*** GTX 670 Overclocking Thread ***

[Nelly]

exactly what I was hoping, mines staying around 50C under full load

Is that using Heaven benchmark? what case do you have?

 

[andybird123]

Can't/won't happen afaik, I'd love to be proven wrong as some of these cards could hit in the region of 1500mhz with good cooling.

physically can't happen without getting a soldering iron out

 

[Bradmax57]

Is that using Heaven benchmark? what case do you have?

Yeah, tj08-e that is obviously whacking the fans up a fair bit on auto it hit 62C i think and remainded very quiet

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I'm not sure if it makes a difference but my GTX 670 Windforce that did +105 GPU Offset/+675 MEM Offset - PCB Made in China. The GTX 670 Windforce that did +160 GPU Offset/+700 MEM Offset - PCB Made in Taiwan.

Is there a way of telling which you have?
On the box mine says Taiwan.

 

[Nelly]

Is there a way of telling which you have?
On the box mine says Taiwan.

Yeah the boxes will say Taiwan, on the back of the graphics card it will tell you where it was made.

Probally won't make a difference anyway, but it surprised me each one was made in a different place.

 

[setter]

It's just a lottery guys, same with cpu's. None are guaranteed overclockers.

 

[MichaelM]

Had a good fiddle with mine tonight. Did a bit of data gathering.

By default both of mine are boosting to 1176MHz and can at least cope with +50 but crashed on a late scene in heaven when I bumped it up to +80. So the sweet spot is somewhere in that range I guess.

With an ambient temperature of 20C my main card gets to 72C with the case side on and 67C with it off. So airflow can be improved. For some reason my 2nd card only manages to get into the high 50's with the side on my case.

I'll do a clean install before I do any serious overclocking but so far it seems very typical of these windforce cards.

 

[Wezz]

Think I still got some room to play with, but at the moment the card runs everything I play at max any ways with good fps so I drop it back to stock. Most of my games run on the source engine.
Also I enable tessellation. Sorry dodgy benchmark, will run it again tonight with tessellation I get 2379, but I only have screenshot of html printout, I have a gtx 670 evga sc

 

[covenantuk]

Mine Windforce seems to be in the middle of the two overclocking camps. Default boost is 1158, I can get around +120 core and am still pushing to see where the memory limit is, at 500 so far.

Very pleased with the card, whisper quiet and never goes above 60C no matter what I throw at it (Raven RV02 case). Going to try an extended session at full overclocks once I find the limits to see what max temps are like then.

 

[Kitarist]

Darn i wish these cards would be a little bit cheaper

 

[pgi947]

The ref versions have dipped below £300, unless amd shave £50 from the ref 7970 they're going to stay in the region of £300.

 

[duckdodgersuk]

Anybody use the Asus lucid virtu software?
Its supposed to utilise the iGPU and Graphics card together to improve performance. Or is it just a gimmick?

 

[illuz]

I'm using it .

 

[delpy8]

Anyone tried to overclock the msi 670 oc

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-MS&tool=3

 

[psychodil]

Anyone tried to overclock the msi 670 oc

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-MS&tool=3

It will over clock about the same as all the other reference cards.

 

[OCPete]

Make & Model: GB Windforce 3x
Best Boost clock: 1293
Temp: 59C
Noise: Quiet
Heaven Score: 2052
Heaven Avg. FPS: 81.5

Using : Memory 3787(*2)

 

[spluff]

In Afterburner there is a slider called:-

Core Voltage

Just wondering what is this used for and do i need to change it for a good oc?

 

[F1aw1ess]

the voltage slider doesnt do anything, all 670's boost to 1.175v max atm

 

[spluff]

I was reading OC instructions on this http://www.overclock.net/t/1265110/the-gtx-670-overclocking-master-guide/0_100#post_17391118‏

Temporarily increase both the Power Target and Voltage slider to their maximum value. This will minimize the throttling caused by going over the Power Target.

I was just wondering what these 2 sliders are on Afterburner as I can only see Power Limit % which i presume is Power Target?

So what is the Voltage slider i need to change?

 

[AuXDubz]

My Gigabyte GTX670 OC Windforce - 4GB

Before any after my overclocking with these settings:

The settings:

Make & Model: Gigabyte GTX670 OC Windforce - 4GB
Best Boost clock: http://imgur.com/WzCJbtj
Temp: 50-60
Noise: What noise!
Heaven Score: 2091
Heaven Avg. FPS: 83.0

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