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- neema_t
Hi guys,
So I'm upgrading my GTX 580 to a 680 so I can play some racing sims in triple monitor mode.
The card is completely standard (though overclocked from the reference card), it was brand new when I bought it in November 2011 and has been nowhere but the antistatic bag it arrived in and my PC, which has dust filters on all three inlet fans. It runs just about anything you care to mention at either maxed or very high settings extremely well when paired to an i5 2500K and 8GB RAM.
It has never seen temperatures exceeding 75*C, and spends most of it's time at 69*C playing BF3 on Auto settings, which sits between High and Ultra. It can run on Ultra at a decent frame rate, but I intentionally refrain from doing so to avoid stressing the hardware and also to ensure the frame rate never drops below 60fps, which it doesn't, ever, no matter what is going on in the game. In fact I can tell you for certain that BF3 is the most demanding game I've played on it, and I've played online for 104 hours since it came out. Considering I played the first 35 hours on my old 4870, you should have an idea of the condition the card is in.
I'm looking for £275 (excluding postage), but I'm open to offers. This card has never even approached it's limits and has been sitting in as close to a dust-free PC as you can get for just 6 months. I still have all the bits it came with, too. Please don't hesitate to ask if you want me to test any games with it, I will happily oblige if I have them, but I've never, ever had any issues with any game. If you google the card you may find people saying that Crysis caused some trouble, but my card must have newer firmware because I've played 4 hours of Crysis with no crashes, frame rate issues or anything out of the ordinary.
Cheers guys!
So I'm upgrading my GTX 580 to a 680 so I can play some racing sims in triple monitor mode.
The card is completely standard (though overclocked from the reference card), it was brand new when I bought it in November 2011 and has been nowhere but the antistatic bag it arrived in and my PC, which has dust filters on all three inlet fans. It runs just about anything you care to mention at either maxed or very high settings extremely well when paired to an i5 2500K and 8GB RAM.
It has never seen temperatures exceeding 75*C, and spends most of it's time at 69*C playing BF3 on Auto settings, which sits between High and Ultra. It can run on Ultra at a decent frame rate, but I intentionally refrain from doing so to avoid stressing the hardware and also to ensure the frame rate never drops below 60fps, which it doesn't, ever, no matter what is going on in the game. In fact I can tell you for certain that BF3 is the most demanding game I've played on it, and I've played online for 104 hours since it came out. Considering I played the first 35 hours on my old 4870, you should have an idea of the condition the card is in.
I'm looking for £275 (excluding postage), but I'm open to offers. This card has never even approached it's limits and has been sitting in as close to a dust-free PC as you can get for just 6 months. I still have all the bits it came with, too. Please don't hesitate to ask if you want me to test any games with it, I will happily oblige if I have them, but I've never, ever had any issues with any game. If you google the card you may find people saying that Crysis caused some trouble, but my card must have newer firmware because I've played 4 hours of Crysis with no crashes, frame rate issues or anything out of the ordinary.
Cheers guys!
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