Testing out the GTX480

Nothing extreme yet. 980x @ 4.5ghz and GTX480 @ 940/2300 on crappy water

Crappy water = 980x and gtx480 sharing the same loop with a dtek gpu block/ek supreme hf full copper / nickle on a swiftech mcr-drive dual fan rad.

Volts on the gpu were 1.138v - Stock VID of the gpu is .987v

Crysis results - 1920x1200 - 0xAA - 4xAA - 8xAA

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...tx480at940.JPG

Dirt2 Max settings DX11 - 1920x1200 - 4xAA (sorry didn't screen cap this one)

*edit* ran it again to get a cap!

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...tx480at940.jpg

FC2 - Max Settings - DX10 - Ultra High - 1920x1200 - 4xAA

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...rmi9402300.JPG

RE5 Max settings DX10 - 1920x1200 - 8xAA - Fixed Benchmark

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...tx480at940.jpg

Hawx Max settings DX10.1 - 1920x1200 - 8xAA

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...tx480at940.jpg

SF4 - Max Settings - 1920x1200 - 8xAA

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...tx480at940.jpg

3DMark03 - Sorry I couldn't make it public

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...11k03at940.JPG

Vantage - Forgot to disable PhysX =o\

http://www.overclock.net/attachments...vantagerun.jpg

MSI Kombuster - 20 minute run

http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...2400gtx480.JPG

Also, forgot to mention if you want to see single, sli, trisli vs. a family of 5870's overclocked go here http://www.overclock.net/graphics-ca...70-vs-sli.html

Sorry there's way too much info for me to retype here.

i think maybe 10-15c cooler you would go close to 1000

Impressive OC on that GTX 480. I wonder what it will do with another radiator and a better GPU block.

I never knew Tri-Fire scaled so well - I've seen it scale horribly on some review sites. What about Quad-Fire (Dual 5970's) clocked at maybe 950 on the core (or whatever you're able to achieve)?

If it scales well, then quad-fire might be the better deal (over tri-fire).

Those are nice clocks! great job

jealous

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i think maybe 10-15c cooler you would go close to 1000

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it's only at 52C full load already, the amount your asking it to drop would be as if it was in high idle temps.

@OP, I'm amazed at the volts you needed for your 480 to get that high seeing as dangerden got 913MHz @ 1.025v, although their temps were also in the low 60's.

Very nice clocks on that card.

can u go any higher or did u hit the wall ?

Those numbers are fairly impressive. :)

any photo of that :banana::banana::banana::banana: hardware.?

stunning numbers! Great work.

Dizimator , GTX 480 + water coler + overclocker twin Asus = Monter truck champion.

These cards have a very sharp curve of stability. Highest obtained clock speed on the gpu core on air has been 982.5. Highest memory clock 2708mhz whilst being on air. However, those are max validations.


http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...480onwater.png

That is how my card looks like except i'm using a crappy Zalman CPU block from the reserator X, i'm maxing out at around 920Mhz but my card shares the water with my exceptionally hot i7 at 4.5Ghz. 50C was the highest temp i saw it hit in Furmark. I could prolly hit slightly higher clocks if i had pumped around 1.15V in its ass or so.

I think you should ditch that Delta fan, i'm running a bare coldplate with no extra fans and it never gets hot at 900/1800/2100 that's my 24/7 clocks.

BTW, decent clockage bro.

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These cards have a very sharp curve of stability. Highest obtained clock speed on the gpu core on air has been 982.5. Highest memory clock 2708mhz whilst being on air. However, those are max validations.


http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...480onwater.png

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is that better than a full water block heatsink

lol better as is value or performance?
performance no

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lol better as is value or performance?
performance no

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thx

the only reason i said if its better is because it looked thicker

these days gpu blocks have elevated squiggly lines unlike cpu blocks

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lol better as is value or performance?
performance no

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I would have to disagree. I've always had better temps with a gpu only block on the vs. a full cover.

very jealous :shocked:

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I would have to disagree. I've always had better temps with a gpu only block on the vs. a full cover.

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Same any comparisons between gpu only and full cover the gpu only will most likely always win on gpu core temps.

why did you bench with settings that gave you 100+ fps? :P
such a highend card only makes sense if you max out AA and resolution, so go on, push that AA some more :D

very impressive clocks! :toast:

nice setup :O

would a Swiftech MCW60-R V2 fit on the 480?

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would a Swiftech MCW60-R V2 fit on the 480?

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looks like it
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooli...x-480-sli.html

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http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...2400gtx480.JPG

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Does that clock give you any artifact? I can run kombustor at 900core with 1100mV but there were obvious artifacts when running 3DMark Vantage, especially the second test. Running the memory at 2250 the first Vantage test the water behaves very strangely...

Also, your screen on Kombustor looks strange... mine looks like this:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d.../Kombuster.png

Is that screenshot what it looks like to you? does it also look like your screen on stock clocks? or just a screengrab issue?

NCspecV81
What are you cooling the ram/vregs on the videocard with? Looks like the stock cooler with the top/fan off. Is that correct? If not, where did you get it? do you have a fan blowing across? what kind of PCB/vreg temps do you see?

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NCspecV81
What are you cooling the ram/vregs on the videocard with? Looks like the stock cooler with the top/fan off. Is that correct? If not, where did you get it? do you have a fan blowing across? what kind of PCB/vreg temps do you see?

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he is using stock

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he is using stock

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Figured as much. Still wonder, how hot do the RAM/VREGs get.

The stock plate doesn't get hot at all atleast mine doesn't even at 1.13V.

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Does that clock give you any artifact? I can run kombustor at 900core with 1100mV but there were obvious artifacts when running 3DMark Vantage, especially the second test. Running the memory at 2250 the first Vantage test the water behaves very strangely...

Also, your screen on Kombustor looks strange... mine looks like this:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d.../Kombuster.png

Is that screenshot what it looks like to you? does it also look like your screen on stock clocks? or just a screengrab issue?

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I'm using the 1.6 beta 5 which seems to change the kombuster b/c the MSI moves differently as well. It's like 2 images waving.

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NCspecV81
What are you cooling the ram/vregs on the videocard with? Looks like the stock cooler with the top/fan off. Is that correct? If not, where did you get it? do you have a fan blowing across? what kind of PCB/vreg temps do you see?

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as said, the stock sink.

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I'm using the 1.6 beta 5 which seems to change the kombuster b/c the MSI moves differently as well. It's like 2 images waving.

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Strange... I'm also running the Combustor that came with 1.6 Beta 5 of Afterburner...

Is the image like that when the card is at stock too?

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Strange... I'm also running the Combustor that came with 1.6 Beta 5 of Afterburner...

Is the image like that when the card is at stock too?

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Interesting... yep stock and also on my 5870's o.0

Only time it's not like that is when running the benchmark.

NCspecV81 so how hot does your 480 RAM/VREGs get? that is, if you keeping tabs on that sort of thing. Also, what did you use to mount the Fuzion GFX on it? standard NV200 kit or something custom-made?

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These cards have a very sharp curve of stability. Highest obtained clock speed on the gpu core on air has been 982.5. Highest memory clock 2708mhz whilst being on air. However, those are max validations.


http://www.overclock.net/gallery/dat...480onwater.png

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That looks really good, I like the industrial feel ;)

I can't believe some of those numbers are single GPU, WOW:eek:

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/gqsgv/

This is on one of my weak 480's. Gonna go back and try it on the asus and I expect some more. I wished there was a hard mod that was documented =o\.