ASUS GeForce GTX 760 MARS review

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#4706142
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I don't get this reward. Why is this a Top Pick if (according to the review) the price is too high, it cannot compete with other cards in that segment and it doesn't have enough memory?
Yeah tricky, I understand your comment as I have been doubting myself on the award. Price is still TBA and I have a gut feeling that it will be much lower then indicated. Overall it is an excellent build / piece of hardware for those gaming on a single Full HD or WQHD monitor. But pricing will be the decisive factor though, if above 500 EUR when I'll very likely alter the award status into something more appropriate.
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Just to keep you honest: http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=43_1200_557_559&item_id=049483 Even months after release your card retails for: $449 CAD before mail in rebate. Multiply that x 2 for SLI and you're looking at $889.00 CAD You are hardly one to talk about a card costing too much money!!
How exactly does linking to Canada Computers keep someone in the US "honest"? Prices in the US, aren't based on what Canada Computers is selling something for. lol I can pickup a pair of brand new eVGA GTX670 FTW Edition cards for SLI for $600 locally ($635.98 after tax, to be exact).
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i cant imagine preferring this card over any other option in the $500 price range
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On average the prices are pretty close to each other after you convert the exchange rate. Sure ,you can always find cheaper deals locally in some mum and pop shop but the average Joe surfin the net for prices will be hard pressed finding brand new $450 VGA card for 3 bills...
$300 per card is high. I can find GTX670's all day long for less than $400 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600311820&IsNodeId=1 MSI GTX670 PE goes for $269.99 full price, currently on sale for $249.99 Asus GTX670 DC2 is $299.99 full price. Gigabyte GTX670 WF2 is $329.99 full price. If you don't mind "open box" or "refurb" you can get as low as $230 rather easily for an eVGA GTX670 FTW... Those are prices that "average Joe" will find by "surfin the net"....and they're quite a bit below $450. GTX760 only goes for $250 to $320. So, anything over $500 isn't worth it.
i cant imagine preferring this card over any other option in the $500 price range
If you want SLI and have space limitations, it's not a bad option for $450-500....at any price higher than that though, it's a rip off.
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Just to keep you honest: http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=43_1200_557_559&item_id=049483 Even months after release your card retails for: $449 CAD before mail in rebate. Multiply that x 2 for SLI and you're looking at $889.00 CAD You are hardly one to talk about a card costing too much money!!
You're pretty annoying to be honest. You throw out wrong information, get corrected, then shift to something else that is completely unrelated. My cards cost $440 each without shipping to my country. So I personally think the R9-290 at $400 is too underpriced /sarcasm
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Not to mention that the cheaper 760's are reference designs. The $250 670's all have solid non-reference cooling solutions.
The cooler on the GTX670 PE from MSI is a very good cooler and at a great price.
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Asus GTX 670 DirectCU mini costs 239 € (with the game bundle) here in Finland (including 24% VAT).
Yeah tricky, I understand your comment as I have been doubting myself on the award. Price is still TBA and I have a gut feeling that it will be much lower then indicated. Overall it is an excellent build / piece of hardware for those gaming on a single Full HD or WQHD monitor. But pricing will be the decisive factor though, if above 500 EUR when I'll very likely alter the award status into something more appropriate.
According to Muropaketti.com the price is 619 €. If that is going to be the case, this shouldn't get any top picks in my opinion. It's not the most quiet card either and dual GPU solution is never as good thing as single GPU one with ~same speed. This also has only 2GB ram which is just too little for that price. It's going to be limited edition card so I really doubt that it would be less than 500 €. Something like Gigabyte GTX 780 GHz Edition is much better deal.
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2gb of ram isn't too little for that price it's too little for modern gaming, it's a freaking joke tbh, no futureproofing whatsoever, total waste imo.
Futureproofing by itself is a joke. We all know that in 6 or 7 months when the 20nm cards are coming out that a mid range card will be as fast or faster than the top dog right now.
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It's going to be a while before a mid-range card outperforms GTX780Ti....unless Maxwell really does perform as well as NVidia projected....which would be simply amazing...
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Would not be anything surprising by looking at gtx285 vs gtx460 and gtx580 vs gtx660ti
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Looks like a beefy card. Wonder what the weight is like, unless I'm blind and missed it in the review.
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This card for $400 would be supreme but ASUS is going to charge $550-600 on name alone. Anyone get a little worried with the VRM's hitting 90C+ on the back side of the card?
It's quite high. I wonder what will happen inside case that has sound card on top of the card.
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I wow I did not expect this out of a 760. Usually it is the higher end cards that get the X2 factor rather a mid-ranged card. Depending on the price I might be interested in this card when I upgrade my computer hopefully this summer.
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Hilbert, theres an error/typo on p18 of the review, where in the smaller chart @2560x1440, the 290x is = 57fps but the larger chart same res its 67fps.
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Pretty sweet card! The price is way out there on planet Mars though. If they price this right to me would be around $500.00 USD this card is a true winner! This is a perfect solution to all the guys out there that refuse to go SLI (like me) while still getting SLI performance. I can honestly see myself buying this card a year from now for $350.00- $400.00 CAD! Easy peassy, sell my 760 on eBay for $100.00 take that off the price of this card and bam! SLI for under 3 bills....
That's got to be one of the most illogical posts I've read for a long time! If you've already got a 760 that you're considering to sell on ebay for $100, then why don't you just buy another 760 from ebay for $100 and have the same performance as this Mars card (which is of course in itself just a 760 sli card, along with all the same issues as a normal sli setup pretty much)? How do you manage to find the ability to build your own computers?! haha, no it's ok, I don't hate you, but I just find it funny how you're approaching things.
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So its really only 2gb??? If so why even consider this card....at 1440p 96hz on BF4 im hitting 2500mb of Vram usage and that's not even maxed out lol I just don't see why they would release this with 2gb...what a waste.... Besides IMO anyone speding over 500$ on a GPU shouldn't even be on 1080p anymore...unless they just havto have their 144hz washed out panel...compared to a 1440p Korean panel at 96-120hz just doesn't compare anymore....:3eyes:
Somebody has a Qnix! VRAM usage varies depending on available VRAM. 2500MB usage in your case doesn't mean that 2GB cards would suffer, although they might. However I agree on 2GB not being enough for the forseeable future at high resolutions.
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Don't really feel like buying a new PSU for that option. It is only illogical to you because you don't know all the facts of my set-up. 500 watt PSU is just not enough for 2 160w cards...
Well, that's fair enough I guess. Probably better options for you when Maxwell hits, so you're not bumping up against current supply limits.
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I would never buy this because I like to have an upgrade path, and this leaves you without any kind of good path. If I spend several hundred dollars on a graphics card, then I like to be able to run it for two or three years and then buy another one for a lower price, because by then it's outdated and you can get it cheap. So then when you stick the second cheaper card in there you get a lot of extra performance for a low price. Even a year later you can get that second matching card a lot cheaper. Then if you overclock them you can avoid expensive frequent upgrades. This is also why I buy a large decent quality power supply right from the start. I like good powerful hardware but I also like to spend my money wisely. For me this is why this card is a bad idea. Plus if you can buy a single GPU card for about the same amount of money, that also performs about the same then it will tend to feel and perform better on more games. And to me using four GPU's is a no go. At three GPU's the scaling starts to get considerably worse and at four it gets downright awful. If this card had a total of two more gigs of ram, and if you could install a single 760 card for three way SLI, then this would be a possible option. But you can't and it's not a wise use of your money. For the people who do a complete upgrade every year and who don't game at a super high resolution, then this may be a good choice if the price is considerably lower than a 780. But I don't think Asus can afford to sell it cheap enough. BTW anyone who is not rich and is doing complete upgrades every year or more, they should be taking that money and saving and investing it for their future anyway. The parents basement may not be there for them forever. I'm just now ready to upgrade my ancient hardware after the next gen Nvidia and Intel come out. I may be waiting a little long this time around but when I do I'm getting a next gen 6 core Intel CPU and at least a 250 US dollar Maxwell GPU, and eventually a second one which will have me set again for quite a few years. This hardware that is coming out now days does not need to be upgraded as often as it used to.
Well put, I agree with everything you say (apart from the 'parents basement comment'). If I had a desktop, I'd upgrade in the same way that you do. (In fact I won't be upgrading my laptop until Maxwell AND the die shrink come about - a year and a half estimated I reckon).

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