Hi, Rappet.
I wrote a piece ago about
TitanZ with OctaneRender =) some things have changed: nVidia felt the pressure of red team (aka AMD) as their DualGPU beast (aka Images R9 295X) was in comparison with TitanZ but for half the price =) So nVidia came with evil plan to cut price for TitanZ to 2k$ for boutique builders..& so the AMD slashed their price by 500$ to 999$ & not only for boutique builders, but for all =) I guess the end user wins out from these moves.. =) let the fight continue!
Now how about value =) well at 2K$ plus system TitanZ makes a lot more sense. Just think about: TitanZ is actually the first dual GPU card that comes with full set of vRAM (580 came in 1.5 & 3GB, while 590 "only" in 3Gb but in two chunks!!!, 690 had the same story.. =) thus TitanZ is a bit of different beast compared to any previous dual GPU cards - probably that's one of the reasons why nVidia felt so relaxed with stratospheric price for gaming card..
However, my opinion hasn't changed too much - & if it would be my money, I'd probably go for 3x780 6Gb (if You can find them) or even TitanBlacks under good waterCooling loop - this would get You the same performance, but lower price, better thermals, less noise =)
Last but not least Titan Z makes most of sense for Small Form Factor (mITX, LiquidCooled, OCed to ceiling..) builds -
Bolt II from DigitalStorm or
TikiZ from Falcon Northwest
Though there's one more situation.. =) If You take
EK water block for TitanZ, what You get is two slot card (as it includes dual slot bracket! =) Now think of 4cards, 8xGPUs inside regular case (with some extra space for radiators) - that's a beast & without any need of PCIe Expandetion boxes (these usually cost ~2k$) or extra licences if You go multiple rig route. In that scenario, if You can get TitanZs for 2k & building a monster - that fairly good deal =) that brings back the value if You do things right =)
..just some food for Your thoughts =) keep spinin'
in my head wants to spend 5.5K euro.
