Galaxy 780 HOF For The White PCB Lovers

[Mad222]

Grateful to have a chance to bench the Galaxy 780 HOF ES samples before it's officially released
The card certainly rocks. It has 8+2 phases, own Galaxy Fan design and unique nature
"Hall Of Fame" has its' own series of products including PSU & Motherboard as well
Hope to provide more info. when I get them !!

Yup...performance is not bad at all as compared to Titan. I would say single digit ??!!
I was told by the big guy from Galaxy R&D that the official one is a better clocker either air cooled or the extreme




Air Testing












LN2 benching

[cowie]

Real nice showing
First custom board to market gets my money...I really hope its this one....
If i do will there be cold bios and mod info?

[andressergio]

Mad thats awesome now will be a long way to upgrade to those
congrats for the great product !!!

Cheers !!!
Sergio

[Xtreme Addict]

Awesome!

Hope Galaxy will enter seriously on European market

[andressergio]

Awesome!

Hope Galaxy will enter seriously on European market

Yeah it should i have 3 in Uruguay so its posible of course i got them on US

cheers !!!
Sergio

[Mad222]

It gets mine too
Not sure if they will release them to public. If they say YES, I'll post them of course
The mod is easy !!

Real nice showing
First custom board to market gets my money...I really hope its this one....
If i do will there be cold bios and mod info?

It will be ready in July I suppose

Mad thats awesome now will be a long way to upgrade to those
congrats for the great product !!!

Cheers !!!
Sergio

Dun they have "KFA" in Europe
Same thing as Galaxy

Awesome!
Hope Galaxy will enter seriously on European market

[Ivanlabrie]

Wow, that looks amazing man!
I hope I can save for one of those...should be doable by the end of the year or so. :p
Need to source other benching goodies first.

[tool_462]

Been awhile since I can remember a top end card making the "100% OC Club".

[DStealth]

Gr8 card you've got. Mind to share your real frequencies for those air runs 1254-1267 area presume ? And memory OC is gorgeous over 1900 ... nice. And what BIOS you're running stock one or modded, cos you boost freq seems lower than read in GPUz.

[Mungri]

Awesome!

Hope Galaxy will enter seriously on European market

They are already on the European market with a different brand name KFA2.

Overclockers UK are their biggest retail partner, who carry just about all of their products and they ship internationally to most of Europe.

They have very good prices, and support is also good, I had two GTX 670s from them that died and they replaced the second with a 680, though its the first time I had two cards die that fast with a little OC, Im guessing they must have been from a faulty batch.

Recently they had an offer on the GTX 780 EX OC for just ?500 which was good too, but currently there were much better offers on MSI GTX 680 lightnings rebadged to power editions, so I'm going back to using MSI who are still my favorite VGA company (only reason I bought KFA2 was that MSI didn't have custom design 670s on launch day).

I really like and prefer the white PCBs though, but wasn't going to miss out on the MSI lightnings for such a low price.

[CryptiK]

Are these binned and performing as well as the 680 HOF's? The lightnings just were so average after the first 5000 cards but if you beat on them with high voltage they made the numbers but for a daily gaming card the HOF's were by far the better choice.

[Voodoo Hoodoo]

Are these binned and performing as well as the 680 HOF's? The lightnings just were so average after the first 5000 cards but if you beat on them with high voltage they made the numbers but for a daily gaming card the HOF's were by far the better choice.

I must have gotten lucky then - my 2 GTX 680 Lightnings both run at 1398 under the LN2 switch and '8' BIOS under Afterburner 2.2.3. I've seen Andre's triple setup and it's bloody nice synthetic scorewise. I think the highest I got with an SLI was 21,XXX with a 3930K.

[Mungri]

My MSI power editions I got were both crap, on stock volts one did 1228, the other crashes at just 1176, so prolly only 1150 stable. With KGB unlocked volts, they did 1267 / 1202. I'm sending the worse one back today for refund and already ordered a replacement that will be here tomorrow, and can get the shipping cost charges made up for by selling the splinter cell keys.

Looking at how MSI made both lightning and power editions out of their lightning PCBs, Id imagine that Lightning cards had highly binned GPUs (1300+ Mhz stock volts), and the power editions are unbinned, but Id expect at least 1200+ on stock volts, and 1250 min on KGB unlocked volts still.

Galaxy / KFA2 made two versions of the 680 SOF, initially they made the white PCB / Black cooler with 1150 base clock handpicked chips that boosted up to 1306 out of the box which Andre has 3 of. These were the highest binned GTX 680s available. Currently though they have replaced these with the all white PCB and cooler version, which are only handpicked to 1100 base / 1176 advertised boost (actual boost on this base would be at least 1228), so they are just hand picked 1200 Mhz chips now, Id assume they ran out of enough 1300 Mhz chips.

Hopefully my replacement card will be 1228 capable on stock volts too, 1176 crashing was just not right after all the GK104s I've been through.

Another thing to note is when AIBs bin like this, it makes it much harder to get a golden chip on one of their cheaper cards as they are pre testing their GPUs and putting the best on their OC models. But in the exception of the 1150 Mhz Galaxy SOC, all the other AIBs still left theirs at pathetic clocks so you couldn't tell if they had binned or not by looking at the specs.

[LUCI5R]

I'm a little torn between the Galaxy GTX 780 HOF and the XFX 7990 ... they are $10 apart and half the people I talk to tell me to get the GTX 780 & the other half tells me to get the 7990. It's gotten very frustrating.

My setup is going to have 2 Monitors running @ 1200p; I will be doing a lot of Maya/ZBrush/RealFlow CGI Development & Rendering; and a lot of Gaming - But not your typical FPS (Crysis/BF3), but instead your typical RTS -- StarCraft, Civilization, CoH, Diablo, etc.

Whichever card I get now for the $670, I plan to add a 2nd one down the road for an SLI/Crossfire setup.

I just can't decide.

[Splave]

780 with nice non reference cooler like this one your ears will thankyou

[andressergio]

i will go for the HOF 780 after seeing with my 680HOF can do on water 1378Core for sure

[LUCI5R]

780 with nice non reference cooler like this one your ears will thankyou

i will go for the HOF 780 after seeing with my 680HOF can do on water 1378Core for sure

So you guys recommend the Galaxy 780 HOF over the 7990? Any particular reason?

[andressergio]

So you guys recommend the Galaxy 780 HOF over the 7990? Any particular reason?

dual GPU solutions always had problems i prefeer single and binned and great prepared cards that tolerate enormous amounts of OC as the HOF series, im not saying for reviews i have 3 and 1 on the way

on my 680HOF i took 4 screws cooler came off, mem was with HS, VRM with HS al i had to do us put the universal EK blocks pump volts and a lit fan blowing at the back and i can game 1359 and bench 1378+

Cheers !
Sergio

[Splave]

So you guys recommend the Galaxy 780 HOF over the 7990? Any particular reason?

Quieter and cooler, multi gpu on the same card I've never been a fan

[LUCI5R]

dual GPU solutions always had problems i prefeer single and binned and great prepared cards that tolerate enormous amounts of OC as the HOF series, im not saying for reviews i have 3 and 1 on the way

on my 680HOF i took 4 screws cooler came off, mem was with HS, VRM with HS al i had to do us put the universal EK blocks pump volts and a lit fan blowing at the back and i can game 1359 and bench 1378+

Cheers !
Sergio

Quieter and cooler, multi gpu on the same card I've never been a fan

Makes a lot of sense what you guys are saying! I was quite set on the 780 HOF, but when you start googling the "vs" question - you see people throwing left & right "fastest card" and "for the same price, it's a no-brainer", things like that, for the 7990. I know AMD fixed a lot of driver/cf issues - but I also know they are still playing catch up to issues that should have never been to begin with.

After taxes & all, $750 on a single GPU is a fairly important decision & a solid investment, that's the only reason I'm torn.

But 780 HOF still feels like a better decision to me.

I guess the only other question then would be - any reason to hold off & see what the 9970 brings? It's expected to be $600; current rumored specs are pretty strong. But is it really a better overall a choice then a 780 HOF, I'm not sure.

Thanks guys.

[andressergio]

Makes a lot of sense what you guys are saying! I was quite set on the 780 HOF, but when you start googling the "vs" question - you see people throwing left & right "fastest card" and "for the same price, it's a no-brainer", things like that, for the 7990. I know AMD fixed a lot of driver/cf issues - but I also know they are still playing catch up to issues that should have never been to begin with.

After taxes & all, $750 on a single GPU is a fairly important decision & a solid investment, that's the only reason I'm torn.

But 780 HOF still feels like a better decision to me.

I guess the only other question then would be - any reason to hold off & see what the 9970 brings? It's expected to be $600; current rumored specs are pretty strong. But is it really a better overall a choice then a 780 HOF, I'm not sure.

Thanks guys.

i think now the ball is on your field mate we gave you the best opinions i would go for 780HOF no doubt at all, i have one on the way

cheers !!!
Sergio

[LUCI5R]

i think now the ball is on your field mate we gave you the best opinions i would go for 780HOF no doubt at all, i have one on the way

cheers !!!
Sergio

You're quite right; I'm set here. I'm pretty decided to go with the HOF.

Thanks!

[Mungri]

Good choice.

[andressergio]

My GALAXY 780HOF came today some pics for now results to come











Cheers to all !!!
Sergio

[cowie]

woo hoooooooo sexy