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Is The GTX670 actually worth the money

Depends.

It might arguably be worth it over the 680 - you always pay a premium for that little bit more performance, but this is only a little bit of performance for quite a bit of money.

Is it worth it over a 570/580 though? Again, probably not. 90% of people (even gamers), won't need the power of a 670 to play all their games...

kd
 
King Damager said:
Depends.

It might arguably be worth it over the 680 - you always pay a premium for that little bit more performance, but this is only a little bit of performance for quite a bit of money.

Is it worth it over a 570/580 though? Again, probably not. 90% of people (even gamers), won't need the power of a 670 to play all their games...

kd
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I ditched my 580 because I was looking at going SLI but couldn't find a cheap enough 580... I actually only lost about £30 selling my 580 and the money I got back from that will very nearly cover the cost of a 670... in comparison to the money spent, the 670 is a massive upgrade for very little money for me
 
I am personally waiting on the 660 before I decide anything was kind of tempted on the 7850 as that OC'ed is mean't to be near 7970 performance which is also around 670 performance at a much lower cost.
 
Think I maybe should have waited for the 660 too. Loving my Windforce but not sure if I need that much graphics power. The Windforce is a very quiet card so I don't have any problems with noise. I maybe should have looked in to getting a reference card as I might want to go SLI in the future and I hear SLI custom cooled cards can have some heat issues due to them not exhausting out of the back and overheating the top card.
 
xtremedetailz said:
Well my EVGA reference GTX670 does 1320 on the core and cost me £300 so it's all good :)

Showing lots of the wind force boys up ;) with a score of 2109 in heaven.
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Wow! Is that only benchmark stable or 24/7 stable?

I was going to add that as long as you don't 'expect' your 670 to run at 680 speeds, you'll be fine because it really is a lucky dip as to whether you'll get a good enough OC. You could buy a pre-overclocked card if you want to guarantee the speed increase, but then you'll generally pay more for the card.

To give you an example, the KFA EX OC cards I had would boost well above the reference 680 out of the box without any problems, but the EVGA SC cards I have now can't even manage a very mild OC without becoming unstable. The KFA2 would run at 1202MHz boost without overclocking and around 1260MHz stable with an OC. The EVGAs run at 1137MHz boost and if I'm lucky, I can get this to around 1150MHz with an overclock.

If I was looking for a non-reference card, as others have suggested, I'd probably go for the Gigabyte because they seem to get a decent OC and run cooler and quieter than some of the other cards.
 
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