 3D here). If you have the cash then theres no reason not to, and it will certainly last longer.
3. 3GB is more than enough, I really don't know where all this Skyrim VRAM stuff came from. I tried Skyrim with 4x MSAA, at 4K with about 50 mods, alot of them texture and graphics stuff, never got much higher than 2GB, I was surprised myself, Helix mods breaks the Afterburner OSD so I've never known what it used until I tried it.
You'll also need to overclock the processor. 3.2 to 4.5 for me was a way bigger difference than 670 to 780.
And really really agree about O/C your CPU, that the first thing you should do.
I have an i2500k running at 4.5 Ghz so thats where you should be so start O/C that CPU at 4.0Ghz minimum shouldent be a problem :)
AsRock X58 Extreme6 mobo
Intel Core-i7 950 @ 4ghz
12gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600
ASUS DirectCU II GTX 780 3gb
Corsair TX 950w PSU
NZXT Phantom Red/Black Case
3d Vision 1 w/ Samsung 2233rz Monitor
3d Vision 2 w/ ASUS VG278HE Monitor
- While there may be some in the press that might claim that @ 1080P your 560ti (or even a 460) is all you really need I'd suggest getting as much GPU as you can afford. There usually is 1-2 titles released each year that "push" (or CAN if all the eye candy is turned on and cranked up) the limits of even modern GPU's.
Even with a 2x780SLI setup I reduced the graphics settings in 'Metro2033' (released 2010) to 'high' (from 'very high') because of a very large 'dip' in the benchmark graph. @ 'high' I have a very solid and stable 60FPS with 3DPlay.
- I play on a 3DTV/Projector so can't comment on 3D monitors.
i7-2600K-4.5Ghz/Corsair H100i/8GB/GTX780SC-SLI/Win7-64/1200W-PSU/Samsung 840-500GB SSD/Coolermaster-Tower/Benq 1080ST @ 100"