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***Official GTX 670 thread***

felton1592 said:
1137MHz from reading the box.
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As Zaim says "install Afterburner", or use GPU-Z to check what the actual boost is under serious load. It should quite easily exceed what ASUS claim (this pretty much being the min. it should do). Though these cards are probably towards the higher end of what Kepler can do, so whether what little margin is left will give you any noticable improvement.... is open to debate. But hey... it's free.
 
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mikeo said:
As Zaim says "install Afterburner", or use GPU-Z to check what the actual boost is under serious load. It should quite easily exceed what ASUS claim (this pretty much being the min. it should do). Though these cards are probably towards the higher end of what Kepler can do, so whether what little margin is left will give you any noticable improvement.... is open to debate. But hey... it's free.
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This is what they claim their overclock is, but thanks! I'm a bit iffy in overclocking. Sure, it's easy; knowing my luck it'd do something bad.
 
felton1592 said:
This is what they claim their overclock is, but thanks! I'm a bit iffy in overclocking. Sure, it's easy; knowing my luck it'd do something bad.
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Hi. What they probably quote on the box, is the minimum boost. What it will actually boost to depends on how demanding the game is and this in turn is dictated to by the TDP (IE. power use) and the temperature the card is running at.
IE. it will run a fair bit higher than is quoted "on the box" even before you attempt any overclocking. ;) It's the nature of how Kepler works.

Download GPU-Z and set it to log the metrics (IE. values) to a file. Run a demanding game (EG. BF3, Alan Wake, Heaven benchmark etc.). Then check the figures that get logged.

My guess is that it will boost to around 1250MHz "out of the box" (IE. without / before doing any overclocking).
 
mikeo said:
Hi. What they probably quote on the box, is the minimum boost. What it will actually boost to depends on how demanding the game is and this in turn is dictated to by the TDP (IE. power use) and the temperature the card is running at.
IE. it will run a fair bit higher than is quoted "on the box" even before you attempt any overclocking. ;) It's the nature of how Kepler works.

Download GPU-Z and set it to log the metrics (IE. values) to a file. Run a demanding game (EG. BF3, Alan Wake, Heaven benchmark etc.). Then check the figures that get logged.

My guess is that it will boost to around 1250MHz "out of the box" (IE. without / before doing any overclocking).
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So this could effectively run at 680 stock? If of course i'm able to gain an extra 5 fps say in BF3.
 
Hi guys - I was just wondering what a reference 670 is like. What's the noise like under load? I was planning on getting a 7950 again but I might switch to the green team.
Nevermind - I went for the 7950 Vapor-X :P
 
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thefogo said:
Hi guys - I was just wondering what a reference 670 is like. What's the noise like under load? I was planning on getting a 7950 again but I might switch to the green team.
Nevermind - I went for the 7950 Vapor-X :P
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Have fun :p I was going to get a 7970 but the new influx of cards from nVidia and better drivers won it for me.
 
Ok, one of the fans on my Windforce has developed a rattle/buzzing whene the fan spins up faster during gaming...

While it doesn't really bother me as i game under headphones and cant hear it. I wonder where i stand with this?

It was bought back at the end of May, would this be dealt with OcUK or Gigabyte themselves?
 
V_R said:
It was bought back at the end of May, would this be dealt with OcUK or Gigabyte themselves?
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Seen as it's within the first year, I would go through OcUK just to save £10, otherwise if you send it directly to Gigabyte you will have to pay a £10 admin fee for return postage.

You would probally get the card back quicker going direct with Gigabyte, as you would have to wait till OcUK test it and send the card to Gigabyte.
 
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Just got my Asus GTX 670.. Tried playing Guild Wars 2 and its ok for a few seconds, but then I get a blank red screen. Noticed I can only get up to 1099 on the GPU clock on MSI AB too

Any idea whats going on?? :(

-edit- ok no red screen as I pressed reset on AB and seemed to be ok. Although all I did was play with core clock, that's why I asked about the max.. Looks like I need a guide :D
 
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Deception said:
Just got my Asus GTX 670.. Tried playing Guild Wars 2 and its ok for a few seconds, but then I get a blank red screen. Noticed I can only get up to 1099 on the GPU clock on MSI AB too

Any idea whats going on?? :(
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If you GOGGLE this problem, you will unluckily find that you are not alone.

Do you have any hardware monitoring programs open when this happens? or maybe running more than one?
I've seem comments that some versions of GPU Tweak and GPU-z can cause this! If you are, then make sure it's the latest version.

As to your core overclock, as people are fond of saying "it's a silicon lottery".

PS. I would also try using the latest WHQL Nvidia drivers, rather than any later Beta ones, some people have attributed this to the latest Beta drivers (only going by comments that I've read).
 
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V_R said:
Ok, one of the fans on my Windforce has developed a rattle/buzzing whene the fan spins up faster during gaming...

While it doesn't really bother me as i game under headphones and cant hear it. I wonder where i stand with this?

It was bought back at the end of May, would this be dealt with OcUK or Gigabyte themselves?
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does the rattle / buzz happens at around 60-65% fan speed?

mine does it but its more of buzzing/vibration instead of the bearing rattle sound
 
Deception said:
The 1099 on msi AB is what the slider stops at; I can't get it any higher if I wanted.
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I have just been looking back at screenshots of MSI afterburner running a Kepler card and it shouldn't have a bar with core clock itself. The only "core" option should be core clock offset like this (Third option down):

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(Note - this isn't my screenshot, I have just re-hosted it).
 
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