MavericK
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Wow. Nice card. Totally destroys the 7950 at the same (or lower) price point.
Nice review as always.
Nice review as always.
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The next question to ask yourself is this: In a year or two wouldnt you be looking to buy the latest and greatest anyway? What is the average amount of time you keep your GPU's between upgrades? When you get that answer, I think the decision will be made easier for you.
Just off my personal experience, I find their support for GPU's lacking. I had a less than pleasant experience dealing with a SuperClocked 560ti that keep crashing due to low volltage settings (stock). It took a great effort from the community for me to even find a fix. The fix for me ended up downloading MSI Afterburner to manually change the voltage settings.
Although it is quiet, I have a Lian Li A05B, and the case ventilation is not the best on those cases. I much prefer my video cards to vent the hot air out the back.
Did you have to adjust your fan speed to get 60c?
Same here, got the PC-V354 and I think external exhaust are a must. When the 560Ti came out I was ready to buy, but not a single company made one with EE.
Hmm. So the Gigabyte takes in air through the top and vents out the side? I wonder if a side exhaust is warranted, especially for SLI? I have a 200mm side intake atm.
I think you should be fine with a Corsair 500R, that case has venting all over the place. It has side grills, a front grill with fans and a top grill fans. If you look at the Lian Li A05NB, they went for style over functionality, it looks great with the brushed aluminum in the front, side and top, but there is very little venting. I bought it because it was the smallest case I could find that supported a full ATX motherboard, and I do like its sleek looks as well, but it does limit me to Video Cards that vent out the back especially since I always go SLi.
Are these in stock anywhere yet? I have 7 days to return my Gigabyte WF3 7950. Even though with my OC, im getting 680 speeds, I tend to get some stuttering in some games I play (NBA2k12, and skyrim) in certain areas even though it's showing a solid 60 fps. I would RMA refund and buy a 670 immediately or maybe sell it on the forsale board for a decent price. Anyone have the scoop on availability?
I dual boot as I do work in Linux. I haven't yet had an Nvidia card that can do 3+ monitors without xinerama. Anyone know if this will? If so this might be worth it for me....On a 6850 now...
670 looks good, but still too rich for my blood. Looking forward to the next card release!
WTB Radeon 7950 for $300 PST
Agreed, these current gen cards still too expensive. Give us a kick ass card for $250-$300, they'd sell millions!
I would say it would future proof you for awhile. Maybe guaranteeing maximum AA levels in upcoming games. How long ago did you purchase the 5870?Not been keeping up with this latest batch o' cards. Got a 1 GB Radeon 5870 on a 1920x1200 monitor. Been debating moving up to something with more speed/power/features. Would this GTX 670 be a bit of overkill? Running on a i7 920.
i must be blind but i did not see any comparison with the 680gtx
I saw other reviews comparing this to the 7970 and it was almost identical performancewise...yet $100 less.
I guess AMD will have a hard time with this.
New chart including stock. (All numbers taken from [H] reviews)
Skyrim gives some wacky results.
NickJames posted a couple of charts, but not the one I wanted to see, so I made one up. The review, as always was excellent, but to play devil's advocate for a minute I wanted to point something out.
Bear in mind that in the Battlefield 3 results, [H] used 2X MSAA on the XFX BE HD7950 and they didn't on the GTX670 review.
That is MIGHTY impressive. I was going to get 2 GTX 680's when they went down in a price a bit but I think I'll just skip that and grab some 670's and overclock the shit out of them.
Are there any water cooling blocks for the 600 series cards yet?
I'd like to see a comparison to the 680.