Yeah I was thinking that myself
Even release pricing (which is often higher than normal) is rather good.
Think I will save for a 970 at that price / performance ratio.
And the early reviews do definitely show the lower power and lower temperatures of these cards – which is what I’m looking for! Would be a monster upgrade in performance from my 660ti
Thanks
Thank you everyone for posting!
I managed to rescue my 660ti (took out my broken card and set the onboard graphics card as default in motherboard bios – then powered down and plugged in broken card while still plugged into onboard graphics – windows booted and managed to get original bios back on – phew!)
After getting my 660ti working again I decided to spend several hours trying settings in GW2 to see if they helped lower my temperatures any.
I found that the settings that affected my temperatures the most were
Best Texture Filtering
Reflections
I have now disabled Best Texture Filtering (and forced 4x Anisotropic Filtering on the Nvidia control panel)
I have lowered reflections from All to Terrian and Sky
I changed anti aliasing from FXAA to none (and have switched to using injectSMAA v1.2 for AA)
My temps are now floating around 60-64 at busy times (which is loads better than the 78-82 I was seeing before hand)
Still think in the long run I might save for a better card – but for now I am happy with the lower temperatures.
Thank you everyone for the information!
I was running an MSI 660TI Twin Frozer card but it was running a bit warm (80 degrees) and was rather loud.
I tried updating the bios on it using MSI updater (hoping the update might help) – which seems to have now killed the card
So I am running on my old MSI 560ti card at present and looking at purchasing a new GPU.
Can anyone recommend a card that will run
1680×1050
Constant 60 FPS most of the time (vsync on)
Has most settings on high
Can run with AA on
Any recommendations on a card that can do all that without taxing the card to much – so that it is quiet.
CPU is 3570k
Thanks