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GIGABYTE Outs Corrective BIOS Update for GeForce GTX 670 WindForce 3X OC

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Personally I wouldn't update a gpu bios if I wasn't having an issue and/or the new bios didn't add new features. In this case I definately wouldn't update the bios until Gigabyte come out with something that actually works for all.

Given that you're running yours on a PCI-E 2.0 you probaby wouldn't realise if you had a faulty card.
 
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Than guess what? my problematic GTX670 WF? runs on my 2500K system. It had problems before.
 
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Than guess what? my problematic GTX670 WF? runs on my 2500K system. It had problems before.

Were you having artifacts while in game? And was the card overclocked or stock settings?
 
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Than guess what? my problematic GTX670 WF? runs on my 2500K system. It had problems before.

Then it was running on PCI-E 2.0 and thus was a completely different fault.

Sounds like a complete cluster-f*&^ by Gigabyte. I'd serriously avoid this card till they at least admit they are having issues and promise to fix them either with another bios update or replacing all the faulty ones with new ones that are fixed!
 
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Then it was running on PCI-E 2.0 and thus was a completely different fault.

Sounds like a complete cluster-f*&^ by Gigabyte. I'd serriously avoid this card till they at least admit they are having issues and promise to fix them either with another bios update or replacing all the faulty ones with new ones that are fixed!

It is a shame that a number of people are having issues. But there are plenty of users that have no trouble with their Gigabyte 670 cards, myself included.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423
 
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It is a shame that a number of people are having issues. But there are plenty of users that have no trouble with their Gigabyte 670 cards, myself included.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125423

Indeed, but you too could have a faulty card and not know it. If later, for instance, you decided to upgrade to an Ivy processor but keep your 670 you may well find your 670 crashing constantly while in PCI-E 3.0. I know 2.0 won't bottleneck it but paying this amount of money for a GPU that is (in some part) broken is really disappointing. Some motherboards don't seem to have the option to downgrade to 2.0 either so you might be screwed.

If you're looking for a GTX 670 this is a safer and arguably better one:

ASUS GTX670-DC2-2GD5 GeForce GTX 670 2GB 256-bit G...

If I get the offer of a refund I'm probably going to pick up one myself.
 
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But what if i in close time i buy ivy and z77 and realise that my card is faulty too? Who will rma it when GB is acting.like nothings happen and wont confess this is their fault?
 
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But what if i in close time i buy ivy and z77 and realise that my card is faulty too? Who will rma it when GB is acting.like nothings happen and wont confess this is their fault?

They may just be still investigating and this may be something they can fix with another bios update. It would be nice of them to at least inform the community that they have heard and are investigating though.
 

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Just flashed my cards from f1 to f4. It only just occurred to me after flashing weather I should have disable sli first or not? I used the gigabyte vga@bios software to do them. It seems to have worked fine but wondering if 1 card will only have been done or should both have been done together?

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in msi aferburner the first card bios is showing 80.04.31.00.58
and the second card is showing 80.04.19.00.0f
so I guess only the first card flashed.

Should I revert the first card to the original one or how do I update the second card?

edit:-

I just reverted the first card back to the original bios with the vga@bios program and think I'll leave it at that as I was not having any issues to begin with anyway so I guess if it's not broke, don't fix it :)
Running pci-e 2.0 and has been fine since day one touch wood.
 
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Had a pair in SLi that were dropping out in Furmark and 3DMark11 stress testing.

After the BIOS flash (F10 to F12) with the 304.79 drivers all seems OK.

Thanks for this.
 
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Just flashed my cards from f1 to f4. It only just occurred to me after flashing weather I should have disable sli first or not? I used the gigabyte vga@bios software to do them. It seems to have worked fine but wondering if 1 card will only have been done or should both have been done together?

edit:-

in msi aferburner the first card bios is showing 80.04.31.00.58
and the second card is showing 80.04.19.00.0f
so I guess only the first card flashed.

Should I revert the first card to the original one or how do I update the second card?

edit:-

I just reverted the first card back to the original bios with the vga@bios program and think I'll leave it at that as I was not having any issues to begin with anyway so I guess if it's not broke, don't fix it :)
Running pci-e 2.0 and has been fine since day one touch wood.
You can only flash the first card in SLi.

After that's done swap the cards over and flash the secondary. Really you should do it with just one card in the system at a time.
 

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Thanks for the reply.

As I wasn't having any issues to begin with I think I'll leave them as they are because I don't want to have to take apart my waterloop to flash each of them.
 
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You may be able to unplug the power to the top card, then connect your monitor to the second. This works on older cards and AMDs.
 

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ok will keep that in mind. Thanks.
Think I will leave it as is until I have an issue that might need a bios flash to resolve, until then I won't bother.

Thanks for the info though.
 
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