Vanilla EVGA GTX 670 Testing Anyone?

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Don Karnage

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Wheew! That's good to hear :whiste:

BF3/BC2 is all i care about :biggrin:

Card itself

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Don Karnage

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Do you have any airflow over the RAM chips and pwm circuitry heatsink? Those RAM chips is burning hot when under load. And the pwm's also get very hot on these cards

I have two fans about an inch from the PCB blowing on the card itself. I moved them to take the pic :biggrin:
 

Magic Carpet

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Have any coil whine from your reference card?

Mine has it, but not too bad. But still annoying. Hope it will be gone over time
Card in the sig? Every high-end (about 3 from different gens) Gigabyte cards I've had, has coil whined under heavy load. Most power-hungry (100w+) cards do however, depending on materials used and your acoustics.
 
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The_Golden_Man

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Card in the sig? Every high-end (about 3 from different gens) Gigabyte cards I've had, has coil whined under heavy load. Most power-hungry (100w+) cards do however, depending on materials used and your acoustics.

Yeah, it's the card from the sig - MSI GTX 670.

My dead Gigabyte GTX 570 (Reference did not have coil whine) as far as I can remember

Edit: Corrected. It should have said, my dead Gigabyte GTX 570 instead of 670 ;)
 
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The_Golden_Man

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Sorry guys, typo.. It was my Gigabyte GTX 570 and not Gigabyte GTX 670.

It was a reference Gigabyte GTX 570. It was mildly overclocked to 850/1700/2000 and 1.050v. However, it plunged after about 1.5 years. Stripping off the cooler revealed that at least one of the pvm's was burnt. GTX 570 reference design was known to have a weak pvm circuitry when compared to GTX 480 and GTX 580, so no surprises there.

When it happened, I ordered my current MSI GTX 670 reference
 
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Don Karnage

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lol, I am not going to fight it for 2 points out of 10 thousand so you win. what were your exact boost speed and memory clocks for that?

and your overall score should be much higher if you used the cpu in your sig.

I'm still playing with both rigs tonight but i'm just happy i hit 10K. +160 core, +200 Mem, 115% power, Stock reference cooling which is shocking. It hated the low temps from the water. Must be a bios thing