Quick question, guys...the stickers on the PCB of the card - are we meant to leave them there?  I just installed my backplate, and am now wondering if I should have peeled the stickers off first.  Also, what do they actually denote?  oxitopeluxe posted some pics of the same stickers above - obviously the BIOS one tells me the BIOS on the card, but what about the one at the top?
 
Still waiting for my replacement mobo, and in the meantime I thought I may as well do some digging on what my card is.

JohnathanSeagul
Hey!
I am currently owner of a GTX 780 Classified (Running 1300/1800 @Air). I am thinking about taking part in EVGA Stepup to GTX 780 TI.
Do you think this would make sense?
 
Thanx
JS

There is a tangible performance increase, but it depends on your set-up and resolution.  For me, it wouldn't be worth it as I game at 1080p.  But otherwise there are gains to be had, howevere like anything it all depends whether you judge the improvements to be worth the additional cost.  I guess if you paid a lot for the Classy (and the Ti is a similar price) it might be worth it!  But then again you could always wait for the Ti Classified...
 
Anyway, have a little look at this for a rough comparison:
 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18555420

This is as unrelated as it is related.

I'm running an old stock i7 920 and single 2gb GTX 285 rig that's finally starting to crap out on me. Building a new rig within the next year. I was thinking of picking up a GTX 780 Classified ACX, but then the Ti was released. Is it worth the extra $200-300 or would the regular 780 suit me just fine?

I'll be using a single monitor for gaming at 1080P. I have absolutely no intentions of ever adding a second card for SLI at any point but I MIGHT add a second monitor to use for web browsing or messaging while gaming / watching a movie eventually; though this is unlikely.

I'm more or less settled on some form of GTX 780 / 780 Ti so what would you all recommend? I know the Ti has been out performing even the Titan, but does that justify the extra hundreds of dollars over a regular 780?

Jagblade
This is as unrelated as it is related.

I'm running an old stock i7 920 and single 2gb GTX 285 rig that's finally starting to crap out on me. Building a new rig within the next year. I was thinking of picking up a GTX 780 Classified ACX, but then the Ti was released. Is it worth the extra $200-300 or would the regular 780 suit me just fine?

I'll be using a single monitor for gaming at 1080P. I have absolutely no intentions of ever adding a second card for SLI at any point but I MIGHT add a second monitor to use for web browsing or messaging while gaming / watching a movie eventually; though this is unlikely.

I'm more or less settled on some form of GTX 780 / 780 Ti so what would you all recommend? I know the Ti has been out performing even the Titan, but does that justify the extra hundreds of dollars over a regular 780?

Unless you are planning on a 120/144Hz monitor for your build, I'm going to stick my neck out and say 'no' here.
 
At 1080p one Classified with a reasonable OC will make mincemeat of virtually any game.  There are some exceptions where you may have to adjust MSAA etc to retain excellent fps, but not many.  I guess it depends if you can live with not always have everything at the best possible setting, or possibly not having everything running at 60fps permanently.  Have a look on YouTube etc for the kind of framerates people are getting on BF4 etc.  Way over the 60 figure.  And unless you play at higher refresh rates (or higher resolutions) any extra power is just wasted.
 
My personal choice would be to spend that extra money on something like a quality mouse and keyboard, or even put it away for a future upgrade.  Maybe skip the Ti and see what the 8-series bring to the table next year? 
 
I am almost in the same position as you; have a pair of 780 Classifieds, and considered changing them to Ti SCs instead.  I game at 1080p on a 120Hz monitor (or I will, when my replacement mobo arrives and I finally finish my build!!) and it seems the extra performance the Tis would bring would go un-noticed as I'll already be bouncing off the 120fps limiter.
 
However, I'm going to caveat this entire post by saying I don't have a gaming PC, have never owned a PC and therefore am just basing my option on my own research!

Just confirmed my 780 classy I got from Amazon on Nov 1st has Samsung memory!!!

 

Acesi7

sKorcheD
Just confirmed my 780 classy I got from Amazon on Nov 1st has Samsung memory!!!

How did you confirm this?
 
Was it using the Nvidia inspector? Because I thought all of mine where Hynix, but the inspector tells me they are all Samsung, which I'm skeptical off.
 
Although they are currently pumping away at +650mhz without issue... 

swapped out TiM, using mx-4 now. up to 600 on the chips so far. Apparently Supply is good atm.

Can I ask roughly what you guys think would be a 'modest' OC for a pair of Classifieds running in SLI?
 
I've gotten myself a bit confused as I've gone from tweaking these to the CPU and back again and seem to be running into glitches and blue screens aplenty.
 
Decided to leave my CPU OC where it is, as with my limited knowledge I can't get the multiplier higher without failing stress testing or going over the 1.3v maximum I set myself.  So it's at 4.4GHz with XMP enabled (2133MHz) and Uncore set to Auto.
 
So now I'm trying to OC these Classifieds.  I got them up to 1306MHz on the core before I started seeing definite artifacts in Heaven.  I dropped it down to ~1280MHz and seconds later the PC crashed - not a blue screen crash but a blank screen and it eventually reset itself.  That scared me, a lot, and now I'm a bit nervous about using Precision X to try again!
 
I'm looking for a stable OC that I can run games on without problems.  I went back to my default +100 settings to both core and memory, and it seemed fine on Heaven and Fire Strike.  I then tried BF4, and after squealing like a girl (my first ever game at 1080p, and with everything at Ultra and running 120Hz with LightBoost it just blew me away) I lost a bit of my excitement when I noticed weird glitching on a row of fence panels in the Test Area.  It looked like there was some sort of light flickering all over them.  Hard to describe, but I saw no other issues.  
 
I came out of the game, fearing another big crash, and tried Heaven again.  Now I was really looking closely, I noticed similar 'flickering' on some of the textures, and particularly when the camera pans around the dragon.  I felt pretty deflated as I thought I had already exceeded the limits of my cards.  But then I found out that this glitch in Heaven is quite well-known, and generally thought of as a bug with Heaven and not an indication of an unstable OC.  So perhaps the same was true in BF4?
 
So now I'm confused.  What would you guys recommend as a good target?  I'm not after a 1300MHz+ speed, just a little bit more than the OOTB clocks (to justify the purchase of the Classifieds over other 780s!).  Also, I've been running with added voltage, is that really necessary in your experience for clocks of between 1200 and 1250?  I realise every card is unique, but hope that someone can point me in the right direction.  I felt the OOTB clocks were good, and I have Samsung memory on both cards...so I thought I should be able to reach something like 1250MHz safely...but if I'm mistaken (or if it's just not needed) please let me know!

For now i run at 1250MHz and 1187mV in K-Boost with LN2 Skynet bios rev3 that takes away the boost function 
mem @ +200MHz
No artifacts.

AdrianIscariot
I'm thinking of using the Rev 3 Skyn3t bios too, I'm pretty scared by it as I've never flashed anything before and have seen some horror stories about cards not working etc.  But right now I feel that I'm not getting the experience I was hoping for; I'm still getting glitches etc at only 1228MHz.  So I probably need to drop down to 1200MHz, which to be honest seems like an easy figure for most 780s to hit and this one is meant to be a little special.  The frustrating part is that the temp's are under control (peak is 73 degrees) so I feel that if I could raise the power target and add just a touch of voltage I could get closer to the 1250MHz target and be stable in all games.
 
What voltage did you add to get 1187mv?  I'm a bit confused by it all; I did try adding the maximum allowed (+60 IIRC) by the EVGA Voltage Tool but that made absolutely no difference so I've dropped down to +38mv.

I'm running r3 of that bios, don't have any more time to do more tonight but this is quite something imo. Everything still on air and no artefacting!
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1825036
SCORE
5452 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780(1x) and Intel Core i5-2500K Processor
Graphics Score 5923
Physics Score 7955
Combined Score 2636

Core clock
1 335MHz
Memory bus clock
1 852MHz

Q5Grafx
I have two EVGA GTX 780 SC ACX cards and now 2 EVGA GTX 780 Classified cards. I havent opened the classified cards yet because of the images of the card. it appears to be 1/2 to 3/4 inch taller in the pictures of it on the box and on the website than the cards already in my machine. can anyone tell me if there is a height difference to the cards. i would really rather to not have to sell them if i didnt have to and drop them in my machine. 
 
thank you,
Q5Grafx

There is a substantial difference in height Between the 780 SC and the 780 Classy pal!

i think im going to have to sell my cards too. i dont want to pull out the cards ive been using the last 6 months and try to sell them used so ill have to sell the new cards still sealed in the original packaging unless i get lucky enough for someone to trade me a new 780sc acx for a classy. I could use the classy if i were to use the crappy flexible sli bridge but i really like the evga pro bridge. and then again i cant even use my pro bridge because of the 3.5 sli spacing on the sabertoothe MB. I knew i should have gotten the crosshair v formula z MB but i was going for cooling since im in AZ. Thanks alot guys. If anyone knows of a solution to my dilemma please pm me as to not disturb the flow of this group.
 
Thank You,
Q5Grafx

It is a regular Classy not a TI and im looking at a 1-1 trade for one of the cards.
not looking to make a profit or anything like that just want to get the third card for my sli.

my machines stats are as follows:
 
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Black Edition
3X EVGA GeForce GTX780 SuperClocked w/EVGA ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5 384bit, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI,DP, SLI Ready With Backing plates
2X Samsung Electronics MZ-7PD128BW 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch 128GB SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive
1X WD Velociraptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 3.5" SATA Hard Drive
2X WD Caviar Green 3 TB SATA III 64 MB Cache Bare/OEM Desktop Hard Drive
2X ASUS BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS 12X Blu-ray Internal Burner Drive with Disc Encryption
Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1866 MHz (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory
GeIL EVO Cyclone Memory Cooling System
Seasonic 1250W 80 Plus Gold ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply
3X Noctua (NF-P12 PWM) - 120mm Two Speed Premium Fan, 1300/900 RPM, SSO2 Bearing with NE-FD1 PWM IC
4X Noctua 140mm Premium Quiet Quality Case Cooling Fan NF-A14 FLX
NZXT SENTRY 2 Accessories 5.25-Inch Touch Screen Fan Controller
Corsair Hydro Series H110 280 mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Obsidian Series Black 550D Mid Tower Computer Case
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D THX PCIE Fatal1ty Champion Sound Card
Corsair K95 RGB Keyboard
Corsair M60 RGB mouse
Corsair ultimate mouse pad
Avertv Hybrid Volar Max TV Tuner Kit for Windows
August DTA240 High Gain Digital TV Aerial - Portable Indoor/Outdoor Digital Antenna for USB TV Tuner / ATSC Television / DAB Radio - With Magnetic Base
Sabrent VD-GRBR USB 2.0 Video & Audio Capture DVD Maker w/Real Time TV Display Dual Export with capture software
EasyCAP DC60 - USB 2.0 Audio/video Creator Capture High-quality Analog Video
Logisys CCFL 12in Dual UV Cathode
Logisys CCFL 12in Dual Blue Cathode
Logisys CCFL 12in Dual RED Cathode
MSUN 5.25" Pc Media Dashboard Front Panel All-in-1 Card Reader USB HUB Sata/esata/ide
Kingston Digital 16 GB USB 2.0 Hi-speed Datatraveler Flash Drive
8X Silverstone Tek 90 Degree SATA III Cable with Non-Scratch Locking Mechanism
Fully Custom Black Silicon insulated Cotton Wrapped Cables 
Custom tri Color Braided Cotton Wrapped Silicon insulated !2ga. Gold Connector 10' Power Cable

OS'
Completely Modded Windows 7 through my Rainmeter interfaces, Windowblinds and Dreamscapes, as well as All microsoft branding has been removed and replaced with My own Q5 Graphics Logo.

Ubuntu Linux

and Hackintosh Snow Leopard
 

Sorry, maybe this was answered here, but no way I want to wade through 1115 replies to find the answer.....  :/
 
Am I reading the website description of the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition correctly in that this version does NOT offer a displayport interface?
 

I have a gtx 780 dual bios classified not a TI. I can't seem to OC even a little with precision x or afterburner. I switched to secondary bios (red led) but will still only OC to 100mgz on clock and won't let me OC memory. Do you think there might be a problem with card?