I recently bought a Gigabyte GTX 980Ti G1...just waiting on it to get delivered on Monday. My current GPU is a Gigabyte GTX 780 GHz Edition. The other system specs: i7-4770K (not OC'd at this time), Z87 Sabertooth, 16GB RAM, RAID 0 840 Evo (about to pull for a single 850 Evo), with a EVGA SuperNova 1000.
Right now, I have a listing on eBay to sell the 780 scheduled to go live in a few days (which most similar to this card are selling for right $200)...but since I really don't HAVE to sell the 780, I may keep it and use it as a PhysX Card or build a living room media PC. I am not sure when I would build the next system, but it more than likely won't be for at least 6 to 9 months.
What would you do...sell the 780 or keep it as a PhysX card/second system build?
I guess it depends how much you want the money, would $200 really help right now? Plus if you are definitely going to build a media pc you would probably save money by keeping the card for that rather than selling it and buying a new one. Plus you could keep the card for a back up
Yeah, I wouldn't bother with PhysX. It really doesn't do a whole lot other than cause issues.
I'd say keep it if you honestly see yourself being able to use it in the future. The 780 is still a very viable card, so an HTPC or what have you would be pretty awesome with a 780. Granted the 780s can get kinda toasty so you'd want a case that allows airflow to the card, but it would be fun.
If you don't see yourself using it in the future, sell it. No sense in keeping something around that you won't use.
personally i'd sell it since Nvidia made the drastic architecture change that is Maxwell, the 700 series has really tanked in performance (in comparison to the AMD counterparts 780 now performs like a 280x in new titles), it's like they don't even work on the drivers for it anymore.
Or, hear me out, you could send it out to a fellow techie in need of a second GTX 780 for SLI. :-)
Jokes aside, I would sell it. Unless you plan on gaming on your media PC and your regular PC at the same time, you could use in-home streaming on a cheap AMD APU mini-pc (Gigabyte Brix GB-BXA8-5575M was just on sale for 220$ with 240 GB SSD/8GB DDR3 RAM, picked up 10 of 'em). Like others mentioned, PhysX is next to worthless at this point (I say as I still have my original BFG PhysX card in original triangle box, pre-NVIDIA buyout) unless you need a whole card dedicated to tearing banners in Borderlands 2/Mirror's Edge.
I would not be opposed to selling it to a fellow Techie. My lean was to selling the card, since I know a dedicated PhysX card is not really needed. But it would be extra and I don't really need the money...so it was just one of those why not's...haha.
I have a couple HTPC build on PC Part Picker either going Team Red or Team Blue/Green.
Physx really isn't all that noticeable, granted you even find a game with implementation and the 780 is waaaaaaay more power than required for that anyway, you could probably get away with like a 8800gt from ebay, you don't need that much power for a HTPC either so I would just sell it as long as you still get SOME money for it.
Sell it now while it has some value. For a HTPC card I've be looking at a passive GPU with native HEVC/x265 decoding for some future proofing. I've got a GTX670 (with my 980Ti) I thought I'd use as a PhysX card but it's really not worth it after looking at a few tests. Instead I built a spare i5 3570K gaming system from spares lying around :)
If you were to realise ~$200 from selling the 780 that's a fair chunk towards a mini-PC like the Zotac nano passive PC I'm using for a HTPC, Hyper-V software router, Win10 desktop. All running at a max of ~17 watts! (excluding TV/monitor).
Saves firing up my monster hexacore gaming PC and consuimg 100s of watts just for browsing, downloading, forums etc.
I would keep the 780. I bought a 250X on sale a while ago for my box (I play league and watch youtube and the card handles my other games fine, why go up?) and sometimes, apparently, AMD forgets it exists and the drivers fon't work on it. So for the past 2/3 ish months I have been using a 9800GT which is arguably better in a lot of games and worse in alot more (200 FPS in league with 9800 vs 145, 30 FPS with 9800 vs 60 in rocket league)
I would sell before it drops in value. Last thing you wanna do is hold a $200 dollar card that's gonna drop in value to say $150 or $100 in the future. It's like those people with 8800GTX trying to sell their 2005 monster card for 100 bucks.
And people saying you're saving it for HTPC card, you could find cheaper and more energy efficient card like 970/950 any sub-$200 dollar AMD series card that will work better.