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B Grade MSI GTX 670 OC warranty?

jimhaumman

jimhaumman

jimhaumman

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Hi guys.
Before I pull the trigger and bought:
**B Grade** MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N670GTX PE 2GD5/OC).
I had the look on the forum about b grade products. I'm fully aware what b grade means. I assume that I may only receive the graphics card within a plain brown box, and that there will not be any accessories, I will not be disappointed. Anything else will be a bonus.
Overclockers supplied 90 days warranty and I can still dsr the card within 14 days if I won't be happy with it,which is great.

I found post in other thread about B grade:

I've been looking around a bit at gigabyte's manufacturer's warranty. Apparently do 3 years from the date of manufacture, which you should be able to work out form the serial number - the numbers after the SN in the number should give you a year and week. E.g. SN1213xxxx would be week 13 of 2012.

I don't think you have to provide proof of purchase for this. The only problem is that I can't find any info on the UK website, only the US one. I've emailed their RMA dept. asking. Will post back if I get a reply.

EDIT: Got a reply. They honour the warranty 3 years from the date of manufacture as long as it was purchased from one of their official UK dealers (obviously OCUK is one).

My question is if that may apply with my card as well?
Will MSI honour the 3 years warranty?
B Grade MSI GTX 670 OC cost me 239,99£ what is great price but for this I can have http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-148-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673. great gpu without b grade luck of the draw and with full 3 years warranty.
 
MSI rarely deal with direct RMAs except for laptops, notebooks etc.

RMAs go through their official retailers and MSI only get involved directly if there are problems with the retailer.

As initially it's going to be OcUK who would have to deal with an RMA I suggest you ask in Customer Service to see if the 3 year warranty will be honoured.
 
hmmm, if they 670 was only launched just under 5 months ago surely the worse case scenario would be 2 years 7 months.
 
I've got the card for over a week now.It came in original box with all accessories.
Gpu isn't the best oc. I only mange oc core to 1095mhz,boost is then 1173mhz(readings with gpu-z shows it goes up to 1250mhz) and for memory is 6380mhz.
Can complain for 239,99£ it's a bargain and I'm really please with the purchase.
Here is a score from 3dmark11
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4563123.
C:\Users\Slawek\unigine_20121005_0851.html
 
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jimhaumman said:
I've got the card for over a week now.It came in original box with all accessories.
Gpu isn't the best oc. I only mange oc core to 1095mhz,boost is then 1173mhz(readings with gpu-z shows it goes up to 1250mhz) and for memory is 6380mhz.
Can complain for 239,99£ it's a bargain and I'm really please with the purchase.
Here is a score from 3dmark11
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4563123.
C:\Users\Slawek\unigine_20121005_0851.html
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Hi... I've got this card as well.

Just wondering if you've tried version 2.2.3 of afterburner. As this allows voltage adjustment on this card (NB. the latest version 2.2.4 is voltage locked!).

It's just that you might be able to squeeze a bit more out of it (should you wish of course).

Great buy at that price :):):)

PS. Assuming 100% stable in all conditions, then I would personally consider that a half decent OC for a 670
 
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mikeo said:
Hi... I've got this card as well.

Just wondering if you've tried version 2.2.3 of afterburner. As this allows voltage adjustment on this card (NB. the latest version 2.2.4 is voltage locked!).

It's just that you might be able to squeeze a bit more out of it (should you wish of course).

Great buy at that price :):):)

PS. Assuming 100% stable in all conditions, then I would personally consider that a half decent OC for a 670
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I thought the gtx 670 are voltage locked,not msi afterburner.
So afterburner 2.2.3 will allow me to rise voltage?
How much voltage can I apply more?
I tried rise voltage on memory and aux in msi afterb. but settings reset after I click apply.
What is safe voltage?can you recommend settings?
ta
 
jimhaumman said:
I thought the gtx 670 are voltage locked,not msi afterburner.
So afterburner 2.2.3 will allow me to rise voltage?
How much voltage can I apply more?
I tried rise voltage on memory and aux in msi afterb. but settings reset after I click apply.
What is safe voltage?can you recommend settings?
ta
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Check this out >> http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/56546-msi-gtx-670-power-edition-oc-review-20.html

You may have already read the review, but it's as fast as a GTX 680 reference card before you even try pushing it lol, I nearly bought one myself, then had a crazy idea to get a 680 lightning instead. :rolleyes: :)
 
gregster said:
You chose wise :)
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I haven't even had chance to use it yet, had it nearly 2 weeks! lol :)

Only got a new system up and running last night, I can't access the MSI MPower voltage read out points on the motherboard if I put the Lightning in, so will have to wait abit longer. :(

I hope it does 1300 MHz on stock voltage, I'll be well chuffed lol.
 
jimhaumman said:
I thought the gtx 670 are voltage locked,not msi afterburner.
So afterburner 2.2.3 will allow me to rise voltage?
How much voltage can I apply more?
I tried rise voltage on memory and aux in msi afterb. but settings reset after I click apply.
What is safe voltage?can you recommend settings?
ta
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You've got to remember that Afterburner is an MSI tool after all, it just so happens that most of the functions work fine with other manufacturers cards as well. Version 2.2.3 will allow up to 100mV to be applied to a number of MSI cards (670 PE and 680 Lightening being two of them) and I would imagine that this is a pretty conservative increase. I've found (at least on my card), that the best gains are achieved from increasing the voltage to the core, thus allowing me to increase the boost offset further. Obviously each card / GPU is different, so there's no really "recommended setting".

Have fun.

Though as already pointed out... even without any OCing, this card is as fast as a stock 680 out of the box.

PS. If it was me I'd try:
- Increase the Power Limit to the max.
- Increase Core Voltage to +50mV
- Increase Core Clock to push your Boost to 1300MHz
- Leave Heaven running for an hour as an initial stability test.

If Heaven fails, increase Core Voltage in 5mV intervals until Heaven runs stable for an hour. Then try a few demanding games.
 
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http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...6-msi-gtx-670-power-edition-oc-review-20.html

so I took example from them with my OC
-I increase the power limit to the max
-increase core voltge to +50mV
-increase core clock from 1020 to 1170 (+150mhz) what gives me boost clock to 1268mhz ( card goes well above 1300mhz now)
-memory +250 what gives me 6508mhz
-playing witcher 2 with everything on max for three hours last night,card seems stable
-temps 68 max

how to increase PLL ??
 
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jimhaunman

Looks like a more than decent OC.

As to the Auxiliary voltage, obviously up to you, but I would not bother myself. Never found it makes much difference. You are pretty much already pushing the envelope for what these chips are capable of under air cooling!

But once again, every GPU chip is different, it's very much a "suck it and see" thing (IE. again there is no recommended setting). What works for one person and is stable, won't for another.

Have fun.
 
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