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My New EVGA GTX 680 SC

francky

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Just thought I'd post some pics and my impressions of my new EVGA GTX 680 SC which I got today afteer wating for god knows how long (allthough I cant complain as I got it for free :p)

Ive gone from a GTX 470 and wow....what a jump in performance, I havent played around with overclocking as its vastly different from doing my old 470, but after giving the Witcher 2 and Battlefield 3 on maxxed out settings at 1900x1200 im getting a rocksolid 60fps vsync'd.....the games look amazing and run soooooo frigging smooth.....definetely a happy bunny...what a card :)

Oh and the biggest bonus, is that under load I cant hear it...at all......unlike my GTX 470, which litterally sounded like a jumbo jet taking off in my living room!



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Im finding it hard to hold off buying one of these new cards.
My overclocked 480 is doing me ok at the moment so i shouldn't complain.

Nice crotch shot btw. :D
 
Out of interest have you tried overclocking the card yet?

I have to agree, most of the games I play the card itself is basically inaudible, although I do game with headphones on, and the few games that are demanding I've never seen it go over 60% fan speed which is still very quiet. :p

I also came from a gtx 470.
 
Try +100 on the core and +350 on the memory. Put the power offset slider to 1 or 2 under maximum (for some reason mine are stable on this setting rather than maxed)!
 
Tonester0011 said:
Most people overclock for fun, or for benching. No one i know overclocks out of necessity (people do, just no one i know :P)
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Yeah true....allthough I overclocked for necessity for my 470 to get some extra perfomance at high settings on games.....im gonna give it a whirl though and start with the settings above :)
 
Do you have Heaven 3.0? Let it loop a couple of times to flush out any instabilities but +100 should be an obtainable OC. Memory OC should be fine.
 
I actually managed to get +200MHz running perfectly stable after a few loops of kombuster (need to download heaven) after adding a bit more juice......but my 3D mark score actually went down....im assuming this might be down to thermal downclocking at 70+ degrees?
 
Got mine running at a moderate overclock of +120mhz core clock and +350mhz memory clock.

Left it looping for about half an hour, seems pretty stable.

Thats with the power target at 120%.

Temperatures was around 79-81 degrees with 61% fan speed, a little louder than I would have liked but thats a worst case scenario.
 
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