Direct CU 680

[LardArse]

gpu on this card tops out at 1880 in 3d / memory 1900



not sure why gpuz reads the non turbo clock.

only scales with vcore and temperature, dram voltage doesnt help

[Splave]

oOoooOOoo now this is what ive been waiting for!

[Dumo]

Awesome card Sham

[LardArse]

oOoooOOoo now this is what ive been waiting for!

Why though? A good 7970 can do the same score, or maybe u mean a good CU2 680 core can do better?

[Splave]

good cu2 will fly 1550 was a struggle on reference so...
More so non reference 680 in general will be nice with asus bios support and ln2 overclocker helpfulness

[LardArse]

one thing i love about the nvidia gpus is that the gpus themselves almost never die, sure vrms blow up and all on ref but the gpus themselves are sturdy even when u put 2+v into them
not so with ATis

[Vivi]

if tesselation had to be ON as a rule,

then gtx 680 would be 3dm11 king :<

Great work!

So you are saying mere mortals can reach these clocks on a DirecuII?

[LardArse]

well most importantly i needed to flash a bios to remain always in 3d mode once drivers are loaded so that card doesnt crap out when cold on desktop.

the rest is more convenience i think
force mod strap a 1.40v vid
made 2 switches to bump vcore , pushed vcore up more just for gt3
modified sense to make it vdroop more , gpu felt like it hated any bit of overshoot.
gave excessive pll voltage just to make it a bit more cold tolerant
used dvi 1 just cos it felt to oc best

[K404]

if tesselation had to be ON as a rule,

then gtx 680 would be 3dm11 king :<

Great work!

So you are saying mere mortals can reach these clocks on a DirecuII?

OR...... if nVidia added Tess Disable options

Nice to see Great GTX680 clocks without changing the PWM

[Perica_Barii]

Wow , great card....Nice to see gtx680 in action....

[Splave]

will there be matrix soon after?

[andressergio]

gpu on this card tops out at 1880 in 3d / memory 1900



not sure why gpuz reads the non turbo clock.

only scales with vcore and temperature, dram voltage doesnt help

Jeeze LardArse what cooling are you using

congrats !
Sergio

[Handrox]

bestiality, Can you confirm the cooling used, congratulations!

[LardArse]

i used passive cooling

[Handrox]

i used passive cooling

nice

[Vivi]

he probly modded the fan for 200% speed, no way he can reach 1800 on normal fan

[Splave]

i used passive cooling

impressive, I thought direct die ice cube cooling

[youngpro]

Ah nice Pete, I think alot of us are early waiting to get back on the 680 band wagon, 7970 are great to bench but green team is always fun

[mike]

i used passive cooling

passive LN2 ?

[FernandoBaruk]

put the video...

[crustytheclown]

i get weird -60c coldbug on my card? any solution on this?
also if possible care to share the mods? thanks in advance

[SoF]

i used passive cooling

The same you had on your 4870X2 zombie 4 years ago on cebit I guess?

I prefer nvidia for benching always - AMD cards seem to die like flies very very often...

Got some 7970 DCUII a week ago and not even touched it yet...580 GTX matrix still kickin' AM3 and 05 Sli

[Miravo]

I hope to try it soon

[cowie]

Where does one go for a bios that does not bang in and out of 3d voltage when cold? thats besides the bios fix it needs for cb alltogether at
-40.