EVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC review

[Blkout]

What fan speed setting are you using?

Auto, but the fan will hit 100% sometimes if I run multiple loops of some benchmarks.

[NapalmV5]

evga ssc @ 1.20v
my ssc @ 1.23v
vmod @ 1.26v

no oc gain

vgpu mod does not work on the ssc until ovp is removed/increased

so if anyone could/would share that would be greatly appreciated

[G4h4o8s6T]

Well, my eVGA GTX 285 vanilla arrived today. Max overclocks are 738c/1620s/1476m. Not bad at all considering it overclocks past SSC speeds for $50 less. This is completely artifact free and stable as a rock. I could bench at higher shader and memory speeds here and there on some benches but it would crash or artifact in others and that's completely useless if you can't use it in all applications

Got my card yesterday, haven't tested thoroughly, but 756/1620/1476 was 15min furmark\Warhead bench stabe when I kept temps. around 65-70c. But would crash/blank screen when I was hitting around 85-90c.

Gonna put it on water in the next few days, so those clocks should be perfectly stable, and maybe Ill even get a little more out of it

[ChinStrap]

evga ssc @ 1.20v
my ssc @ 1.23v
vmod @ 1.26v

no oc gain

vgpu mod does not work on the ssc until ovp is removed/increased

so if anyone could/would share that would be greatly appreciated

ovp @ 1.3?

[NapalmV5]

yeh @ 15k resistor no boot

[Blkout]

Got my card yesterday, haven't tested thoroughly, but 756/1620/1476 was 15min furmark\Warhead bench stabe when I kept temps. around 65-70c. But would crash/blank screen when I was hitting around 85-90c.

Gonna put it on water in the next few days, so those clocks should be perfectly stable, and maybe Ill even get a little more out of it

From my experience, there are two benches you can use to check stability with great accuracy.

3DMARK06 at 1920x1200, 4xAA, 16xAF, run the 4 main graphics tests 3 runs each, exclude the CPU tests. If it passes all 4 of those tests 3 times back to back without any artifacts or crashes, it's stable.

Crysis Warhead benchmark 1920x1200, queue Ambush, Avalanche, and Frost to run back to back. If it passes all three of those without any artifacts or crashes, it's stable.

I use both when testing my overclocks and both have been VERY reliable.


I'm consdering water cooling myself as well as I've water cooled my last 4 graphics cards. I'm waiting to see the 285 FC blocks and prices before I jump. I may just leave this one on air since overclocking beyond what I've achieved so far is just for bragging rights and not likely to give much of a boost in real gaming, just benchmarks. I'm trying to keep cost down on this video card upgrade until the next gen hits later this year which should be a much larger upgrade.

[Blkout]

Uhg, I don't think this is really necessary for this thread. Both of you are incorrect...don't insult and the 285 is not just an overclocked. Leave it at that please.

Both of WHO are incorrect? Everything I've said has been correct. Maybe you're referring to someone else and I misunderstood your post.

[astrallite]

Would be nice to see minimum fps with SLI...firingsquad review has it for 2 of their benchmarks which is odd...maybe the numbers were just unflattering for Crysis.