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[Heinz68]

If the price is 550 dollar, honestly, what ever Nvidia does, their high end is going to be priced uncompetitively. Nvidia needs to discontinue their regular gtx 780 line and only sell OC editions at the same price as 290x, while additionally if Nvidia wants to price their gtx 780 ti at 650 or more, it better perform atleast 10 percent better.

However the noise and wattage concern me. Particularly if I want to overclock this for gaming.

If the R9 290X price is 550 USD and the rumored benchmarks are true, it sounds as very good deal. If that's true Nvidia will have to reduce few prices because there is also R9 290 coming next week.

If GTX 780 Ti is at least 10% faster than R9 290X, than it's going to be about as much faster than the NV Titan (if the rumored R9 290X benches are true). That's going to make some Titan owners not too happy,( specially the more recent buyers). Even many recent GTX 780 buyers are not going to be too happy I still see the price at newegg $660 ( most prices even higher).

Well there are way too many if and speculations above, good we have only about 6 hours to wait to find the true.

As per your overclocking concerns, I believe ALL cards are noise to run over clocked on reference air cooler heat sinks, but I did not have any Nvidia card card recently so anybody can correct me if I'm wrong.