Nvidia 670 or 6xx owners, I have a few questions

[shadewalker]

I have an evga 670 4GB. I have had it about 2 weeks and I have had one driver crash in that time. Maybe a total of 12 hours of play time. I restarted all my clients and they worked fine after the crash.

Edit: using DX11

[Rhand]

Both my wife and I run the 670 4Gb cards and have no crash issues to speak of, we sometimes see a flicker in refresh or screen repaint but nothing worth trying to troubleshoot.

[Ualaa]

I've got the eVGA GTX 670, 4GB Superclocked.
I have had no issues with it, with both DX9 and DX11 (3 of my 5 clients were DX11 by mistake... MoP changed their settings on me, until I set them all to DX9)...

I've played with 3x DX11 & 2x DX9 on Ultra, without issues.
But want lower settings, so I can 10-box without changing settings that much.

You can easily change graphic settings on the fly with IS Boxer.
Create a mapped key, call it 'Settings High'.
And another called 'Settings Low'.
Edit your swap key to Do Mapped Key > Settings High > Current Window -and- Do Mapped Key > Settings Low > Window: All without Current.

The more drastic the changes are between the two, the longer your swap is going to take.
The fewer settings that change, and the less the amount of the change, the faster your swap is going to be.

I generally want maximum view distance on objects and players.
And medium settings on almost everything else.
With minimal settings on Shadows, Water, Reflections, Spell Effects... just enough to notice puddles of goo to not stand in, or to see a Frost Ring etc.

[moosejaw]

I've got the eVGA GTX 670, 4GB Superclocked.
I have had no issues with it, with both DX9 and DX11 (3 of my 5 clients were DX11 by mistake... MoP changed their settings on me, until I set them all to DX9)...

I've played with 3x DX11 & 2x DX9 on Ultra, without issues.
But want lower settings, so I can 10-box without changing settings that much.

You can easily change graphic settings on the fly with IS Boxer.
Create a mapped key, call it 'Settings High'.
And another called 'Settings Low'.
Edit your swap key to Do Mapped Key > Settings High > Current Window -and- Do Mapped Key > Settings Low > Window: All without Current.

The more drastic the changes are between the two, the longer your swap is going to take.
The fewer settings that change, and the less the amount of the change, the faster your swap is going to be.

I generally want maximum view distance on objects and players.
And medium settings on almost everything else.
With minimal settings on Shadows, Water, Reflections, Spell Effects... just enough to notice puddles of goo to not stand in, or to see a Frost Ring etc.

I already use the high/low graphics toggle using Lax's default values. I set dx11 on my 6970 2gb tonight with the standard graphic toggle and I was peaking at ~1.9 gb vram at the horde hub in the vail.

Currently my swap speed is fine but objects are sometimes taking a while to fill in. You can see the giant trees on the islands but not the islands, they will load up when they feel like it. Not really sure what the problem is but I am concerned about the health of the card if I continue to abuse it (artifacts even with low card temps).

I am happy to see positive reports from folks that (I know) take care of their hardware, compared to the complainers on the wow tech forums. This was the reassurance I was looking for.

[Ñightsham]

690 here, no issues

[HPAVC]

I have Dual EVGA 04G-P4-2686-KR GeForce GTX 680, DX11 and no issues.

[moosejaw]

Installed the new video card (GTX 670 ftw) last night before work. Used the current beta (310.70) and played for about an hour. Very stable, cool and lower vram usage for the same settings (amd 6970). Newegg lowered the price $10 today ;( but I can deal with it.

This card uses the full pcb from a GTX 680 with a stacked power connector and a full length back plate. They also use the 680 reference cooling solution.

Switching leaders with the graphics macro resulted in immediate full screen/far clip objects being drawn vs the 6970 being somewhat slow to fill in objects and terrain. Much more head room on gpu usage and no stuttering or funny business at all. Three thumbs up.

I can't wait to try out the new games (Assassins Creed III, Borderlands 2) and really push the settings.

Thanks for everyone's input/response in this thread.