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So whos gone and got a 680 gtx then?

Ordered an EVGA one. IMHO the best OEM for warranty/support, and the price was pretty low for a GTX 680 too.

I still think the cards (680's and 7970's) are overpriced by ~£100, but I caved in (in head vs heart battles, heart usally wins).

edit: I think the main reason I caved in was because I expected the 680 to be much slower than the 7970 once overclocked. As all reviews show both cards are essentially the same after overclocking, I bit the bullet. Things like Physx and turbo boost may be marmite for some, but like extra freebies nonetheless. I do also think NVidia drivers are more stabe (especially initial releases), but I know others differ.
 
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Should put up a user review thread with a list of stuff for people to report on the clocks attained, temperatures, benchmark scores, etc.

I won't do it because I haven't bought one :p
 
bhavv said:
So where are all the pictures of these cards that were delivered today then?
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Took some photo's on my Iphone so sorry for the crapness.

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I will bench some tonight but for now I am installing windows onto my Daughters boyfriends computer. :(
 
fantasticCG said:
i ordered one, instead of the water cooling for now.
Is it better to uninstall the gtx 580 drivers with the card out of the machine?
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Uninstall drivers? the 580 uses the same unified nVidia driver as all the other cards. It should be just a straight swap of cards. Then run the updated drivers as normal :)
 
I didn't get no Haribo! :( haha

Anyway just tried some BF3 on it, very impressed even hit 120fps sometimes on Ultra in Metro with 4xmsaa enabled even.....without i hit it more often but fps was very high nearly all the time.Caspian Border never seemed to drop below 60fps! without AA enabled only post high on but still nice. :)

Temp idle was 33c and load 67c max after BF3 which is great for a reference high end card.By the way adaptive vsync worth using on a 120hz panel?
 
Sycho said:
I didn't get no Haribo! :( haha

Anyway just tried some BF3 on it, very impressed even hit 120fps sometimes on Ultra in Metro with 4xmsaa enabled even.....without i hit it more often but fps was very high nearly all the time.Caspian Border never seemed to drop below 60fps! without AA enabled only post high on but still nice. :)

Temp idle was 33c and load 67c max after BF3 which is great for a reference high end card.By the way adaptive vsync worth using on a 120hz panel?
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5UB must have packed your order! :D
 
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