Hello guys!
 
So I got my new GTX 780 Ti Classified on Friday but could only put it in today as I worked over the weekend and had lots of stuff to do. Even could do a few rounds in the Titanfall Beta with my old GTX 680. Now time has come on Monday and I've been busy putting the new card into my system the entire evening. Sorted everything out, cleaned up the system and the mess with my cables. Afterwards I put the card in. Now this is a monster! I didn't expect the card to be THAT huge. It's amazingly larger than my old MSI GTX 680 TwinFrozr! When holding the card in my hand I was like "This is a pure beast!!!". Couldn't take pictures of it as I've been really looking forward to test the card.
 

 

 
Good that I cleaned up my cable chaos inside my case as otherwise the card wouldn't fit in, I'm glad I didn't take the Inno3D 780 Ti as that one wouldn't fit into my case at all.
 
So yeah, did all that, connected all cables and finally it was time to turn my system on. I've been very nervous, you know that feeling, don't you.
My system booted up very quietly, even quieter than with the MSI GTX 680 TwinFrozr (with that card the fans accelerated on the boot and went silent again).
 
Then drivers had to be reinstalled and I had to reboot my system multiple times. But the card was recognized by my system very well, all five LEDs lit up as I turned the PC on.
 
Afterwards I tested the fans on that rattle thing many of you, guys, had. Went through nearly all fan settings and I could hear a very very silent small rattle thingy but only when I listened to it with my ear directed towards the card. So the card is very silent, I wouldn't call that small noise a rattle. So first thought:
 
1. Fans are very silent, even on 100%. I think my MSI card was louder than that and its maximum fan speed was 88%. That leads to my second thought:
 
2. The card is very cool. When I booted up my system, I instantly started GPU-Z. The idle temperature was at 24-25°C! My old MSI card's temperature was around 27-28°C in winter time. So another "Wow!". The 3GB DDR5 of memory are from Hynix on my card and the ASIC quality is 66.8 % (my MSI card had 78% and 2GB DDR5 Samsung memory).
 
I think that's okay. What do you think about the Hynix memory and the ASIC quality? How is the OC potential on my card?
 
Next step was - surely - stability and stress testing. Here are my system specs:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.3 GHz (1.2 V)
Mainboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 (P2.90)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified ACX (stock BIOS, GPU boost clock @ 1150 MHz, memory boost clock @ 1750 MHz)
Sound Card: Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
RAM: Corsair XMS3 16GB DIMM Kit DDR3-1600 CL9 (9-9-9-24) @ 1600 MHz (1.5 V)
SSD: Samsung SSD 830 Series 128GB
HDD: WD Caviar Green 1TB WD10EARX
PSU: Antec TruePower New TP-750 750W Blue (80 Plus Bronze)
Case: Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced USB 3.0 - NVIDIA Edition
Monitor: ASUS VS248H @ 1920x1080 (24''), 60 Hz
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
 
Started off with 3DMark 11 and the performance configuration. As soon as the card has been put under load, I suddenly heard a not very loud electrical buzzing noise coming from my case which some of you had as well which is some kind of coil whine. As the load increased on the card and the frames went higher, the noise started to get a bit louder but not extremely loud as in some videos. After the benchmark finished, the maximum temperature was at 75°C which is good IMO. Did some further testing in 3DMark 11 and then played Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag a bit. What a huge performance gain! Now I can even turn on those PCSS shadows (which I don't really like but good for performance testing) and a bit of "real" AA (MSAA, CSAA or TXAA) rather than FXAA or SMAA to the already maximized settings. So third thought:
 
3. Amazing performance! My MSI card was struggling in the first scenes of 3DMark 11 whereas my new EVGA card easily walked through them. My score was "P14553". AC4 runs at 50-60 FPS on 1080p with VSync (max. settings, MSAA x2, no PhysX). What a beast! The buzzing noise is present but it's much quieter than in 3DMark 11. Not a problem for me though.
 
Here's some comparison data from my old and new card in GPU-Z:
 

 

 
Last testing I did was in Unigine Valley. Amazing performance here as well. Here's my score:
 

 
Final words and thought so far:
 
4. Thank you, EVGA and Nvidia, for such an amazing card you made! The buzzing noise is not distracting to me and I'll keep the card, won't RMA it because of that.
 
 
Thank you for reading. I hope it's not too much text, please read all of it if you can and feel free to reply. I might add more to this post when I'll do some further testing.
 
Matt

Great review, thanks for sharing.
EVGA + Nvidia = a Awesomeness !

It took me four 780 Ti cards before I found one without bad coil whine. For some reason, the 780 Ti series is very bad for coil whine. Luckily, the one I got without it is a 780 Ti Classified. All the others were reference PCB's.  

ericc191
You returned 3 of them until you got one without whine? Yikes, I bet that was annoying lol

They all had bad whine. I have had whine before and I am not too bothered by it, these had whine at under 100 FPS. 

Wow, that needs to be fixed, EVGA is a great company and I have and had many of their cards but fix that whine issue guys.

the memory is already clocked soo high. I think as long as the core overclocks well that is the most important thing. I dont put much weight in asic scores. I think it is better to just oc the card and see how it does.

matt1314
Thanks for your replies, guys. :) Maybe you overlooked my question but I'd still like to ask you, guys. What do you think about the Hynix memory and the ASIC quality of 66.8 %? How is the OC potential on my card?

nVidia aren't the best cards to seek out the ASIC quality rating.  AMD would be better to gauge with ASIC.  My Ti came with an ASIC rating @ 64.1% and is factory OC'd to the setting you've selected to BM the Valley 1.0
 
My Valley 1.0 Preset setting on Ultra 2560X1600 res, AA OFF, DX11, full screen
FPS 72.6
Score 3038
min 34.9   max 139.5
You have a nice card there from how you're describing it.  Enjoy

matt1314
Yeah, so far the card really rocks. Here's a small gameplay of the Titanfall Beta from me. I'm not an experienced shooter-player so please excuse my playing style. The 780 Ti does not have any problem running that game on maximum settings. But my VRAM gets pretty full with textures set to "insane". So in the gameplay they are set to "high" so that my VRAM has left some space for breathing. :)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdOR15Fe6YI

I set Titanfall the the highest settings possible, my VRAM was just fine on the K|NGP|N with the Normal Stock BIOS and factory clocks and voltage
Maybe it's the CPU/Ram/Mobo difference
Or your 780 Ti is just fine on insane settings, it should eat TitanFall
I never hit 60C playing Beta for 2 hours

My classified does 1201 without any extra voltage. This is just by increasing the GPU clock offset. If I put it over 100Mhz, it starts to artifact. 

The maximum amount of VRAM which was used in Titanfall with "insane" textures was 3069 MB. That's nearly completely full. My card does not have any problem with that and I didn't have any "out of memory" errors or whatsoever but I just put the textures to "high" for the card not to be overfilled with texture data plus I didn't notice any quality loss. And it was the only game which nearly uses all of my VRAM. But it's still beta, might be better when the release version is out.
 
I don't plan on overclocking the card now but I'll let you know when I do and how stable it'll be.
 
Edit: Here's another small gameplay from the Titanfall Beta. :)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOtFZXPP5M

I already wrote about that. I checked nearly all fan speed settings going from 30% up to 100% by slightly increasing it and had absolutely no fan rattle.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1714585 -  10943 
 
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1714556 -  5557 
 
So our cards score almost identical, which makes me happy.   My CPU is at 4.5 is the biggest difference,  I think. I took it to 4.7 and didn't see too many more gains. 
 
Over clocked to 1345mhz (with boost) at 1.4 Volts on air,  I made it to 16960 on 3d mark II  http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8002776

I want to push my cpu up to 4.8 and possibly see if I can make it to 5. 4.7 was stable at 1.345 and touched 81 with fans at 100% and the computer at the window while it was 0 Celsius out.

I have an Ek block on its way so I will be adding in the CPU to a custom loop as soon as my case and block arrives.

I get 11,349 on Firestrike with only a 50 MHz overclock.  

I gave it 102% power target and it seems to have jumped up a bit. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2529099
 
I really didn't want to play with voltage. I tried 70 MHz and it started artifacting. Even with a 105% power target. I just really don't want to increase the volts. It kicks, all the games that I play, butts... Why push a good thing? My 4930K is at stock clocks too.