Graphics GTX 680 watercooled.. was it worth it for you?

And I guess kingpin has an EVGA 680...

I looked at a voltage mod 680 last night on google. Scary stuff even though I used to design and build sophisticated logic circuits.

Knowing what I'm like for liquid cooling I may buy a full cover block just for the hell of it.

 

Kingpin works for evga last I checked

 

Ahhh so he has a top-binned version.

 

His entire modding team is employed by them or were as of end of last year

Not sure if that's still the case

 

aparantly not as stable as thought at least not with combustion

now rechecking below is screens of what i have it at

not sure how much more i can push

1300mhz ( ish turbo boost thing takes it up and down )
7100mhz on memory



sorry for my crappy screenshots

have a feeling i lack a voltage mod to get it going above that

will upload some haven benchs when i get some time

 

haven benchmarks below

once again ignore the crappy screens lol



see if i can find my stock image if i cant find it ill run it at stock

 

single card

min fps 24.8
max 129.9
score 1370

at 1300 ish silly turbo boost
at 7000 ish mem

haven refused to bench at 7100 so guess im missing something

 

Is that not just a copy of the image from this OC guide?.....

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-680-overclock-guide/2

And I thought you had waterblocks on them?

 

Do have waterblocks no clue on image as don't vist other websites

Stock heaven will join this page later today not expecting a huge difference

Still not worked out why combustion and heaven are unstable but games are.

 

Yeah, my max load temp with waterblocks is 48 degress. 82 is clearly on air. Also I'm afraid that image is quite clearly just lifted straight off guru3d.

 

Why would you bother trolling with faked screenshots? E-peen?

 

haeven at stock



50 avr
1262 score
22min
131 max

all settings are same

gpu is at stock

if you look closely where i paused monitering the gpu is clocking itself into 1100mhz range during benching, Thought it was ment to stop at 1058 or sumit close.

Not sure if my cpu is holding these scores back difficult to say unless i overclocked it some may bother with it later.

The overclocking has a benifit of 100 points in heaven benchmark thats kinda laughable makes me wonder if theres any performance to be had in the 680. Also makes me wonder if the 4gbs will be able to push the higher rez people are hoping for

me is done testing somebody with a more powerful cpu can maybe run the tests are similar settings.

enjoy

 

I have some data from my own testing this morning...









Default 680 speed versus +175mhz core +500mhz vram (1260mhz/7000mhz) with full power target...

Kombustor DX11

Default 680: Min=114 Max=213 Avg=195

OC 680: Min=165 Max=256 Avg=239

System power consumption at default was 278w avg (for PC excluding monitor I think).

Consumption with 680 at that OC was 332w average (an increase of 54 watts).

I don't know about you but I would say that increase is quite impressive and for me necessary especially since I play most games with 3d glasses at 1080.

All tests done at 1080 by the way.

Now I guess I will head over to specialtech and order that EK block....

 

See my bench results above... ^^^^

 

Indeed. The core is stable at 188 also but I knocked it down a bit because of the 500mhz vram and temp.

Actually u got confused by fan speed versus temp. Temp wass 70c for the OC Kombustor and fan speed was ramped up to 84%. Core was 68c on the EVGA util at time of screenshot.



Nevertheless, even 70c is too high for me. Come to think of it even 50c is too high for me.

 

Been doing some more testing... Using MSI Kombustor DX11...

+188 gpu core
+590 vram

168min, 260max, 243avg, load 129%, system watts 135.

Note to anyone using MSI Kombustor... It's important you close down the Kombustor control panel each time you stop the test and make changes to the clock speed.