Will a reference card overheat?

[Tobias Radford-Taylor]

I have a GTX 670 and was looking at overclocking. My card has a reference cooler and reference pcb. I heard that reference coolers are pretty bad for overclocking.

 

[manofchalk]

Its called reference for a reason, it will run fine at stock clocks, but you will get limited overclockability out of it due to temps and noise.
Try overclocking it and see how it goes, as long as the card isn't consistently hitting above 70°C I think your fine.

 

[Tobias Radford-Taylor]

Its called reference for a reason, it will run fine at stock clocks, but you will get limited overclockability out of it due to temps and noise.
Try overclocking it and see how it goes, as long as the card isn't consistently hitting above 70°C I think your fine.

So if noise isn't a problem with me, is it a case of if I was really desperate to overclock then only do it it a little? Or is there no point?

 

[manofchalk]

You can overclock the thing all you want, its just a matter of whether it stays within your personal threshold for temperature and noise.