Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 5xx thread" - Page 31

Amuro · 05-03-10, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklash

Be careful guys, my bottom 470 died last night.

My gut told me to hold onto two of my 5870s when I RMAed the third for a refund. Glad I did.

That's sad. What do you suspect is the cause? Heat related? Man, I'm so gonna water cool mine as my temps hover around 84-90C with fan speed hitting 90+% when benchmarking, which is very noisy.

Xion X2 · 05-03-10, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklash

Be careful guys, my bottom 470 died last night.

My gut told me to hold onto two of my 5870s when I RMAed the third for a refund. Glad I did.

Uggggh. The great quality control from Nvidia continues?

But to be fair, I haven't seen too many die on people so far. Sorry you had that happen to you.

I did get a chance to check out 3D on a Samsung 3DTV over the weekend on a BluRay. Pretty cool stuff, but I'm going to wait until the technology advances a bit before I invest in it.

**mailman2** · 05-03-10, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Xion X2

Uggggh. The great quality control from Nvidia continues?

But to be fair, I haven't seen too many die on people so far. Sorry you had that happen to you.

I did get a chance to check out 3D on a Samsung 3DTV over the weekend on a BluRay. Pretty cool stuff, but I'm going to wait until the technology advances a bit before I invest in it.

yea I think I've seen 2 480 GTX and now one 470. And with the temps on air it doesn't suprise me.

Bah! · 05-03-10, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by mailman2

yea I think I've seen 2 480 GTX and now one 470. And with the temps on air it doesn't suprise me.

My 8800 ran for nearly three years in my computer at the same temps, and it's still running in my brother's and hasn't gone bad. The temps most likely didn't have much to do with why those three cards bricked.

**mailman2** · 05-03-10, 09:54 AM

GTX 480 875/1750/2000 1.125v, gotta love water cooling

newparad1gm · 05-03-10, 01:43 PM

I figured out what was wrong with my Unigine Heaven benchmark. I disabled PhysX and disabled my second monitor, and I ran it again at 1080p at 8xAA and got 58 fps. Before I was only getting 51 fps at 4xAA at the same rez.

Maybe it was either PhysX or the second monitor that was causing the problem, but its weird because its definitely not affecting my 3DMark Vantage score (37000). And thats only with my 965 at stock voltages OC'ed to 3.74 GHz.

Amuro · 05-03-10, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by newparad1gm

I figured out what was wrong with my Unigine Heaven benchmark. I disabled PhysX and disabled my second monitor, and I ran it again at 1080p at 8xAA and got 58 fps. Before I was only getting 51 fps at 4xAA at the same rez.

Maybe it was either PhysX or the second monitor that was causing the problem, but its weird because its definitely not affecting my 3DMark Vantage score (37000). And thats only with my 965 at stock voltages OC'ed to 3.74 GHz.

There shouldn't be any difference between PhysX on/off. When I first got the card, PhysX was disable because I had Nvidia Game System Software still installed, which broken the PhysX, but my Heaven score was the same.

BTW, did you have to boost the voltage to run at 800/2000 stable? I'm currently running at default voltage, and most of time I would get a "d3d11 AppWindow::do swap(): device removed" error right about scene 14 of 26. This only happens in Heaven benchmark, and if I lower the memory clocks a bit, say to 1950, I would not get that error.

newparad1gm · 05-03-10, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Amuro

There shouldn't be any difference between PhysX on/off. When I first got the card, PhysX was disable because I had Nvidia Game System Software still installed, which broken the PhysX, but my Heaven score was the same.

BTW, did you have to boost the voltage to run at 800/2000 stable? I'm currently running at default voltage, and most of time I would get a "d3d11 AppWindow::do swap(): device removed" error right about scene 14 of 26. This only happens in Heaven benchmark, and if I lower the memory clocks a bit, say to 1950, I would not get that error.

Then it must have been the second monitor somehow, or maybe it was because I had monitoring software like CoreTemp and Precision running as well alongside the benchmark before, and I didn't have any of that when I ran it on a single monitor.

I didn't have to boost my voltage to get it to go at 800/2000. But I have the GTX 480 SCs, so perhaps they are of better overclocking potential than the vanillas.

**Rummy** · 05-03-10, 11:54 PM

Just got my 2 470's these things rock, but they do run a little hot.

Amuro · 05-04-10, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by newparad1gm

Then it must have been the second monitor somehow, or maybe it was because I had monitoring software like CoreTemp and Precision running as well alongside the benchmark before, and I didn't have any of that when I ran it on a single monitor.

I didn't have to boost my voltage to get it to go at 800/2000. But I have the GTX 480 SCs, so perhaps they are of better overclocking potential than the vanillas.

Oh yeah, you got the SC's. Possibly slightly higher default voltage than a vanillas?

Blacklash · 05-04-10, 03:25 AM

Well that was premature. It seems my SLi bridge went bad out of the blue. I had an extra and tried it, now I am up and running again. Whew.

**mailman2** · 05-04-10, 09:51 AM

Undervolting / overclocking fun!

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05-03-10, 01:43 PM	#366
newparad1gm Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 691	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread I figured out what was wrong with my Unigine Heaven benchmark. I disabled PhysX and disabled my second monitor, and I ran it again at 1080p at 8xAA and got 58 fps. Before I was only getting 51 fps at 4xAA at the same rez. Maybe it was either PhysX or the second monitor that was causing the problem, but its weird because its definitely not affecting my 3DMark Vantage score (37000). And thats only with my 965 at stock voltages OC'ed to 3.74 GHz. __________________ WAR MACHINE: Intel Core i7 3930K \| Asus X79 Sabertooth \| 4x4 GB G.Skill RipJaw PC3-12800 \| 2x EVGA NVIDIA GTX TITAN Signature 6GB SLI \| OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD \| 2x500 GB Seagate Barracuda RAID 0 \| Seagate FreeAgent 500GB External \| LG BD-ROM \| Cyber Acoustics CA3001WB 2.1 Speakers \| ABS SL 1050W PSU \| 3x Acer GD235HZ 23.6in 120Hz \| Silverstone Fortress FT02 \| Windows 8 Pro x64 \| NVIDIA 3DVision SURROUND CRIMSON DYNAMO: Intel Core i7 2600K \| Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H \| 2x4 GB G.Skill Ripjaw PC3-12800 \| XFX AMD HD7970 3GB \| Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD \| 2x250GB RAID 0 \| Samsung BD-ROM \| Corsair TX 850W PSU \| Toshiba 42" REGZA 1080p HDTV \| Antec 900 ATX \| Windows 8 Pro x64 Sailor Jupiter (HTPC): Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 \| ZOTAC Geforce 9300 \| 2x2 GB OCZ Fatal1ty PC2-8500 \| WD 1TB \| Hitachi 2TB External \| MediaSonic HFR2-SU3S2 6x3TB Seagate Barracuda RAID 1+0 \| LG Blu-Ray/HD DVD-ROM \| FSP 150W PSU \| Toshiba 42" REGZA 1080p HDTV \| Foxconn RS233 mini-ITX \| Windows 7 Pro x86

05-03-10, 11:54 PM	#369
Rummy Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Under your bed Posts: 1,684	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Just got my 2 470's these things rock, but they do run a little hot.

05-04-10, 03:25 AM	#371
Blacklash 8^9^3 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Old Vizima Posts: 3,679	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Well that was premature. It seems my SLi bridge went bad out of the blue. I had an extra and tried it, now I am up and running again. Whew. __________________ Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.96GHz (1.36v)\|Mushkin 998681 XP3-12800 (3x2GB) ASUS TUF Sabertooth (X58)\|ASUS GTX 580 DirectCU II (980\|4604)\|ASUS PA246Q WD VelociRaptor 150GB HD (x2)\|Pioneer DVR-2920Q\|LG GH22LS30\|Klipsch PM20 2.0 SilverStone OP1000-E\|SilverStone TJ10-B\|Thermalright U-120 Extreme\|Win 7 HP x64