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There's another thread on the go at the moment about sealed gigabyte cards etc.
It may be the norm.
It may be the norm.
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GTX 670 Gigabyte WIND FORCEx3: got worst clocker ever?
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Just read that cheers! Interesting. I Wonder what the score is. I seriously reckon my gigabyte might have been a return, probably by some sad idiot just like me who wasnt happy with the non guaranteed overclock
But, they can't do this. Will read the other thread with interest.
Caporegime
Just read that cheers! Interesting. I Wonder what the score is. I seriously reckon my gigabyte might have been a return, probably by some sad idiot just like me who wasnt happy with the non guaranteed overclock
But, they can't do this. Will read the other thread with interest.
Reminds me of years ago buying a DVD player from Argos and it had a DVD in which was Finding Nemo. It all played ok, so I kept it and it lasted many years. I am sure this is not the case with OcUK though.
Soldato
nope not the worse my EVGA's only do about +17mhz on the core. The Max Kepler boost/clock I can get is just shy of 1150mhz , anything beyond that I get 3d or folding lockups
nope not the worse my EVGA's only do about +17mhz on the core. The Max Kepler boost/clock I can get is just shy of 1150mhz , anything beyond that I get 3d or folding lockups
Hooray! Only joking - always nice to know someone's worse off than you though aint it. Sorry
So is that the EVGA SOC version in your sig, not the FTW version?
Soldato
Hooray! Only joking - always nice to know someone's worse off than you though aint it. Sorry
So is that the EVGA SOC version in your sig, not the FTW version?
yer annoyingly EVGA's 670 4gb is just the reference design with a couple of extra Vram chips and when I got them on release they were over £400 a pop as well.
You win some you lose some
Interesting update to this issue. It turns out the worst clocking Windforce GTX 670 ever, might have been rubbish for a reason. Looks like it is faulty, and possibly was all along.
In the last few weeks Skyrim was doing really odd graphical artifacts every so often, and I couldn't tell if it was bad mods, possible driver issue, faulty SLI bridge, power supply possibly struggling, or what.
Tried loads of things and was about to re-install windows as a last ditch hope, and then finally nailed it down to the windforce being faulty.
Skyrim was too random in whether it went 'funny' or not, so I ran each card (my other is EVGA FTW) on its own in the top slot with the Heaven 3 benchmark totally maxed out. I'd done this before, but not sat through and watched each and every test run, I'd just let it run and walked off. This time I sat and watched eagle eyed and 4 specific tests on every run through would shows graphics and textures spiking/ making odd triangles all over the place. Symptoms of faulty memory, so I think? (no overclocking by the way).
Did it every time I tested but only on these 4 individual tests. The EVGA was fine running the same test, so conclusive in my view that the Windforce is faulty. It's off for RMA with gigabyte at the moment.
So, was it faulty all along/ on the edge of messing up, hence the really poor boost and overclock for a Windforce 670?
In the last few weeks Skyrim was doing really odd graphical artifacts every so often, and I couldn't tell if it was bad mods, possible driver issue, faulty SLI bridge, power supply possibly struggling, or what.
Tried loads of things and was about to re-install windows as a last ditch hope, and then finally nailed it down to the windforce being faulty.
Skyrim was too random in whether it went 'funny' or not, so I ran each card (my other is EVGA FTW) on its own in the top slot with the Heaven 3 benchmark totally maxed out. I'd done this before, but not sat through and watched each and every test run, I'd just let it run and walked off. This time I sat and watched eagle eyed and 4 specific tests on every run through would shows graphics and textures spiking/ making odd triangles all over the place. Symptoms of faulty memory, so I think? (no overclocking by the way).
Did it every time I tested but only on these 4 individual tests. The EVGA was fine running the same test, so conclusive in my view that the Windforce is faulty. It's off for RMA with gigabyte at the moment.
So, was it faulty all along/ on the edge of messing up, hence the really poor boost and overclock for a Windforce 670?
Associate
just to clear something up the evga 670 ftw is classed as a none reference design 670, firstly the pcb that the evga 670 ftw uses is infact a reference design 680 pcb because of this the 670 ftw is long than a reference design 670, secondly the 670 ftw have vapor cooling on them which the reference design 670 doesn't have. the ftw come in a 2gb and 4gb version.
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Man of Honour
Why do people get hung up about how much a card boosts, often it does not convert into real performance. One of my GTX 690s is a very good ocer but when I run it at lower clocks other people with the same card use to reach a score in 3dmark11 my card gets absolutely thrashed by about 500 points. Its only when I use the sort of clocks a GTX 680 would be proud of I can match the other persons card.
My point is it does not matter what clocks a card can reach, its the measured performance it can produce that counts.
I think you're missing the point. Perhaps my original windforce had such a poor boost, because it was faulty/ right on the edge of developing the fault. ie, the very, very poor boost clock on this card was a symptom that the card was actually not as it should be.