Yea its great playing games. The only stutter ive found was within battlefield 3, in a mission where your in the planes, actually saw the planes going back and forth due to stutter. All settings maxed out

Yea im with UPF. I dont need to spend even more money. Graphics card was pricey enough....should of waited for the gtx 670. Then i could of upgraded the cpu,ram and motherboard

And I was thinking I had a CPU bottleneck. Your GPU is proberly running at 40-50% usage. Atleast you don't have to worry about it over heating. Enjoy that

I know the cpu bottles the graphics card, a bit. What do you mean "40-50% usage". Ive seen the usage monitor I have on my second display say that it goes to 90% GPU usage (Depending on game).

No, it wont over heat ever. Made my own custom fan curve

A mate had the same CPU and a 680 and was getting 50% usage in bf3 on ultra. He was getting about 40fps when he would have double that with a quad core CPU. Really dependant on the games you play...
Anyway enjoy ya card dude.

Ok, thats odd. For bf3 I had 60 fps on 3d mode on my monitor. Thats 60 fps on each eye

On 64p conquest? What grfx settings? A 680 with a quad core CPU would average about 70-80fps on ultra @1080p in MP and that's 2d..
Anyway enjoy ya setup.. I'm gonna stop derailin this thread...

No, on single player campaign. On ultra settings. 1920x1080 (1080p). Just checked...averages at 75-100 fps

This guy was bragging to me about his 670 and how it gets 90+ fps on crysis 2. Haha.

lol, no **** eh.. Maybe at 800x600 on low textures.
Rusty I didn't even realise bf3 had single player.

Its Rushy.

Lol. Really

Do you have the game?

Yep and in 64p multiplayer on ultra at 1080p with 2x 680 I avg 130fps as inf, heli 110fps and jets 150fps.

Nice. That would be pretty pricey, 2 gtx 680's

Yeah, he had to ask the manager at maccas to pay him in advance.....

+1 im getting roughly the same with my GTX 680 SLI setup

i stole 2 macca's employees **** box cars and sold them to criminals to use as ram raid vehicles to pay for my GTX680's

lmao that works too

My PC.

Intel Core i7-3770k @ 4.1
Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 SLI
32gb DDR3-2400 G.Skill Trident



3DMark11 Link

Welcome to the ladder and great score Vukodlak

P15731 - Intel Core i7-3770k @ 4.1 - 32gb DDR3-2400 G.Skill Trident - SLI Gigabyte GTX 670 OC Stock

Nice score dude.

Looking for some advice on what to OC first to push it up higher.

Not really any expansion room left on the MB now.

hello
hope this links

score of P9921

should be stock with an i7-3770K and a 680gtx

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4576244

going to try using Easytune6 quickboost if thats an easy way to OC?

Welcome Fencer, great score mate! Forget Easyfail and use EVGA Precision X FTW....

P9921 - i7 3770k @ stock - Gigabyte GTX680 @ stock


PS: Also just a reminder to people, please submit score in the correct format thanks.

For starters what Cooling system are you running on that 3770k? they have a reputation for getting hot. You could definitely get your score higher if you clocked that CPU higher like about 4.5ghz+ and also if you are not using EVGA precision X to OC those cards use it, its definitely the best OC software for 600 series GPUs. Dont be scared of cooking the cards they just throttle back or the display driver will crash if you get too aggressive with your OC settings. Good luck and have fun.

And to add to Joe's instructions, be somewhat cautious with the VGA memory clocks, as it's not protected! So increase the memory clocks in small increments and test for artifacts, once it starts artifacting back it off atleast 10 Mhz for safety, because if you push the memory to hard you will kill it and brick your card...

IMO stay away from OCing memory. I generally find memory OCing is less robust than the gpu core OC and will rarely have significant real world benefit.

I agree with that in regards to the 500 series Nvidia cards but these 680s wont reach decent OCs unless you increase the memory clock along with the Core clock offset and power target.

Nah I find I get better core overclocks when I don't touch the memory.

heres my score: p13480
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4922541

system: re4,3930k @4400,sli580gtx dcu11 @897mhz,16gb ripgaw z,xspc case, lcs

thanx:)

Welcome to the ladder madmic2 and great score mate!!

Ps: sorry for the late response...

New rig i’ve just put together. Gave me a bit of a woody so i thought i share the result. Bait please delete my old score and name (position 19) and replace with this.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4979239

P16348 - I7 3770k @ 4.4 - 16Gb DDR3-1866 Corsair Dominator Platinum - SLI GTX 680 TOP Edition 1100/1500.

Haven’t had the time to oc the chip beyond this point, but boy does it get hot. Running a corsair H100, which isn’t doing too badly for an out of the box cooler. There’s still plenty of potential though in both the CPU and GPU so when I find the time ill push them some more.

Great score Majic and Congrats on the new rig mate!!

Bump 4 thread.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5380490
P13519-i7950 @4.07, 6gb DDR3@2000mhz, EVGA GTX 690(power+135,gpu+175,mem+150)

Not bad for the 690, I find the old i7's are just starting to show their age.

I'm currently running the 920 @ 4.2 and it necks the cards, changed to 3930k and the frames shot up. Latency was less as well.

Good score.

Yeah the i7 is a bit of an old faithful, the 690 is the last hurrah for this setup.

Cool nings, where did you get your 690 from?

Here's my 3d mark so you can see how much a newer CPU effects the 690. Haven't done any serious overclocking on this rig still though.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4798641

690,waterblock and backing plate come from frozen cpu,about the same price as just a 690 on its own here.
New cpu, mobo, ram would be nice, I think I'd go 6 core but I just bought a new car so I'll be holding off on that until prices come down a bit.
Nice score bro.

Pretty good price wise considering how overpriced they are in aus. I was waiting for frozen cpu to come back into stock ages ago but they took too long so I got one from the states on ebay. How do you find the backing plate? Does it make it much hotter?

Dunno about hotter just stops the card from putting weight onto the mobo and looks cool.
My temps don't go over 47 under load and if the air cons on (room about 26) not over 40.
How hot under air?

A good match for the 690 would the the 3930k. Unlock CPU + Quad channel DDR + Full 40 lanes of PCI-E. (Suppose 40 lanes isn't an issue unless you were planning Quad-SLI in the future). Early this coming year they are expected to release an Ivy-Bridge-E, running off either the X78 or something very similar. This will result in an Ivy-Bridge as powerful as the 3930k, but with full PCI-E 3.0 support, doubling your lane bandwidth.

Got my 680's about $250 EACH cheaper than what's available in Aus. Could buy a 690 just in the money I saved by purchasing overseas.

The backplate was supposed to help spread the heat from the memory chips on that side of the card, as well as look cool. The heat was going to be there, backplate or not, best to retain it unless there was a very good reason not to.

Aw yeah, I can't even fit a backplate into my rig.. But yeah, I haven't run any temp monitors nings so I wouldn't be able to answer haha.

I find that with the 600 series the temps increase from overclocking is almost nonexistent.

Probably cause you can't up the volts past like 1.113 or whatever the limit is. Volts generate far more heat than clocks in my experience. It is of my opinion that the 6xx series was severely underclocked and undervolted. Gives them an easy run selling the 7xx which is supposed to be same arch, higher clocks.

Volt unlocked cards like the Classy running 1.3 volts+ get damn hot.

You know what.. I wonder if anyone is going to design an 'all in one' GPU water cooler in the same way that CPU coolers (kuhler etc) are these day.

There already is a few of them on the market.

http://www.custompcreview.com/reviews/a ... iew/13942/

Well there you go.

Sorry about the delay guys, updated

Hi, I finally decided to upgrade my rig.

Heres what I got:

Score: P9317

i5 3570k @ 4.5 Ghz

Asus Gtx680 @1006 Mhz/1058 Mhz Boost clock. Stock

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5505413

Very nice, adds 3000 to your last score, I'm pretty sure that means your games will now run better, I told you xeper was full of ****.

This.