• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Windforce 670 ~ 680?

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

Soldato
Joined
18 May 2010
Posts
24,048
Location
London
From benchrmarks it looks like the Windforce (and other OC 670's) are more or less close in performance to stock 680's.

Is this true?

Also is this card nice and quiet?
 
It's because the windforce 670's by default will turbo much higher than reference 680's. Without doing anything mine ran at 1176MHz on the core out of the box, even though they are advertised as Base: 980MHz Boost: 1058MHz.

This generation is very muddy, a hand full of numbers will not tell you the full picture.
 
Ok, I was wondering that, becuase I had read that the boost can someties go hugher than adverrtised.

So does that mean its a bit of a lottery as to how high the boost will auto go on you particular card?

Different windforce 670 may boost to differtent values?
 
I think the vast majority of the windforce cards will do 1200MHz+ manually so what they do out the box is not really that relevant.
 
Overclocking is dangerous only if you put too much voltage through it for extended periods of time and above recommended operating temperatures. You get plenty of warning before any damage can be done, like artifacting and drivers crashing.
All modern high end GPU's will shut down if they get too hot and especially with Kepler there are power limits which you cannot exceed unless you solder in some extra power delivery to the card.

It's insultingly easy and safe to overclock these days and if something does go wrong it's because the card is faulty and not you pushing it too hard.
 
opethdisciple said:
Your Windforce boosts to 1176 on its own?

I take it these cards are quite quiet?
Click to expand...

A single WF 670 you could leave on auto fan and have no hope of hearing it with your case closed i'm sure. SLI and it's a bit more complicated and a custom fan profile will keep both cool but definitely audible if you game without audio on. No bad but audible.
 
MichaelM said:
Overclocking is dangerous only if you put too much voltage through it for extended periods of time and above recommended operating temperatures. You get plenty of warning before any damage can be done, like artifacting and drivers crashing.
All modern high end GPU's will shut down if they get too hot and especially with Kepler there are power limits which you cannot exceed unless you solder in some extra power delivery to the card.

It's insultingly easy and safe to overclock these days and if something does go wrong it's because the card is faulty and not you pushing it too hard.
Click to expand...

+1.

Just think about today's CPUs/GPUs - the clock and voltage are always floating up and down based on the load. In certain sense, it is not black and white.
 
It does.

Also no reason not to overclock - I gain around 10 FPS in BF3 at maximum settings. Impossible to overvolt a 670/680 as it's locked. That's the only danger so to speak so you should definitely overclock.
 
According to the control panel it does.

JiDGP.png
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom