gizmoman`

This card is HUGE  

Finally got my system up and running now to install some games 

Khalus

tarantadu

That GPU is wide lol. Very badass looking.

Questions:

1. Does anyone know if EVGA is planning on making a backplate for this one?

2. Is there a way to turn of the light on the card?

Thanks in advance!

Jacob said July for back-plates, and thus far no way to turn off those lights yet.  Nothing a small strip of electrical tape can't fix though.

Khalus

My latest benchmark test, was able to take a series of screens at a higher clock and it completed too.  Score unfortunately still on par with my FTW, so yup its definitely broken:

At 1.250V


At 1.275V


At 1.2875V and completed at this setting
  

I tried going as high as 3.0v, then it throttled down to 1084MHz and stayed there for several min, and I couldn't get it to go back up thereafter.  So I tried to reduce the Voltage and it crashed when I dropped one notch below 1.2875V.

A successful benchmark test, but as a few other Classified owners have told me, until I get a fully working GPU and we get an unlocked fan speed {55% is just too low} this is about all I'm going to get for now I'm sure.   One Classified owner has reported getting as high as 1425MHz on air, but then throttled back cause of temps.

USFORCES

Where are the 680 standard results?  :)

Don Karnage
You need water bro or an Arctic heatsink.  

Andrew_K

The thing is, even if you could run the fan up to 100%, would you really want to? Outside of synthetic benchmarking and such, that really isn't real world ideal usage. You're going to just want better cooling.

Khalus

USFORCES

Where are the 680 standard results?  :)

Do you mean stock settings....they're in the OP.

Don Karnage
You need water bro or an Arctic heatsink.  

 

Nah, need a higher fan speed...Classified are locked at 55%.  And even though Kingpin shows his running at 85% he and EVGA are not saying how he did that.

transdogmifier

Andrew_K

The thing is, even if you could run the fan up to 100%, would you really want to? Outside of synthetic benchmarking and such, that really isn't real world ideal usage. You're going to just want better cooling.

I haven't seen an H2O block or a different heatsink and fan for the classy...have you?

Zybane

Khalus

Anyway, one of the primary reasons I buy EVGA is because of their sleek shroud designs, so replacing it with a custom cooler would defeat that primary reasoning.   Plus I'm an air builder. Never wanted to mess with water because of the extra cost and risk, when air for the most part has been working just fine for me for over a decade.

Although I'll admit that many of the water builds I've seen are really neat and thoughts of having one come to mind on occasion but the cost and risk quickly overshadow them...heh

I think the point of most is that a card like the Classified will only really start to shine on water. On air I bet most will still be stuck under 1400 MHz, which isn't a huge boots from some vanilla cards that can do low 1300's.

gutcheck
 The performance is great, but if you buy new cards every six months then it is just not worth it.