am still testing BF3 atm. before bios update i got 35-50 fps on ultra setting fov 90 1920*1080@60mhz in a 64 player Caspian boarder. GTX 670 FTW, Amd Phenom II X4 840 3.5 ghz, 8 Gigs of ram,

eh, is this gonna stabilize my boost speeds on the FTW? out of the box boost speeds keeping going up and down. also notice if the card pulls like 1.175 volts in oc scanner tests fps drops by like 50(500ish) if volts 1.150 or lower the fps goes up by 50 (560 ish). in those tests and that is with a lower clock boost  the higher clock boost with higher volt has lower fps. Meanwhile the Lower boost with lower volts is getting higher fps. generally in games when boost goes off it using 1.175volt and boost speed are just all over the place.
 
  Basically is this gona make my cards boost. Pick one number and use it instead of it being all over the place.
This is all stock out of the box 670 ftw.. I dont OC anything  Meaing Base clocks are 1006mhz  and boost will be 1150 instead of boost being 1080 or 1125 or 1050 etc. If it picked on boost number and use that speed all the time and same volt all the time I would not mind, but this why i dont like boost
 
Btw this card sure as hell dont stay under 70c under full 99%power load and 99% gpu load not under it own auto fan or the auto in precession x. and anything over 55% fan sound like jet engine turbine. Thought about getting AC twin turbo II to put on this but, I not sure if I keeping the card. I might just get 660ti if the price is right.

Well I update and seem to have no issue tho my normal boost which is 1150 still seem to use 1.175 volts and according to evga oc scanner stress test.
 
1125~1150mhz Boost +1.175v= 500fps
 
if it use a boost slightly low then 1100mhz it windup using 1.125 ~1.150volts which in turn give me 560 fps...
 
Isnt boost supposed to give better performance not other way around? I still think boost should have static extra mhz that is used so 1006mhz when boost isnt used and 1150 when it is used not this dynamic up and down clock. it cant help studdering that for sure
 
No game I tried keeps 1150 boost speed, it always constently going from 1006 to 1150 and between. maybe cause I use vsync I dont know.

feniks

core clock often gets stuck around 914MHz ... and often won't downclock resulting in idle gpu temps around 43C as opposed to 27C (with core downclocked properly to 302Mhz) ...

a few people experiencing the same issue on different drivers:
http://forums.evga.com...72&mpage=1#1707556

for me also it won't boost in certain games (e.g. in Fallout New vegas) and clock will stay at 914MHz, perhaps it doesn't need to in order to achieve 60FPS, probably, but still I don't recall such behavior before the GPU BIOS update ... and not to mention the aggressive core downclocking aka power throttling (to maintain proper TDP) under heavy load ("stability improvements") loosing over 100MHz sometimes during benchmarking ...


seriously, I want the original BIOS to go back to.

I have no problems now.  So I think i am going to wait this one out!!!!   I would hate to lose the oc'ing ability.

I love new bios I play diablo 3 my temps use to hit 68c on my evga vanilla gtx 670 now my temps barely hit 60 c finally seeing some good temps for once thank you evga your the best ✌😃🍺

I'm slightly confused here. I have the FTW. I don't have a dell and I don't overclock. My temps are stable at 67-68 under load and I'm not having any stability issues. Is there any benefit to me updating here?

Borss

I'm slightly confused here. I have the FTW. I don't have a dell and I don't overclock. My temps are stable at 67-68 under load and I'm not having any stability issues. Is there any benefit to me updating here?

I'm in the same situation.  Decided that if it isn't broken... don't fix it.
Not going to update.

Went ahead and flashed, hoping this will fix it but I'm not keeping my hopes up

FOR THOSE WITH THE DELL XPS 8300. I can now confirm that the EVGA 670 GTX FTW does work with the bios update. History = have two Dell XPS 8300 i7, bought 2 MSI 670 GTX/OC. MSI refuses to provide a bios update so yesterday I purchased two EVGA 670 FTW from newegg and just got done updating both cards bios (both cards came with old bios) in a old computer and moved them to the 8300's. Both are working good so far in the Dell XPS 8300, so thank you EVGA for listening to your customers and providing this update.

I was about to update the bios of my reference 670 but after reading about all the seemingly performance loses and throttling I'm going to hold off until someone from EVGA explains what's going on.

Dierock 

I have the gtx 670 superclocked 2gb, I have to update the firmware? which use? Thank you.

 
Obviously you should use "v80.04.31 02G-P4-2672-KR - EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked"" under "EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2GB:".
Or don't flash at all. Some ppl here seem to get problems.
 
I backed up my original BIOS first and are now trying the new one. No issues so far. About the same 3DMark 11 score and same temps. My card is running quite hot at 79-80C, but I'm using a HTPC-case and have a ambient temp of 27-29C. Toasty! I have reseated the cooler twice (just to make sure I got it right) with AC MX-2 but the temps are about the same as with stock thermal grease.

I've only seen the down-clock when my cards exceed 141% power usage during OC scanner benchmark. Drop from 1300mhz to 1170mhz at 66C. No other benchmark or game environment does this.  

Btw, Is it safe to update my GTX 670 FTW with this new firmware?
 
Is EVGA even recommending to do this, Jacob?

tsunami231

eh, is this gonna stabilize my boost speeds on the FTW? out of the box boost speeds keeping going up and down. also notice if the card pulls like 1.175 volts in oc scanner tests fps drops by like 50(500ish) if volts 1.150 or lower the fps goes up by 50 (560 ish). in those tests and that is with a lower clock boost  the higher clock boost with higher volt has lower fps. Meanwhile the Lower boost with lower volts is getting higher fps. generally in games when boost goes off it using 1.175volt and boost speed are just all over the place.

Basically is this gona make my cards boost. Pick one number and use it instead of it being all over the place.
This is all stock out of the box 670 ftw.. I dont OC anything  Meaing Base clocks are 1006mhz  and boost will be 1150 instead of boost being 1080 or 1125 or 1050 etc. If it picked on boost number and use that speed all the time and same volt all the time I would not mind, but this why i dont like boost

Btw this card sure as hell dont stay under 70c under full 99%power load and 99% gpu load not under it own auto fan or the auto in precession x. and anything over 55% fan sound like jet engine turbine. Thought about getting AC twin turbo II to put on this but, I not sure if I keeping the card. I might just get 660ti if the price is right.

 
I am right there with you dude. I HATE this boost clock crap, I mean in theory its good ya know. But when even with things set to maximum performance, if its not at a demanding point in a game the clock goes to 1006mhz, then some action hits and BAM fps drops until it has time to boost up to 1150 or whatever random number it decides it needs to go to LOL. I just with there was a way (that worked) that would make my card STAY at make boost during game play. I mean we should have that option you know? 400 bucks says so. 
 
But on another note, unless precision x decides "Hey, lets not load the fan profile while in the middle of BF3..." then my card never exceeds 60c, ever. and mine is set for 10% more fan speed than current temp so at 60c im at 70% fan speed and, to be honest, I can barely here the damn thing dude. there might be something wrong with the fan on your card. even when I manually turn it all the way up. 

I apologize for my former uninformed posts regarding this GPU BIOS update. wanted to return the honors to EVGA for providing this update after all.
 
why? because I have just realized that I cannot pass 3dmark Vantage with 670 oc'ed when running the stock/factory firmware (v19), because it would either RSOD after 15 secs into Scene #1 or would restart my whole system. This improved GPU BIOS (v31) allows me to successfully pass Vantage with no issues at same OC clocks.
 
kudos to EVGA for making it available!