Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 5xx thread" - Page 36

Blacklash · 05-10-10, 12:40 PM

[H]ard has got a 470 SLi review up.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...c_sli_review/4

Doh! Wrong thread.

Amuro · 05-10-10, 09:03 PM

Just got the Danger Den water blocks for the 480s, and to my surprise, the block is really really, like 3.2 pounds or something for one block. I'm worried if it's gonna strain the card and motherboard.

**saturnotaku** · 05-11-10, 10:20 PM

Supply/demand is playing havoc with the prices at Amazon. Yesterday, the eVGA GTX 480 was $509.99. Today, it's $526.59. It's only $504.99 at Newegg, but you'd have to pay almost $8 for shipping.

Muppet · 05-12-10, 01:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saturnotaku

Supply/demand is playing havoc with the prices at Amazon. Yesterday, the eVGA GTX 480 was $509.99. Today, it's $526.59. It's only $504.99 at Newegg, but you'd have to pay almost $8 for shipping.

There must be still some good demand for the cards to raise the prices. They have been selling well down here, but the price has dropped by NZ $240

agentkay · 05-12-10, 02:08 PM

I did some quicktests with overclocking yesterday, raised ONLY the core and shader clocks to 800/1600, but left the memory at default. It was nice to see that it worked fine on my stock voltage (987mV) and saw nice gains in Nvidias new Island techdemo (41 vs 49 fps or 19,5% gain I believe).

However I don't know any "normal" overclocking range for the memory, don't know if the stock 1848mhz are already quite close to the limit, so what is a healthy and secure overclock for that one on the GTX 480? 1900,1950 or 2000? Is Furmark/Kombuster a good app to test memory for overclocking artifacts?

Since I wanted to take it safe with the quicktests I forced the fan to 100%, temps didn't break 63C with Kombustor.

**mailman2** · 05-12-10, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agentkay

I did some quicktests with overclocking yesterday, raised ONLY the core and shader clocks to 800/1600, but left the memory at default. It was nice to see that it worked fine on my stock voltage (987mV) and saw nice gains in Nvidias new Island techdemo (41 vs 49 fps or 19,5% gain I believe).

However I don't know any "normal" overclocking range for the memory, don't know if the stock 1848mhz are already quite close to the limit, so what is a healthy and secure overclock for that one on the GTX 480? 1900,1950 or 2000? Is Furmark/Kombuster a good app to test memory for overclocking artifacts?

Since I wanted to take it safe with the quicktests I forced the fan to 100%, temps didn't break 63C with Kombustor.

2000 should be do-able.

**snowmanwithahat** · 05-12-10, 02:33 PM

I still find ati-tool to be a great product for testing overclocks on cards. It still works in windows 7 despite spitting out an error.

I'd suggest that for all stability testing

**fasedww** · 05-12-10, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agentkay

I did some quicktests with overclocking yesterday, raised ONLY the core and shader clocks to 800/1600, but left the memory at default. It was nice to see that it worked fine on my stock voltage (987mV) and saw nice gains in Nvidias new Island techdemo (41 vs 49 fps or 19,5% gain I believe).

However I don't know any "normal" overclocking range for the memory, don't know if the stock 1848mhz are already quite close to the limit, so what is a healthy and secure overclock for that one on the GTX 480? 1900,1950 or 2000? Is Furmark/Kombuster a good app to test memory for overclocking artifacts?

Since I wanted to take it safe with the quicktests I forced the fan to 100%, temps didn't break 63C with Kombustor.

You will probally have to raise the voltage some when you get ready to overclock the memory so be prepared if it locksup, or crash, when you try to overclock memory.

Amuro · 05-12-10, 11:11 PM

double post

Amuro · 05-12-10, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agentkay

I did some quicktests with overclocking yesterday, raised ONLY the core and shader clocks to 800/1600, but left the memory at default. It was nice to see that it worked fine on my stock voltage (987mV) and saw nice gains in Nvidias new Island techdemo (41 vs 49 fps or 19,5% gain I believe).

However I don't know any "normal" overclocking range for the memory, don't know if the stock 1848mhz are already quite close to the limit, so what is a healthy and secure overclock for that one on the GTX 480? 1900,1950 or 2000? Is Furmark/Kombuster a good app to test memory for overclocking artifacts?

Since I wanted to take it safe with the quicktests I forced the fan to 100%, temps didn't break 63C with Kombustor.

I've done some testing using Heavn 2.0 with 800/1600 and memory at stock, 1900, 1950 and 2000, and there's very little difference in FPS. With extreme tessellation and max AA at 1920x1200, average FPS ranged between 54.1 to 54.6, less than .5 difference, and 2000 sometimes gave me a slightly lower min FPS compared with 1950.

CaptNKILL · 05-13-10, 03:21 PM

Well, my new case has completely remedied the heat issues I was having.

I just overclocked the card more, rearranged my fans so that the higher-RPM fan is in the bottom, blowing directly at the GPU.

I'm running the card at 750\1500\1875 at 1.050v and in the Cryostasis benchmark it tops out at 82C! This is much better than in my old case. At these clocks its probably a 15-20C difference, and I don't even have my bottom fan speed set to high. Once the weather gets hotter I'll definitely need to crank it up a notch or lower my overclocks (its only 55F here right now) but for now, this is good.

My benchmark scores have also gone up, so the overclocking is actually doing something. Going from 600/1215/1674 to 750/1500/1875 in the Cryostasis benchmark (with my 250 doing the Physx) increased my average FPS from 48.1 to 57.5... that's nearly a 20% increase in average frame rate! My minimum also went up from 29 to 34.7, which is also nearly 20%.

05-13-10, 03:48 PM

I just officially ordered an EVGA GTX 470.

I missed the NVCP.

Can't wait for it to get here.

05-10-10, 12:40 PM	#421
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05-10-10, 09:03 PM	#422
Amuro Newtype Ace Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 3,206	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Just got the Danger Den water blocks for the 480s, and to my surprise, the block is really really, like 3.2 pounds or something for one block. I'm worried if it's gonna strain the card and motherboard. __________________ Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P80 Black \| Intel Core i7-3960X @4.3Ghz \| Asus Rampage IV Extreme \| G.SKILL Ripjaws X 4 x 4GB @1866Mhz CL9 \|eVGA GTX 690 Hydro Copper \| Cruscial M4 512GB SATA III SSD \| WD VelociRaptor 300GB \| Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB \| Pioneer BDR-205BK 12x Blu-ray Burner \| Creative x-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Sound Card \| Corsair A1200 1200W PSU Water cooled by Koolance ERM-3K3UC Cooling System

05-11-10, 10:20 PM	#423
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 Supply/demand is playing havoc with the prices at Amazon. Yesterday, the eVGA GTX 480 was $509.99. Today, it's $526.59. It's only $504.99 at Newegg, but you'd have to pay almost $8 for shipping.

05-12-10, 02:08 PM	#425
agentkay Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Europe Posts: 3,866	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread I did some quicktests with overclocking yesterday, raised ONLY the core and shader clocks to 800/1600, but left the memory at default. It was nice to see that it worked fine on my stock voltage (987mV) and saw nice gains in Nvidias new Island techdemo (41 vs 49 fps or 19,5% gain I believe). However I don't know any "normal" overclocking range for the memory, don't know if the stock 1848mhz are already quite close to the limit, so what is a healthy and secure overclock for that one on the GTX 480? 1900,1950 or 2000? Is Furmark/Kombuster a good app to test memory for overclocking artifacts? Since I wanted to take it safe with the quicktests I forced the fan to 100%, temps didn't break 63C with Kombustor. __________________ Intel I7-920 aircooled by Prolimatech Megahalems @ 3.8Ghz (200x19) \| Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R \| OCZ Platinum 3x2GB DDR3-1600 RAM (7-7-7-24) @ 1600 \| Gainward GTX 480 \| WD Raptor 74GB + 150GB + Samsung 1TB \| Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum \| Corsair AX850 Gold \| Coolermaster Stacker 830 silver \| Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 \| Logitech G15 keyboard \| Logitech G25 Racing Wheel \| Sharp LC-46 XL1E (gaming and work)F CliffyB.

05-12-10, 02:33 PM	#427
snowmanwithahat Snowy Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 973	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread I still find ati-tool to be a great product for testing overclocks on cards. It still works in windows 7 despite spitting out an error. I'd suggest that for all stability testing __________________ ---Gaming Rig--- Q6600 3.4ghz (378x9) - 1.5v Gigabyte EP45-UD3P 8gb (4x2gb) OCZ Gold DDR2-800 (5-4-4-12) MSI+ASUS GTX 470 SLI Dell u3011 IPS Display HP 22" Auxiliary Monitor 256gb Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue SSD 5x2tb RAID-5 Array 750W PC P&C PSU Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit & Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit ---Gaming Laptop--- ASUS G53JW Core i7 740QM 16gb DDR3 Nvidia GTX 460m 1tb WD HDD 120gb Corsair SSD Join the NvNews Folding @ Home Team

05-12-10, 11:11 PM	#429
Amuro Newtype Ace Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 3,206	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread double post __________________ Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P80 Black \| Intel Core i7-3960X @4.3Ghz \| Asus Rampage IV Extreme \| G.SKILL Ripjaws X 4 x 4GB @1866Mhz CL9 \|eVGA GTX 690 Hydro Copper \| Cruscial M4 512GB SATA III SSD \| WD VelociRaptor 300GB \| Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB \| Pioneer BDR-205BK 12x Blu-ray Burner \| Creative x-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Sound Card \| Corsair A1200 1200W PSU Water cooled by Koolance ERM-3K3UC Cooling System Last edited by Amuro; 05-12-10 at 11:19 PM. Reason: double post

05-13-10, 03:21 PM	#431
CaptNKILL CUBE Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: PA, USA Posts: 18,844	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread Well, my new case has completely remedied the heat issues I was having. I just overclocked the card more, rearranged my fans so that the higher-RPM fan is in the bottom, blowing directly at the GPU. I'm running the card at 750\1500\1875 at 1.050v and in the Cryostasis benchmark it tops out at 82C! This is much better than in my old case. At these clocks its probably a 15-20C difference, and I don't even have my bottom fan speed set to high. Once the weather gets hotter I'll definitely need to crank it up a notch or lower my overclocks (its only 55F here right now) but for now, this is good. My benchmark scores have also gone up, so the overclocking is actually doing something. Going from 600/1215/1674 to 750/1500/1875 in the Cryostasis benchmark (with my 250 doing the Physx) increased my average FPS from 48.1 to 57.5... that's nearly a 20% increase in average frame rate! My minimum also went up from 29 to 34.7, which is also nearly 20%. __________________ ---- 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

05-13-10, 03:48 PM	#432
grey_1 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Official "I just got a Geforce GTX 470/480" thread I just officially ordered an EVGA GTX 470. I missed the NVCP. Can't wait for it to get here.