Is there any way to break the GTX 670 thermal+power limit?

[Gainward]

Hello

So I've been reading few guides about how to overclock the GTX670,
and how the thermal and the power conditions can effect the frequency of the core
as soon as the card goes over 70 degrees it starts to slowdown and that's really annoying
so I've been thinking, is there any way to break this limit? i read earlier a thread talking about this but I cant find it

[Law-II]

Hi

Maybe this - http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=171441

- a workround for this *May be fit a water block - keep the card 30c cooler or there abouts, may help to slow the limit reach time

nb: last time I looked into this was with JrRacinFan who had a GTX 560, the NV Bios had four states of P that control the Power state and Throttle the latter but had no way of editing these.

atb (all the best)

Law-II

[Ed_1]

Have you tried to make a fan profile to keep it under 70c ?

On my MSI 660ti it is easy to keep it under 60c and still only hit low 50% fan usage .
I use AB but there are many OC apps that have profile fan options .

[Gainward]

actually I was thinking about adding a GPU block to the loop I currently have but I dont know if it's worth it, because even if I solve the temp problem, I still have the power limit ...
I hate this Turbo Boost thing, it was much easier to Overclock my old GTX470 ...

[Gainward]

Originally Posted by Ed_1

Have you tried to make a fan profile to keep it under 70c ?

On my MSI 660ti it is easy to keep it under 60c and still only hit low 50% fan usage .
I use AB but there are many OC apps that have profile fan options .

I think the air flow in my case is a bit crappy, gonna try to get better fans

[W1zzard]

_any_ way, yes. something that you can do without messing around with a soldering iron on your card, no.

i wouldnt worry much about it unless you are a hardcore overclocker, those few % extra performance are probably not worth it

[Ed_1]

Originally Posted by W1zzard

_any_ way, yes. something that you can do without messing around with a soldering iron on your card, no.

i wouldnt worry much about it unless you are a hardcore overclocker, those few % extra performance are probably not worth it

right, OC the GPU at least Nvidia 6xx is not going to get ya a whole bunch of improvement (something like 5 -10% ) and that is if your lucky to get close to 1250-1300 range .

But you should have no problem keeping temps below 70c , if your case has side opening for fan that is place to get some air in .
Also I found if I go to cool (below 60c , w/o raising the clocks it downclocks the default by 13mhz , so to cool it seems to down clock too, of curse you can raise it but just make sure no app go over the 60c mark or clocks will change . not sure if 670, 680 does same but I bet it does too .