Nvidia Kepler - Geforce GTX680 Thread - Now with reviews
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LatvianHitman
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Yep! Just placed the order myself. Happy day!
csquared587
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I only got the regular, I sent an email asking if I could get the FTW version like the SC people. Im already pretty late into the rma process so I am not getting my hopes up.
Domcorleone
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can anyone answer this for me? Is microstuttering still an issue with SLI? I wanted to get another 670 and do SLI but I dont wanna experience that microstuttering
Nah, not really. Played a ton of games over the past few days and haven't seen a single microstutter.
Dreams-Visions
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Gigabyte 670 back in stock at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080I06WQ
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080I06WQ
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Holy fuck nearly $500
Yeah, there's a bunch of scalpers listed on there once the resellers pull their stock.
joeygreco1985
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No crashes here. Been benchmarking all of my games since Saturday too
lowrider007
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My Asus DirectCUII arrived!
On stock settings the default boost seems a bit lower than the kfa2 reference I returned (due to motor whine), it's boosting to around 1054Mhz in heaven benchmark, the reference KFa2 boosted @ a solid 1084Mhz, but the ref KFA2 didn't seem to throttle until it hit 78c, this card seems to throttle a fair bit earlier, Heaven results on stock are pretty much the same as the ref KFA2 though so not really too concerned about the throttling.
FPS: 63.7
Scores: 1604
Min FPS: 38.8
Max FPS: 141.5
Heaven Benchmark settings,
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1080 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal
Max temp in Heaven after a couple of runs is 77c, I'm pretty happy with that in a warm case with no side fan.
GPU Fan is hitting 58% @ max temp of 77C
The big question though, noise?
Multiple runs of Heaven on stock settings, SILENT!, well, I can't hear it over my case fans which are all 120mm's set on low in an Antec p180 case.
Very happy so far, I have a modern powerful gpu that I can play the latest games with no added noise in a low air flow case, I think what Asus have managed to archive with the DCUII is pretty impressive.
On stock settings the default boost seems a bit lower than the kfa2 reference I returned (due to motor whine), it's boosting to around 1054Mhz in heaven benchmark, the reference KFa2 boosted @ a solid 1084Mhz, but the ref KFA2 didn't seem to throttle until it hit 78c, this card seems to throttle a fair bit earlier, Heaven results on stock are pretty much the same as the ref KFA2 though so not really too concerned about the throttling.
FPS: 63.7
Scores: 1604
Min FPS: 38.8
Max FPS: 141.5
Heaven Benchmark settings,
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1080 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal
Max temp in Heaven after a couple of runs is 77c, I'm pretty happy with that in a warm case with no side fan.
GPU Fan is hitting 58% @ max temp of 77C
The big question though, noise?
Multiple runs of Heaven on stock settings, SILENT!, well, I can't hear it over my case fans which are all 120mm's set on low in an Antec p180 case.
Very happy so far, I have a modern powerful gpu that I can play the latest games with no added noise in a low air flow case, I think what Asus have managed to archive with the DCUII is pretty impressive.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
Boosting @ 1054/84 no, the 'TOP' version should boost a lot higher, I was just after a quiet card.
Hmm.. this will be going in my HTPC where im more concerned about heat and noise. I mean i dont think ill need for it to be the TOP version as i think i should be able to max most of the things i play at 1080p, but there really isnt much of a difference in heat/noise between the TOP/non Top version is there?
Yeah, I thought so. Wonder why it's taking ASUS so long to release it. Guess I'm glad I decided not to wait. Needed to complete my build and start playing PC games at reasonable settings.
You might want to check out the gigabyte 670. It boosts to 1200mhz (at least mine does out of the box) and my temps rarely go over 63.
faceless007
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Question for anyone with the Gigabyte, have you noticed if your CPU temps have gone up at all? I'm a little concerned that cooling design just pushes hot air up and around the card right onto the CPU, since it's not being exhausted out the back.
So the gigabyte is a better solution for heat/noise over the ASUS?? Damn.. i should look into that. Though even checking out the non TOP version of the ASUS is like 460 here in Canada. Thats crazy that this is considered mid range now...
My CPU is water cooled but I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary. After playing New Vegas and ARMA2 my cpu temps maxed at 50.
Can't say as much about noise but I can't hear it over my pump or case fans. I just want to put the gigabyte out there as an option since the Asus gets all the attention now.
The fans push air that hits the card and expands out from there. It depends on the total case airflow design. If you have the standard 'front fan blows at heatsink, heatsink blows at rear exhaust' type setup, there's nothing really to worry about.
People fret about temps a bit too much when it comes to air cooling. If your CPU and videocard are both below 80, you're going to be fine.
This probably needs it's own thread.
NVIDIA is putting Kepler in the Cloud.
Engadget Link
This will probably effect OnLive
NVIDIA is putting Kepler in the Cloud.
Engadget Link
This will probably effect OnLive
so my two Gigabyte GTX 670 SLI ... wow
install was kind of a pain due to my case and my previously installed watercooling stuff as I never took into account running SLI aircooled cards when building this rig
performance is awesome, more or less tripled my single GTX480 performance. BF3 @ well over 120 fps, Witcher II in 3D Vision at 60+ fps ... loving it
the cards are much more efficient than last generations cards of course, so I'm still using my Corsair HX650 PSU
the Gigabyte coolers seem to do their job really well, and noise wise I'd say they're very very close to the Accelero Xtreme Plus, so I would definitely 100% recommend these over the reference cooled cards (especially given that both were €400)
I'm still going to watercool them once I've modded the new case next month (as I'm trying to go with only a single intake fan), but if you have some decent airflow the stock cooling is superb.
I have two in SLI, so that does mean that my case gets pretty hot as it wasn't build with aircooling in mind (so only two 120 intake and a single 120 outtake, all at 900 rpm ...). According to the sensors in my case the air going out the back fan is +15c warmer than the intake air, so it's a good thing my CPU is watercooled
but again, for me this is only temporary, and I'd advise anyone who goes for SLI to go with at least 1200 RPM fans, and most cases offer 3 intakes and 3 outtakes these days
as for overclocking; one seems to do pretty well, the other is less than average I guess, which limits my SLI overclocking unfortunately. But that could also be due to the thermal situation in my case right now ... Guess I'll either throw in a third card or bring out the soldering iron in the next year or so when FPS start to drop below 120 in new titles
now it's Diablo III time, for which I probably might as well have gone with a Geforce 2 MX400
install was kind of a pain due to my case and my previously installed watercooling stuff as I never took into account running SLI aircooled cards when building this rig
performance is awesome, more or less tripled my single GTX480 performance. BF3 @ well over 120 fps, Witcher II in 3D Vision at 60+ fps ... loving it
the cards are much more efficient than last generations cards of course, so I'm still using my Corsair HX650 PSU
the Gigabyte coolers seem to do their job really well, and noise wise I'd say they're very very close to the Accelero Xtreme Plus, so I would definitely 100% recommend these over the reference cooled cards (especially given that both were €400)
I'm still going to watercool them once I've modded the new case next month (as I'm trying to go with only a single intake fan), but if you have some decent airflow the stock cooling is superb.
I have two in SLI, so that does mean that my case gets pretty hot as it wasn't build with aircooling in mind (so only two 120 intake and a single 120 outtake, all at 900 rpm ...). According to the sensors in my case the air going out the back fan is +15c warmer than the intake air, so it's a good thing my CPU is watercooled
but again, for me this is only temporary, and I'd advise anyone who goes for SLI to go with at least 1200 RPM fans, and most cases offer 3 intakes and 3 outtakes these days as for overclocking; one seems to do pretty well, the other is less than average I guess, which limits my SLI overclocking unfortunately. But that could also be due to the thermal situation in my case right now ... Guess I'll either throw in a third card or bring out the soldering iron in the next year or so when FPS start to drop below 120 in new titles
now it's Diablo III time, for which I probably might as well have gone with a Geforce 2 MX400
I think my Gigabyte GTX670 is faulty... No matter what drivers I install, the driver crashes almost every 5 minutes. Screen just goes black suddenly, flash (youtube) crashes, games crash, etc... I am pretty new to Nvidia cards so at this point I'm not really sure what to do. Earlier yesterday I was able to play Metro 2033 for about 15 minutes with no issues but now everything I do crashes the drivers.
BFIB
Member
Are you sure you wiped out any previous drivers?
I was getting the crashing before messing around with the drivers so it was pre this whole driver installation mess. But yea, I followed the driver installation guide on the nvidia forums. The only thing I didn't do was delete the nv_disp.inf folder, but I'm not sure how important that is to the process.
Dreams-Visions
Member
by the time you clicked, the Amazon supply must have sold out. it was $399 as sold by Amazon.
BFIB
Member
The new drivers should have overwrote that folder, so I don't think that is the issue.
What's your PC temps? It could be the card overheating, but its sounding more like an issue with a faulty card.
Seriously. The 690 is giving me a constant 120FPS with everything set at max including the high res texture pack in Skyrim. Huuuuuuuuge improvement over the 7970 even.so my two Gigabyte GTX 670 SLI ... wow
install was kind of a pain due to my case and my previously installed watercooling stuff as I never took into account running SLI aircooled cards when building this rig
performance is awesome, more or less tripled my single GTX480 performance. BF3 @ well over 120 fps, Witcher II in 3D Vision at 60+ fps ... loving it
the cards are much more efficient than last generations cards of course, so I'm still using my Corsair HX650 PSU
the Gigabyte coolers seem to do their job really well, and noise wise I'd say they're very very close to the Accelero Xtreme Plus, so I would definitely 100% recommend these over the reference cooled cards (especially given that both were €400)
I'm still going to watercool them once I've modded the new case next month (as I'm trying to go with only a single intake fan), but if you have some decent airflow the stock cooling is superb.
I can't wait to get it under water to bypass that silly 70C limit on overclocking. Was killing my top end. The card was telling me that it could take more volts, practically begging for it.
Try increasing the volts just a little bit.
Everything is roughly sitting around 30c. Just installed 301.40 beta drivers so we'll see what happens now.
Edit: Still crashing with new drivers. =/
Idle temps don't matter very much at all.
Download MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X. Increase volts a bit and monitor temps during a stress test like Uniengine or 3D Mark 11.
demigod
Member
You can't increase voltage with a 670 GTX.
Hey lowrider, what's the max boost you've gotten with that Asus? ExcaliberPC tells me they are expecting the TOP in 10 days and NCIX USA is guessing beginning of June. Wouldn't surprise me if the non-TOP comes out tomorrow and the TOP comes out 2 more weeks from now.
Hey lowrider, what's the max boost you've gotten with that Asus? ExcaliberPC tells me they are expecting the TOP in 10 days and NCIX USA is guessing beginning of June. Wouldn't surprise me if the non-TOP comes out tomorrow and the TOP comes out 2 more weeks from now.
I understand it's offset, but you can increase the amount being supplied to the card. Whether or not the GPU chips it off is where the variable voltage comes into play. Just making sure it has what it needs is a good thing to try out. What he is describing is exactly what happens when your card isn't supplied enough power.
So I ran Unigine and that works fine, no crashing while running that... Temps for the card were about 64c average. Bleh, why does Unigine run fine but not any other game or flash
Edit: Without upping the voltage. Not really sure how to do that with MSI Afterburner, the slider bar is greyed out.
It sounds like your card isn't pulling the right voltages at idle/near idle that it needs to run stuff. Submit an RMA ticket.So I ran Unigine and that works fine, no crashing while running that... Temps for the card were about 64c average. Bleh, why does Unigine run fine but not any other game or flash
Edit: Without upping the voltage. Not really sure how to do that with MSI Afterburner, the slider bar is greyed out.
*edit*
Also, to be totally sure. Uninstall drivers. Restart. Run CCleaner/DriverSweeper. Restart. Install newest drivers.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
At stock settings the max boost I've had on my DCU-II (non-top) so far is 1097Mhz
This things gets pretty toasty though, I was hitting 80c in Diablo 3 with the fan on auto which equated to about 65%, still quiet though.
From all the personal accounts I've read regarding the 670's I honestly think the Gigabyte Windforce is the card to get, it seems to have the highest boost and decent cooling.
A lot of cool things in the keynote, especially their cloud gaming. Keep pushing the envelope nvidia.
So I went into my motherboard and changed some of the settings related to iGPU and such, and now I'm (so far) not having any problems. Battlefield 3 would crash the drivers after 10 seconds, but so far I've played for about 5 min straight. Same with Deus Ex. I think it may have had something to due with how the motherboard was handling the GTX 670 and the Ivy Bridge integrated graphics (IB has that, doesn't it?).
Edit: Flash doesn't seem to be crashing the drivers either
