Caporegime
I'm new to this boost lark .... do the core speeds fluctuate during gaming, or are they pretty much static when stressed at 99/100%?
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Temp depending they should stay at full boost while at 99%. Its games that use less than that either overall of due to v-sync where my problems lie.
Soldato
they clearly haven't tried buying one from OCUK
In the US you can get the Windforce model for $399, same as the reference model, though to be fair here in the UK OcUK seem to be price gouging on the Windforce a fair bit too, there's no reason for it to be almost £370.
Thats my little chat with Nvidia CS over with...
The 6x0 cards are supposed to clock up in steps dependant on core load and power load, the stutter can be directly related to v-sync as v-sync will hardly ever use 100% on full boost, so the clock speeds may fluctuate in the process. For example Fifa 12 has an artificial frame limit of 60 fps, first starting a match gives me 384mhz @ 20% usage, if a move to an area of the pitch with lots of players/action the clock jumps to 980mhz @ 11% usage(stock non-boost clock) and slide shows for a few seconds until it catches up.
They said that the Boost clock will never have an option to disable in favour of a static 3D clock.
They said the only other option would be to modify the vBIOS, but to do so the vendor would have to be the one to create this new BIOS, doing so if they wanted could reduce the boost steps (or set them all to the same speed). But thats not going to happen.
IF this gets sorted in another driver, they have no ETA on when that is likely to happen.
The future isn't looking very bright for my 670 unfortunately
The 6x0 cards are supposed to clock up in steps dependant on core load and power load, the stutter can be directly related to v-sync as v-sync will hardly ever use 100% on full boost, so the clock speeds may fluctuate in the process. For example Fifa 12 has an artificial frame limit of 60 fps, first starting a match gives me 384mhz @ 20% usage, if a move to an area of the pitch with lots of players/action the clock jumps to 980mhz @ 11% usage(stock non-boost clock) and slide shows for a few seconds until it catches up.
They said that the Boost clock will never have an option to disable in favour of a static 3D clock.
They said the only other option would be to modify the vBIOS, but to do so the vendor would have to be the one to create this new BIOS, doing so if they wanted could reduce the boost steps (or set them all to the same speed). But thats not going to happen.
IF this gets sorted in another driver, they have no ETA on when that is likely to happen.
The future isn't looking very bright for my 670 unfortunately
Soldato
That is not looking hopeful at all tbh, that is almost conformation of an hardware issue rather than driver due to the clock being dynamic.
You should post that response in the v-sync thread in the nvidia forums.
You should post that response in the v-sync thread in the nvidia forums.
It only happens to me in certain games, though I believe this may be related to the 'v-sync' induced stutter many are suffering from on the nvidia forums.
I'm just going to test more games now, see how many games I can replicate the fault in.
Soldato
Make & Model: Asus 670 DirectCU II
Best Boost clock: 1260
Temp: 63c
Noise: I cant hear it abouve my other fans
Heaven Score: 1961
Heaven Avg. FPS: 77.8
I have a Silverstone FT02 (non Air penetrater fans)
My Motherboard Temp says 33c Amb temp is about 24c
Best Boost clock: 1260
Temp: 63c
Noise: I cant hear it abouve my other fans
Heaven Score: 1961
Heaven Avg. FPS: 77.8
I have a Silverstone FT02 (non Air penetrater fans)
My Motherboard Temp says 33c Amb temp is about 24c
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the gigabyte is certainly way overpriced here
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cant the boost be disabled though
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Caporegime
Got my windforce 670 in the post today, all installed just now and ran heaven 3.0. Result ss below on stock clocks.
My sli'd gtx 470's for comparison.
470's clocked at my 24/7 settings of 750/1500/1674
Really impressed with how quiet the card is, max temp of 60c during heaven, (idles at 28c). In a case that isnt great for airflow, (bitfenix shinobi xl). The 470's hit 76-69c in heaven with an awful amount of noise. I suspect that the card would run even cooler in my Lian Li A70F case, much better airflow in it.
My sli'd gtx 470's for comparison.
470's clocked at my 24/7 settings of 750/1500/1674
Really impressed with how quiet the card is, max temp of 60c during heaven, (idles at 28c). In a case that isnt great for airflow, (bitfenix shinobi xl). The 470's hit 76-69c in heaven with an awful amount of noise. I suspect that the card would run even cooler in my Lian Li A70F case, much better airflow in it.
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So the Gigabyte Windforce is one of the best buys right now? Thinking of upgrading from my 6870.
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For me its been the best graphics card I've had, and going from feedback on here its one of the best to get, so yes
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I am coming around to the idea of getting the windforce - however this talk of stuttering is putting me off
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Got my windforce 670 in the post today, all installed just now and ran heaven 3.0. Result ss below on stock clocks.
My sli'd gtx 470's for comparison.
470's clocked at my 24/7 settings of 750/1500/1674
Really impressed with how quiet the card is, max temp of 60c during heaven, (idles at 28c). In a case that isnt great for airflow, (bitfenix shinobi xl). The 470's hit 76-69c in heaven with an awful amount of noise. I suspect that the card would run even cooler in my Lian Li A70F case, much better airflow in it.
I was looking at sli my gtx 470's but one on its own was very noisy and hot - 2 must be awful. nice to see that a gtx 670 is as good as 2 gtx 470's though
Caporegime
The noise was pretty bad, particularly in this new case as it's airflow is bad. They were a bit quieter in the A70F, used a custom fan profile to keep noise temps down in that case, had to configure it a bit once i changed cases which resulted in more noise. Been trying out bf3, 1920x1200 all on ultra, hbao on and 2x msaa, lowest fps i seen was 53.
Soldato
My Asus DirectCU II is only just noticable at 100%.
Caporegime
It is indeed quite a difference not hearing the whooshing noise of the 470's when gaming. Ive owned windforce cooled cards before and have been very impressed with how quiet they are. Now i can just about hear my cpu fans.
Wow they must have really changed since my 570 directcu was made. Mine only hits 35% on full load even overclocked, at 40% it is too noisy and at 100% its like a Hoover. I can hear it from outside the house.