GTX 670, which brand???

hello,
after reading many forums and reviews. Depsues hesitating between 650-660-660ti-670. I'd go with the GTX 670, it also has the option of 3D rendering. I will work with 3D in AE, but render time, This will go faster. It depends on the price difference 660TI with the 670 is around 40-50 €. I hope that I will pay extra worth.
Which brand is the best option?
PC:
3930k
Asus P9x79 Pro-Deluxe-Ws- Rampage IV extreme ( still do not know)
32GB
650W
Sorry for my english.
Stefan
Thanks

With that PSU, you don't have many choices. Only the GTX 650 may work somewhat and that is already putting a heavy burden on the PSU, all the rest take too muuch power, or you need to get a much better PSU (850W gold+ label), which would be my approach and then opt for the GTX 670/4G.

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Looks like Nvidia has given MSI a bashing for allowing voltage adjustments with these cards.
Disappointing as the actual box states:
Quote from: mikeo, OcUK Forums
Yet another new version just released:
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http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=364858
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Looks like Nvidia is continuing to put the pressure on to prevent any sort of meaningful voltage adjustment.

Quote from: flobelix on 22-September-12, 02:52:20
Sadly Nvidia really dictated this cut down. MSI had to follow. I keep on using 2.2.3 which keeps everything as it should. Poor 660ti users have no choice as only 2.2.4 supports this model. Right now there is no workaround for that gpu.
It's a shame really, I already have a GTX 670 that does 1340/7406, but on Thursday I decided to buy the MSI GTX 670 OC PE, having read this:
Quote from: HardwareCanucks - MSI GTX 670 Power Edition OC Review
MSI’s cards have continually impressed us with their willingness to overclock to impressive levels. With a bit of coaxing via MSI’s AfterBurner software to maximize the Power Limit and add 100mV to the core and memory voltage (PLL was also increased by 50mV) the GPU hit an impressive 1388MHz while the memory petered out at 6524MHz. Both of those clock speeds are personal bests but we have a feeling like there’s more in the tank should MSI decide to release a GTX 670 Lightning.
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Source
I got my MSI GTX 670 OC PE on Friday, will see what it can do tomorrow, even at factory clocks it should be on par with a reference GTX 680, I only game at 1920x1200 anyway, so it will be great.

GTX 670 Power Edition gives no video signal

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Quote from: Svet on 16-November-12, 06:48:32
then you should contact mainboard vendor about it as problem is not in the VGA.
I had given what I thought was sufficient information about the PC spec in my first post. Both what I started with and what I'd changed. But I'll give the full spec here:
Motherboard: GA-X58A-UD3R Rev 2.0
CPU: Intel I-7 950 3.06 GHz
Memory: 3x4GB Crucial DDR3 PC3-10600 • CL=9 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1333 • 1.5V • 512Meg x 64
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PSU: Coolermaster RS-850-SPHA-D3 80+ Gold - 3.3V:22A, 5V:25A, 12V:70A single 12V rail
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I then added an NVidia Quadro card alongside the 670 and booted the system with this as the display GPU. This gave me a video signal at all times and more importantly allowed me to get into Windows and check if it recognised the 670 in Device manager. It did but reported a problem as, until now, I hadn't been able to load the 670 driver. I did this and rebooted - again no video signal during post and initial Windows boot but I did get video as soon as the newly installed driver was loaded. This is the state I'm in now other than I've flashed the vbios as suggested and the GPU no longer works on my other PC.
Note, I can happily remove the Quadro and boot the system with just the 670, except I don't get any video signal until Windows has loaded the 670 driver - the monitor light stays stubbornly orange till that point. After that, everything seems to be fine - I don't get the reboots that this problem started with. The only other clue I have is with my original spec I always had a problem from shortly after building it where I would need to power cycle the system most times as I could not wake it from hibernate mode.
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Hello.
Today I've got a question about the MSI GTX 670 Power Edition OC graphics card.
I'm about to buy this card but I've found that there are two version of it: MSI GTX 670 PE/OC and MSI GTX 670 PE/OC G ( notice a "G" at the end ).
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Greetz, `NX.

Quote from: `NX on 10-February-13, 23:06:14
I mean, I was wondering if going with Radeon 7970 wouldn't be a better idea
But I'm not sure of Radeons.
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I have started getting errors "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." This happens when playing World of Warcraft, and I have also been able to recreate it using the Heaven Benchmark.
I have taken these steps
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Thought I would do a summary so you dont have to read the whole post.
My MSI GTX 670 started getting the following error:
Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.
This occurred when playing WOW and in the Heaven Benchmark.
Per your recommendations, I have done the following with no success
I uninstalled the display driver using DDU in safemode, and reinstalled the recommend driver.
I moved the board to another machine, the heaven benchmark had the same problem.
Put my GTX 560Ti in my main computer, no issues
RMAed the board
Received a returned board from MSI with a different serial number
Put it in my computer and had the same error using the Heaven Benchmark
provided the s/n and vbios of the new board
s/n 602-V284-030B1302117626
BIOS version
80.4.92.0.9
Ran Prime95 on my computer for 7 hours in blended mode and 12 hours in low FFT mode, no issues
Moved the new board to the other computer, problem occurred
Just trying to figure out what to do next

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Hi. I posted my problem on the nvidia forums and they suggested I RMA my graphics card and get it replaced... I thought I would post it here to see if anyone could help me...
This issue has started about a few days ago and it has been bugging me because I can't play any pc games for longer than about a minute. Anyway, so the problem is, after about 10 seconds of playing any pc game(I'm using the game minecraft as an example) my computer COMPLETELY freezes and blue squares appear. There is nothing I can do other than switch off the power. Even my mouse pointer freezes. I don't think it's an 'overheating' problem because I let it cool down for 24 hours and the problem persists.
I took a picture with my iphone to show
As you can see, the blue squares appear and EVERYTHING is frozen... Even if i'm not playing a game, sometimes on occasions my screen goes black and comes back and says "display driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered". But the main issue is that I can't play games or even watch youtube videos for longer than 10 seconds...
I have a MSI GTX 670 and I have the 306.97 driver.
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I don't have another computer to test it in..
then you can RMA it and if the problem is not in the card the problem will persist.

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