Just got my EVGA 670FTW! Noob at OCing etc.

[thestrangebrew1]

So here's my results at stock running Heaven v3.0 basic:

Powered by Unigine Engine

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:
45.7
Scores:
1150
Min FPS:
10.4
Max FPS:
117.1
Hardware

Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU flags:
3492MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 8.15.10.2372 2048Mb
Settings

Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
16x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled
Tessellation:
extreme
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2012

And my GPU-Z results:

Still trying to learn what these numbers mean and how they stack up. Prob. should've started with the 570 I had and then compared to these numbers I guess.

 

[Don Karnage]

Hmm your mins are really low.

+150 Core
+200 Mem
115% Target Power


FPS:
48.8
Scores:
1228
Min FPS:
23.8
Max FPS:
127.8

 

[Jaydip]

The Min FPS will be low on the first run,OP run the benchmark a second time and report back

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Should I tweak anything first or just do a 2nd run @ stock again?

 

[Don Karnage]

Should I tweak anything first or just do a 2nd run @ stock again?

Set a 70% constant fan and test again. Temps are bringing down your boost clock

 

[lavaheadache]

it could be the 8X AA

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Ok I ran a 2nd test but didn't see your post so ran it stock again:


Powered by Unigine Engine

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:
46.0
Scores:
1159
Min FPS:
26.8
Max FPS:
117.7
Hardware

Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU flags:
3492MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
Intel(R) HD Graphics Family 8.15.10.2372 3858Mb
Settings

Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
16x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled
Tessellation:
extreme


I'll increase the fan to 70% and report back

 

[Jaydip]

Should I tweak anything first or just do a 2nd run @ stock again?

After running Heaven for some time run the benchmark,don't start it immediately after launching.Also do as Don says and also set the power target to 115%

 

[tviceman]

1228 on the core when boosting is pretty good. Try upping the vram speed some, as that is what will be holding you back the most at that core speed.

 

[Don Karnage]

+160 Core
+200 Mem
115% Target Power


FPS:
49.8
Scores:
1254
Min FPS:
23.7
Max FPS:
130.4

Get this. I took my card off water so i could SLI and it overclocks better on the stock cooler.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

+160 Core
+200 Mem
115% Target Power


FPS:
49.8
Scores:
1254
Min FPS:
23.7
Max FPS:
130.4

Get this. I took my card off water so i could SLI and it overclocks better on the stock cooler.

Put my settings to this and got the following error when I launched heaven:

D3D11AppWindow::swap_window():device removed

Once it crashed my fan throttled back and I can barely hear it anymore.

When it crashed here was my gpuz:

 

[Don Karnage]

Put my settings to this and got the following error when I launched heaven:

D3D11AppWindow::swap_window():device removed

Once it crashed my fan throttled back and I can barely hear it anymore.

When it crashed here was my gpuz:

You hit 1366 boost clock which is why you crashed. Just try +100 core

 

[thestrangebrew1]

OK here you go:

FPS:
47.6
Scores:
1199
Min FPS:
22.4
Max FPS:
122.9

Edit: God I suck. If you look at the afterburner screen I forgot to hit "Apply". I'll rerun again later. Jesus...

Hope you can read it. I think I'll take a break and play some d3 for a little bit and fool around with it later lol.

 

[toyota]

dont try and use someone else's settings. your card is already oced and boosts higher than his out of the box. really peoples settings are useless if they dont show what the actual clocks are.

 

[Don Karnage]

dont try and use someone else's settings. your card is already oced and boosts higher than his out of the box. really peoples settings are useless if they dont show what the actual clocks are.

Yeah. I was just posting my settings for reference

 

[thestrangebrew1]

dont try and use someone else's settings. your card is already oced and boosts higher than his out of the box. really peoples settings are useless if they dont show what the actual clocks are.

OK cool makes sense. I'll fiddle around with this more tomorrow. Thanks for all the advice.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Here's what i set with my ftw card. 145% tdp with +85 core and +296 memory which gives you a core speed of 1170 and memory at 6800. When my card boosts it will go to 1250 and never lower than 1230

 

[Termie]

+160 Core
+200 Mem
115% Target Power

...

Get this. I took my card off water so i could SLI and it overclocks better on the stock cooler.

VRMs???

Here's what i set with my ftw card. 145% tdp with +85 core and +296 memory which gives you a core speed of 1170 and memory at 6800. When my card boosts it will go to 1250 and never lower than 1230

If you want to hold 1250, you'll need to keep the GPU below 70C, which of course requires a pretty high fan setting.

 

[Don Karnage]

VRMs???

What about them? :biggrin:

 

[cmdrdredd]

VRMs???



If you want to hold 1250, you'll need to keep the GPU below 70C, which of course requires a pretty high fan setting.

Yeah i know how it works...but the performance difference between 1230 and 1250 is zero. Core speed has very very small gains. Unless you get tons of mhz difference. Memory is where the performance comes from with these cards.

 

[toyota]

Yeah i know how it works...but the performance difference between 1230 and 1250 is zero. Core speed has very very small gains. Unless you get tons of mhz difference. Memory is where the performance comes from with these cards.

depends on the game. and if the difference between 1230 and 1250 is zero than what is the difference between 1230 and 1210 or 1210 and 1190?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Almost nothing in real world. Like when it goes from 1250 to 1230 i dont see my monitoring app show any drop in framerate. I assume that if you could close on 1270+ you would see some gains.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I'm very happy with this FTW card. It's everything I hoped it'd be; runs cool, lower wattage usage, quiet, did i say it runs cool?

 

[Termie]

What about them? :biggrin:

I think we all know core temp wasn't the issue...just like I told ya.

Yeah i know how it works...but the performance difference between 1230 and 1250 is zero. Core speed has very very small gains. Unless you get tons of mhz difference. Memory is where the performance comes from with these cards.

Well, if running at 1250 is pushing your right over the edge in terms of temps, you might actually get better performance by shooting for 1240, for instance.

P.S. Still waiting on your report on C2Q to IVB. Have you posted that somewhere?

 

[cmdrdredd]

I think we all know core temp wasn't the issue...just like I told ya.



Well, if running at 1250 is pushing your right over the edge in terms of temps, you might actually get better performance by shooting for 1240, for instance.

P.S. Still waiting on your report on C2Q to IVB. Have you posted that somewhere?

Yeah I did post that, link below.

Sometimes I do get 1240. I'm still not 100% on how Boost really works, there seems to be no rhyme or reason for it to go up to 1250 here and only 1240 there (before 70c). It almost never goes over 70c though because I let the fan spin up to keep it down.

Either way, 1230, 1240, 1250...all is good and I cannot complain about the performance one bit.

Here ya go http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33521789&postcount=1