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MSI gtx 670 Power edition "none oc" edition owners thread

Deus Ex said:
DSR will mean you can return it, minus perhaps a restocking fee and shipping.

However your argument that you think it is performing out of specification due to it being in some cases slower than the non oc edition is really poor logic and it's hard to point out how wrong someones dogma is.

Just because a cheaper card outperforms occasionally its bigger sibling, does not make your purchase somehow missold, it just means those who took a gamble with the cheaper option got lucky.
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Who said it was performing out of specification? I have never claimed that at all.

I am taking objection to the fact out of the box, with no overclocking, the non overclocked versions are boosting the same as the overclocked versions. Meaning the extra £38 that people spent on the overclocked version was essentially for nothing.

They clearly are not binned and the non OC versions are clearly not "failed overclocked versions" at all. They are essentially exactly the same.
 
I've only been testing in Heaven 4.0 on extreme. The most I could achieve without crashing was +90mhz on the core clock and +75mhz on the memory clock. I'm really happy with my card as I've been relying on my old gtx 260 for some time now.
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Tidied everything up and flipped my PSU. Really impressed how quite these cards are even under load. With the power slider at %114 I'm getting pretty much 1255Mhz constant.



 
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jwilliamson47 said:
surely the logical thing, is that the ones which weren't up to par were sold as the non-oc units?
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Nope. Looks like they were all able to do the overclocked 1098mhz boost speed easy. They don't seem selected/binned at all, just all the same and some were given an overclocked bios.

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Hi there

Our official stance is any OC is not guaranteed.
MSI sold us a huge amount of 670 PE OC cards.
Then a week later they informed me they had some none OC versions, smaller quantity at a lower price. We took them, our MSI rep said they were cards which did not meet the grade to be an OC version in MSI's testing.

OcUK is not MSI we don't know their testing procedure.

The none OC card is guaranteed to run at stock speeds out the box no higher, but of course they might over clock and seems they do.

The OC card has a guaranteed OC out the box, if it does not run everything stable at this OC it can be returned as faulty in the 3yr period as MSI are guaranteeing the advertised OC.

Overclocking beyond the guaranteed clock speeds is not covered and mileage can vary. Also remember NVIDIA boost works based on power and cooling. A poorly cooled system will have a poor boost/OC performance. Also drivers and the user themselves also impact overclocking.

We operate a 14 day DSR so anyone who is unhappy can return for a full refund and as a bonus you can keep the game as some sort of condolence.
 
I read into it that the non-oc cards are a risk, and require time and effort to get possible performance out of them.

The oc ones guarantees you this, and for those who want piece of mind, this is where the extra cost is
 
My £161 GTX 670 PE (non OC) clocks like a beast, so guess it's a luck of the draw thing

1280MHz Clock
3450MHz vRam (can do 3500MHz but right at limit so dropped down a little as made little difference)

MSI Afterburner 2.2.3

Using stock settings it boosts to 1096MHz out of the box?
 
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So my card is eating all the games im playing. Apart from crysis, what should I be playing to tax it? I promised myself i wouldn't get silly with the overclocking until it gets slow, so I need to find a stumbling block:D
 
I managed to squeeze a little more out of my card and I think I've found the sweet spot. I don't really know how I did it, but for some reason after I updated windows it decided it could be pushed a little further.
this is now stable after running Heaven Benchmark 4.0 on max settings
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Craterloads said:
My £161 GTX 670 PE (non OC) clocks like a beast, so guess it's a luck of the draw thing


1280MHz Clock
3450MHz vRam (can do 3500MHz but right at limit so dropped down a little as made little difference)

MSI Afterburner 2.2.3

Using stock settings it boosts to 1096MHz out of the box?
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Did you flash to the original PE bios?
 
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