Johnny_Utah
1.)  Extra VRAM (6GB is excessive but I find myself needing more and more with 7680x1440)

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2.)  It appears that we can add voltage?  (someone correct me)

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4.)  40 percent more powerful than my 680's

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Price is a bit high but hey, we pay for new things when there is no competition.

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I like this card for a couple of reasons:
1.)  Extra VRAM (6GB is excessive but I find myself needing more and more with 7680x1440)
2.)  It appears that we can add voltage?  (someone correct me)
3.)  OC is tied to temp making waterblock even MORE useful
4.)  40 percent more powerful than my 680's
5.)  Might be a crunching monster for us.

Price is a bit high but hey, we pay for new things when there is no competition.  It would be AWESOME for AMD to release a counter to this but I know things aren't that great in camp RED right now.  Hopefully in the future they will be so we, the consumer will win.

Hawaiiboi808

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Man at 1k this makes choosing between two 690's and two titan's really hard.  What would you guys do?  At least with Titan I could eventually go three way SLI but this is kinda expensive.

You need to take something into consideration before asking that question:  Performance of 1 Nvidia GTX Titan is almost equivalent or a little higher than a 690.  One could argue they provide almost the same level of performance, but the Titan is only using "1 GPU."  That being said, could you expect Nvidia to have the price tag of the GTX Titan less than a 690.  No.  That's part of some peoples' QQ about this graphic card.  $1000 price tag is ridiculous for a single gpu monster.  It seems ridiculous, but you're not paying for how many gpus are on the PCB.  You're paying for it's performance.  That being said, you're limited with two 690s in a way.  With 3-way SLI titans, totaling above $3000.00 plus, is equivalent to almost having 3 690s in your rig in SLI.

Personally, I'd wait it out.  Demand would probably be high at first when the goods hit the shelf, but you don't know the qwarks of this new graphic card until 3rd party benches do reviews and videos about it.

I'd still consider the Asus Ares II over it since that ROG videocard is still dominating the 690 in just about every game.  It's true that the Nvidia GTX Titan is in a class of its own, but the Ares II can still give it some competition, "theoretically."  AMD would have to adapt, and make a similar GPU of their own that does the same performance of a Tahti XT x2 equivalent on a single GPU like the Titan.

Sajin

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Thanks Lehpron for the source for adding voltage.  I also snipped this tidbit from PCper http://www.pcper.com/revi...rclocking-and-GPGPU/GP

"Even better: NVIDIA is going to once again allow for the ability to exceed the base voltage to another unknown maximum.  This marks a return of overvolting cards (at least with the TITAN) but when asked NVIDIA said this feature would not be re-enabled on the GTX 600-series.

For those that are curious, NVIDIA gave us some more information on how overvolting will work.  It must be disabled by default and the user must acknowledge a warning message before enabling it in software.  It can be persistent across reboots of the PC and then the max voltage of the GPU can be adjusted by the end user.  This is completely optional though and it will be up to the card vendors to enable it.  I would think that finding a GTX TITAN without support for overvolting would be impossible but as we see future card releases with GPU Boost 2.0 technology it is something we'll keep an eye on."

Temp is now a variable on which the voltage increase/overclock will be based upon, making the water-block a necessity for anyone who wants to push these cards to the limit.

So if EVGA chooses to enable this does it affect EVGA's warranty with NVIDIA? If it does we could see THIS all over again. 

Bowenac

What date will it be allowed to post benchmark numbers? I have been watching linus videos on this card but he has yet to post any numbers seems add as it seems everyone is allowed to post videos and other information about the card so why would numbers not be allowed yet...

gutcheck

Dude why are those Yamakasi screens so cheap?