lol...
Am I the only one who thinks it's a joke Nvidia released a high end card with a 225w hard cap? I mean it's a nice card and all, but giving end users only 30 additonal watts to play with for overclocking? WTH? Hopefully they did it to limit it's potential against BigK, but seriously... It's just awful
Maybe because GK104 was never meant to be the "real" GTX680 (--> GTX670Ti).
I think the AIBs will ship cards with 6/8 and 8/8 pin connectors, 5-14 power phases and the floodgates for better overclocking will open.
Problem is the card built for watercooling in mind with 8-8 pin + 14 power phases will probably cost $750 and still lose to the Hellspawn 470s. So you are still sitting this one out. :awe:
2GHZ? I've never seen a factory OCed card with a 100% OC lol. That will be pretty crazy.
The cooler the gk104 is, the less power it will pull and the higher the frequency will be on the boost clocks. Run 3dmark at 10% fan and then run at 100% fan. Change no other settings, and watch a nice increase in 3dmarks. Pretty neat little feature of "GPU BOOST". Freeze it, and it wants to run full boost more often.
http://www.4gamer.net/games/120/G012093/20120322072/
Now I need my cards to get here more than ever. Booted up my system before I went to pull the cards out to get them ready to sell - nasty burnt electronics smell fills the air, system shuts down.
Panic, check water loop for leaks - none. Start sniffing around and taking parts out, the stench is coming from my top slot 480. Disassemble it, VRM fried ? WTF?! lol.
Oh snap. Sounds like one of those 480s came off the same assembly line as the GTX590s. Interesting how 1 of those 480s decided to crap out right at the 2-year mark -- imo too short of a warranty period for $500 cards.
Does that mean you have to sell the RMAed card to someone else then? I think there was a member on this forum who hasn't upgraded since he bought GeForce 3 Ti because he keeps waiting to see how newer cards will do in benchmarks....you should donate it to him! ()
If they send me a 580 back I will definitely keep it and put it in my wife's computer.
That is beyond ironic, but here's hoping you get that GTX 580 as well (hopefully whatever AIB you went with is trying to offload them now that the GTX 680 is out).Now I need my cards to get here more than ever. Booted up my system before I went to pull the cards out to get them ready to sell - nasty burnt electronics smell fills the air, system shuts down.
Panic, check water loop for leaks - none. Start sniffing around and taking parts out, the stench is coming from my top slot 480. Disassemble it, VRM fried ? WTF?! lol.
Even on their way out my door the 480s are giving me headaches :biggrin: 'Get rid of me ? eff you! VRM asplode.'
Lucky my buyer didn't back out, but he haggled a $20 discount off the price of two because 'he was expecting all three' :sneaky: Now I have to RMA this fried one. Hopefully they send me a 580 as a replacement.
It would be interesting. If people can get in the 125-150 offset range on air, hopefully you can push to 200 on water.My card will hopefully be on water on Monday once I get it, if my MCW82 bolts right on. It keeps my 1250 core 7950 at 40C max, so kinda excited at the potential: D
Wife burnDoes NV's list of 3D gaming support include Angry Birds Space? I kid, I kid.
Diablo 3 Co-op FTW :biggrin:
lol...
Am I the only one who thinks it's a joke Nvidia released a high end card with a 225w hard cap?
I mean it's a nice card and all, but giving end users only 30 additonal watts to play with for overclocking? WTH?
Hopefully they did it to limit it's potential against BigK, but seriously... It's just awful
lol...
Am I the only one who thinks it's a joke Nvidia released a high end card with a 225w hard cap?
I mean it's a nice card and all, but giving end users only 30 additonal watts to play with for overclocking? WTH?
Hopefully they did it to limit it's potential against BigK, but seriously... It's just awful
Has anyone bought one in the last 24hrs? Need one more for a gift and all the usual is out.
It's a dick move but there will be a work around. Others are proving it.
Now I need my cards to get here more than ever. Booted up my system before I went to pull the cards out to get them ready to sell - nasty burnt electronics smell fills the air, system shuts down.
Panic, check water loop for leaks - none. Start sniffing around and taking parts out, the stench is coming from my top slot 480. Disassemble it, VRM fried ? WTF?! lol.
Even on their way out my door the 480s are giving me headaches :biggrin: 'Get rid of me ? eff you! VRM asplode.'
Lucky my buyer didn't back out, but he haggled a $20 discount off the price of two because 'he was expecting all three' :sneaky: Now I have to RMA this fried one. Hopefully they send me a 580 as a replacement.
No way, there are still too many 480's out there. They'll probably send you a refurbished 480, maybe a 570 if you're lucky.
It's a dick move but there will be a work around. Others are proving it.
Lucky? Getting a worse card in some aspects in unacceptable IMHO
It would be unlucky if he still had the other 2 480's, but in terms of resale value it would be lucky because he wants to sell it immediately and 570's have a higher resale value currently.
I wasn't saying that the 570 was actually better than the 480 btw. I much prefer my 480, NV cheaped out on the 570 in so many ways.
The 7970 without a doubt has the potential to be much faster.
It's a simple matter of examining the hardware. I'd be more than happy to compare benchmarks head to head. You can make as many snide comments as you want, it doesn't change that.I do not believe this is at all an accurate statement, especially after the gtx680 has been out for all of two days. Lets see how AIB custom cards do, lets get some aggregate water cooling scores, and lets wait and see where things are in a month or two instead of irrationally coming ton conclusions that support the theory we want to believe in most.