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Old June 28, 2012, 01:40 PM
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Geez, that's huge for a single GPU card.
My 8800GT was the last single slot card I owned. It would be pretty cool to see a picture with both of those cards side by side.
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Old June 28, 2012, 02:02 PM
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You mentioned that you gave it a "voltage bump" of 100mV. You understand that 1175 is the max limit of all GTX 680 cards right? It cannot pass 1175 no matter what, period, on any 680 card without seriously modding them - asus does provide solder points to do it at your own risk but it voids your warranty. Any voltage settings in gpu tweak affect vDroop only and not maximum voltage.

Semantics I guess, but anyway the only way to change max voltage is to hard mod the card with soldering.
True. I have yet to see any card that will go above 1175mV but supposedly the new Lightning can accomplish this.
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Old June 28, 2012, 06:51 PM
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Finally, had time to read through a HWC review. Plus, this one caught my eye. Well done SKYMTL.

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What a review and what a card. Whoever got the review card from the BST I hope you enjoy it.
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They are a great GTX-680 if you plan on running just one card because they are hughe,they take up 3 slots ,I have the ASUS DirectCU II GTX-670 and they are just two slots ,make it easier to run SLI.
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My 8800GT was the last single slot card I owned. It would be pretty cool to see a picture with both of those cards side by side.
My last single slot was a GeForce 440MX ;)
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so is it worth it to hook up the vga hotwire if you have a rog motherboard? how much further can you actually take it (safely for 24/7)?
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