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***Official GTX 670 thread***

Posted my benchmarks in the other thread, but just incase anyone missed them:
So I've been playing with my Gigabyte Windforce 670 that arrived this morning at about 11am (ordered 4:30pm yesterday, OcUK WIN!), and I have a few benchmarks for you wonderful people :) I'm running my 2500K @ 4.6

Windforce at stock clocks:
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Not bad :) Looks about right?

And now here is me trying out some overclocking with PrecisionX :D Note that temps never hit 70 degrees too (69 to be precise), which is in my very warm room with no window open!
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Nelly said:
Is something wrong with the official 301.34 drivers? I'm just about to install?
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I've had no problem installing them, I uninstalled my AMD drivers. Turned the PC off, installed the card booted installed the drivers and no problems at all.

Perhaps Bhavv between the time he made baseless sales figures claims and receiving the card he forgot how to install drivers properly... somehow
 
jallan said:
20 pages ago or something silly like that you managed to magically decide that AMD had large stocks of 7970 because no one was buying them but had no figures to back it up.
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Another aspect AMD touched on was the availability of their Southern Islands cards, which is sort of a red herring. It is true AMD's 7000 series graphics cards are more readily available in the market, but the fact of the matter is this has nothing to do with production. Instead the issue is Kepler based graphics cards are in high demand. We have talked to a few retailers and the word from them is Kepler is selling at nearly a 4 to 1 ratio over Southern Islands. This leaves plenty of volume available for AMD, but makes it appear as if Nvidia is lacking the same volume,when this is not necessarily the case.
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http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/Nvidia_GTX_670/16.html

There you go, is that baseless or do you just not read as much as I do?
 
bhavv said:
No, the 301.24s I already had were for my GTX 560 tis, theres a seperate driver for the new keplers. Just make sure you download the right ones.
jallan said:
I've had no problem installing them, I uninstalled my AMD drivers. Turned the PC off, installed the card booted installed the drivers and no problems at all.

Perhaps Bhavv between the time he made baseless sales figures claims and receiving the card he forgot how to install drivers properly... somehow
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Ahh cool, yeah looks like the GTX 690 and GTX 670's are using their own driver compared to say the GTX 680. Right best switch off and get it plugged in. :)
 
bhavv said:
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/Nvidia_GTX_670/16.html

There you go, is that baseless or do you just not read as much as I do?
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I was going to say relax I was just messing around but when someone cites someone else as expects people to use them as a reliable source of information I would actually like to know who these retailers are. You do realise there are so many variables involved in that statement alone that you can't suddenly decide that 7970 aren't selling at all.

The mere fact that the "few retailers" they spoke to may actually only stock one type of 7970 and a full range of Kepler cards, I mean that wouldn't be hard to get a 4 to 1 ratio now would it? I'm not fan boy of either side considering I just "jumped ship" from AMD to Nvidia in the last 24 hours but seriously, a reliable source with figures that can be quantified would actually be some evidence but word of mouth is pretty poor.

I probably do read as much as you do, I just don't take everything I read as truth all the time.

My 6850 vs the 670, quite an upgrade
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I actually don't mind short PCB, remember cards like 6600gt? There were all shorter than cards nowadays.
So far EK and Aquacomputer confirmed they making water blocks for short versions so can't wait to swap my GTX580 with this card...
 
It seems a fairly good indicator of the quality of the chip is how far the gpu will boost itself when at stock. Some will boost +220, others as low as +170. Mine will boost from 980 to 1176 when running heaven i.e. +196.
 
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