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Hey guys. I'm gonna want opinions. I've run comparisons so i do know roughly what beats what.

Alright. As of Saturday I need to purchase a 750W Power supply. Now my mate recommended I go get a modular supply due to it being easier to cable manage. I personally like neater cables and it tends to have left over cables in the end so less space consumed. That's no hassle. Just updating from a 500W power supply. So I can keep that spare on hand. But ill need a bigger supply to accomoddate for this new video card.

Anyway. For those who own a NVIDIA GTX780. If I was single monitor gaming wouldn't it be complete overkill? Wouldn't it just be better for me costwise just to use a NVIDIA GTX770 instead? Save the 200 dollars. My current PC setup is 2 24" monitors. But I only use one for gaming and the other one for additional space when typing reports or dealing with SQL or HTML. Thoughts? The ATI equivalent which is a Radeon 280x can be considered too. But i want performance.

My current specs are
CPU: Intel i7 2600k 3.4ghz
Operating System: Windows 8.1 Professional (free copy from Uni so i am not complaining)
PSU: Standard Coolermaster 500W
Video Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6970 2GB
Memory: 8GB Ram
Solid State Drive: Samsung Pro Series 250GB
Hard Drives: 2x 7200rpm 1TB Western Digital Black Caviar
Extras: Sound Blaster Soundcard (For surround sound) and wireless network card.

as you asked last night i would head for the 780 but i can see potential problems with your power supply. that might need to be bumped up a little...

Save the $200 grab an Evga 770 acx version. It will run bf4 on ultra on a 24" monitor easy! Grab a fully modular corsair 760 watt psu! Also your cpu will bottle neck your system any way. If you have an 1155 socket on an z77 chip set spend the money you save on the card and grab a 3570k. Also make sure your mobo is pci 3 compatible. .

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I run an MSI 780 Lightning on a 24" 1920x1200 60Hz screen. I previously ran a Gigabyte GTX670 OC on the same screen and really haven't noticed much difference outside of benchmarks. With the GTX670 I was always hitting the 60fps limit of the screen with everything cranked up anyway. I had it overclocked so it was running as fast as a GTX680 anyway (which is what the GTX770 is). The GTX770 would be a very capable GPU for a similar setup.

If your monitor is capable of 120Hz then the 780 would be preferable as that will push out a high fps to take advantage of the monitor's higher refresh rate. However, you could still run with a GTX770 drop some of the settings down from ultra to high and not really notice much difference in picture quality, but get a higher fps.

As for the PSU, I've used both modular and non-modular. I definitely prefer modular PSUs now as it keeps the inside of my rig a lot cleaner and less cluttered. For a good, reliable 750W modular PSU you will be looking around $130-$180 depending on which brand and rating you go for.

Sammy I have to respectfully disagree with you on the 2600K vs 3570K. On most comparisons I've seen they are within about 1-3fps of each other in gaming, with the 2600K performing slightly better on multi-threaded tasks. Going from a 770 to 780 would give a bigger fps boost compared to going from a 2600K to 3570K. My recommendation would be to use the savings by going with a 770 to buy a decent CPU cooler (if you don't have one already) and overclock the 2600K.

I've already got a custom air cooler for my CPU. So getting a new cooler won't be necessary. I idle 40C anyway which I find is pretty good and when I have the PC working hard I only seem to get it to about 72C. So yeah I can do a bit of overclocking once i get the new power supply. Definitely looking at the 770 instead. I'm switching from ATI to NVIDIA due to better driver support and people have said the performance is pretty good.

I might just do this end of financial year. Ill have more money to do what I want then.