*** NVIDIA 470/480 Series Thread ***

[scharnhorst]

So I tried to o/c my GTX470 evga. I obtained the following value. 725/1450/1800
Nevertheless I cannot get Core & Mem Overclocked at the same time. I don't understand why :-/
I'll have to investigate why it doesn't work

[johnp1983]

someone tried new forceware?

http://www.techpowerup.com/120583/NV..._Products.html

[GoldenTiger]

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someone tried new forceware?

http://www.techpowerup.com/120583/NV..._Products.html

I'm probably going to try them and do a couple of quick benches tonight.

[johnp1983]

I'm probably going to try them and do a couple of quick benches tonight.

good, I'm waiting 4 your tests.

[Blacklash]

Looks good guys. I'll be putting up some results after I get Shin-Etsu on my GPUs this weekend.

So far 1483 shader and 1850 for the memory has not been problematic on stock volts. I don't think my cores will be going much more on stock voltage and I've still got some left in the memory. Testing in progress.

[QuadDamage]

Hey peeps is there any way to hack Afterburner to gain acces to higher voltage, i know Smart Doc allows for 1.138V but i must admit i hate its interface plus it doesn't apply memory clock on my card.

BTW, i'm getting much better results with the pre-release BIOS 70.00.10.00.01, i've tried so far Zotac and an updated nVidia BIOS but it seems my card needs more juice when using them.

[shaolin95]

UPS is bring my Fermi tomorrow...pics will be posted ASAP

[Sn@ke:~]

Hey peeps is there any way to hack Afterburner to gain acces to higher voltage, i know Smart Doc allows for 1.138V but i must admit i hate its interface plus it doesn't apply memory clock on my card.

BTW, i'm getting much better results with the pre-release BIOS 70.00.10.00.01, i've tried so far Zotac and an updated nVidia BIOS but it seems my card needs more juice when using them.

Try the new afterburner for the GTX470 and 480 it goes all the way up to 1.138vm, but i strongly suggest not to do so. I was using it and got all the way to 850mhz core and 2000mhz mem. I say that it is the max you can get out of a GTX480 with 1.050vm at stock without damaging the card if you have an MSI which as military component beyong that i suspect it needs hardware mod.

Since both cards have the same component i strongly suggest not to put more mv than 1.050 to it and try its max core using ungine heaven engine all setting max out at extreme if it goes trhought you can say you have reach your max OC as you will never get across a game using 99% GPU load for the entire game.

Regards

P.S. all the other one saying they can get more out of their, is just a matter of time before it dies on them.

[hetsaq]

My Gigatac (Gigabyte/Zotac) 480 SLI setup is complete!

[eternal_fantasy]

Some pics and score of my watercooled 480





Vantage Physics ON


Physics OFF

[eternal_fantasy]

One more Extreme preset Physics OFF

[eternal_fantasy]

Unigin bench:

[saaya]

900+ on water... !...
do you guys think we will see the magic 1ghz barrier taken down by a watercooled 480 anytime soon?

My Palit 480 GTX:

why did you glue your monitor to your wardrobe?

just kidding

btw, the packaging artwork and sticker on the gigabyte looks the best to me so far...
evga and asus look pretty boring and palit looks pretty cheap :P

[QuadDamage]

Try the new afterburner for the GTX470 and 480 it goes all the way up to 1.138vm, but i strongly suggest not to do so. I was using it and got all the way to 850mhz core and 2000mhz mem. I say that it is the max you can get out of a GTX480 with 1.050vm at stock without damaging the card if you have an MSI which as military component beyong that i suspect it needs hardware mod.

Since both cards have the same component i strongly suggest not to put more mv than 1.050 to it and try its max core using ungine heaven engine all setting max out at extreme if it goes trhought you can say you have reach your max OC as you will never get across a game using 99% GPU load for the entire game.

Regards

P.S. all the other one saying they can get more out of their, is just a matter of time before it dies on them.

Hehe thanks for the lecture but i'm at 1.125V and 913Mhz without breaking a sweat. My card maxes at around 50C loaded I need atleast 1.2V to unlock her potential oh yeah and i'm hooking her up to a dedicted loop soon.

[Sn@ke:~]

You have a WC block ! that is hardware mod in a way as it does help cooling the rest of the cards, thought i wonder how long it will last !

BTW what is the brand of your card ?

Did you try a benchmark run with unigine at extreme heaven 2.0 with everything too max setting i mean everything, can you pass throught with any artifact ?

Regards

[hetsaq]

Are there any driver settings I should be changing for SLI'ed 480s? I know there are like pre-rendered frames settings and stuff like that. Any advice would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

[QuadDamage]

You have a WC block ! that is hardware mod in a way as it does help cooling the rest of the cards, thought i wonder how long it will last !

BTW what is the brand of your card ?

Did you try a benchmark run with unigine at extreme heaven 2.0 with everything too max setting i mean everything, can you pass throught with any artifact ?

Regards

nVidia branded. My 24/7 clocks 4.4Ghz i7 and 900/1800/2050 on the GTX480 at 1.1V. I can prime at 4.5Ghz but i don't like the voltage needed for full stability at 4.5Ghz (1.53V) Here's the heaven run at 900/1800/2050 exteme 8xAA/16xAF Re3plication on, Transparency Multisampling and Gamma Corrected AA. 49C max. It takes Furmark to push my card over 50C.

[Sn@ke:~]

ummm interesting. I had 28.5 fps at 850/1700/2000 setting just like yours, but windowed at 1920 x 1200 with an e8400 stock at 80c full load.

That means that my CPU did not bottleneck the GTX480, all the extra fps comes from the CPU.

I read somewhere that people i have up their PCI-E express to bring up the transfer rate and they saw little performance cuz their theory was the the GPU was not bottleneck by the PCI-E slot, But some boards do.

I'm wondering if you would see a better performance if doing so they had raised and benched with every increment of 5mhz. Saw very little performance boost, but with such a powerfull GPU might be worth trying it.

[luke997]

EVGA GTX 480 SC available at Scan if anyone is desperate to get it @ £490.

This card wasn't on pre-order so be quick, good chance to get it.

After almost a month I've cancelled my 2 ASUS preorders and got these instead, lost my patience, pulled the trigger

[Splave]

anyone got the evga SC bios, want to flash my vanilla. Somethings fishy with my cards. They stutter alot even in a single card config.

[luke997]

anyone got the evga SC bios, want to flash my vanilla. Somethings fishy with my cards. They stutter alot even in a single card config.

Happy to get you once I got mine but it'll be Tuesday till I get the cards and probably weekend till I'll have time to install.

[Andrea deluxe]

My giga@ evga sc

[marxviper]

guys which gtx480 brand do you recommend for overclocking, asus or evga?

[Andrea deluxe]

anyone with a evga ftw liquid cooled can give me a backup bios?

please....

[saaya]

Looks good guys. I'll be putting up some results after I get Shin-Etsu on my GPUs this weekend.

So far 1483 shader and 1850 for the memory has not been problematic on stock volts. I don't think my cores will be going much more on stock voltage and I've still got some left in the memory. Testing in progress.

nice, please post some before and after temp and oc infos, im really curious how good that weird tim they use is, and if its worth replacing or not...

So I tried to o/c my GTX470 evga. I obtained the following value. 725/1450/1800
Nevertheless I cannot get Core & Mem Overclocked at the same time. I don't understand why :-/
I'll have to investigate why it doesn't work

you mean not at all? or not as high when you oc both? its normal that you cant push mem AND core to the max at the same time... on older nvidia cards you can also get higher core AND shader clocks sometimes if you change the ratio between them, or use a different mem clock... higher mem clock plus different core to shader ratio allowed me to reach higher clocks for example...

not much though, around 25mhz on all of them.. still, its worth trying different combos... its a shame nvidia didnt unlock core to shader ratio yet... hope that comes soon

anyone with a evga ftw liquid cooled can give me a backup bios?

please....

are those cards out yet?
i dont think so... ask evga...?