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welshdragon said:
Ahh, given the size of the pyramid they built I should imagine they took first refusal on all of it!
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Hardly anywhere else has as much stock as OCUK either. The second biggest UK retailer had just 5 different GTX 670s, and are already sold out on Gigabyte models. If anyone had worse problems than me with the KFA2 (and mine were just temperature), then I'm sure we would have heard it by now.

Reseat the cooler, and it stays under 65 degrees at 1250 Mhz and no throttling. Cannot do that on a reference card whatsoever. Someone on XS showed me their windforce 680 running at 60 degrees at 1250 MHz, obviously the gigabyte cooler is a lot better.
 
welshdragon said:
Ahh, given the size of the pyramid they built I should imagine they took first refusal on all of it!
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Most likely, Gibbo knows KFA2 are one of the more popular brands along with EVGA and Gigabyte (all have great customer service). As well as OcUK seem to be striking up a great bond with KFA2 with the free keyring deal, Hexus give-away etc...everyone wins, KFA2 get high exposure with probably the #1 enthusiast retailer in Europe and OcUK get their cards in at a fantastic price (I've seen the EX OC listed for over £100 more else where ;))
 
I'm going to discuss the temperatures of my card and reseating results with KFA2 technical support, just to hopefully help them aply paste better in the future lol.

Less paste > thick blanket of paste.
 
bhavv said:
I'm going to discuss the temperatures of my card and reseating results with KFA2 technical support, just to hopefully help them aply paste better in the future lol.

Less paste > thick blanket of paste.
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Yup, I'll take photo's of how much GB applied to my windforce once the block is here.

Can't be worse than XFX, when I took the coolers off my 6950's both were absolutely coated in paste, so much so there was thick chunks of it hanging off the side of the chip :p
 
My third try at posting!

My Galaxy GTX 670 GC will be here tomorrow.
I only sighned up to tell Bhavv that his thermal grease must be too thick. lol
 
Each side of the heatsink on my card had a thick line of double the amount of paste you actually need lol.

They use like 8-10 ruined the actual amount needed for the best heat dissipation. My MSI cards were the same.
 
Just as a heads up to those who are getting throttle-down, this may help. When in Nvidia Control Panel -> Manage 3D settings. When you are fiddling with the list there to set max performance options make sure you select "prefer maximum performance" on the power management mode. This will allow your card's power phases to deal with load. I think the Windforce has a 5-phase digital VRM with a max of 300W so in theory we should get some even better numbers once able to adjust voltage and set higher power targets.
 
alex_123_fra said:
Just as a heads up to those who are getting throttle-down, this may help. When in Nvidia Control Panel -> Manage 3D settings. When you are fiddling with the list there to set max performance options make sure you select "prefer maximum performance" on the power management mode. This will allow your card's power phases to deal with load. I think the Windforce has a 5-phase digital VRM with a max of 300W so in theory we should get some even better numbers once able to adjust voltage and set higher power targets.
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I've already tried this and it did nothing.
 
bhavv said:
No, 75% fan speed, 1250 Mhz, 1.175v, 63 degrees max after 2-3 heaven loops after reapplying paste. Can drop the fan speed down to reduce noise now but havnt tested temps at lower speeds yet.
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75% - it is bloody noise :P
I am running custom fan settings and at 50% of fan speed I'am getting 70-72 C under load at 1215 MHz gpu boost.

Just tried mine a while ago and it passed 3Dmark 11 with settings +130 GPU (1359 MHz) and +440 Memory (6888 MHz) :)
 
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Try 66% fan speed, if its still going over 70 degrees and you don't want to reseat the cooler, I'd send it back for a Gigabyte.

Any amount of throttling should simply not be happening at 70 degrees on a modern video card, this temperature limit is just daft.

But wait, is your GPU staying at 1215 at 72 degrees? Then its not being throttled? Why is mine reducing then?
 
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