not air coolers. There’s very
little difference if any at
all between the GTX 780Ti
graphics cards when using
air cooling. The thermal
limitations are far too low to
allow the differences in the
various cards on the market
to show.
The tendency by casual
or amateur overclockers
is to think that there’s
somehow some magic that
gets designed into any one
graphics card that will allow
you a good 50, 100 or even
150MHz more than what a
reference GTX 780Ti can
achieve, by virtue of having
custom designed PCBs,
coolers and all related
changes by the vendor. This
isn’t so because each GPU
will vary in its quality and
clock limitations. Some will
be golden with a very high
ASIC quality; some may be
from a poor batch. There is
simply no way to know how
a specific GPU will behave
when overclocked.
So with a card like this,
it may seem unfriendly to
casual overclockers, but
we implore you to give it a
second thought. Essentially
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