Gigabyte (GV-N670OC-2GD) GTX 670 bios update out.

[3DVagabond]

TechPowerUp has posted this in their news section. I haven't seen anyone here report stability issues with their Gigabytes, but apparently a lot of others have had problems.

This will be the 3rd 670 O/C that has had troubles. The EVGA, which they just let people replace with a better model (Good on EVGA for their customer service. :thumbsup: ), the Asus DCII Top, which they also issued an updated bios for, and now the Gigabyte. Not good!

 

[cmdrdredd]

Those were all unrelated.

EVGA SC had bad chips. The FTW models didn't. SO they just did a swap.

The Asus cards were overclocked too far in the bios and would have issues. New bios would drop clock speed to fix.

Gigabyte cards had issues with PCIe 3.0 stability.

 

[3DVagabond]

Those were all unrelated.

EVGA SC had bad chips. The FTW models didn't. SO they just did a swap.

The Asus cards were overclocked too far in the bios and would have issues. New bios would drop clock speed to fix.

Gigabyte cards had issues with PCIe 3.0 stability.

Strange how it's only the 670's, if it's not the GPU, since it uses the same PCB as the 680. Do you think there's some problem with nVidia's certification process for the 670's? Or, just pure bad luck that these three AIB's have had issues with their 670's?

 

[Gordon Freemen]

Strange how it's only the 670's, if it's not the GPU, since it uses the same PCB as the 680. Do you think there's some problem with nVidia's certification process for the 670's? Or, just pure bad luck that these three AIB's have had issues with their 670's?

Judging by how slow to market the whole 6xx has been and it's still not out yet I am suggesting nvidia rushed to market the 6xx series to fast in order to make money.

 

[cmdrdredd]

No, the AIB makers screwed up. It's on them. MSI had no problems.

When you start offering overclocked video cards and bin the GPUs you run the risk of pushing too hard.

 

[3DVagabond]

No, the AIB makers screwed up. It's on them. MSI had no problems.

When you start offering overclocked video cards and bin the GPUs you run the risk of pushing too hard.

According to your 1st post, that was only what Asus' problem was. Not the others, though. They were bad GPU's on EVGA's and some PCIe 3 issue with Gigabyte. I wonder why it only effects the 670 for Gigabyte, since they use the same PCB for the 680 as well?

 

[cmdrdredd]

The BIOS is not universal. There's lots of things it could be. I am not going to speculate on specifics because I am not a programmer and I am not really an expert on VGA BIOS software.

EVGA binned chips cause they had multiple lineups with different clocks. Somehow a ton of bad ones got in the SC lineup.

 

[balane]

I was under the impression that the Gigabyte 680 cards had the same issues with the PCIe 3.0 as well. I read that on this forum. I wonder why no BIOS update for them as well if that's the issue it's addressing.

 

[VisceralM]

Seems like they've just had trouble working around Kepler in general. In any case, it's easy as pie to flash. Flashed mine, no problems. Even got +10 on the overlock as a bonus, heh.