GTX 670 core clock question [Archive]

Bags

2012-05-22, 01:15 AM

Hey, mine is supposed to be 965/1045, but in MSI afterburner it says the core clock is 705 idling and during gaming.

Wassup with that?

Goku

2012-05-22, 08:51 AM

Try running 3DMark in windowed mode and checking that. I'm assuming you are tabbing out of the game and that is causing it to possibly revert back to a idle state.

Bags

2012-05-22, 01:24 PM

Doing that, but I haven't been alt tabbing; I ran msi afterburner on my other monitor during BF3.

Bags

2012-05-22, 01:37 PM

It stayed at 706 the entire time.

Goku

2012-05-22, 03:57 PM

I honestly do not know the issue. Get a hold of MSI support and see what they have to say. Make sure you have the latest drivers, windows update, and so on also.

Bags

2012-05-22, 04:22 PM

Yeah, I have the newest drivers. Will contact msi.

Ailos

2012-05-22, 04:38 PM

That kind of a drop is beyond what their turbocore/turboboost/whatever the kepler auto-clocking utility has the power to do. That's... warranty-recall worthy.

Bags

2012-05-22, 05:30 PM

Well, gonna see what tech support has to say.

Is there another program to show what clock speeds my card is at? Maybe afterburner is buggy.

Goku

2012-05-22, 06:49 PM

EVGA Precision is one people are making use of a lot for the 600 series.

Ailos

2012-05-22, 07:08 PM

GPU-Z might also be helpful (http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/)

Bags

2012-05-22, 07:24 PM

Okay, I updated afterburner and ran gpuz, both of them are showing a correct speed of 967.

Goku

2012-05-22, 07:24 PM

I was also assuming you had the latest version of Afterburner...lol

Bags

2012-05-22, 07:37 PM

I thought I did too, I have it set to automatically download new updates. Underload my core clock was getting up to 1123mhz.

Goku

2012-05-22, 08:47 PM

Pretty good.

Bags

2012-05-22, 10:15 PM

Yeah. Hits 80C and sits there. Fan doesn't go above 40% in games. In 3Dmark it started making a quiet grinding noise, but it wasn't audible over my headset.

Getting ~80FPS with BF3 maxed @ 1080p, and a straight 60 with Vsync on. Me gusta.

Bring on Planetside 2!

termhn

2012-05-23, 12:55 AM

What's your processor? My results are pretty much the same but my clock gets to 1180ish under load ;)

Bags

2012-05-23, 10:00 AM

2500k, stock at the moment, haven't found a reason to OC it yet.

termhn

2012-05-23, 10:44 AM

Wow we have almost the same build :P I've got a 3570k at stock :)

Bags

2012-05-23, 03:46 PM

Ahh, I'll live without the 60 mhz. Destroys every game I play besides skyrim, but I have like 30 mods that change graphics so I'm sure it's my fault and not the card's fault.

Hoping it destroys ps2 also!

Bags

2012-05-24, 02:40 AM

Mine hit 1162mhz under load earlier today. Close enough to your 1180 :P