Who has bought the Nvidia 670 cards

Coji · 10 May 2012 at 19:44

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Goods Shipped:
£299.99 x 1 - KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
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Going to be sat with this thing on my desk at work for several hours, watching the day tick slowly away :rolleyes:

pgi947 · 10 May 2012 at 19:44

Kribby2006 said:
Edit - Moved to the relevant section of the forum

You've lost me? Been an emotional day.

setter said:
Gonna go for the KFA2 oc version, then add another later.

Any solid news if these have the adjustable voltage chips?

Kribby2006 · 10 May 2012 at 19:49

pgi947 said:
You've lost me? Been an emotional day.

Any solid news if these have the adjustable voltage chips?

Apologies pgi as I moved what I was asking so sorry for the confusion

As everyone was talking about their new purchases I didn't want to go off topic.

setter · 10 May 2012 at 19:50

pgi947 said:
Any solid news if these have the adjustable voltage chips?

Cant say tbh. On an aside, id noticed that it use an 8 and a 6 pin pcie connector. Just double checked my HX850 psu, 8 pin connectors throughout, and ive found the blue braided bitfenix 8 pin pcie cable i mistakenly bought. Knew id end up needing it someday. Will tone in with my current 6 pin ones.

pgi947 · 10 May 2012 at 19:56

Kribby2006 said:
Apologies pgi as I moved what I was asking so sorry for the confusion

As everyone was talking about their new purchases I didn't want to go off topic.

Ahhh, you managed to confuse the life out of me

setter said:
Cant say tbh. On an aside, id noticed that it use an 8 and a 6 pin pcie connector. Just double checked my HX850 psu, 8 pin connectors throughout, and ive found the blue braided bitfenix 8 pin pcie cable i mistakenly bought. Knew id end up needing it someday. Will tone in with my current 6 pin ones.

Damnit, I need to order some blue/blue 8pin pcie Alchemy extensions, should blend in nicely with the PCB, have 4 6pin blue/blue, looks like 2 of those are going to go on the MM.

Gazanimal · 10 May 2012 at 19:59

Got a KFA 670 (non-OC) coming tomorrow, but I've ordered a Gigabyte Windforce x3 as well from a competitor for nearly the same price, so will compare the 2 & decide which to keep.

bhavv · 10 May 2012 at 20:06

Gazanimal said:
Got a KFA 670 (non-OC) coming tomorrow, but I've ordered a Gigabyte Windforce x3 as well from a competitor for nearly the same price, so will compare the 2 & decide which to keep.

Does a reference design really need comparing to the Gigabyte windforce

Gazanimal · 10 May 2012 at 20:09

I know which I'd rather have Bhavv, but benchies on my system will be nice.

Kribby2006 · 10 May 2012 at 20:16

Sorry to be a pain, but can one of you clever peeps answer this:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18402274

Probs just need to be patient and wait for an answer

bhavv · 10 May 2012 at 20:23

Kribby2006 said:
Sorry to be a pain, but can one of you clever peeps answer this:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18402274

Probs just need to be patient and wait for an answer

Done

Kribby2006 · 10 May 2012 at 20:30

bhavv said:
Done

Thank you very much!

~bones~ · 10 May 2012 at 20:47

Just ordered me the KFA2 oc, been contemplating the 680 or 7970 for a while but i think for the price your not gonna be beating these

Ceptic · 11 May 2012 at 01:15

Shapping up to be good cards. So tempted to scratch my upgrade itch, but I think i'll wait just a little longer unless someone can persuade me... SOMEONE PERSUADE ME OVER 2x 460's xD

ryryryan · 11 May 2012 at 01:21

Upgrade. Upgrade! UPGRADE!

Things change I've changed · 11 May 2012 at 01:28

Gazanimal said:
Got a KFA 670 (non-OC) coming tomorrow, but I've ordered a Gigabyte Windforce x3 as well from a competitor for nearly the same price, so will compare the 2 & decide which to keep.

I will find your comparisons of these two cards very interesting, temps idle/load please and noise level if possible.

bhavv · 11 May 2012 at 01:32

Ceptic said:
Shapping up to be good cards. So tempted to scratch my upgrade itch, but I think i'll wait just a little longer unless someone can persuade me... SOMEONE PERSUADE ME OVER 2x 460's xD

Buy a 670, sell 460s!

Should still be worth £80 each if they are 256 bit versions.

Ceptic · 11 May 2012 at 01:45

They are both 256bit versions

highly overclockable aswell, have them stable @ 775/1550, although one has two broken fan blades

bhavv · 11 May 2012 at 02:18

Yea get a GTX 670 now and sell those for £80 each if you want. Get yourself a nice KFA2 or Gigabyte too while you can.

Redmint · 11 May 2012 at 02:37

Vegeta said:
I thought it would be a lot more than 30%. I can't justify selling a GTX 480 for £110-120? And spending a extra 200 for a 30% boost. Hopefully the AMD card's prices fall significantly as I'm happy with the 480 performance just want a cooler running card.

*Cough*

Sorry to be picky about maths but technically if the GTX 480 is at 72% and the GTX 670 is 100% then the GTX 670 is 39% faster. (100/72 = 1.38888).

Granted that's still not a lot more than 30% but 39% faster sounds better than 28% faster.

(as a side note if you compare the 480 and 680 performance at 2560x1600 then it shows a 52% speed increase over 2 generations which doesn't sound like all that much but then 400->500 series wasn't really a massive change.)

synixx · 11 May 2012 at 02:40

Vegeta said:
I thought it would be a lot more than 30%. I can't justify selling a GTX 480 for £110-120? And spending a extra 200 for a 30% boost. Hopefully the AMD card's prices fall significantly as I'm happy with the 480 performance just want a cooler running card.

It's a bit more than 30%. The graph shows the gtx670 at 100% and the 480 as 70% of the 670's performance. 100/70 = 1.43 times a gtx480's performance so it's 43% better roughly.

Edit: ah **** beat to it by the man above whilst I was typing and calculating