Which 670?

[thezakarum]

As above, not just the cooler but you also get a GTX 680 PCB!

I'm still in bed today due to being sick ... But if you wait till later I'll post PCB and cooler comparison pictures. The reference 670 is just a terrible piece of engineering fail.

Oh yeah... "sick".

I have to agree, the gtx 670 is hardly the most attractive card ever.

I heard some people say if the gk110 was released instead of the gk104 then this gtx670 would effectively be a gtx650, which is probably why they could shrink the pcb so much and bolt on an overkill cooler to it.

 

[bhavv]

If I wasn't sick Id be installing and playing with the card by now

Last night I was awakened at 1am with raging terribad throat / sinus pain, and I feel like I've been shot through the mouth.

Getting all feverish and weak too, bah .... Also back when Skyrim came out I had a pneumonia, my luck is horrible.

 

[Sasahara]

If I wasn't sick Id be installing and playing with the card by now

Last night I was awakened at 1am with raging terribad throat / sinus pain, and I feel like I've been shot through the mouth.

Getting all feverish and weak too, bah .... Also back when Skyrim came out I had a pneumonia, my luck is horrible.

I hope you didn't order Diablo III, you might die on Tuesday.

 

[Things change I've changed]

The reference 670 is just a terrible piece of engineering fail.

Really is it?, you seem to be making out the reference 670's are really bad cards, the reviews don't seem to indicate that.

 

[bhavv]

To me this is terrible:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/nvidia_gtx670_review,5.html

 

[Things change I've changed]

To me this is terrible:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/nvidia_gtx670_review,5.html

I agree that doesn't look great, but it seemed to of done the job though, the cards functions within specified parameters, as long as it's reliable I don't see the problem.


<que me moaning at how loud it is later>

 

[PCplodder]

To me this is terrible:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/nvidia_gtx670_review,5.html

Yeh, it is extremely cheap and huge cost cutting by Nvidia.

Physically these cards shouldn't cost more than £300, performance wise fair enough, but Nvidia arent passing the 'savings' on to us their customers and being even more greedy than normal .

There is no benefit of the small PCB to the consumer atall, the card isnt any shorter due to the length cooler (and yet it still has a tiny heatsink that could have fit on the card anyway with a small cooler, the shroud is just there to make it like like its worth a bit more money....) The only benefit to the small PCB is that Nvidia save a bunch of money, put a tiny cheap heatsink on it and cover the card in a full length shroud to make it look like a propper mid/high end card.

 

[Broken Hope]

To me this is terrible:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/nvidia_gtx670_review,5.html

Keeps the card cool enough, what's the problem?

 

[PCplodder]

Keeps the card cool enough, what's the problem?

Does it though??

In many reviews I have seen out of the new gen cards a referance 670 is gets pretty hot at load and as hot as a 7970 or hotter, and gk104 chips as you know are cool chips, this shows how small and pethetic the cooler is.

Its just the fact there is no reason they couldnt have the cooler double the size, there is room there for it due to the lengthened shroud much like all reference cards in the past, but no.. they install a cheap tiny thing, just no need especially when you have gone out the way to make the card that long.....

 

[andybird123]

70C at full load is hot is it?

if you really want a double size cooler then get one of the OC cards?

 

[Broken Hope]

Does it though??

The chip runs at it's specifications and doesn't overheat, so yeah it does it's job. Say it had a better cooler and ran at say 60c instead of 70c, what difference does that actually make? None, you won't suddenly gain any performance or anything, and if you were actually interested in clocking properly you'd buy a card with an after market cooler installed.

 

[Scotty123]

70C is cool to me! I get 85-90 on my current 470. Yikes.

 

[PCplodder]

The chip runs at it's specifications and doesn't overheat, so yeah it does it's job. Say it had a better cooler and ran at say 60c instead of 70c, what difference does that actually make? None, you won't suddenly gain any performance or anything, and if you were actually interested in clocking properly you'd buy a card with an after market cooler installed.

It makes the difference of the card being more impressive and lasting longer, and also more over clock room.

The point is its unecessary to go out the way and make the shroud bigger when you aren't even going to utilise it apart from cost cut where ever possible.

As it is with the size of the actual heatsink there is no reason why the shroud couldn't be smaller, its just there so it looks more expensive.

 

[Huggie86]

I'm torn between the Windforce and Asus Top. Not helping that the windforce is instock now. Any idea when the Asus is hitting?

 

[bhavv]

For anyone not wanting to overclock, the KFA2 EX OC actually has the highest factory overclock.

The default out of the box GPU speed is 1200 Mhz with boost, and mine overclocks to 1250 / 7000 which is great, but not quite the 1300 Mhz I was expecting.

 

[psychodil]

Is the Asus card definately only 6+6 pin? Usually the directcu TOP cards have top of the range custom power circuitry and VRM's.

 

[bhavv]

All Asus cards are 6+6 pin.

 

[bhavv]

THis review confirms that the EVGA reference design uses a larger custom heatsink than the reference design:

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/2...86-evga-gtx-670-superclocked-reviewed?start=2

Reference cooler:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/nvidia_gtx670_review,5.html

So if you want the reference design, the EVGA is better, plus it looks nicer too.

 

[Rice1985]

Leaning towards the Asus GTX 670, any news on the overclocked version of this card. I've had a look around and it looks to me its gonna be roughly around £400