Which GTX 670?

[smurf300]

Right Yesterday I was 100% going for the Gigabyte because of the nice reviews especially in temps and just liked the look of the aftermarket cooler, but reading some of the posts about them being to bulky for sli and stuff, I'm curious with future SLI in dual mind which 670 would you go for?

 

[RJC]

I have the Gigabyte and dont really find it that bulky. My board does have the wider spacing PCI-E slots.

 

[stulid]

I have the Gigabyte and find it quite and not that big.

 

[setter]

I found that windforce cooled cards need very good motherboard slot spacing in sli. Had two gtx 460 wf's in one of my X58 rigs, (p6 x58 de, very tight spacing). Temps were insane, (95 and 89c in game). Due to their cooler type the heat just gets dumped into the case, unlike a reference card that exhausts out the pci slot. I have a wf 670 myself and am rather wary of adding another as my new Z77 board has much tighter pcie spacing than my other old X58 board (p6t deluxe). When i tried the 460's in it they ran a lot cooler.

 

[Defy Belief]

670 ftw, reference coolers are a lot better for SLI.

 

[REDNINEAPB]

670 ftw, reference coolers are a lot better for SLI.

Does this depend on the case.

Personally I have an msi670gtx power edition nice oc as standard and very quiet gets 1903 in heaven at 1920x1080 see heaven 3.0 thread.

 

[setter]

Does this depend on the case.

More to do with the coolers on the cards. The reference cards use exhaust blower type coolers, in sli theese shift hot air out of the case much more effectively than non reference cards. Below is a few pics of the two X58 sli setups i had.

Gtx 470's

Gtx 460's

Due to the tight spacing with the 460's, they had little room to expel hot air, whereas the reference cooled 470's, (albeit with a bit more spacing) ran cooler as they vented out of the case. And the 470's are a notoriously hot card. Max temp with those was 75+70c, oc'd to 750mhz. The stock speed wf 460's hit 95+89c. I tried them in the other system. Temps were 10c lower but still a bit hoter than the 470's.

 

[REDNINEAPB]

SLi 670GTX

More to do with the coolers on the cards. The reference cards use exhaust blower type coolers, in sli theese shift hot air out of the case much more effectively than non reference cards. Below is a few pics of the two X58 sli setups i had.

Gtx 470's

Gtx 460's

Due to the tight spacing with the 460's, they had little room to expel hot air, whereas the reference cooled 470's, (albeit with a bit more spacing) ran cooler as they vented out of the case. And the 470's are a notoriously hot card. Max temp with those was 75+70c, oc'd to 750mhz. The stock speed wf 460's hit 95+89c. I tried them in the other system. Temps were 10c lower but still a bit hoter than the 470's.

Ah I see, makes sense really.