GTX 780 SC or Not?

[Asylum-Havoc]

Alright, so someone explain to me, what is the difference in the 10$ for an EVGA 780, and an EVGA Superclock 780? Price-wise there is only a 10.00 difference, but when I buy my i7-3770k, I'm buying a new GPU... so which should I go with?

 

[OfftheRails]

the difference is about 1 fps.

 

[NotAnalGrap]

I'd just get the 780 and "Superclock" it yourself.

I have heard that the superclocked chips tend to overclock even higher because they are supposedly a better quality chip....
If you are already spending that much money what is 10 bucks?

 

[Asylum-Havoc]

Yea, that's my issue, it's only 10$, so I don't really see a reason 'not' to get it, I was just wondering what the main difference in between them are...

It isn't like it's hard with software like Afterburner, or GPU Tweak to overclock the hardware... I just liked the look of the stock 780 better than the 780 SC... at least, the picture between them looked different on Newegg.

Well, this is what I have:
ASUS P8Z77-V LK Motherboard
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz RAM
i3-3220 @ 3.3GHz (With CoolerMaster Hyper 212+ heatsink)
ASUS GTX 1GB 650ti
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD
WD 500GB HDD

I'm buying a i7 3770k, 750w PSU (to replace my 500w to accomodate the new GPU and CPU), and the GTX 780.

 

[sixer9682]

Think of it this way, which one will sell better when you move on from it? I'd spend the $10.00 and get the SC with the ACX cooler. Not only will it keep things cooler and quieter while you have have it, it'll hold value better when you sell it in the future because yes, people are that stupid.

 

[HeatSurge]

It looks like you're paying for a different cooler from the stock one. Whether it's better or worse is up to you to determine.

Unless there's physical differences (extremely unlikely in this case), the reference models reach the exact same clocks (on average) as the "upgraded" models. Overclocking is always a crapshoot, but generally you can read a few reviews and see what you might expect, on average, from a chip generation, regardless of how "supadupacl3ck3dF+\/\/" it is marketed as.

From what I remember at this hour, you can expect about +10% from the 780s with the voltage limitations and on air.

Speaking of which, fuck nvidia for limiting voltages. I'm still enlarging my anus for their dick though :-( .

 

[sixer9682]

It looks like you're paying for a different cooler from the stock one. Whether it's better or worse is up to you to determine.

Unless there's physical differences (extremely unlikely in this case), the reference models reach the exact same clocks (on average) as the "upgraded" models. Overclocking is always a crapshoot, but generally you can read a few reviews and see what you might expect, on average, from a chip generation, regardless of how "supadupacl3ck3dF+\/\/" it is marketed as.

From what I remember at this hour, you can expect about +10% from the 780s with the voltage limitations and on air.

Speaking of which, fuck nvidia for limiting voltages. I'm still enlarging my anus for their dick though :-( .

The big difference with the SC is the ACX cooler. You can tune your card to the same voltages on any of the cards, but the ACX cooler actually does a good job cooling off this beast, it'd be worth $10 to me.