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zotac working on a 2ghz core 680gtx

Clever Marketing for a Dual Gpu solution, with each core at 1ghz........ :D

j/k..... it will be hot, fast and expensive if they do pull it off.

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Its possible I think but they'd have to cherry pick every core and uprate the cooling - afaik a fair few reference cards can apparently do 1500+MHz on stock cooling (not seen a verified case yet tho) tho so far doesn't seem to be the norm.
 
windheaven said:
I have a budget of £450, and dare say the custom cards, evga 4gb for the win, this zotac 2ghz and others will probably exceed that price...

*Sigh*..and it doesn't really look like a price war is coming anytime soon

point of my stupid story is....things are godam so exspensive
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Lol double your money and you might be close if they do pull off a 2ghz card
 
Moderatly OC'd GTX680s only hit about 60C w/ 210watt power draw in normal gaming IIRC so theres some room there with an uprated cooler.
 
that is moderately clocked though, 2GHz is near on 100% more than original stock speed, that is going to require some heavyweight voltage bumps, and with increased voltages comes increases thermals. the cooler on the GTX 680 isn't exactly small as it is either.
 
Thats at like ~1300Mhz I can't remember the exact clocks off the top of my head - tho thats still more than 50% bump to get to 2000MHz. I think its potentially possible with cherry picked cores and a decent air cooler.
 
The voltage required to run at 2ghz would kill the core in seconds without being at well below sub zero temperatures. Also even at those temperatures the core would not last long just from the transistors breaking down due to being so wildly out of spec.

Is he talking shaders? Because that would be a stock clocked card.

Maybe he just meant they had a better PCB? He likely was saying they are going to release a stock clocked card on a custom PCB to help reduce costs soon.
 
Benchers hit 1800Mhz with a volt modded 680 under liquid nitrogen, does anyone actually believe Zotac are gonna release an air or water cooled 680 running at 2000Mhz....... seriously noway.
 
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