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It looks like the Asus 670 GTX is now available. I ordered one from Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121638) earlier today, although it's currently OOS. I think they restock pretty frequently, so it's worthwhile to keep an eye out. The reviews for the Asus 670 has been phenomenal, especially the virtually silent fans, which will be a drastic improvement over my EVGA 580 and its awful blower. Also I look forward to plugging my Apple display directly instead of routing through Lucid Virtu (no displayport on the reference 580 for some reason). Has anyone tried overclocking the 670? With a good custom cooler it seems the only limitation is voltage and stability rather than noise/heat. It seems insane to me that in some reviews factory OC'ed 670 is within single digit percentage performance of the 590. Also with the option of custom cooled 670 SLI for ~$850, I can't imagine 690 to have much of a place anymore.
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Hamburger Test posted:My ASUS 670 DC2 TOP that just arrived is incredibly unstable, the drivers will crash after a few minutes in Skyrim and even with a hefty underclock it crashed to dekstop after about half an hour. And it seems there's quite a few others popping up on Nvidia's forums. Got the exact same error with my 670 DC2Top. Mine crashes after a couple rounds of Heaven 3.0 - GPU-Z shows max core clock of 1280MHz, temp of 79c and voltage of 1.175. It doesn't seem to be an isolated problem (http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=230198 as well as several other threads indicating the same problem, changing to PCI Express 2.0 does not solve this for me). Google says it's unstable OC, which if true would be a shame given that we're paying extra for supposedly binned/stable OC. I'd like to wait a bit and see if it's a driver/setting related issue. I don't really mind having to tone down the clock/voltage a bit, since its acoustic performance has completely exceeded expectations. edit: shockingly - I'm not sure if this was actually a fix or a fluke - the card correctly downclocks when running my two monitors of different resolutions (Apple Cinema Display using displayport + a 1080p monitor using HDMI). Fingers crossed... update: welp I reinstalled the latest nvidia drivers, restarted, and ran Heaven with Normal tessellation and 4x AA (instead of default no Tess/0x AA) and it was fine for 15min+. PC Gaming  update #2: Asus GPU Tweak causes a Red Screen of Death(? it's mentioned above), confirmed problem on Asus forums. Don't install this POS on god Socialism fucked around with this message at 04:03 on May 30, 2012 |
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