Official GTX 680 Owner's Thread

Just got my 680 today and it arrived DOA =(. Won't even post to BIOS when in my PC. Now I have to go through a long RMA process with Newegg.
 
Got my Asus 680 today. Love it. So quiet and stays pretty cool too.

IQ wise, BF3 looks a lot brighter to me out of the box on the 680. I don't know if that's just my bad memory, I don't have any screenies to compare. Framerates are slightly higher than on my 7970 also.
 
Can someone with a GTX 680 on X79 please do this:

http://translate.google.com/transla...www.4gamer.net/games/022/G002210/20120323002/

According to that article all you have to do is a small registry edit to get your GTX 680 working at PCI-E 3.0 once again with current drivers. This is a huge deal for those of us with multiple GTX 680's. Being stuck at 8x PCI-E 2.0 is a no go.

You can test your PCI-E speed when the card is active (no idle it will go into power save mode) with GPU-Z:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2120/mirrors.php

Click on the little question mark next to the PCI-E speed line on the right to read the proper speed during rendering.
 
I did a stock run at my native 1920x1200 resolution as well.
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FWIW, I'm getting 42.7 stock with those settings, and 48.3 with +120/+309 (1231 max core).

Also, the new beta Afterburner supports GTX 680 overclocking as well.
 
Starting to worry. My shipment has had the same in transit information (on the other side of the country) since Friday with no updates. It is supposed to be delivered tomorrow.:(

Same here. The lack of any updates is really annoying me and my card is supposed to arrive tomorrow also.

Edit: Holy shit, the status has changed! It now says it's out for delivery, but the time is 12:10 AM PST. Bizarre....at least it's coming! :D
 
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Same here. The lack of any updates is really annoying me and my card is supposed to arrive tomorrow also.

Edit: Holy shit, the status has changed! It now says it's out for delivery, but the time is 12:10 AM PST. Bizarre....at least it's coming! :D

Ha mine did too. Says it is in the next town over now. Nice!
 
I've got a question for those with a GTX 680 and three monitors. Does Surround still merge the desktop into one large triple screen monstrosity (with maximized windows stretching the entire span of three monitors, as well as the start bar)? Or did nVidia finally figure out how to easily move between Surround and non-Surround profiles.
 
Got my card this morning. Evga has some promotion stuff in the box. A poster, stickers and a little popmetal emblem (actually looks cool). Oh, and I got registered for the highflow bracket (nice EVGA!)

I'll have this up and running tonight, then put my dual GTX 480's for sale.

I'd be interested to see how your reaction is to the performance of this card compared to your dual 480's since I have dual 480's as well. I think I am going to hold off until the 780 comes though. I also need to buy one of those stupid dongle things for 3DVS which is another $89 to my cost...DFTF.
 
I've got a question for those with a GTX 680 and three monitors. Does Surround still merge the desktop into one large triple screen monstrosity (with maximized windows stretching the entire span of three monitors, as well as the start bar)? Or did nVidia finally figure out how to easily move between Surround and non-Surround profiles.

Better, it sets up the desktop to 5760x1080 (or whatever yours is) and lets you choose to have it span or stay split into 3 extended displays so you can maximize on either screen and taskbar stays in the middle. When you go ingame you can choose your bezel corrected resolution. Although Chrome has some weird border issues when maximized but it only affects Chrome and it's not a big deal.
 
Got mine from Asus yesterday. Everything flies, although Arkham City still has those weird hitches between scenes with PhysX on. Must just be something related to the game.

I tried out Crysis 1 with everything maxed (I had to try) and after all of these years I was finally able to reach the almighty 60fps+vsync and everything turned all the way up.
Crysis 2 as well.
Deus Ex still looks weird even with the framerates maxed. Something about the movement in that game doesn't jive with me.
Skyrim can be capped easily. Those massive view distances really do add something.
I didn't try "ubersampling" but I maxed the other details on Witcher 2 sans any issues.

The card supports DolbyHD and DTS-HD, too.

The only issue I had was some odd stutter/hitching in Far Cry 2. I'm guessing it's driver related as you can't optimize everything. My 570 could max that one, so it's certainly not a lack of power.
 
Out for delivery. Should be delivered when I get home tonight. Excited.

Mine too. Amazon delivering today! :D Based on other comments, I'm most excited to see how they stack up against my 7970s from a qualitative perspective. FPS isn't the only story that needs to be told.
 
Mine left Vancouver last night at 630... I live in Saskatchewan so it could be here soon even if they trucked it instead of flew... Hoping to see it today, fingers crossed

*edit* can I use one of my 8800gtx for physx? Will I need the sli bridge for that?
 
Mine left Vancouver last night at 630... I live in Saskatchewan so it could be here soon even if they trucked it instead of flew... Hoping to see it today, fingers crossed

*edit* can I use one of my 8800gtx for physx? Will I need the sli bridge for that?

You can (in theory) use an 8800GTX as a PhysX card just by having it in an empty PCIe slot. No SLI bridge or anything like that needed. However people have said the performance on that card as an add-in PhysX card is kind of dismal. You can always give it a try and see what the benchmarks tell you, though.
 
You can (in theory) use an 8800GTX as a PhysX card just by having it in an empty PCIe slot. No SLI bridge or anything like that needed. However people have said the performance on that card as an add-in PhysX card is kind of dismal. You can always give it a try and see what the benchmarks tell you, though.

Thanks, Dom, I may do just that. I don't have arkham city, what would be a good bench to run?
 
Thanks, Dom, I may do just that. I don't have arkham city, what would be a good bench to run?

Hmmmm. I couldn't tell ya. I've always been of the opinion that the two Batman games were the only reasons to have PhysX. If you don't have either of them, skip the 8800GTX and keep your machine a few degrees cooler :)
 
Hmmmm. I couldn't tell ya. I've always been of the opinion that the two Batman games were the only reasons to have PhysX. If you don't have either of them, skip the 8800GTX and keep your machine a few degrees cooler :)

Haha, very true... Somehow that line of reasoning never crossed my mind
 
Well I just joined the club today. The GTX 680 was delivered to me about 2 hours ago. It seems pretty good, I am coming from dual 6950's so not expecting to be blown away by the performance. It's very quiet even at 50% fan speeds.

Haven't done much with it yet, but will be doing some benchmarks. The only thing I did try was Witcher2 with ubdersampling enabled and wow it looks really, really good.

And I got X3155 with the extreme preset in 3Dmark 11.
 
So I've been testing my 680 for the past 2 or so hours. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed at the same time I'm absolutely amazed.

In terms of the performance numbers, the 680 is maybe about 5% faster in the stuff I've been testing. So I'm a bit disappointed the numbers aren't a bit higher compared to my old setup, but running high overclocked tri sli gtx 280s I'm not honestly surprised. They might be old, but nothing to sneeze at. I'm only running stock on the 680 so far, but the smoothness, temps, and quietness of this setup cannot be overstated.

I can't honestly tell you how good it feels to be able to play with Vsync off and not seeing my screen tearing constantly and endlessly. It is nice to look at a stable image without vsync. Oh yes it is. I've finally been able to experience tessellation and holy what the what more games need this.

The highest I've seen the card run at so far has been about 72c with 49% fan speed. A big difference from 3 cards blazing 85c at 100% fan. I'm sure my power bill is going to reflect that change too.

I'm really excited to start testing SGSSAA performance on this thing in some of my games, because that is one area the gtx280s did not hold up at all. 2x SGSSAA on gtx 280s was lucky to have acceptable frame rates if at all.

oh and I can now monitor the gpu stats on my g15 without the sensor polling rate causing stutter (from trying to poll 3 cards) while gaming. BIG WIN
 
Just fired up my pair of 680s and I'm amazed how cool and quiet they are. In Batman AC my 580's would get pretty loud but with the 680's it's just a whisper the whole time :)
 
Really? Now I'm curious. Since my GTX580 is easily the loudest part of my computer (barring the Bluray drive), and I want to keep with stock blowers, due to how my case is designed.
 
Ya, the 680's a far far quieter than the 7970's that I had and run cooler to boot.
 
Really? Now I'm curious. Since my GTX580 is easily the loudest part of my computer (barring the Bluray drive), and I want to keep with stock blowers, due to how my case is designed.

Yeah, this is the quietest card that I've used in years.
 
Definitely quiet, I played Mafia 2 and it's like a low humming unlike my 6950's which were like leaf blowers.
 
At least it's not as loud as the nVidia FX 5800 Ultra.

Beg to differ, the 5800 Ultra might be loud for its time because it was the first dual slot (stock) card ever. I don't have a direct comparison but I'll bet 6950/6970's at full blast are louder.
 
I'm extremely impressed with this stock evga gtx 680. The apprehension on noise (big deal to me) fell by the wayside quickly. Coming from an ASUS GTX580 DCUII I believe the stock GTX 680 is at least as quiet!? Setting the fan speed to 60-70% is just a simple whooshing of air -- no high pitch noises or rattles (like older reference designed ati or nvidia cards I've used).

Very happy with performance as well, small OC nets:

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and

P10248 3dmark 11
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3055688;jsessionid=4rqs0jfy6tk91m339qgpu903l
 
Just replaced my EVGA GTX 580 1.5 SLI setup with EVGA GTX 680 2GB SLI. Since I just added a 2560x1440 screen to my setup, I wanted a little more horsepower. Also, these should run notably cooler than my 580s. I live in FL and with summer coming up, that will hopefully be a plus.


Build before: http://i.imgur.com/zzjdI.jpg

580s: http://i.imgur.com/q1uHa.jpg

580/680 Comparison. 680 is a bit shorter. http://i.imgur.com/mRVnB.jpg

680s: http://i.imgur.com/bq06L.jpg

Complete: http://i.imgur.com/Rg6mM.jpg

SLI! http://i.imgur.com/e4Fax.jpg

Rg6mM.jpg


Sorry for the picture quality, taken from my cellphone.
 
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