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***Official GTX 670 thread***

Well, I was not going to bother with this overpriced 6 series :D

I see so much wrong with the cooling layouts, but reading the TPU reviews 10/10 for the Asus Direct CU Top, I have ordered one to play with.

As much as I dislike non venting GPU coolers, It looks to me like it will blow some hot air out the case (due to the longitudinal cooling fins) unlike the Windforce 3 which is just going to dump on the motherboard.

Hope the card lives up to expectations ;)
 
Just fitted my side panel fan, with a room temperature of 28c the most it hit after 2 loops of the Heaven benchmark was 68c, without this sunny weather we're having at the moment it should be around 63-65c I'd think. I should probably test with the side fan blowing onto the card instead of sucking out but with how the Windforce cooler works I can imagine sucking out should be better. The air coming out of the side of my case was toasty.

Really impressed by the Bitfenix fan though, pushes much more air than the Coolermaster Megaflow.
 
What is the Asus TOP version exactly? Cherry picked but under what conditions?
Also the 6x6 pin is not idea, especially if someone comes up with a way to hack the voltage controls.
 
Just had an idea. What if I bought four Windforce 670's, tested them all separately for best overclocks (with heaven) and the best two to do 1300MHz+ I keep for SLI and then if the other two are also 1300+ sell them on in the MM for cost or else just DSR them?

Would that be frowned upon?
 
I would frown on it personally, dsr ing it just if it doesn't clock high enough for your liking. People can't com lain about overclockers adding £20 onto the price of graphics cards if theykeep doing this. It may be free for the individual customer but it carries a cost and that will be passed on in prices.
 
MichaelM said:
Just had an idea. What if I bought four Windforce 670's, tested them all separately for best overclocks (with heaven) and the best two to do 1300MHz+ I keep for SLI and then if the other two are also 1300+ sell them on in the MM for cost or else just DSR them?

Would that be frowned upon?
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What's the point of that? Paying delivery and hassling OCUK just do you can have an extra 10 points on Heaven or less than half an FPS in games...

You'll have SLI, isn't that enough power?
 
psychodil said:
I would frown on it personally, dsr ing it just if it doesn't clock high enough for your liking. People can't com lain about overclockers adding £20 onto the price of graphics cards if theykeep doing this. It may be free for the individual customer but it carries a cost and that will be passed on in prices.
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Well said.

OcUK don't have to give us a 14 day DSR period, taking advantage of it to this extent would be frowned upon.

If you're getting a pair of 670's you don't need two that do 1300+, two at stock would pretty much eat their way through anything at high resolution.

BUT if you are desperate for good clockers, buy 4, keep the best two, stick the other two on the MM and save someone a bit of cash. Recently sold my card to Nelly for face value as it was a good clocking card.
 
There was mention of them using fully working DSR's in system builds and maybe water cooled versions so I don't think it's costing them handful's of cash. We know people do it, especially with tray's of CPU's.
Or selling it on is not much further from 4 game bundles from Steam being split between MM buyers only with the silicon lottery quantified.

It would seem more conclusive and cost effective than buying an Asus Top or equivalent I think.
 
MichaelM said:
There was mention of them using fully working DSR's in system builds and maybe water cooled versions so I don't think it's costing them handful's of cash. We know people do it, especially with tray's of CPU's.
Or selling it on is not much further from 4 game bundles from Steam being split between MM buyers only with the silicon lottery quantified.

It would seem more conclusive and cost effective than buying an Asus Top or equivalent I think.
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Games don't have warranty whereas selling them on MM means you are immediately losing money because the buyer would rather buy it straight from OCUK rather than buy it from someone else. They might end up relying on you to deal with warranty issues which is a big hassle. So as pointed out in the last few posts, what's the point when the gains are minimal at best.
 
MichaelM said:
What is the Asus TOP version exactly? Cherry picked but under what conditions?
Also the 6x6 pin is not idea, especially if someone comes up with a way to hack the voltage controls.
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I would take a guess the best of the regular Direct CU cards, although a company like Asus may have the resources to pretest and select cores, something EVGA does not for example, who just bump clocks and volts.

Don't understand your logic on 6x6......you have some mistaken idea 8x8 will make it go faster or something ? :D
 
Disappointed water cooling didn't effect the overclock and I couldn't resist the offer so another WF 670 is on it's way. Should have it SLI'd on Monday for max 3D gaming, think I'll just leave them at stock OC. Cannae wait...
 
MichaelM said:
Just had an idea. What if I bought four Windforce 670's, tested them all separately for best overclocks (with heaven) and the best two to do 1300MHz+ I keep for SLI and then if the other two are also 1300+ sell them on in the MM for cost or else just DSR them?

Would that be frowned upon?
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Your all great ideas today then !:(
 
JAKUS said:
Don't understand your logic on 6x6......you have some mistaken idea 8x8 will make it go faster or something ? :D
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In any usual situation 8+8 or 8+6 tends to mean the card has more power phases (provided the stock card is 6+6 of course).

Though its not going to matter a great deal with the 6x0 cards, as no card can deliver more than 1.175v.
 
pgi947 said:
In any usual situation 8+8 or 8+6 tends to mean the card has more power phases (provided the stock card is 6+6 of course).

Though its not going to matter a great deal with the 6x0 cards, as no card can deliver more than 1.175v.
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That may be what they want you to think :D
http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/PCI_Express_(PCIe)_8pin_power

8 pin just adds 2 extra earths ! although i believe original 6 pin spec was only 2 12v lines (gap in middle), at 10amps per wire, 2 of those should allow 40amps

The cards only need <180 watts max @ 12v that is 15A.... 1 x 6 pin would be sufficient really when you consider slot power also.
 
I don't know why they beefed up my cards PCB. 5 + 2 phase power, 8 + 6 pin, Ventilation holes in the PCB, and a nice heatsink. I hope they were thinking of a future with a bios allowing more volts. Most likely just marketing.
I don't mind the throttling, but the voltage limit is more annoying than I thought it would be, because I know my card can overclock much more.
 
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