I see you're really trying to push that Quad-SLI.I took the plunge and ordered a 2nd 690 for Quad-SLI yesterday.
I know it's crazy but wanted to test out Quad-SLI myself.
It'll arrive somtime today but I won't be able to set it up until this weekend. Grrr.. haven't even been able to start playing Diablo III either.
With fan at max speed, it's not even close to that. It throttles the clock as well as volts when it hits 70C.
The HDMI audio out is indeed a specific checkbox in the installation when you select 'custom install'. Look again, and look carefully, it's there.
I understand what you're saying, but maybe we have two totally different samples. Setting my voltage to 1.175, I actually hit a LOWER stable max OC than I did at 1050 due to hitting the 70C ceiling too quickly. I think the max clocks were like 1290, but only for about 4 seconds at 1.175. They quickly dropped to ~1220 after hitting that. Conversely, I had a stable 1280 for a good 20-30 mins at 1050.
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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 watercooledbut 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
Your offset isn't the guaranteed clock. You need to have a monitoring program to see where your actual mhz are during the test. When you set your offset you are saying to the card "I want you to hit this as your highest goal". It may or may not actually be there during the OC. Considering you're saying that its at 68 constantly, I highly doubt it's staying at +120 on the core clock during the stress test.
At what frames? 60fps, there's a few that will give you troubles for sure.
since I've been on Windows 7 I always just install on top, never had a single issue that way. Gotta love the future.
any word on a release timeframe? i'm trying to plan my next complete build very carefully. unless they say otherwise i'm going to assume Q2 2013
