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glynf · 22-05-2013 10:48PM

Ah OK worked fine second attempt. If they come in under 600 yoyo's and I can shift my 7970's, I think a pair of these will be my next upgrade.

Tea_Bag · 23-05-2013 01:09PM

a guy I know is looking to sell some of his gear from a project build due to funds, I told him I'd put it up for sale.

anyone wanna give me a ball park figure for what they're worth, and if I should skip adverts and go straight to eBay?

i7 3820, boxed, no cooler obv, tested working, unused though, never OC.

Asus p9x79 pro, boxed, tested working only.

Gtx 690, not boxed, lightly used.

can't confirm warranty stuff yet, it's been sitting in boxes unused but he can't find a receipt yet.

Lu Tze · 23-05-2013 01:51PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

a guy I know is looking to sell some of his gear from a project build due to funds, I told him I'd put it up for sale.

anyone wanna give me a ball park figure for what they're worth, and if I should skip adverts and go straight to eBay?

i7 3820, boxed, no cooler obv, tested working, unused though, never OC.

Asus p9x79 pro, boxed, tested working only.

Gtx 690, not boxed, lightly used.

can't confirm warranty stuff yet, it's been sitting in boxes unused but he can't find a receipt yet.

I'd say skip adverts. Whenever im selling second hand part usually stick the asking price as 75% of the new price on a reputable retailers site. In this case i think it would be hard to shift as i dont think the market is there on adverts for relatively high end components, cant imagine there are many buyers looking for x79 socket, and even less willing to pay a decent price! Much easier to shift the more consumer level stuff. Worth a go though, you may get lucky!

Tea_Bag · 23-05-2013 02:00PM

Lu Tze wrote: »

I'd say skip adverts. Whenever im selling second hand part usually stick the asking price as 75% of the new price on a reputable retailers site. In this case i think it would be hard to shift as i dont think the market is there on adverts for relatively high end components, cant imagine there are many buyers looking for x79 socket, and even less willing to pay a decent price! Much easier to shift the more consumer level stuff. Worth a go though, you may get lucky!

thanks!

I havent sold anything on ebay in many years, nothing like this value either. Any advice? how long do i put the listing up for, what kinda of scam protection to take etc?

Headshot · 23-05-2013 02:09PM

I only allow people who have Paypal account to bid, only European countries

I have 192 feedback at 100%

I also like make an offer auctions

Serephucus · 23-05-2013 02:16PM

Linus has 780 videos up. Nothing on price yet, but performance is what was expected; very close to the titan, about 10% worse, worst-case. Margin-of-error type differences best-case (at least at 1080p).

M00lers · 23-05-2013 02:20PM

Aria has 2 GTX 780 listed........here

Headshot · 23-05-2013 02:21PM

moolers2000 wrote: »

Aria has 2 GTX 780 listed........here

I never even heard of Aria

Out of interest, are they reliable?

M00lers · 23-05-2013 02:23PM

Headshot wrote: »

I never even heard of Aria

Out of interest, are they reliable?

Head in the sand much!

Yeah they're grand, they are no Amazon but I would buy from them no problem.

Serephucus · 23-05-2013 02:23PM

Yes. I picked up a 7770 from them a couple of weeks back. Everything was very smooth. Support was good too (missing game codes).

M00lers · 23-05-2013 02:28PM

So who's getting one? Bit rich for my blood but I want!

Scan have a sh1tload listed too.....here

ShadowHearth · 23-05-2013 03:50PM

TTL has videos up. Scan got it for about 650eu+delivery.

I am defenetly staying with my current GPU this gen. The 6 series did not budget a bit down... annoying...

NTMK · 23-05-2013 04:00PM

moolers2000 wrote: »

So who's getting one? Bit rich for my blood but I want!

Scan have a sh1tload listed too.....here

Getting 2 and cramming them into a 350D hopefully watercooling them too. I was goin to drop a grand on a titan may as well get more performance for the same money:D

M00lers · 23-05-2013 04:09PM

NTMK wrote: »

Getting 2 and cramming them into a 350D hopefully watercooling them too. I was goin to drop a grand on a titan may as well get more performance for the same money:D

Sweet, what cpu you running with them?

Serephucus · 23-05-2013 04:13PM

Given a suggestion from a friend this morning, and a sort of internal revelation, I'm probably going to move to a gaming laptop. Screw this noise. :P

NTMK · 23-05-2013 04:20PM

moolers2000 wrote: »

Sweet, what cpu you running with them?

I7 4770K probably. It'll be haswell anyway

M00lers · 23-05-2013 04:23PM

Cool, sounds like a great build.

game4it70 · 23-05-2013 04:35PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Given a suggestion from a friend this morning, and a sort of internal revelation, I'm probably going to move to a gaming laptop. Screw this noise. :P

Pfffft, next you will be getting a console :P

game4it70 · 23-05-2013 04:36PM

NTMK wrote: »

Getting 2 and cramming them into a 350D hopefully watercooling them too. I was goin to drop a grand on a titan may as well get more performance for the same money:D

Wow what res are you running that you would need two of them? :eek:

ShadowHearth · 23-05-2013 04:38PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Given a suggestion from a friend this morning, and a sort of internal revelation, I'm probably going to move to a gaming laptop. Screw this noise. :P

Serephucus · 23-05-2013 04:38PM

game4it70 wrote: »

Pfffft, next you will be getting a console :P

Dead.

@Shadow, I need a pretty decent laptop for college, and for travelling (I spend weeks at a time in Canada), and given I have all my stuff on an FTP server anyway, I don't really need a desktop for the next year or so (which is how long I usually keep hardware anyway)

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 23-05-2013 04:51PM

Have two 680's at the moment, and game at 2560 x 1600, not seeing a lot of reason to upgrade to 780 or titan at the moment. The benchmarks are good but not a great leap up that a manufacturing process would be.....have to wait and see, but still tempted.....was going for a case upgrade and motherboard upgrade soon....lets see.

Also why only 3 gb ram....though it would be 5gb

Gumbi · 23-05-2013 04:58PM

3GB is plenty of RAM...

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 23-05-2013 05:16PM

not really, gaming at high resolutions with a lot of post processing can fill up GPU memory pretty quick. A number of benchmarks already show 2 gb to be bottlenecking some GPU's as they swap data back and forth through the system RAM. Titan has 6gb, half that seems a little stingy for a next gen 6-700 euro card.

NTMK · 23-05-2013 05:17PM

game4it70 wrote: »

Wow what res are you running that you would need two of them? :eek:

atm 2560x1440 and either a 120hz 1080p screen or a second 1440 monitor as a secondary

it also will get used for cad/solidworks, video editing and whatever new peripherals

Gumbi · 23-05-2013 05:45PM

Esme Immense Dachshund wrote: »

not really, gaming at high resolutions with a lot of post processing can fill up GPU memory pretty quick. A number of benchmarks already show 2 gb to be bottlenecking some GPU's as they swap data back and forth through the system RAM. Titan has 6gb, half that seems a little stingy for a next gen 6-700 euro card.

I think, for the most part, the RAM has to be proportional to the memory bandwidth. So for the 384 bit in question, we could have 1.5, 3 or 6GB. And 6GB for the cut down version of a Titan mightn't be worth it on nVidia's side (or the user's, really.

BloodBath · 23-05-2013 06:20PM

3 Gb is more than enough for anything at 1440p.

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 23-05-2013 08:57PM

BloodBath wrote: »

3 Gb is more than enough for anything at 1440p.

At the moment, but it's pretty game specific. Triple monitor setup defiantly benefit, and that's the sort of thing sli 780's should do surely.

Tea_Bag · 23-05-2013 09:02PM

anyone know the best place to get a few cheap DVI cables? i checked my local deals/€2 store without success.

Serephucus · 23-05-2013 09:25PM

DX would be my first port of call. This assumes you don't need them quickly.

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