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I'm on the fence about a prospect that was reveled to me earlier. I recently acquired a HD7950 that was NOT a good overclocked. Quite a piss poor one actually. I cannot get over 950 even with a voltage bump. I have someone that is willing to trade his Nvidia branded GTX670 for my HD7950. I'm wanting to slap a water-block on it, but with Nvidia and all of their "no overclock for you" BS, is it even worth slapping on a WB? Will it push the "auto overclock" more? I am gaming on a 2560x1440 display.
Thanks!
Dunno where you get the idea that nV isn't letting us OC our 670's ... they're very easily overclocked, actually
I'm not sure about the pure reference 670's, but if I flash it w/a custom 'unlocked voltage' bios my card will over-volt from 1.175V to 1.121V ... not a huge jump but it'll let me get up another 30MHz or so. I'd imagine there's custom bioses for reference cards around as well that will allow a similar bump. You may want to check out out the thread that's been going on here on the nV forum concerning unlocked bioses, see if there's any available for reference cards
If you were going to go with WC I'd prepare yourself to find that it's main advantage is going to come in the noise department. Reference 670's have fairly craptastic/loud coolers, and I'd imagine that problem would be exacerbated by using 1.121V ... so there would be 'a benefit' there ... but I wouldn't expect that you're going to see a hugely increased ability to OC via WC on that card. These card's OC'ing ability mostly comes down to the 'silicon lottery' is the truth of the matter.
Bottom-line I dunno how 'worth it' WC would be from a strict bang-for-buck perspective, but then again, WC never really is all that great in that regard.
