Quick Share of the new MSI N670GTX Power Edition 2GD5/OC with Twin Frozr 4

[gzhil]

Glad to be back in the forum and I was been busy for awhile. By this time lots of PC hardware already came out especially from Nvidia. Just like today my share would be MSI's N670GTX PE 2GD5/OC video card.


First of all lets talk about the GTX670 GPU chip. This GPU is the younger sibling of GTX680 which uses the same 28nm GK104 chip but with one disabled shader cluster/core.The reference or standard GPU clock is 915Mhz with a turbo boost of 980 and as for the memory is concerned, it has a 256bit memory bus connected to a 2GB GDDR5 memory with speed of 6008Mhz. Just like with any Kepler based architecture, the card would also have all the goodies like "Adaptive V-Sync", "AA TXAA (Temporal Super Sampling)", supports "DX11.1" and improved 3D Vision Surround.

Moving on, let's check out now what MSI did with their GTX670 SKU based video card. The card is under a new Series named "Power Edition" (series comparison table below) and it comes factory overclocked from GPU clock of 915MHz to 1020MHz and Turbo boost of 980Mhz to 1080Mhz. It also comes with the 4th version of Twin Frozr Thermal Cooling design with a theme color of Black and Blue which matches the color of MSI's midrange to high-end motherboards as well. The dual 8cm PWM fan based cooler are equipped with Propeller Fan Blades which draws air better and now has the so called "Dust Removal Technology", basically as you startup your PC the fan will rotate counter clockwise for 30 seconds clearing the dust from the cooling heatsink. Adding a finishing touch, MSI equipped the video card with their Military Class III components ensuring the best performance, efficiency, higher overclocks and durability.

Additional Box Shots of the N670GTX PE OC




MSI Series Comparison Table

New Power Edition Series which is a notch higher than the basic Twin Frozr Series.



Below are some other basic specs of the card which not been mentioned above.
•CUDA Cores: 1344 Units
•Output: DisplayPort / HDMI / DL-DVI-I / DL-DVI-D
•Total Draw Power: 200W
•Card Dimension: 267x117x38mm
•DirectX: DX 11.1
•OpenGL: 4.2
•PCI Express: 3.0
•SLI: 3-Way Capable
•3D Vision Surround: 3 Output per Single Card
•Pure Video HD: Y
•HDCP: Y
•Minimum Power Requirement: 550W with 38A for the +12V Rail


Actual shot of the Rear Ports


The card is powered up by additional 2x 6Pin power connectors.


Five 8mm thick heatpipes design


In the future, there might be a GTX670 4GB GDDR5 version as you can see the empty spaces between the GPU memory chips



Bundled Accessories included in the package

•1x DVI to VGA Dongle
•2x 4 Pins Molex to 6 Pins VGA Power
•DVD Driver/Utility Disc
•Manual and Quick Guide

Test Sytem and Configuration


Processor: Intel i7 3770K @ Stock Speed / 4.8GHz / 4.849GHz
Cooler: Thermaltake Advanced Frio
Memory: 2x4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133Mhz
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 90GB
Motherboard: Z77A-GD80
Videocard: N670GTX Power Edition 2GB OC
PSU: Antec TPQ 1200
Softwares: Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, MSI Afterburner 2.2.2, Nvidia Forceware 304.48, GPU-Z 0.6.2, CPU-Z 1.60.1.x64, Futurmark Benchmark Softwares, HwBot Heaven DX11


Okey let the benchies begin 1st set of benchies @ stock settings

3dMark06 - 28799


Vantage - P31817


3dMark11 - P9530


[b]Heaven DX11 - 1956.985



2nd Set - Processor @ 4.8GHz while the video card is still running at stock speed
3dMark06 - 35852 From the previous score of 28K it jumped to 35K. This is becuase 3dMark06, relies heavily on the clock frequency of the processor.


Vantage - P34377


3dMark11 - P9861


Heaven DX11 - 1986.539



3rd Set - i7 3770K @ 4.849GHz and the video card GPU clock @ 1070mhz with turbo boost at 1148Mhz and memory clock speed @ 1717MHz (6868Mhz effective rate)

3dmark06 - 36402


Vantage - P36194


3dMark11 - P10263


Heaven DX11 - 2140.223


That's it. I will share another hardware soon

[TheGoat Eater]

Nice - these were done before 2.2.3? - I am to be testing mine as well, though its insanely hot inside and outside making for harsh conditions and really bad idling temps even (ugh) - outside today was 106F and it has been over 100F for way too long now. so I am hoping for a chance to play with mine as well when I know power won't be going out due to my OCing and AC units LOL.