Question 1

how long is it?

Accepted Answer

A little over 10½ inches.  I suggest having 13 inches of clearance to accommodate cabling.

Question 2

Why gtx titan cost more than gtx 780 ti?

Accepted Answer

In *somewhat* non technical language, Titan is more expensive mostly because of it's "compute" Tesla like performance design compared to a strictly binned "gamer" design such as the 780 TI, or other cards of previous generations, e.g 780,680,580..etc.

Moreover, Titan has a 1/3 Double Precision rating of about 1.5 Teraflops as opposed to the 780 TI, which only features a limited 1/24 DP scale that is significantly less, even though the clock rate, core number, and boost clock are higher. Also, the 780 TI has only 3GB Vram while the Titan has 6GB Vram. Combining these two important factors, the result is that Titan remains a speed king running mostly CUDA programs or other "compute" oriented code, while the 780 TI and other comparable cards, like AMD'S new 290x, can run gamer apps faster than Titan.

Question 3

What mother board is the titan compatible with?

Accepted Answer

The GTX Titan is compatible with any motherboard that has a PCI-Express 2.0 or 3.0 slot.  For example, I am using an Asus P8Z68 Deluxe motherboard that only has PCI-Express 2.0 support.

For reference, I did not experience any installation or performance issues using a PCI-Express 2.0 slot.  On a side note, the Titan is rather large so make sure you will have enough room in your case to support the height and length dimensions.

Question 4

I am trying to run Bose sound system with this card but bose is limmited to 1080P and I have a 4k so I ran an hdmi to tv and hdmi to the bose sound system.

Problem I am having now is it reads the bose as a second monitor.
is there a way to set it as audio only ?

Accepted Answer

Everything has to be plugged into your PC or sound card the only sound will come out is from your tv.I don't have a HDMI cord for my bose speakers I have the basic audio cable cord so maybe that is what you need. You might want to try to plug the bose into your tv to see if that works, or if it is just a setting try your pic sound monitor control.  Also bose doesn't pick up all sounds I noticed other people could hear things better than my bose speakers.

Question 5

Seeing as in how the two titan cards are labeled as "Support" video cards, would that mean they would be optimal for a dedicated Physx card long side perhaps a 780, 680, etc... instead of being a dedicated card handling all of the video load?

Accepted Answer

Wow, uh.   "Sli supported" meaning it can "SLi" with other titans.   Only a 780ti is going to single-slot compete with a good titan.  Keep in mind that many programs can't actually see the entire 6gb.

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