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May 18th, 2012

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW With a Power Limit of 145%

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW With a Power Limit of 145% geforce gtx 670
It took EVGA one week to find faulty cards, acknowledge a problem, and deal with it by sending a new shiny FTW cards as a replacement.

As we reported earlier, EVGA had some problems with GTX 670 SC cards, which weren’t tested properly. But company has taken good care of those who received faulty cards by offering them a new FTW version instead. They didn’t even have to send them first (they got a replacement cards before sending Superclocked versions). So you may call it a true customer service.

But as for the card, which was not reviewed so far. EVGA GTX FTW version is based on GTX 680 PCB, which has much better cooling and components than reference GTX 670. As an example, it offers 30% more effective cooling, more solid caps and higher Power Target headroom. So this card offers over-voltage up to 145%, and as Jacob Freeman (EVGA) claims, it can safely be set to that voltage level. As a comparison, other GTX 670 cards offer only up to 125% power limit:

  • Gigabyte GTX 670 OC – 111%
  • KFA2 GTX 670 OC – 125%
  • EVGA GTX 670 SC – 122%

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW version comes with a base clock of 1006 MHz and boost clock of 1084 MHz. Card has overclocked memory to effective 6208 MHz.

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  • Tim

    It’s between this card and the ASUS GTX670 Direct CU II TOP…which received a perfect score from Techpowerup..

    http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_670_Direct_Cu_II/33.html 

    Any thoughts?

  • http://videocardz.com/ VideoCardz.com

    Hard to chose. Tech reviews usually give almost maximum scores to the cards (if not, they wouldn’t receive new cards for tests).
    Problem is that there are no benchmarks of FTW card yet, so we cannot judge which would be a better solution. Of course I mean overclocking capabilities. ASUS has a very high margin for overclocking (judging from reviews). FTW has higher power limit, but less powerful cooling.

  • Redspeed93

    I’m going to buy the ASUS the 23rd this month when it becomes available where I live, no doubt. The cooler is way, way, waaaay better than the EVGA stock one, and much quieter.

  • Tim

    Where did you get the the 23rd from? and where are you buying it?

  • Redspeed93

    Caseking.de has that date as an expected date, but I wrote to the support and they said ASUS confirmed this, so it seems quite possible that the 23rd will be the date.