3 GTX 670 cards.

[elheriel]

I've been spending money like crazy on my various builds this week, so I figured I might as well drop some additional money to get something good for my main rig.

I'm looking at PCpartpicker right now (Canada, so it's CAD $ here) and I'm looking at 3 different GTX 670's : EVGA's reference model for 380$, Gigabyte's Windforce 3x thing for 400$ and the MSI Power Edition for 420$. I'm lost here.

Is any of these card better than the others considering it's price ?

 

[dj1997]

msi power edition is the best however not the coolest there is minimal gain between any of the three anyway so go for the nicest looking one

 

[dj1997]

msi power edition is the best however not the coolest there is minimal gain between any of the three anyway so go for the nicest looking one

 

[samuelspark]

7970 maybe? When overclocked, it beats the GTX 680 overclocked.

 

[Pinhedd]

Tri-SLI has problems in a lot of games. It's pretty useless outside of e-peen measurement (benchmarking). If you're looking to max your horsepower either get 2 680s or 2 7970s

 

[XXStavrosXX]

I believe that the OP does not want to buy all 3 of them but to choose the best.

As you can see here, http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gtx-670-test-review,review-32475.html , Gigabyte's product has win tomshardware recommended award, however they do not review MSI's product. Power Edition will be stronger as well as more noisy and bulky. Don't know if t worths the extra money, I would probably choose Gigabytes OCed version.

 

[elheriel]

Yeah sorry I figured I wrote this the wrong way, ended up being confusing. I'm not going tri SLI, but rather I'm undecided about which of these 3 cards I will buy. I'm running this on an Asus P8Z77-V Standard, so I'm limited to a single card.

 

[thently]

I'm not going to say its the best but I have the 670 Windforce thing and it is great. Very quiet and the memory on the gigabyte boards seem to OC allot more than others I have got mine up to 7700 mhz and keep it at 7 all the time base clock 1050 boost 1280 it does everything it needs to ... But like everyonce else said they will all perform within prob 5% of each other depending on clock.

Thent

 

[elheriel]

Yeah talking about overclock. I can't say I have much experience with it. I definitely intend to try it with this card but is one of them "easier" to OC than the other ? MSI and GB seem to both have great coolers I guess I'll end up buying one of these two.

 

[samuraimastr]

I'd recommend the Gigabyte's Windforce. As Stavros stated, it is one of TomsHardware's recommended picks, and you will 100% not have to buy an aftermarket cooler for it. Check out the review; it runs very quietly for having three fans, and the cooler you can get it, the more you can overclock. Plus, I think it looks pretty awesome.

 

[thently]

It is nice and overclocking is simple too. I used precision X easy and quick. They all overclock exactly the same way nothing diffrent at all.

Thent

 

[elheriel]

Thanks everyone for the replies. The Gigabyte is ordered and on it's way

Noticed there was a 25$ mail in rebate on it so in the end it's even cheaper than the reference EVGA card.