Has anyone heard if they will offer a step up with the reference design?

Any estimate on when the 780 6gb will for be for sale?  Got my 1st on Step Up currently but needing another for SLI...

bphillips9900
Any estimate on when the 780 6gb will for be for sale?  Got my 1st on Step Up currently but needing another for SLI...

Couldn't you just get another 780, and step that one up too, so your locked in? Like the first one?

Can anyone tell me how much time I have to step up my 760 to the 780 6gb? I did apply for notification way back in March, and did receive an email last week notifying me of its availability. I just don't have the cash right now to step up.

I understand that as long as I was within the 90 day window when I applied for notification that I would be eligible for the step up, I just don't know how long I have to step up once the card was made available.

I had seen that the step ups were currently closed..true or no?

@bphillips9900, the sign up is closed but that is only for the notification.  You can still proceed with a Step-Up as long as you're in your 90 day period.

Is the 6gb of vram worth it?

Reddawne

elios
so just pulled the trigger on a 780Tiam i screwed on stepping up to 6GB ?

Don't bother stepping up. If you look at reviews of the Titan Black (virtually a 6gb 780ti) vs a 3gb 780ti there is no difference. Even at high resolutions. Even most recent reviews of the new Radeon 295x2 (4gb x 2) vs a Titan or 780ti at high surround resolutions the Nvidia cards are not as good. Keep in mind the Radeon only has 1gb more of ram than your 780ti. Its only at 2560x1440 and under is when Nvidia pulls ahead. So with 3gb or 6gb there will not be much difference as you'll most likely run out of gpu horsepower before you hit the ram cap. This of course excludes modded games like Skyrim, but this goes back you'll almost always run out of gpu hp before running out of gpu memory.

 
One word X-Plane
i do a lot simming and i can max out the ram on the 3GB card with out trying
also games coming out in next year or 2 will easily use more then 3GB of ram (im looking at you Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk)

ffs... because I am from Europe I cannot step-up from my EVGA GeForce GTX 780 w/ EVGA ACX Cooler - (03G-P4-2782-KR)
Sucks... This is possible for Americans.

Oh well...

Wait, so people from Europe/UK can't step-up? I haven't started mine yet, as I still have more than 80 days to do it.