GTX 680 Owners Check-In

[---TK---]

Originally Posted by pimp_gimp

Yes at stock speeds, I will edit the post to reflect that.

can you do one with a good oc?

[pimp_gimp]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

can you do one with a good oc?

I will see what I can do in a little while as I just woke up.

[---TK---]

thats cool, I assumed it was stock, are you able to run it at 1920x1080 thats the more common resolution now. 1920x1200 will have more of a performance hit

[PhazeDelta1]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

wtf I thought you had a 7970? lol

i do. im playing around with a few atm. just trying acquire another 580 and i remember he said something a while back about having excess video cards.

[---TK---]

you missed his 580 lightning sale a while back $380 I believe

[pimp_gimp]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

thats cool, I assumed it was stock, are you able to run it at 1920x1080 thats the more common resolution now. 1920x1200 will have more of a performance hit

I can scale down to it and rerun at that resolution as well.

[PhazeDelta1]

yea i saw that. i was just checking the fs thread.

[MfA]

Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

P.S. I've set the Power Control in MSI Afterburner to 125% but what does it actually do? My auto-overclock still maxes out at 1,137 MHz and doesn't seem to go any higher whether that setting is on 100% or 125%. I wish there was an article that detailed how GPU Boost works because it seems to be an awesome feature, truly innovative for NVIDIA graphics card, but I don't think I'm getting the best out of mine.

default target is 170W, +32% =>224.4W which is safe limit on 2x6 pin

if you leave power limit and offset value default, card'll try to reach 170W(100%) and clocks accordingly..*
if you crank power limit up to 225W(132%) and leave offset 0, card'll try to reach 195W.. even it has more power room it wont be clocked because of default offset value..*
and finally if you set power limit to 225w(132%) and set offset to 150MHz or something won't be short to reach power limit, card will clock to max as long as temperature allows..
above 70C card try to lower clock speed..*


of course all these situations are assumed there is power room to boost the clocks.. otherwise, card'll stay 1006MHz even if it consumes 200W, never throttles under 1006MHz as long as it wont reach 98C..

[pimp_gimp]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

thats cool, I assumed it was stock, are you able to run it at 1920x1080 thats the more common resolution now. 1920x1200 will have more of a performance hit

Here you are. Heaven Benchmark, Extreme @ Stock, 1920x1080, 16x AF, 8x AA


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[---TK---]

thats almost 20% better than my cards at oc 910mhz. cant wait for oc test

[sykozis]

GPU Boost is fully compatible with GPU overclocking. Using third-party overclocking utilities provided by NVIDIA board partners, GeForce GTX 680 users can adjust the GPU’s power target to enable higher clock speeds. Once the power target has been increased, the GPU can be overclocked by raising the GPU clock offset.

Source: GTX680 Whitepaper

[---TK---]

what does this have to do with anything? its an out of the box feature.

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

what does this have to do with anything? its an out of the box feature.

Because nVidia explains how to overclock the cards.....and Darren was having issues doing so.

[---TK---]

Originally Posted by sykozis

Because nVidia explains how to overclock the cards.....and Darren was having issues doing so.

probably better to quote his post lol

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

probably better to quote his post lol

That's on page 4, with a link to the whitepaper.

[---TK---]

Originally Posted by sykozis

That's on page 4, with a link to the whitepaper.

the post just kinda looked out there is all. no offence intended bro

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by ---TK---

the post just kinda looked out there is all. no offence intended bro

No prob. Just figured it'd make things a bit easier for others having issues if I just posted it in the thread instead of expecting them to actually read the whitepapers.

[cowie]

I thuoght i would set up sli before i killed one somehow.
1 card does not run as much voltage(dmm) as other and different clocks are in osd sometimes.

3d11 sli at clocks listed
1 is set to auto fan the other has a h70 on it.
stock card hit around 76c even with good airflow around it


3dvantage
stock clocks but set fan to 85%

ran a 55k with oc but it had six6six in the gpu score so i did not save it

crappy o6
not sure if clock took but i did not crash before this run

[Nightfireomg]

Here is My score SLI 680 @ Stock clocks
Put it up here to compare with others + check there are running as they should

[---TK---]

^^^have a oc run we can see bro?

[Agent-A01]

you must be jelly of these 680 owners tommy :p

[---TK---]

nah, I keep seeing stock sli tests I want to see oc tests in heaven, doesnt make me jealous lol

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by Agent-A01

you must be jelly of these 680 owners tommy :p

He's trying to find more justification for buying 2....lol

[Nightfireomg]

Overclock run: +150 Core and +540 on memory
Got me 2486 Marks in UG 3.0

There you go tk

I took over clock as well its just not needed
Still was a nice boost and only ran 3 degrees hotter too

[---TK---]

nice thats what I wanna see. no pic bro? what was your min max fps?
@sykozis saw your interest thread, you looking to get one of these bad boys?