7 hours ago, barnz said:

Yeah I do, its only a couple months old. I expect it will be fine at the OC speeds as it was ASUS STRIX factory overclocked card anyway. The factory overclocks are always conservative 

 

My 690 is now 4 years old, and has not missed a beat.

When I bought it , it was the fastest card that money could buy, from memory it was $1200

so I have been very apprehensive about overclocking it.

Had a "play" with some conservative numbers and playing Assetto Corsa last night and got this

 

stock

 

 

small increase, 50 on clock, 200 on memory

 

 

BTW: stock, I was playing for about 30 minutes, second one I only drove a few laps then went back to default settings, cos scared

Edited July 29, 201610 yr by bloodycrashboy

1 hour ago, mightbuyaford said:

Haha scared...She is well within her limits there. 

 

 

so I ran a couple of FurMark tests one default and one with a bit of a tweek  

 

stock

 

 

upping the ante

 

 

 

because there are 2 GPU's does that multiply everything x 2?

ie: 2064 MHz core clock and 7030 MHz memory clock?

No, that's individual core clock, and memory clock is x2 on nvidia cards which has to do with bus width Im fairly sure. Radeons are x4 but have lower clocks per bus..width. 1500mhz = 6000mhz on the radeons 256bit bus...

Without using google at all...that's how I have assumed it works lol.

it all seems like smoke and mirrors to me, half the width but twice the speed, twice th3 with half the speed... because cards from both brands perform quite similarly at a given price point and can go tit for tat depending in whats thrown at them.

had a look at other scores for furmark, still looking for a GTX 1080 score , but found this

 

"4660 points (77 FPS) – ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Strix "

 

So my good old 690 smacks down a 980 even at stock clocks, I'm impressed.

 

 

GTX 690 has 256 bit bus as well

Edited July 29, 201610 yr by bloodycrashboy

you would want longevity out of a 1200 dollar card. Its a beast

yeah barnz, its a lot of coin for me.

Been researching and pricing radiators and pumps, custom loop is going to set me back about $500 (including the GPU waterblock)

Hoping that this will add more life to the beast

its $180 for the waterblock alone, radiators are about 1 hungee, reservoirs 50, pump 1 hungee, fittings and tube take it to 5 hungee

I also am looking at 2 radiators to maximise cooling, and fit in my not so accommodating case

 

 

I'll be doing some serious case mods to make things fit

Edited July 29, 201610 yr by bloodycrashboy

Last components arrived

 

Now I just need to find the time to set it up properly

 

my man! now pics of it setup! chop chop