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MSI gtx 670 Power edition "none oc" edition owners thread
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I think mine has coil whine when running 3dmark 13. I have not had that before so not entirely sure. Basically when test starts it makes a high frequency sharp nouse which doesn't seem to be normal fan noise. It stops when switching to another test and starts again when test starts. Btw the card runs ok for 3dmark 11, cool and quiet.
What's the best to do about it?
What's the best to do about it?
You should be good, mine max boosts to 1124 at stock in Heaven. Can get to +125core/+0mem or +105core/+550mem for best performance, not an indication yours will do the same but your boost at least doesn't say theres anything bad about it.
Have you tried manually controlling the fan speed to see if the whine happens at a specific speed just so you can eliminate the fan from creating the noise?
Have you tried manually controlling the fan speed to see if the whine happens at a specific speed just so you can eliminate the fan from creating the noise?
It is because in some of those 3d mark tests the framerate is like 800+fps. Most cards will whine a bit at those frames.
In real world gaming when framerates are under say 100, you shouldn't hear a thing.
Thanks. No I haven't got a chance to play with fan speed yet. Will do tonight and see if that's the problem.
800+ fps
didn't notice that. You may be right cause I don't remember it whines when running furmark burn in test. Will do a bit more experiment to see. Cheers.
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Cheers, any other suggestions welcome,
Also what benchmarking is good. Last time I ran one (on my amd 2600 barton) was a long time ago... I note 3dmark is dear, without a decent free version?
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Some good priced cards here. I feel gutted i bought a GTX770 seeing these GTX670 prices but when i bought the GTX770 the GTX670 was still floating around at £270 & GTX680 £300+, so a no brainer.
Fact is everyone here knows the silicon lottery. As long as the card hits the speeds on box then its done what it says. I fully understand its disappointing to buy the OC version & doesnt clock as well as standard version but this has always been the case with many cards. Hence why many people say not to bother buying the "Overclocked version" & just do it yourself.
Take a step back & realise that a GTX670 at £200 is still a great price/performance card. And £160 is utter steal. could have been worse, bet there are a fair few GTX770 owners who paid £300+ for their card but would have been more than happy to buy a GTX670 at £162 given the chance (85% performance for half price!). I would have bought one as a stop gap between now and 9970 or maxwell. O well life goes on
Fact is everyone here knows the silicon lottery. As long as the card hits the speeds on box then its done what it says. I fully understand its disappointing to buy the OC version & doesnt clock as well as standard version but this has always been the case with many cards. Hence why many people say not to bother buying the "Overclocked version" & just do it yourself.
Take a step back & realise that a GTX670 at £200 is still a great price/performance card. And £160 is utter steal. could have been worse, bet there are a fair few GTX770 owners who paid £300+ for their card but would have been more than happy to buy a GTX670 at £162 given the chance (85% performance for half price!). I would have bought one as a stop gap between now and 9970 or maxwell. O well life goes on
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Just installed mine today. Gave my case insides a good cleaning while i was changing from the 570 to the 670 and took me a few hours to get it all sorted.
So ive installed it stuck the 314.22 drivers on and did gpuz test thing which showed up i think boost speed up to about 1150 ish which if its true then cool. Also i got a pretty high ASIC score i think tho not really sure if its correct cos it seems pretty high like and i duno if it really measures oc potential or not but included it in the screenie anyhow.
Not tried any games or benchies yet like might later when ive had a rest from sorting it this morning.
But anyhow how does my gpuz screenie look, ok for the 161 quid non oc version?
Edit - Heaven benchmark just done. My 3570k is at 4ghz so a mild oc on my cpu, no oc on the gpu tho its just stock.
Max temp was about 70 but that was right at the end of the test.
Is that a good result?
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92.5% seems pretty high to me. Mine is 80.3% or something. Not really sure how does it translate to overlocking. Mine at stock goes to 1110mhz in 3dmark 11. Had a little play around during lunch time and got +150 core and +300 mem max without touching voltage and power sliders. This boosts to 1210ish when running 3dmark 11 and gets P9290 score with 2500k @ mild 4.2Ghz. I think your one should do better seeing that high ASIC. Let us know how it goes.
Just installed mine today. Gave my case insides a good cleaning while i was changing from the 570 to the 670 and took me a few hours to get it all sorted.
So ive installed it stuck the 314.22 drivers on and did gpuz test thing which showed up i think boost speed up to about 1150 ish which if its true then cool. Also i got a pretty high ASIC score i think tho not really sure if its correct cos it seems pretty high like and i duno if it really measures oc potential or not but included it in the screenie anyhow.
Not tried any games or benchies yet like might later when ive had a rest from sorting it this morning.
But anyhow how does my gpuz screenie look, ok for the 161 quid non oc version?
Btw anyone else notice that there are stains on the back of the card? Silent mentioned that in the deal thread and mine has that as well. Shall I try to clean them off or just leave them on.
Edit: had a look on google about ASIC quality, said someone: "The lower the ASIC quality is, the higher the voltage leakage is, which results in better voltage response thus better overclocks." He claimed this was told by an XFX graphic card engineer. On the other hand, quote anantech (7970 review):"The GPU of our sample of the card has an ASIC quality of 76.6%. The higher this number, the lower voltage the GPU needs to work at the default clock rate and the higher overclocking results you can get with it by increasing its voltage." Now these seems to mean that a card with high ASIC quality tends to be more efficient while those with lower numbers require more voltage at default but have more voltage available to overclock.
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I did not see any stains tho i think its a brown pcb or wasnt totally black. Tho to me i really didnt see a stain unless u can show what u mean with a piccy?
About oc this card, i duno if ill do it if the boost at stock goes to 1150 which is a nice bit over the stated boost id get on the box so probably be quite happy enough as is for now. Maybe next year ill try it i dunno.
About oc this card, i duno if ill do it if the boost at stock goes to 1150 which is a nice bit over the stated boost id get on the box so probably be quite happy enough as is for now. Maybe next year ill try it i dunno.
Cannot get any pic ATM. It's more like some dried water mark here and there.
Just installed mine today. Gave my case insides a good cleaning while i was changing from the 570 to the 670 and took me a few hours to get it all sorted.
So ive installed it stuck the 314.22 drivers on and did gpuz test thing which showed up i think boost speed up to about 1150 ish which if its true then cool. Also i got a pretty high ASIC score i think tho not really sure if its correct cos it seems pretty high like and i duno if it really measures oc potential or not but included it in the screenie anyhow.
Not tried any games or benchies yet like might later when ive had a rest from sorting it this morning.
But anyhow how does my gpuz screenie look, ok for the 161 quid non oc version?
Edit - Heaven benchmark just done. My 3570k is at 4ghz so a mild oc on my cpu, no oc on the gpu tho its just stock.
Max temp was about 70 but that was right at the end of the test.
Is that a good result?
Yep pretty good.
Boosts out of the box to exactly the same as my overclocked edition boosts to out of the box...
I will be getting a refund on my overclocked edition. I'm not paying a £38 premium for nothing. Almost all of you seem to have near or the same boost clocks as both the overclocked editions i have had and everyone seems to have higher ASIC quality and therefore probably more overclocking headroom.
I don't blame Overclockers, it is MSI that need to sort their lives out. Seems like a total con.
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63% : /.
There was a chap on here who had an overclocked edition that he had to downclock to get it stable. His had an ASIC of 61% i think.
It isn't concrete no, but it can be a pretty good indication.
I was going to say yours is silly low Jono, probably lowest I've seen in my search for how well ASIC Quality related to O/C ability and boost, out of 50 or so I've seen, 50% of those reported seem to be around 90-100, most of the rest around 70-90 (note these are any and all gtx cards). But just seen Moogley's post and he has some nice boosts on his cards there, does SLI make a difference, have no experience with it.
EDIT: Ignore me, just looked on google again and theres asics in the 50s with excellent performance, think I was just reading one or two random threads somewhere where I got my examples above.
EDIT: Ignore me, just looked on google again and theres asics in the 50s with excellent performance, think I was just reading one or two random threads somewhere where I got my examples above.
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My own experience of ASIC quality is that it means pretty much nothing or I just got lucky. I've got some very early original reference MSI 670's in my test bench which are from the first batches of 670's the very best clockers. They both have an ASIC of 54% yet ones does 1320MHz boost stable and the other 1340MHz. On water they both achieve 1400+
Now 670's seem to be boost 1150-1250MHz, your extremely lucky to get beyond 1250MHz stable now, whereas when 670 first came out many seem to achieve 1300MHz+ but at the same time they also cost twice the money, now you can nearly buy two for the price one was at launch.
My own experience of ASIC quality is that it means pretty much nothing or I just got lucky. I've got some very early original reference MSI 670's in my test bench which are from the first batches of 670's the very best clockers. They both have an ASIC of 54% yet ones does 1320MHz boost stable and the other 1340MHz. On water they both achieve 1400+
Now 670's seem to be boost 1150-1250MHz, your extremely lucky to get beyond 1250MHz stable now, whereas when 670 first came out many seem to achieve 1300MHz+ but at the same time they also cost twice the money, now you can nearly buy two for the price one was at launch.