GTX 690 Has Arrived

[Don Karnage]

This card is just begging for water and it hates back to back benchmarking runs. It's a hair faster then 670's in SLI but not by much. All in all it's a masterpiece.

 

[The_Golden_Man]

This card is just begging for water and it hates back to back benchmarking runs. It's a hair faster then 670's in SLI but not by much. All in all it's a masterpiece.

Does it have a Geforce logo, lith up on the card? Could you take pictures with it running in your system?

I've heard this card have a very stylish and excellent build quality.

 

[Rubycon]

Does it have a Geforce logo, lith up on the card? Could you take pictures with it running in your system?

I've heard this card have a very stylish and excellent build quality.

It lights up green.
There is a utility that can control the LED. I set mine to glow according to GPU utilization so at the desktop they are off. I may post a video of it in action running uningine, etc.

 

[The_Golden_Man]

It lights up green.
There is a utility that can control the LED. I set mine to glow according to GPU utilization so at the desktop they are off. I may post a video of it in action running uningine, etc.

Looking forward to that video :biggrin:

 

[guskline]

This card is just begging for water and it hates back to back benchmarking runs. It's a hair faster then 670's in SLI but not by much. All in all it's a masterpiece.

Don: Are you going to sell the 670s?

 

[Don Karnage]

Don: Are you going to sell the 670s?

Yeah bro. You want them?

 

[blackened23]

I don't blame you Don, the 690 is a work of art. I like leaving the side of my case off to stare in awe at it, its a cool piece of engineering...

until the lightnings get here that is

 

[amenx]

So you got in standard packaging? What was all that talk about wooden crates and crowbars?

 

[Rubycon]

When one isn't enough, you get two, right?

I'm sure one is fine (solitaire plays the same haha!) but two look right at home on an SR2.

What they really need is hydrocopper blocks.

So you got in standard packaging? What was all that talk about wooden crates and crowbars?

Most of my hardware comes on a pallet wrapped with lots of plastic. It can take a day to unpack it!

 

[blackened23]

I really don't like EVGA motherboards, I think they're pretty bad. Had a mate with a really bad experience with one.

Are you running xeons?

 

[Rubycon]

In order to use two processors Xeons are required.
No problem with EVGA here.
Most of the time it's PEBKAC with motherboards but there are definitely some duds out there.
SR2 as well as SRX have lots of bugs but the former is quite mature now. I pity early adopters on SRX. I don't have interest in that product due to the processors being locked. Makes no sense to "deck out" a board and water cool it and not be able to overclock it. :biggrin:

 

[Don Karnage]

Evga makes crap motherboards anymore. I was looking at this

 

[Grooveriding]

I don't like EVGA period after my recent experience with them related to upgrading warranties for $25 then finding out you don't even get the full product line up available for stepup. Big scam.

Per motherboards, I have heard plenty of bad things about EVGA MBs since X58. After owning my current ROG, I will stick with ROG permanently unless I run into issues. This board has been phenomenal!

Best motherboard I have ever owned.

 

[Don Karnage]

I don't like EVGA period after my recent experience with them related to upgrading warranties for $25 then finding out you don't even get the full product line up available for stepup. Big scam.

Per motherboards, I have heard plenty of bad things about EVGA MBs since X58. After owning my current ROG, I will stick with ROG permanently unless I run into issues. This board has been phenomenal!

Best motherboard I have ever owned.

That's because the same guy who made those amazing x58 motherboards now makes the rog boards

 

[Rubycon]

I would not touch an ASUS SMP board with a 10 meter pole.
Simple as that. If you want a good SMP board there's Super Micro and there's nothing.

EVGA has taken an actual server platform and made it to support overclocking. That ASUS board is a hack IMHO.

Remember that I don't receive products directly I broker them. These guys buy and sell millions of dollars of hardware a year. I believe them if they tell me it's crap. It also took many months of hard work before I actually had the SR2 in front of me but it's perfect.

Cannot really comment on warranty and/or support, that's taken care of by the firm.

The environment I operate in is much different than people on land. The equipment is exposed to lots of movement and sometimes extremes in temperatures. Normal out of the box hardware often doesn't cut it and failures are costly to repair. I also push things to the limit and beyond. They even push them harder ashore beforehand so I don't experience a failure. For the first few months I was not sure I would see the SR2 system or they were just stalling to keep it for themselves! :biggrin:

 

[Don Karnage]

I would not touch an ASUS SMP board with a 10 meter pole.
Simple as that. If you want a good SMP board there's Super Micro and there's nothing.

EVGA has taken an actual server platform and made it to support overclocking. That ASUS board is a hack IMHO.

Remember that I don't receive products directly I broker them. These guys buy and sell millions of dollars of hardware a year. I believe them if they tell me it's crap. It also took many months of hard work before I actually had the SR2 in front of me but it's perfect.

Cannot really comment on warranty and/or support, that's taken care of by the firm.

The environment I operate in is much different than people on land. The equipment is exposed to lots of movement and sometimes extremes in temperatures. Normal out of the box hardware often doesn't cut it and failures are costly to repair. I also push things to the limit and beyond. They even push them harder ashore beforehand so I don't experience a failure. For the first few months I was not sure I would see the SR2 system or they were just stalling to keep it for themselves! :biggrin:

The xeon straps are locked so no overclocking anyway

 

[Rubycon]

The xeon straps are locked so no overclocking anyway

Hence my point of keeping the SR2.
2011 Xeons would be better on a Supermicro board.
SRX is dead on arrival. People still buy them, "deck them out" with chipset coolers, etc. It's like buying a car that is capable of 230 mph over the road but has a governor (which cannot be defeated) keeping it under 100. :biggrin:

 

[SolMiester]

Hence my point of keeping the SR2.
2011 Xeons would be better on a Supermicro board.
SRX is dead on arrival. People still buy them, "deck them out" with chipset coolers, etc. It's like buying a car that is capable of 230 mph over the road but has a governor (which cannot be defeated) keeping it under 100. :biggrin:

I'm curious about your work?, what do you do?

 

[exar333]

Hence my point of keeping the SR2.
2011 Xeons would be better on a Supermicro board.
SRX is dead on arrival. People still buy them, "deck them out" with chipset coolers, etc. It's like buying a car that is capable of 230 mph over the road but has a governor (which cannot be defeated) keeping it under 100. :biggrin:

Yeah. In the end, you do better with the SR-2 highly over clocked, even over 2x8C in a SRX that run at low Ghz. I don't get the SRX either, what's the point in selling a wannabe server board for an inflated price that will not OC?

 

[Rubycon]

Looking forward to that video :biggrin:

I was going to make it and then realized it would be the most boring video. The lights do have different brightness settings according to utilization but the update rate must be very slow. When a benchmark is running they are basically on bright most of the time. If the update rate was faster where they would flicker like a HDD activity indicator it would be worthwhile.

I'm curious about your work?, what do you do?

Stage/Lighting/Sound on cruise ships.

 

[The_Golden_Man]

I was going to make it and then realized it would be the most boring video. The lights do have different brightness settings according to utilization but the update rate must be very slow. When a benchmark is running they are basically on bright most of the time. If the update rate was faster where they would flicker like a HDD activity indicator it would be worthwhile.

Could you post some high quality pictures of your system when running the GTX 690?

Edit: I see you posted a picture further up here.

 

[blackened23]

The beast pictured!

This case is a joy to work with. Love it. Only bad thing is that an upper 360 rad will require some slight modding, but I won't have to do it until lightning blocks are released anyway.....

Also had some issues with the premium board I suspect due to the BIOS, so I had to swap that out