Gigabyte GTX 670 OC Version *HANDS ON* - Page 63

Not opening it till about 5 minutes after 9am tomorrow. Tempting but a Canadian retailer will have the majority of the cards available for order at 9am. I just want to hold out in case I see a particular card I want and return this one. Although by the looks of things, I might not have to. I simply didn't want to end up without a card.

Anyone know if Newegg will have the GTX 670's available tomorrow or late tonight?

i remember buy my ivy bridge i5 3570k i bought my around 2 am central time so i guess i will be waiting till about that time for 670 to be on newegg

When the i5-3570k was released they did not have them listed as of 1AM central when I checked that day. They did however send an email announcing the availability of the 3570k at 8AM CST (I believe). I suspect they will not update their stock lists until the beginning of their business day. Get on their mailing list now and I promise you will receive a notification as soon as they are listed. Good luck and save one for me! I don't get paid until 3PM and imagine I will just be getting a 580 to hold me over for GK110 if i don't catch a 670. Besides, I'm expecting some MASSIVE rebates starting tomorrow on the 500 series (fingers crossed and holding breath). This is my first build and a new card and monitor are all I have left to buy. NOT wanting to wait much longer this close to being finished. Playing BF3 on a laptop, even my G53, is sub par and I want to do some REAL 1080 ultra gaming.

Has anyone confirmed the 670's TDP? If this thing is really 30W-ish lower than my 460, I don't know if I can wait for GK110...

One of the reasons why I'm getting a GTX 670 is because its performance is better than my GTX 460 SLI which is crazy, and because I realized my SLI setup blocks my new sound card from being installed...FFFFUUUUUUU. But yes, good luck to everyone and I hope each one of you can get a GTX 670!

@AzzaM, thx for the pics bro

Not exactly. A specific clutch of games out there support 'hardware' aka 'gpu' physics calcs via the PhysX API that the Forceware package installs. When you play one of these games (some examples are: Mirrors Edge, Batman AA/AC, Mafia 2, and Alice:Madness Returns), the game can use your nV card to do the physX processing INSTEAD of the CPU. It typically enables much higher 'levels' of physics effects to be chosen in the game options, and then you see extra effects/more complex details in the game.

Now, you can run the physX either on your main rendering card, or on a 'dedicated' card, which is what the other poster was suggesting using your 9800GTX for. Obviously running a dedicated card allows the main card to focus on rendering, so in many cases you'll get higher FPS when running a dedicated physX card, but it depends somewhat on how demanding the game is to begin with.

Many people will say it's not worth it to 'buy' a card for physX and that's usually true, but if you have a suitable card laying around (and a 9800GTX is decent level of card to use for physX), it doesn't hurt to try it. But keep in mind that it ONLY does something when playing one of the games that supports hardware physX. And there's not that many of those.

Here's a pretty good demo video showing the difference in Mafia 2. Helps if you run 1080p and maximize the video. Keep your on eye on the 'shrapnel' effects and how long the chunks of wall that get blown off persist in the game world with PhysX on High. If you tried to run High PhysX on your CPU, that game would run at like 10fps ...

In stock...go get em!

http://www.beachaudio.com/Galaxy-Technology/67nph6dv5zjx-p-554660.html

Yeah, I decided to pull my listing off the 'Bay and hold onto the cards... I realized I'd be tee'd off if I couldn't catch the 670's and my 680's had already sold, haha. Plus they're already in my system and all, so... .

"Over 50 in stock" per that page. Nice.