[damien c]

Yeah it's my fault that a board dies after a mild overclock on a cpu.

And yes in older games a single GTX780 will cope with those games at medium settings at 4K but as soon as you bump up the details, you suddenly drop below 60fps quite quickly.

Obviously every reviewer out there is also making the same mistakes as me if they are only able to around 45fps at 4K on 2, 3 and 4 cards, so maybe you should instruct them on how to get more fps out the hardware than the hardware can actually deliver.

What is funny though is that now that all the consoles have Blu-Ray drives in them the developers are suddenly now choosing to, not put any effort in to reducing the size of the games and it's just being lazy and yes uncompressed audio does sound better but not that much, unless you a stupid amount of money on DAC's and "Audiophile" grade headphones.

I notice that you didn't include the 4K number from this "Miracle" card that you have.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/638...w/index13.html

Hitman Absolutions manages to give off a pretty strong minimum. Looking above, though, you can see our average sits below 50 FPS, and we would say that's just too low to be playable, even with the strong minimum.

Under Tomb Raider, we see neither a strong minimum nor average here. We're slightly ahead of the R9 290 here, but overall the FPS number we're getting out of the MSI GTX 780 6GB Twin Frozr Gaming OC is just too low.

This is from the 4K showdown that they did.

Looking at the results, I must admit that they're really quite interesting. 3840 x 2160 is four times the amount of pixels as a standard 1920 x 1080 screen. That means that four times the amount of pressure is being placed on the video card. To put it into perspective, this one monitor, at this resolution, requires more power than a three monitor Eyefinity or Surround Vision setup.





I really felt that these high-end single GPU setups would offer us more playable numbers in our game line up. While some of the older games, like Just Cause 2 and Lost Planet 2, manage to scrape by, moving to new games like Hitman Absolution and Tomb Raider are just a big no go.



We can't deny the fact that, outside of AA and AF, all our games are running at the best possible settings, and you do have room to drop those settings to bring the FPS up. One would hope, though, that after spending the money associated with a 4K monitor and a high-end single GPU video card that you'd be able to run your games maxed out. Looking through our graphs, you can see that, for the most part, it isn't true.



Then you throw AA and AF into the mix, and you see the setups crumble under their own weight. Saying that, the bottom line is that AA and AF isn't really necessary. Having so many pixels crammed into a 28-inch screen means that, at the native resolution, everything looks so sharp.



As for who the overall winner is, at $150 cheaper, you'd have to say that the R9 290X 4GB is probably the overall winner when it comes down to price and performance. At this resolution, you're probably not seeing the extra money that is associated with the GTX 780 Ti 3GB come into play enough. What is going to be more appealing, though, is the fact that the NVIDIA offering does offer more overclocking headroom, and in that scenario, we could see the FPS we need. If you found yourself hoping that you'd know what card to buy after reading this, you're probably slightly disappointed and just as confused as us. In the end, 4K really needs a dual GPU configuration. No doubt, this will be something we look at in the near future.

So please stop saying you can play games at 4K on a single GTX780 when everyone knows you need a dual card setup, and as a single GTX780Ti according to Tweaktown is not enough then a slower GTX780 is not going to be enough.

As for not trusting me, well thats your choice but the people I build pc's for and spec up would gladly tell you, that you would be wrong since only one person has had issues with the pc that I have built for them and that was down to there own fault, a cold glass of beer does not go well with electrical components.

Either way the op has got multiple recommendations so now it's up to them on what they want to buy.