I have the option to get an Evga 670 for £294, an Evga Cheesecake for £308 or an MSI for £304. Would the Evga Cheesecake be the best choice?
I went for the Gigabyte and got a new PSU at the same time so got to use the £25 off voucher on Dabs.
I'm sure I won't!! DPD said they would deliver between 09:16 and 10:16 and it was onsite by the time I got into work at 09:30 this morning... already prepared my case and pre-routed cables etc ready to build the new rig tonight. Now all I need is my vehicle back from BT Fleet, hope the service / MOT / re-call doesn't take too long today!
Just thought I'd add my 2c worth to this thread. I got my 4GB EVGA 670s 5 days ago now, and I've had plenty of time to play and test. They do +100MHz clock, and +700MHz Mem with only 110% TDP and NO volts increase. Clocks boost to 1250 with those settings. Awesome cards.
I'm surprised it's as quiet as it is. With a £100 premium for 8% performance increase, no one in their right mind will be buying a 680.
Had the Zotac 680 4GBs been in stock at time of my purchase, I probably would've bought them but in hindsight the SCs are the best bang for buck if you want more ram. I'm about to pull the trigger on a 3011 so it will help, though ram vs bandwidth is still unresolved
I'm going to bump/necro this thread to say I've just picked up a MSI GTX 670 OC for £280 off of Scan's Today Only. Specs seemed pretty good for the price and reviews seemed positive, so bit the bullet. I decided that the EVGA card wasn't worth £20 more, and the MSI comes with a higher clock speed anyway.
Sadly no, we are now moving and I've had to massively curb the size of my rig. TJ11 is to be sold as is a lot of WCing bits, 1 670 already gone and U3011 went back to the shop. To summarize: My 2 670 4GBs maxxed all games I played @ 60fps apart from metro 2033, Max Payne and Crysis!
No idea. I got it to get better fps in BF3. I'm pretty sure it will be fine for the most part. I've ordered my second one a few days ago, I expect it to arrive by next wednesday or so.
Just hit the buy button on a EVGA 670. Just for the peace of mind afforded by them not wiping out the warranty when you fit a waterblock.
That's awful. If it makes you feel any better I just ordered a U3011 and a couple of Asus GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP cards The cards are on pre-order, have to wait 1-2 weeks so let me know if I've made a mistake there.
my Cheesecake seems stable at 1305, boosts fairly regularly. Took me a while to get used to the new OCing method but the benefits are great, especially being able to run 2 monitors without idling on full clocks