I was wondering whats the best(not massively more than the standard card)version of the 660ti and 670, ive heard good views on the MSI cards.
Also i want to play games on HD 1080P whilst recording video's, will the 660ti be good enough for 50fps plus on Most games while recording
yea the msi twin frozrs are the best because of unlocked voltages, and their lovely afterburner overclocking software, i myself went for the evga card though with 4gb of vram so i could have better texture, and more monitors on those large mooded games like skyrim
The EVGA 670 has almost the same performance as the reference 680
Guys, this just in. MSI caught cheating by overvolting their GTX 660ti PE and GTX 670 PE way above engineering specs. I suggest not to buy any of MSI's products at least untill this rumor clear up.
source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/MSI-GTX-660-670-overvolting-PowerEdition,18013.html
on second tought, if you're planning on buying one. buy one asap before MSI remove the overvoltage feature in order to meet nvidia's demand. it turns out that nvidia has been strictly limiting the voltage to reduce rma.
it seems like evga suffers the same with their gtx680 classified
I have a Gigabyte windforce GTX 670. It's the same price as the reference ($400 when I bought it a month and a half ago), but comes with a non-reference cooling solution. As far as being faster than reference, it is slightly because it comes overclocked from the factory, and even outperformed the reference 680 on one game (I don't remember which one it was anymore), and was within 5 FPS of the reference 680 on most games. Every game I have runs maxed at 60 FPS (Idk about borderlands 2, I haven't monitored the FPS with that game, but it is smooth). And even under full load, this card is extremely quiet, dispite having 3 fans.
As far as temperature goes, this has 3 fans that are a tad larger than the reference. I have personally never seen this card go over 60C, and that was in a room with poor A/C on a very hot day. This card is always nice and chilly (As i'm typing this it is about 27C, but it is idling), and in a decently cooled room, never goes over 55 during a stresstest.
However, Overclocking is a bit weird. the stock clock, is 980base and 1058boost. I can over clock it to 1042base and 1120boost before it becomes unstable. From what I've read, my card is one of the worst for overclocking, but most cards of this model can do about 1200boost. The effective memory clock is 6008MHz (which is reference), but I have it overclocked to 7008MHz, and it doesn't give a shit.
That said, I couldn't tell you if it is better than other 670s out there, but I have this one, and I love it to death.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423
How about this 670?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121638
Comparing the EVGA 670 FTW to the ASUS DC2.
both are 2gb.
I would be overclocking either. the extra 10 bucks for the lower temps on the asus card looks nice, but precision X is also available for the ftw card.