Is The GTX670 actually worth the money

[Jasonst888]

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.

Depends how close you have them together and what sort of case cooling you have otherwise, for instance I have a FT02 with two custom 7950s in xfire and temps are very low.

 

[xtremedetailz]

Wow! Is that only benchmark stable or 24/7 stable?

I can go higher for benchmarks, i think the highest i can do is 1360Mhz boost.

The 1320Mhz are my stable 24/7 gaming clocks that get plenty of BF3 abuse without a hiccup.

 

[palaw]

I was planning on the 670, but when the windforce 680 went on sale the last week or so I thought it was worth the extra £50 rather than praying with overclocking, not to mention 680 pretty much removed the need to even overclock anyway.

Depends on what you want really, 670 is a great card, but if you want the max probably not worth the hassle and praying for a 670 to act like a 680, and just get 680 if you can and be done with it.

 

[andybird123]

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.

one of my EVGA's does 1280, I haven't tested the other yet, kinda hoping they both do a little more on water