Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 5xx thread" - Page 32

XxDeadlyxX · 05-04-10, 10:04 AM

Is that MSI Kombustor the best program to use for artifact testing? Or is ATITool just as good? I've only been using ATITool.

**mailman2** · 05-04-10, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by XxDeadlyxX

Is that MSI Kombustor the best program to use for artifact testing? Or is ATITool just as good? I've only been using ATITool.

Its basically Furmark. Pushes the GPUs harder than anything else out there.

odin20 · 05-04-10, 11:33 AM

Kombustor may hit the ram hard but unless i put on 8xaa it doesnt properly tell me stability.

I use it as a weak guide but thats it, i run heaven 2.0 and then battlefield bad company 2 maxed out to see stability.

The reason i say this is because with my 480's i could run kombustor, metro 2033 etc at 840 core and 2k ram all day long but will crash in heaven 2.0 at the dragon. Then i moved down to 825 core and 2k on the ram and could run heaven, metro 2033 and kombustor with 1.12 volts but i crashed and got a driver stopped responding thing when playing battlefield bad company 2.
So now im down to 815 core and 2k ram on both cards and its totally stable in all environments including battlefield bad company 2.
So im happy (wish i could get 840 back) but one of my cards is not a massive overclocker and thats ok as im only running 1.088 volts now too.
Temps were never my issue as i always stayed under 80 degrees.
Anyway long story short kombustor is good for finding a rough area to start at but not the only thing you need to use when overclocking.

**mailman2** · 05-04-10, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by odin20

Kombustor may hit the ram hard but unless i put on 8xaa it doesnt properly tell me stability.

I use it as a weak guide but thats it, i run heaven 2.0 and then battlefield bad company 2 maxed out to see stability.

The reason i say this is because with my 480's i could run kombustor, metro 2033 etc at 840 core and 2k ram all day long but will crash in heaven 2.0 at the dragon. Then i moved down to 825 core and 2k on the ram and could run heaven, metro 2033 and kombustor with 1.12 volts but i crashed and got a driver stopped responding thing when playing battlefield bad company 2.
So now im down to 815 core and 2k ram on both cards and its totally stable in all environments including battlefield bad company 2.
So im happy (wish i could get 840 back) but one of my cards is not a massive overclocker and thats ok as im only running 1.088 volts now too.
Temps were never my issue as i always stayed under 80 degrees.
Anyway long story short kombustor is good for finding a rough area to start at but not the only thing you need to use when overclocking.

Crysis pushes the card harder than BF BC2.

**saturnotaku** · 05-05-10, 09:34 AM

Got my eVGA GTX 470 yesterday. Pretty impressive card, I must say, especially since the 470 was $350 and I sold my GTX 285 for $300. I'm not seeing a whole lot of reason to possibly step up to the 480.

**Maverick123w** · 05-05-10, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by odin20

Kombustor may hit the ram hard but unless i put on 8xaa it doesnt properly tell me stability.

I use it as a weak guide but thats it, i run heaven 2.0 and then battlefield bad company 2 maxed out to see stability.

The reason i say this is because with my 480's i could run kombustor, metro 2033 etc at 840 core and 2k ram all day long but will crash in heaven 2.0 at the dragon. Then i moved down to 825 core and 2k on the ram and could run heaven, metro 2033 and kombustor with 1.12 volts but i crashed and got a driver stopped responding thing when playing battlefield bad company 2.
So now im down to 815 core and 2k ram on both cards and its totally stable in all environments including battlefield bad company 2.
So im happy (wish i could get 840 back) but one of my cards is not a massive overclocker and thats ok as im only running 1.088 volts now too.
Temps were never my issue as i always stayed under 80 degrees.
Anyway long story short kombustor is good for finding a rough area to start at but not the only thing you need to use when overclocking.

I had something similar happen. I could run kombuster @ 860 core but it would crash at the dragon on the uningine bench.

odin20 · 05-05-10, 12:58 PM

yeah im sure crysis will push the cards harder...thanks

newparad1gm · 05-05-10, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Maverick123w

I had something similar happen. I could run kombuster @ 860 core but it would crash at the dragon on the uningine bench.

Did you have tessellation on? The dragon is a part of the bench that uses heavy tessellation. If the tessellators are dedicated hardware, it could be why it crashes there, as kombustor doesn't seem to use tessellation so that part of the GPU doesn't get stressed. If you turn off tessellation in the heaven benchmark and see if it doesn't crash again at that spot then you could definitely pinpoint that as the cause.

onmikesline · 05-05-10, 04:17 PM

crysis is outdated , the reason it will push any card and even later cards is because of the extra large maps and shadowing. i know people make fixes for crysis that will boost your fps alot. and you cant even tell the change, i think it was more Crytecks falt on the heavy fps drop for not optimizing, Crysis2 will run alot better and look better

CaptNKILL · 05-07-10, 12:19 PM

Ok, I got my GTX 470, and its working... but...

Why is MSI Afterburner reporting the clocks like this?

**nekrosoft13** · 05-07-10, 12:27 PM

my guess is that you are not using the latest version

last i checked you needed one of the beta afterburner verions to get Fermi support.

**Maverick123w** · 05-07-10, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptNKILL

Ok, I got my GTX 470, and its working... but...

Why is MSI Afterburner reporting the clocks like this?

Did you get the beta version that supports the 470? Afterburner was doing all kinds of funky stuff for me until I got it.

05-04-10, 10:04 AM	#373
XxDeadlyxX STALKER!!!!!!!! Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NSW, Australia Posts: 1,455	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Is that MSI Kombustor the best program to use for artifact testing? Or is ATITool just as good? I've only been using ATITool. __________________ Main PC [Core i7 980X @ 4.3GHz] [Gigabyte X58A-UD7] [7TB of HDDs] [2x Inno3D GTX 480 SLI @ stock] [12GB Team Xtreem 7-7-7-24 @ 1500mhz] [Antec 1200] [Alienware AW2310 (general use/3D Vision) and Samsung 46B650 @ 1080p24] [X-Fi Forte] [Pioneer Blu-ray BDC-S02] [Silverstone Strider 1500W] [Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1] [Windows 7 x64] 3DMark Vantage - 38010

05-04-10, 11:33 AM	#375
odin20 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: way up north Posts: 259	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Kombustor may hit the ram hard but unless i put on 8xaa it doesnt properly tell me stability. I use it as a weak guide but thats it, i run heaven 2.0 and then battlefield bad company 2 maxed out to see stability. The reason i say this is because with my 480's i could run kombustor, metro 2033 etc at 840 core and 2k ram all day long but will crash in heaven 2.0 at the dragon. Then i moved down to 825 core and 2k on the ram and could run heaven, metro 2033 and kombustor with 1.12 volts but i crashed and got a driver stopped responding thing when playing battlefield bad company 2. So now im down to 815 core and 2k ram on both cards and its totally stable in all environments including battlefield bad company 2. So im happy (wish i could get 840 back) but one of my cards is not a massive overclocker and thats ok as im only running 1.088 volts now too. Temps were never my issue as i always stayed under 80 degrees. Anyway long story short kombustor is good for finding a rough area to start at but not the only thing you need to use when overclocking. __________________ I7 940-4.2ghz Prime stable 4.0 daily running. Asus p6t x58 6 gb OCZ gold ddr3 1600 1k Corsair ps Gs 1000 case Extreme 120 push/pull config. 2x MSI 480gtx sli- 815-1630-2000 oc on both.

05-05-10, 09:34 AM	#377
saturnotaku Apple user. Deal with it. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The 'burbs, IL USA Posts: 12,502	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Got my eVGA GTX 470 yesterday. Pretty impressive card, I must say, especially since the 470 was $350 and I sold my GTX 285 for $300. I'm not seeing a whole lot of reason to possibly step up to the 480.

05-05-10, 12:58 PM	#379
odin20 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: way up north Posts: 259	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread yeah im sure crysis will push the cards harder...thanks __________________ I7 940-4.2ghz Prime stable 4.0 daily running. Asus p6t x58 6 gb OCZ gold ddr3 1600 1k Corsair ps Gs 1000 case Extreme 120 push/pull config. 2x MSI 480gtx sli- 815-1630-2000 oc on both.

05-05-10, 04:17 PM	#381
onmikesline Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: south florida Posts: 887	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread crysis is outdated , the reason it will push any card and even later cards is because of the extra large maps and shadowing. i know people make fixes for crysis that will boost your fps alot. and you cant even tell the change, i think it was more Crytecks falt on the heavy fps drop for not optimizing, Crysis2 will run alot better and look better

05-07-10, 12:19 PM	#382
CaptNKILL CUBE Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: PA, USA Posts: 18,844	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Ok, I got my GTX 470, and its working... but... Why is MSI Afterburner reporting the clocks like this? Attached Thumbnails __________________ ---- Primary Rig ---- CoolerMaster 690 II Advance - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0Ghz + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 6GB DDR2 @ 942Mhz 5-5-5-20 1.9v (2x1Gb Wintec AMPX PC2-8500 & 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2-6400) - EVGA Geforce GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1850 (1.050v) Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 1Gb Low-Profile (Physx) - Crucial RealSSD C300 64Gb SSD - Seagate 7200.12 500Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA ASUS VW266H 25.5" LCD - OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU - ASUS Xonar DX - Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround - Windows 7 Professional x64 ---- HTPC ---- Asus M3A78-EM 780G - AMD Athlon X2 5050e 45W @ 2.6Ghz - 2x2GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2 - Sparkle 350W PSU Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 250Gb SATA - Athenatech A100BB.350 MicroATX Desktop - Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic

05-07-10, 12:27 PM	#383
nekrosoft13 I'm Geralt Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Chicagoland, once a year in Poland Posts: 24,364	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread my guess is that you are not using the latest version last i checked you needed one of the beta afterburner verions to get Fermi support. __________________ Windows 8 the next big failure, right after Windows ME