NVIDIA GeForce 600-Series 28nm (Kepler) | 690 680 670 660 650 | Discussion - Page 365

White_Ice · 21st August 2012, 1:42 PM

Yeah i agree with Shadow. If you wanna buy something that has lots of grunt and you just wanna kick arse in gaming and be done with it then the 690 is a great choice! If you wanna play around with tweaking and OCing and looking for numbers as well, grab a custom pcb non reference 680 because they kick arse and have a ton of potential plus you can buy as many cards as you want according to what you wanna do. Easy upgrade and downgrade..

Plus right now you can get two 680,s a shitload cheaper than a 690 if you look around..

P.S Does anyone need an EK full waterblock for a 680 DCII ? Still got it as new never used! CHEAP*

ALien8ed · 21st August 2012, 2:06 PM

Sweet as...

Many thanks for the response guys, it's very much appreciated...

Holland_BFG · 21st August 2012, 2:39 PM

ASUS MARS III first look.

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Beyond the fact it’s labelled as having 8GB of GDDR5 memory and two GTX 680 GPUs, the details are not available yet. Furthermore the graphics team strongly express it’s not yet final design, but they still had one running to show off the anticipated performance. Check the pics below for a first look at this next generation beast.

http://rog.asus.com/116862012/graphi...asus-mars-iii/

2k gpu anyone?

pittster · 21st August 2012, 3:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Holland_BFG

ASUS MARS III first look.

http://rog.asus.com/116862012/graphi...asus-mars-iii/

2k gpu anyone?

Dev One · 21st August 2012, 3:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Holland_BFG

ASUS MARS III first look.

http://rog.asus.com/116862012/graphi...asus-mars-iii/

2k gpu anyone?

Rumours have it that it cooks and cleans as well.

renren · 21st August 2012, 3:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Dev One

Rumours have it that it cooks and cleans as well.

for that price it would want to feed me, bathe me AND wipe my arse... and some other things

But seriously, who would pay that much?!

knowskillz · 21st August 2012, 3:55 PM

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Originally Posted by renren

for that price it would want to feed me, bathe me AND wipe my arse... and some other things

But seriously, who would pay that much?!

can you use it as boat engine??

maybe scotteee can buy it to power his new boat

sixers75 · 21st August 2012, 3:56 PM

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Originally Posted by knowskillz

can you use it as boat engine??

maybe scotteee can buy it to power his new boat

I can see scotteeee buying a couple of these lol

scotteee · 21st August 2012, 4:39 PM

what you guys talking about, i've already ordered 2 to be used as my boat anchors and another 2 for benching + 1 more for my dog milly to play with

Think i'll give these a miss, i've got a new toy to play with now :P and they say Boat stands for "break out another thousand"! so might be trading gfx cards for boating gear :P maybe...

ayles · 21st August 2012, 4:55 PM

Would 8gb fix my stuttering in games? I have 1.5gb now and get stuttering in games.
I think I'm running out of vram.

bobbavet · 21st August 2012, 5:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Holland_BFG

ASUS MARS III first look.

http://rog.asus.com/116862012/graphi...asus-mars-iii/

2k gpu anyone?

I think it's sacrilege to have "RED" on an Nvidia based card. I'm not a fanboi, I like me AMD's as well and wouldn't like them in "GREEN". It's just not right!

mashera · 21st August 2012, 8:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ice009

Thanks for the info mate. So you think the stock cooler on the regular cards is a lot worse compared to the Vapour chamber on the FTW LEs? Hopefully these LEs are decent clockers.

Yeah from all reports the stock cooler is shit, the only thing going for it is the ref PCB makes it easy to source water blocks or use something like an Arctic cooler.

I ran Heaven for an hour or so and passed a few 3Dmark11 runs @ 1200MHz, although Afterburner and GPUz say max clocks are 1250MHz, I get random freezing past that so it looks like thats the limit for at least one of them, memory was stock.

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Originally Posted by Ice009

Also interested in the noise levels. Normally I'd prefer a cooler like the twin frozr on the MSI cards, but am curious to see how these go.

I decided against internal exhaust after my last cards, these are silent till ~55% fan speed, upwards of 70% they get pretty loud. The default auto fan profile let them get to ~73c and didn't go above 56% at stock clocks.

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Originally Posted by Ice009

Are you going to make use of the 4GB of Vram? Do you have surround or hi res Monitors?

I'm running 120Hz surround with three S27A950's, although it looks like I'll have to get a DP cable now to connect the third monitor, NV control panel says I have to plug all monitors into the same GPU when running SLI

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lithos · 21st August 2012, 8:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Dev One

Rumours have it that it cooks and cleans as well.

TO USE COOK FUNCTION: Take off HSF, place frying pan directly on chip.

TO USE CLEAN FUNCTION: Take removed HSF and place spinning fans over dust.

aussie-revhead · 21st August 2012, 8:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ayles

Would 8gb fix my stuttering in games? I have 1.5gb now and get stuttering in games.
I think I'm running out of vram.

Why dont you try monitoring it in AB and see how much you are using?

Modafroman · 21st August 2012, 8:36 PM

Ok honestly what the fuck.

What drivers are people using?

*grumbles about stupid expensive shit crashing all the time*

21st August 2012, 1:42 PM	#5461
White_Ice Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Gold Coast Posts: 364	Yeah i agree with Shadow. If you wanna buy something that has lots of grunt and you just wanna kick arse in gaming and be done with it then the 690 is a great choice! If you wanna play around with tweaking and OCing and looking for numbers as well, grab a custom pcb non reference 680 because they kick arse and have a ton of potential plus you can buy as many cards as you want according to what you wanna do. Easy upgrade and downgrade.. Plus right now you can get two 680,s a shitload cheaper than a 690 if you look around.. P.S Does anyone need an EK full waterblock for a 680 DCII ? Still got it as new never used! CHEAP* __________________ Horize P370EM Clevo Gaming Laptop. Intel Ivy Bridge i7-3920XM \| GTX680M SLI \| 16GB RAM \| 2x SDE 240gb SSD \| 3dmark11: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5121938 PB: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5124094

21st August 2012, 4:39 PM	#5469
scotteee Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2,212	what you guys talking about, i've already ordered 2 to be used as my boat anchors and another 2 for benching + 1 more for my dog milly to play with Think i'll give these a miss, i've got a new toy to play with now :P and they say Boat stands for "break out another thousand"! so might be trading gfx cards for boating gear :P maybe... __________________ - 3930k @ 4.8ghz - Corsair H100 Watercooling - Enermax Platimax 1500w PSU - Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme - 16gb G.Skill Ripjaw Z 2400mhz - 2 x Gigabyte GTX 690s in SLI - CoolerMaster HAF X Case - Corsair Force 3 240gb SSD - Dell 30" 3008WFP Monitor - Windows 7 64bit - Logitech G9+G19+G35 - Asus Xonar Essense STX - Beyer DT440's HWBOT OCAU "Azyouare"

21st August 2012, 4:55 PM	#5470
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21st August 2012, 8:36 PM	#5475
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21st August 2012, 2:06 PM	#5462
ALien8ed Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 57	Sweet as... Many thanks for the response guys, it's very much appreciated...