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the thing is, ive heard ftw edition uses cherry picked cuts from the die to provide the best over clocks. also tell me how your graphics card goes and if novatech do not kick their cards around 😛
 
Haha will do. It'll be here within the hour, and I'll PM when gamed on it a bit. It'll be flawlessly fast though. Benchmarks show that even Crysis 3 can be maxed at 1080 and antialiasing on it and still get smooth performance, and Crysis 3 is the most demanding game out. I'm only playing Saints Row 3 at the mo so it'll be lightning.

That's nuts Aria told you that! If they're telling the truth, why would they admit that to customers? Especially in an age of social networking etc... was it a phone call when they told you?
 
haha thanks i just posted a thread to compare them both so i can get a better view of differences,

leadtek is a relatively unknown company and the card is coming from ebay, its a cheap card for a 680 but i dont know if it of good quality. also i dont really know to much about rma process. overclocking headroom could go both ways as its a gamble like you said about which cut they select for the gpu


evga is £40 cheaper and upto par with the 680 if not better, but overclocking headroom might be slightly limited, it is slightly quieter and cooler, uses a little more power, but im still a little scared of recieving another doa card since there isnt many of them left.
 
I think you may be worrying a bit too much about stock levels. Leadtek are fine though - they used to operate in Britain as one of the major GeForce brands back in the days of the 6800s and earlier. They may even have been around as early as the GeForce 3 series (infact I'm pretty sure they were). We considered them to be a quality brand back then, but they disappeared from Britain during the recession (same time our motherboard manufacturer options suddenly dropped to 4). Since then they've still been one of the biggest brands in SE Asia after the Taiwan big three (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI). I've never used one myself though so couldn't personally vouch for them.
 
hm true, i only care so much since i dont want to spend this hundreds of pounds for average graphics, battlefield 3, total war shogun, company of heroes 2 are games which i want to experience with high graphics fidelity
 
Don't worry - provided you're not playing them on some triple-monitor setup, GTX670 will be absolutely lightning fast. Only games that could struggle are ones that require a very powerful CPU, if you don't have a fast CPU. And obviously in those games, a slightly faster graphics card won't help anyway.

LOL at AMD - even the driver uninstall is broken! Not a valid win32 application apparently - fatal error. I was planning on reformatting my SSD and installing Windows fresh anyway, but thought I'd take a quick look at the card on this installation. Windows should be able to clear off the drivers for me.
 
i cant remember the name but there is a utility that specifically gets rid of and/ati driver lol, i have 3570k which is fine, yeah i think im gonna settle on the 670 then thanks i wouldnt have come across it if you hadnt shown me :)
 
although slightly irrelevant, the msi gtx770 gaming oc version from nova tech is 60 more, but im tempted since it has the same theme as my mobo, my mobo is a gd65 gaming lol
 


Nvidia make all the GeForce GPUs, so you are mostly getting the same hardware no matter what brand. Some do use better RAM and coolers, but its not a huge difference most of the time.
 


Glad to help 🙂 That's a nice CPU! And as for the GTX770, I was seriously considering it too, but £60 for a 7-8% framerate gain doesn't really seem worth it to me. It would turn 30fps into 32fps and you'd never be able to see that difference.
 
By the way, Memnarchon's 10-15% figure in your other thread is referring to the performance difference between a stock GTX670 and stock GTX770. This FTW edition is of course a bit faster than the stock model, hence my 7-8% figure.
 
OK it's fast :-D Gonna download some nVidia tech demos and see what it can really do! SR3 isn't exactly taxing. Starcraft 2 really choked on my Radeon when there was lots of Protoss Carriers on screen (or when there was more than 3-4 Dark Templars) so I'll also see how it handles an army of those. I'm happy so far though and it's SO much quieter than my last card!
 


Holy crap that happened to me too. I was scared that something else was wrong with my system at the time. But after getting help from the smart community on Tom's Hardware we determined it to be DoA and I sent it back for a refund.
 
ye i think im going to settle on the card you bought, but there is the signature 2 version of the card for 5 pound more and i wondering is that better or isit just a gimmick since apparently evga do better reference designs than their custom coolers
 
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