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**** CRAZIEST PRE-ORDER SPECIAL EVER! MSI GTX 670 POWER EDITION ONLY £199.99 Inc. VAT!!!! *****

YAY MY GTX 670 ARRIVED TODAY!

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Got mine today and am pig sick.
My monitors are reporting NO display. The computer is booting up to windows, I can hear it do so; everything runs as it should, except I have no display.

My old AMD 7850 works perfectly and I checked both of the psi-e leads and both work fine. I have re-seated the card 10 times at least, and still no display.

Sick as a pig. I guess my only option is to rma it. :(
 
Mine has been delivered but i am working till late tonight. Think it might have to be a midnight installation when i get home! :D

There better be some haribo in the parcel for me to chomp on!
 
Crosswire said:
Got mine today and am pig sick.
My monitors are reporting NO display. The computer is booting up to windows, I can hear it do so; everything runs as it should, except I have no display.

My old AMD 7850 works perfectly and I checked both of the psi-e leads and both work fine. I have re-seated the card 10 times at least, and still no display.

Sick as a pig. I guess my only option is to rma it. :(
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I had the same issue, took around 3 tries to get it working, but it's working fine now. Just make sure it is securely fitted in your PCI-E slot, it's quite large card and I think one of my motherboard slots to the right was pushing on the card a bit, making it difficult to push it all the way in. Also for the first time, it took like a good 60s for monitor to pick up signal, but now it loads up instantly as usual every time since.

Hmm it might also be something to do with drivers / needing a fresh windows install in your case, I'd try that if possible before RMA-ing. I think mine was funny because I removed my old card using the uninstall option in my "device manager" in control panel and it might have switched to a different video output option (on-board?). (Also removed previous nvidia drivers from control panel add/remove programs as well, and reinstalled them fresh).

GL
 
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I didnt get no haribo, always hear about people getting some sweeties with their orders and the first time in a while I am able to order something I dont get any.

:eek:

I want a refund, and as compensation I will keep the 670 :D
 
alphaomega16 said:
I didnt get no haribo, always hear about people getting some sweeties with their orders and the first time in a while I am able to order something I dont get any.

:eek:

I want a refund, and as compensation I will keep the 670 :D
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if i dont get haribo i will cry.
 
My 2 cards:

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With the roof 180mm fan spinning and side fan as intake hottest card was 75°.

My single card on it's own was 886.

Both cards boost to 1241MHz.
 
ShakeNBake said:
I had the same issue, took around 3 tries to get it working, but it's working fine now. Just make sure it is securely fitted in your PCI-E slot, it's quite large card and I think one of my motherboard slots to the right was pushing on the card a bit, making it difficult to push it all the way in. Also for the first time, it took like a good 60s for monitor to pick up signal, but now it loads up instantly as usual every time since.

Hmm it might also be something to do with drivers / needing a fresh windows install in your case, I'd try that if possible before RMA-ing. I think mine was funny because I removed my old card using the uninstall option in my "device manager" in control panel and it might have switched to a different video output option (on-board?). (Also removed previous nvidia drivers from control panel add/remove programs as well, and reinstalled them fresh).

GL
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I have been trying all day, but there is not much more I can do. I can't even see bios if I boot to it. So back to my old 7850.

I have RMA it, but have made the mistake of asking for a replacement. If it's some incompatibility with my motherboard I am going to be left with more expense and a useless card. I really should have asked for a refund.

Darn, this is a bad day. I should have stayed in bed.
 
Fanatic said:
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Both cards boost to 1241MHz.
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If that's without any "tweaking" of the core clock speed ... then that's a VERY good boost :)

Though I thought Kepler based cards started to throttle above 70C :confused:

I was thinking about SLI myself. But was worried about the temp of the top card and was thinking that maybe having a card that exhausted the air as the bottom card might be better. Still thinking about this though.
 
In sli youd be best off with the reference blower card on top. This will allow the non ref one to breath a bit more. In sli, using a custom fan profile on a 1 - 1 basis can help a bit, also remove any unused pci slot covers.

@Fanatic, 1241mhz is incredibly good if thats the stock boost. One of my wf's hits 1189, the other only manages 1150.
 
So, how do you overclock these? I am coming from a GTX 480 so i don't know 100% how all this boost business works!

I have been using afterburner with the 480. Is afterburner still one of the best tools to use? If so, how do i go about overclocking with all this boost stuff? Also, how do i see what it is boosting to at stock?
 
Msi afterburners on screen display will show the stock core boost, overclocking is just a case of increasing the core say 10 mhz at a time, test for stability. Driver stopped responding errors are a sign of an unstable core, back off too previous known stable setting. Same procedure for memory, if to high it'll result in graphical corruption. I use heaven as a quick stability test, games for longer testing.
 
setter said:
Msi afterburners on screen display will show the stock core boost, overclocking is just a case of increasing the core say 10 mhz at a time, test for stability. Driver stopped responding errors are a sign of an unstable core, back off too previous known stable setting. Same procedure for memory, if to high it'll result in graphical corruption. I use heaven as a quick stability test, games for longer testing.
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Ok. Sounds the same as with previous cards then. So i don't have to worry about the boost?
 
Stock boost will take care of itself, eg my best clocker has a stock boost of 1189mhz in games, (980mhz factory default at stock). On this card i can run with +120 on the core, +760 on memory.
 
setter said:
Msi afterburners on screen display will show the stock core boost, overclocking is just a case of increasing the core say 10 mhz at a time, test for stability. Driver stopped responding errors are a sign of an unstable core, back off too previous known stable setting. Same procedure for memory, if to high it'll result in graphical corruption. I use heaven as a quick stability test, games for longer testing.
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ah this is helpful, as clocking these seems to be completely different to what I am used too. mine seems to boost to 1202 at stock

overclocked 470

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stock 670 on old drivers

clocked results to follow

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In the heaven 3 bench, my first wf easily beat my overclocked gtx 470's in sli. 670 at +130/+760.

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setter said:
@Fanatic, 1241mhz is incredibly good if thats the stock boost. One of my wf's hits 1189, the other only manages 1150.
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Yeah both cards boost to 1241MHz stock boost :).

Need to get a new 180mm fan I think, going to be a massive pain to install too in Define XL.

mikeo said:
If that's without any "tweaking" of the core clock speed ... then that's a VERY good boost :)

Though I thought Kepler based cards started to throttle above 70C :confused:
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Yeah they do throttle down sometimes to about 1228 or 1200 ish. But then again sometimes they maintain their boost clock even over 70°. Maybe MSI fiddled with the limits for their Power Editions.
 
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