Interesting that the 670 series has so many firmware updates. Why so many for the 670s and not as many for the  680s?

In an SLI system, do I need to remove a card, apply the update, then swap cards, and apply the second update?  
 
For reference, I have one stock card and one SC card.

iGamer4tv yes your card's BIOS has been updated correctly.

snuddi

Can you update both your cars at once if you have them in SLI?

I have three 670's (vanilla) in SLI.  I didn't remove the bridge.  Just followed the instructions, launched the program and the program prompted me to update each card (three prompts in this case).  Worked great.

awnfulftw

i have the 670 ftw.  

which one should i use ? ftw or ftw le ?

 
 
FTW

hallmark888

How long should this take?
It says Searching for display adapters to update ....
and do nothing afterwards.
I have the FTW 02G-P4-2678-KR and 305.53 driver.

Took less then 20sec for each card I have....
 
The driver you have, isn't that a beta driver that was pulled back? Maybe that is cosing some problems, don't know but might be one explanation.

Jacob, any chance of a similar update for GTX 690?
At least for those people who gave up waiting for GTX 690 HC and purchased an EVGA card and an EVGA waterblock separately and would like to run the same clocks/bios GTX 690 HC does?
Please?

Updated BIOS in my FTW..............all looks OK.
 
Just ran a few sorties & compared before & after PrecisionX charts......noticed that card showed to be much more stable in holding GPU base clock speeds & mem speeds during game play after BIOS update as shown before BIOS update (not enough players/graphical particles firing online at this moment to push card to boost speeds so card held base clocks at 59-60 FPS......GPU temps holding at 46*C......power management in Adaptive & driver/monitor res set at HD 1080P 1920 x 1080 x 32 @ 59 Hz......my 670 FTW performs best at this monitor set up--HP  2710M HD).
 
All is well so far on my end.
 

Will this eliminate the problem with resuming from S3 sleep?

I just answered my question: No, the problem with resuming from S3 sleep still exists.
 
However the bios update happened with no problems.

dredd

How is it improved stability at a specific overclock if it throttles by 150Mhz? I think the term "stable" is incorrectly used to describe that situation.

Here's my thing. If I have cards that get boost clocks around 1243 and after a while when 70c is reached they drop to about 1230Mhz and stick there for the duration of my game and I have zero artifacts, no crashes, or errors at all. What will this do for me? It seems, if feniks is to be believed, that I will lose performance only to gain a lower TDP usage number. Why would I want this? Also, I have never seen my memory clock speed change when I reach a boost clock throttle point.

The other thing is, why does base clock matter? My cards never run at base clock in games. They are always boosting way beyond what the base clock is set to.

 
well, it seems to me your core throttling is related to temperature (thermal throttling), try keeping the cards below 70-72C threshold at all cost all the time and it won't happen (mine doesn't exceed 64C under load so far).
however as you noted, the "stability improvements" were achieved by lowering the actual TDP under load by means of more aggressive power throttling (reduces core speed under load in 13mhz increments until TDP is brought down to "safe" zone) ... so is stability improvement working this way? yes it does, but it sacrifices a little bit of performance at same time too ...
 
mind that each app loads the gpu in a different way, I found the Test #1 of 3Dmark11 to be the most stressful for Keppler and here I could see deepest core power throttling vs actual tdp (while heaven3.0 is like nothing to it and zero power throttling occurs).
 
the 150MHz drop is my bad, I read it wrong from the graph (screenshot is a tad blurry on the black background of graph, minimum value is 1150Mhz), but I will double check it later again in precision itself and mouse over the lowest dip to read the lowest core speed (when most of power throttling occurred). it could have been between 50 and 100Mhz drop though, still quite significant.
 
I am not saying this is bad per se, actually it does help stability, because the card doesn't spike TDP to unsafe/unstable zone anymore under great stress (which could result in a crash), so this is a good thing in this meaning, but at same time the max boost clock is reduced ... but then since we cannot up the voltage to compensate, I would say this is the way it is with Kepplers ... probably best if this issue is left ignored.

Just wondering if I would gain anything by doing this to my 670 FTW's....
 
If I'm understanding feniks correctly, in a roundabout way they just increase stability by lowering clocks sooner than before?
 
If that's the case that's not increasing stability at all. It's just lowering the clocks. But maybe I didn't understand feniks correctly.

thebski

Just wondering if I would gain anything by doing this to my 670 FTW's....

If I'm understanding feniks correctly, in a roundabout way they just increase stability by lowering clocks sooner than before?

If that's the case that's not increasing stability at all. It's just lowering the clocks. But maybe I didn't understand feniks correctly.

 
that's tricky, because the power throttling depends on the kind of load (heaven load means nothing while 3dmark11 is a different story), in some apps it will nicely hold the core speed steady throughout the test, because actual TDP was lower (e.g. no more than 120%), in others it will start power throttling because TDP tries jumping way overboard ...
 
 so far I see it does both, power throttles easier and earlier and does it at deeper levels than before ...
 
I am not sure if I like it myself or not ... works stable though, just that semi-automatic core speed (throttling) is a tad annoying ...

one problem however ... my GPU temp sensor disappeared from the task bar even though it is enabled in Precision X ... and I can't make it show up again ...

Macros

iGamer4tv yes your card's BIOS has been updated correctly.

Thank you so much man!