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you have to understand me .. i had 7970 before and got 30 fps in chopper when fly around sharqi pensisuila ... i just don't want the same story :) now im on GT 520 ... because i sold my 7970 ....i will have money for gtx 670 in this weekend .. but sad that i cna only buy them on amazon .... i can't find gtx 670 for 400 or 420$ SOC 🙁( they are now 500-600$ ... lame
 
Recall on EVGA GTX 670 SC announced:
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2012/05/16/evga_minirecall_on_gtx_670


Wednesday May 16, 2012
EVGA "Mini-Recall" on GTX 670

We mentioned earlier that we were getting word that EVGA was pulling back some GTX 670 products for the channel and that is specifically the case. Here is exactly what EVGA had to say:

EVGA has isolated this problem to an early batch of GTX 670 Superclock cards (P/N: 02G-P3-2672-KR) that were not properly screened during QA/QC procedure. We have already been working with our partners to retest this particular batch. In the meantime, our R&D has also done numerous tests, burn in and component quality verification to confirm that the EVGA GTX 670 Superclock is a well designed product.

If any of your users are experiencing issues with their EVGA GTX 670 Superclock boards, please ask them to email Jacob Freeman, and he will assist in getting them setup with an RMA cross shipment along with EVGA upgrading them to the GTX 670 FTW version (P/N: 02G-P3-2685-KR) for the inconvenience of this.

So, "EVGA has not recalled its 670 product line," as Joe Darwin with EVGA put it, but EVGA has identified some bad product in the field which it is bringing back in from etailers. EVGA was not forthcoming with what exactly "this problem" with its products is or how it is identified.
 
Ok, need help here...

I have one GTX670 at hand, really cheap to get, but it's an MSI, blower type. And have the GTX680 Twin Forzor, but at nearly 60% extra price. Also, the 7870 is at the same price of the GTX670, but it's OCed (1.2Ghz, Sapphire) and with aftermarket cooling.

What do you say guys? Is the MSI ref design cooling good enough? Get the 7870 or go for the GTX680 TF or the 7970 a tad cheaper?

This is in CLP:
GTX670: http://www.ttchile.cl/producto.php?i=12456
GTX680: http://www.sym.cl/ficha/11096/
HD7870: http://www.ttchile.cl/producto.php?i=12417
HD7970: http://www.sym.cl/ficha/10110/

Cheers!
 
I'd love to see how the GK110 with 2880 cores will perform in games...even though I would never be able to buy one lol. Intel will have to get tickin' and tockin' to deliver something that can keep up!
 
I'm trying to decide if my SLi N560GTX-Ti Hawks are going to go and get a GTX 680.
I feel they (SLi 560Ti's) equal around a GTX 680 now
but after selling off an SLi set-up for a single card option in my AMD unit, it has me thinking.
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SLI 560Tis are better than a single 680.....that is until you run out of VRAM.

EDIT: Actually scratch that. After quickly looking at a few benches it appears they trade blows with the 680 winning quite often.
 
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-sli-review/

It includes the single 680 and 560Ti setups in most of the bench graphs....along with a lot of other setups.
 


Yessir! Mal told me where you are from as well, saint, hahaha.

yes and I am his parts man too... 😉
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I knew it wasn't the TF, mal. I might have been with my 4890 for too long, but not THAT much that I can't recognize a TF from a ref design, lol.

Anyway, I got the GTX670; it was the last one, lol. It's quite the upgrade for every Unreal Engine based game, I can tell you that much, lol.

The MSI GTX670 is CLP$280k = USD$560 and the GTX680 is CLP$360K = USD$720. For a 10% less performance, I think I got a good buy. Plus, the build quality is very good; the reference image doesn't make justice to the product.

Cheers!

EDIT: Typo.
 
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4310/amd-phenom-ii-x4-980-black-edition-review/7


yes look at that .... my cpu i7 950 is a bit stronger and i hope i don't have to oc it to handle gtx 670 or even gtx 680 ^^

so you made a good deal ... you don't need stronger gpu then gtx 670 ... gtx 680 will be waste of money for you ^^ ....

it will be interesting to see how good will be gtx 670 after new drivers .... now they ar just beta so we can expect 10-15% performance boost or even more after drivers ^^

 
much appreciated.
and I have overclocked version too, they catch the GTX 680...

I think I'm waiting this unit out longer now.
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The EVGA 560 2win dual chip cards have their chips OCed to some 950Mhz but still it trades blows with a 680 and fails to win favourably.
So if ya get a 680 instead of two 560 ti-s,you get same performance for half the power. :pt1cable:
 

No worries your i7 950 is more than enough. I have an i7 870 @ stock clock (2.93 GHz) and I have a GTX 680 and I don't feel like I'm having a bottleneck. I think you should be fine 😉
 
only strange feeling of 600 series is .... low bit interface and not to high pixel fillrate .... there is a huge leap on texture fillrate but memory bandwidth still reamains not to high because of bit interface 🙁
 
Yea i am begin'ing to think this dark guy is just walking in circles. One minute he wants a 670, the next hes constantly worry if his system will handle it or other irrelevant stuff...

Just buy the card Every card even a 690 will have frame dips. Thats just how games are designed, so we either go out and spend all our money every new game to run it smoothly or code them so were paranoid all the time worrying with stuff like this...
 
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