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***Official GTX 670 thread***

thebeagle said:
I love my KFA2 670 OC. Runs everything without any issues. However the only thing that really bugs me about it is the coil-whine! But TBH i have kinda got use to the noise

Excellent card and coming from a 470 SLI setup it has blown me away what one card can do!
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I had one and it has coilwhine as well, also I had GTX680 from EVGA and it has even bigger coilwhine.I think most of GTX6xx has this issue ;)
Now I have Asus DCU II gtx670 and there is no noise at all.
 
Vimes said:
Do you think that the coil whine is unique to your card and not a common problem, as such..?
Why did you not exchange it if it bothers you?
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What I have read online it seems quite a common problem with the 6xx series and it sounds like pot luck whether I will get another one with coil whine or not. Also who's to say if I RMA it the coil whine wont be picked up?

I'm pretty much use to it now, unless it gets worse I will just live with it
 
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Nvidia 304.48 beta

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/45970#

Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 680:
Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)
GeForce GTX 560:
Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

Key Fixes
Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs.
Fixes an issue where some manufacturer’s factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks.
Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch.

NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:
Spec Ops: The Line
PlanetSide 2
F1 2011 – updated profile
Final Fantasy XIV – updated profile
Saints Row: The Third – updated profile
Torchlight II
Tribes: Ascend

NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles:
Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Poor
Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings
Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready
Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods
Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0.
Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready
Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good
Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair
The Walking Dead – rating Good

Other Profile Updates
Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III
Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire
Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins
Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support The Secret World
Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic
Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker.

NVIDIA Surround
Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall.

NVIDIA CUDA
Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit.
 
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My 2nd EVGA GTX 670 SC 4gb hit my desk a few mins ago should be fun. Hoping the Full cover blocks will be nearer £50 than the £80 of the much larger 680 blocks
 
Dammit.. These are soo tempting.. I keep looking at my bank balancing and trying to justify getting one lol. Get paid in a few days, so who knows!
 
Pretty impressed with this reference KFA2 so far. Ignoring the fan noise on 80% for the time being, i'm running +145 core and +300 memory and it's been perfectly stable.

It seems as though temps have been brought down slightly with driver releases which seems odd? Before I'd hit 70 degrees with +120 core and it would start to throttle, then without changing anything apart from drivers, the card would reach 65 degrees max.
 
JamesM said:
Pretty impressed with this reference KFA2 so far. Ignoring the fan noise on 80% for the time being, i'm running +145 core and +300 memory and it's been perfectly stable.

It seems as though temps have been brought down slightly with driver releases which seems odd? Before I'd hit 70 degrees with +120 core and it would start to throttle, then without changing anything apart from drivers, the card would reach 65 degrees max.
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So with +145 what does that make you boost clock?
 
:p memory won't go above +350 which is a shame, probably due to no cooling on the chips I might have thought?

Looking forward to getting it under water asap!
 
JamesM said:
Yes haha
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You may find it falls over under water....depending how cool it runs ;)

(I do not have any way of keeping 100% load temps below 60c so it would be interesting to see if the boost clock keeps extending every 10c below that)

Personally I think the boost is more trouble than it's worth, especially if you are trying to optimise clocks/stability.
 
crazy moment, i currently have a 4870x2, however I am currently sizing things up for a total systems overhaul. budget restraints prevent me from going mental so i was just wondering how much of a real world difference there would be stepping to this card
 
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