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670... first thoughts

I would say that the dual core chip is holding him back in some instances but as has been said Source is still a DX9 based engine and is very much a CPU restricted engine. The 670 may not be as efficient at DX9 as your previous card either.
 
So many caveats. For once I had this glimmer of hope that things would be different.

This card should just own a 280 in everything, sideways.

One thing I will say for it, it truly is silent.
 
the heaven score is seriously low too, at 1080p with those settings I get 1900 on a single 670, 1680x1050 should be well over 2000 for a 670

dual core processor FTL
 
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andybird123 said:
the heaven score is seriously low too, at 1080p with those settings I get 1900 on a single 670, 1680x1050 should be well over 2000 for a 670

dual core processor FTL
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I had a 670 and at stock speeds these were my scores with a 2500k

1680x1050 ocuk settings = 77.5 fps (score 1951)
1920x1080 ocuk settings = 68.7 fps (score 1730)

He is getting bottlenecked a bit but its not that bad as its still a good bit more than a 580 would get.
 
The Heaven benchmark score looks low. I thought Heaven was purely a GPU benchmark and CPU made little, if any difference?

For reference I run 3570k at stock with a GTX 670 and at 1680x1050 I get 2017
 
ljt said:
The Heaven benchmark score looks low. I thought Heaven was purely a GPU benchmark and CPU made little, if any difference?

For reference I run 3570k at stock with a GTX 670 and at 1680x1050 I get 2017
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Is it a reference 670 or factory overclocked?

I guess heaven is only purley a gpu benchmark on extreme settings (such as 1920x1080, 8AA, 16AF extreme tesselation)
 
mines an MSI OC reference design one. It doesn't have a major overclock, not enough to be 300 points higher I would think?
 
Dual core @ 3.2GHz you say? Well to be honest I think you've wasted money getting a 670 with such a poor CPU. Get it up to 4GHz if you can otherwise invest in that area next.
 
I'm going to make the wild assumption many of you newly registered folk are quite young.

Most of you will not remember the days of going from a Voodoo2 to a GeForce 1. Even on the same processor (Celeron 300 / Pentium II), the performance difference was STAGGERING. This was true innovation.

'Play modern games' or 'get an i7 and overclock it to 5.5GHz' is missing the point somewhat.
 
Can you check what clock speeds it's boosting to while in an intensive 3D application?

It shouldn't be worse than what you had before but as explained, your CPU will bottleneck it slightly.
 
s0ck said:
I'm going to make the wild assumption many of you newly registered folk are quite young.

Most of you will not remember the days of going from a Voodoo2 to a GeForce 1. Even on the same processor (Celeron 300 / Pentium II), the performance difference was STAGGERING. This was true innovation.

'Play modern games' or 'get an i7 and overclock it to 5.5GHz' is missing the point somewhat.
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When you assume you make an ass of yourself... or something like that

You have an issue with your setup, people are trying to suggest tests to help figure out where the problem is, your heaven scores are much lower than mine, the main difference between our systems is that I have more cores than you, if you are getting the same fps on a 670 as you had on a 280 then clearly as you have said you wasted your money on the 670
 
s0ck said:
I'm going to make the wild assumption many of you newly registered folk are quite young.

Most of you will not remember the days of going from a Voodoo2 to a GeForce 1. Even on the same processor (Celeron 300 / Pentium II), the performance difference was STAGGERING. This was true innovation.

'Play modern games' or 'get an i7 and overclock it to 5.5GHz' is missing the point somewhat.
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Times are moving on and ye ol days of old are forgotten (not by me) by some but in this thread, people are giving you good advice. There is something wrong with your system if your 670 is performing worse than a 280. Your Heaven score is woefully low compared to others...In fact other 670 owners are getting far more @ 1920 than you are at 1680.

You don't need an I7 @ 5.5 to play modern games but GPU's have advanced so much that a 7950/70 670/80 requires a fair bit of CPU power to be able to perform as it should.

You wouldn't buy a Ferrari with a Metro engine in it.
 
Sadly they are all pretty much correct, from the last couple of new card generations you needed a high end board and CPU to get the best from the GFX card, unlike years back ;)

But as said, check the card if throttling up in 3D, Msi Afterburner, or EVGA precisionX, use the onscreen monitor function.
 
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