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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 10:35 PM Mar 2014

If the computer hardware god/goddess came along and gave you $770 cash....

plus tax if applicable and shipping (no net out of pocket for you)...

would you buy this card ?

EVGA 03G-P4-2888-KR GeForce GTX 780 Ti Dual Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487007

If that god/goddess did, sure. Since I'm not that lucky, I guess I'll pass.

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If the computer hardware god/goddess came along and gave you $770 cash.... (Original Post) steve2470 Mar 2014 OP
My GTX 650 Ti works just fine with my 30-inch 2560x1600 monitor. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #1
*drool* 30 inch monitor nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #2
It was my birthday present to me last summer hobbit709 Mar 2014 #3
nice present nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #4
I've got one of these on my wish list: discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2014 #5
$28K omg ! nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #6
Heck no! I'd get this instead jrandom421 Mar 2014 #7
nice monitor ! nt steve2470 Mar 2014 #8
I lusted after this card that sold for more than the entire computer csziggy Mar 2014 #9
whoa 5k, I thought I had champagne taste lol steve2470 Mar 2014 #10
That is a graphics workstation video card csziggy Mar 2014 #11

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
9. I lusted after this card that sold for more than the entire computer
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:12 AM
Mar 2014

NVIDIA Quadro K6000 VCQK6000-PB 12GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Workstation Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133494

But settled for this one at less than $100:
ASUS GT640-2GD3 GeForce GT 640 2GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814121643

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
11. That is a graphics workstation video card
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 12:27 AM
Mar 2014

Way, WAY more than I can ever need or justify. There was another Quadro that was "only" $1800, but I talked myself out of it. My whole custom built new computer only cost $1200.

32 GB RAM, AMD FX-8320 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor, ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard, two 120GB SSD (one for the OS, one for my Photoshop scratch disc), two SATA drives, one 3 TB, one 4TB. New case, new power supply, new SATA DVD burner. Win 7 Pro.

My Photoshop no longer runs out of resources when scanning and editing hundreds of old photos. Most of what I am doing these days is scanning family pictures and documents, some two hundred years old. When scanning to TIFFs at 600DPI or better, my old computer just couldn't handle more than a dozen or so, then I'd have to reboot and start over.

Next to upgrade my monitor - though I need to move my old 19" over from the old computer - the 21" and the 19" together may be sufficient, LOL!

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