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that's Jays two cents here I'm gonna be doing a video today that's kind of long in the making you guys may be surprised to find out I do not upgrade my own system very often in fact the graphics card that's in there right now my GTX 680 I bought back in the middle of 2012 and you guys saw I did a video upgrade from I did a video when I upgraded for AMD to Intel and I reuse the graphics card graphics cards it's one of those things where I've told you guys before always buy the best graphics card you can possibly afford and maybe even wait a little bit longer to buy a better card then you can currently afford if you think you have to extend the life of your computer if you're not looking at doing annual upgrades every time there's a generational refresh you want to get the best card you can possibly afford so it'll last you longer for instance my gtx 680 lasted me through the entire 600 series and now through probably half of the 700 series before picking up this gtx 780 now i know you guys are gonna be asking me j why didn't you get the 780 Ti or J why didn't you get the Titan and I would say why do you want me to shoot you by ask me a question like back with the Titan but anyway regarding the TI this graphics card actually came directly out of the system that my cameraman won at CES because he wanted to go SLI configuration he has a matching 680 to mine so we made a trade he traded trips straight across for my 680 m water block for his air-cooled 780 so that's what we're doing today I like single powerful graphics cards and he's gonna try his hand at running an SLI configuration with 2 6 ATS and ultimately you guys may be thinking wow you got a 780 for a 680 he's a sucker no his graphics power is gonna outperform this 782 680 s is going to blow away a single 780 but because I game on a single 1080p monitor and the rendering and the amount of cuda cores in this is going to greatly increase what I do here on YouTube as well as my gaming so why am I even making this video this isn't news this card came out in June why the hell not this is what I do I make videos for you guys so I figured we'd go ahead and talk about the card this is the EVGA GTX 780 with their which kind of surprises me it's their own little proprietary blower style cooler they didn't reuse on this exact model the metal cooler that comes from Nvidia so I don't even know if this lights up on the top we're gonna check it out we're gonna stick it in my test system here we're gonna do some prep with some benchmarks on it and see how the temperature is how the software is for this how how well at overclocks cuz you guys know I'm pretty notorious for having very good lottery luck when it comes to overclocking chips GPU CPU etc so there's really not a whole lot to talk about this I mean it's got all the standard 780 specs that you've come to know from Nvidia requires a 8 pin and a 6 pin power connector it's a blower style design it's got black heatsink which looks really nice it's got the metal a little trim on the top again like I said I don't know if it lights up it might I honestly don't know we're gonna find out black PCB but you guys know me I know somebody at this point is already wondered but you're a water cooler so what are you gonna do well I have got actually can you go ahead and hand me that I I have a surprise for you guys here I was also sent a full cover water block from ek as well as a full back plate so you guys know me it is gonna be going underwater but that's for a different video we're gonna go ahead and benchmark this thing just kind of see how it stacks up and then let you guys know how I feel about this card because you can get this card for 499 dollars right now at the time of recording if you're watching this in the future it's probably even cheaper so let's go ahead and get it in the system see how it performs we'll talk about some numbers and then we'll give our conclusions it is a beast so guys make sure you stay tuned because let me be putting this card on water that's what I'm getting ready to do right now after this recording I'm gonna put this thing on water and I'm gonna play around then in my main rig that's a GTX 780 non ti the performance of this thing is so outstanding I have a hard time recommending a 650 dollar card when a $499 780 Ti is for two $99 789 Ti is performing this good so unless you're doing ultra-high resolutions like 1600 P I don't even recommend a 780ti I recommend saving saving 150 bucks and putting it somewhere else honestly I mean I know I said get the best graphics card that you can for your money but I think 782 780ti is a bit of a stretch when you're getting this kind of performance I mean unless you have the money to blow and you already have the rest of your components are just maxed out it's really hard to recommend going with the Ti so guys have been Jays two cents tell me what you think about this card it performed a bit better than I thought it would this was my first time really getting to get in-depth and hands-on with a 780 with the exception of the other build I did but that wasn't a confined space and it was a little bit I wouldn't I wasn't willing to push it like I am here because we tested this in this test bench here so there's test rate so guys I hope you guys have enjoyed this video I hope it makes you smarter buyers when it comes to graphics cards and it shows you what you can expect out of a vanilla 780 as always I'll see you in my next video