GTX580: 1.025VID: 950/1900/2300: stock cooler: guaranteed?!?

[NapalmV5]

yup, hope can beat 6870 CF on warhead

ill have it a bit later

Well to eliminate the problem I proceeded to just uninstalling all gpu related overclocking programs. And to my surprise it helped a little. It didn't crash as fast at stock voltage, but it still crashed which still bums me out.

I think I'm gonna just reinstall the drivers just one last time. If that doesn't work, then I'm getting a replacement.

also try it in another system

[NapalmV5]

@ ts = any WARHEAD score ?

app says 66fps max and i seen ~70fps - is this the latest version of the tool ?

oh and sorry dont have 1200p

[NapalmV5]

msi 580 vid 1.00
950 stock voltage for 03, 2am so tryed trolls at 1000 and passed with 1.13v

nice vid/1ghz

[Systemlord]

One can only imagine what overclock you could achieve with water cooling Napalm!

-Systemlord

[NapalmV5]

gimmie a good waterblock and ill show you

975/1950/2300

[Cookiesowns]

I think my 580 is slowly dying

It seems I have to keep bumping up the volts slowly on stock clocks just to keep it from freezing with some minor artifacting. Stock vid is 1.013v, then I bumped it to 1.025v which eventually wasn't enough, and now I'm at 1.038v to keep it running. I guess it might be time to RMA.

Do you have the EK 480 block on it? Or is it on air?

[Splave]

nice vid/1ghz

great run! I will try a full run tonight

[bro20000]

I cant wait to get my 580GTX next week 580 waterblock should be coming to next week! With results like that on air 1ghz and above should be in reach on water!

[PatRaceTin]

GTX580 show overclocking potential

[Neova]

Are your results single 580 GTX or 580 SLI? Your first post is not clear in only stating 2x 580's but the results do not say SLI or not. Great numbers in anycase.

[NapalmV5]

great run! I will try a full run tonight

thanx! lower vid + 980x come on! lol

[NapalmV5]

Are your results single 580 GTX or 580 SLI? Your first post is not clear in only stating 2x 580's but the results do not say SLI or not. Great numbers in anycase.

thanx ma bad let me rephrase

so far 2x 580 1.025v one green pcb one orange pcb are proving to be fully stable @ 950/1900/2300 stock cooled/1.138vgpu/max fan

following results are @ single 580 - no soft/hard mods other than the vgpu increase via nvidia inspector

1st post updated ^

[bigKr33]

Do you have the EK 480 block on it? Or is it on air?

Its on air, my water block hasn't even been used yet. Trying to sell the block actually. I don't think its a temp issue either because my ambient is pretty cool. I would say room temp is 20c or below. Load temp doesn't even hit 75c with fan set to auto.

[GoldenTiger]

I'm now running 1.063v, 870mhz core, 4300mhz on the RAM... fan speed still auto. I'll probably be able to push a little further on these clocks but thus far they have been rock-solid through lengthy Just Cause 2 & BFBC2 multiplayer sessions.

I tried going to 1.138v but my card does NOT like to run that, it crashes on the desktop quickly even with clocks that ran fine at lower voltages, let alone trying to overclock... 1.125v works, but I'm probably going to stick to whatever I can do on 1.063v for temps and the low noise profile. I'm not going to trade the silence for an extra 50mhz on the core . Now, if I could reach 1ghz... mmmmm.

My card's stock VID is 1.025v (eVGA normal, black PCB).

[Systemlord]

I'm now running 1.063v, 870mhz core, 4300mhz on the RAM... fan speed still auto. I'll probably be able to push a little further on these clocks but thus far they have been rock-solid through lengthy Just Cause 2 & BFBC2 multiplayer sessions.

I tried going to 1.138v but my card does NOT like to run that, it crashes on the desktop quickly even with clocks that ran fine at lower voltages, let alone trying to overclock... 1.125v works, but I'm probably going to stick to whatever I can do on 1.063v for temps and the low noise profile. I'm not going to trade the silence for an extra 50mhz on the core . Now, if I could reach 1ghz... mmmmm.

My card's stock VID is 1.025v (eVGA normal, black PCB).

My GTX 480 behaves exactly the same, if you underclock my 480 and set Vcore to 1.138 it crashes! It's fine at any clock as long as I don't go above 1.125V, I ran OCCT for 4 hours with only 5 errors at 900MHz core with 1.125V. Are these stress testing programs (OCCT, FurMark) representing real world games loads or are they greatly exaggerating things?

-Systemlord

[bigKr33]

yeah I'm gonna return my gtx580. It has a low vid, but it overclocks like crap. Even though I can hit up 950-960, its not even close to being stable. I think the lower vid thing is a myth, or I just have a bad card.

[Systemlord]

yeah I'm gonna return my gtx580. It has a low vid, but it overclocks like crap. Even though I can hit up 950-960, its not even close to being stable. I think the lower vid thing is a myth, or I just have a bad card.

Good luck with returning it, my vid is .0986V and it don't even like 1.138V! The lower VID thing is a myth because other components on the PCB could limit your overclock.

-Systemlord

[vern]

Max Voltage can modify to 1.212 now
And fan Control Max 100%

[NapalmV5]

I'm now running 1.063v, 870mhz core, 4300mhz on the RAM... fan speed still auto. I'll probably be able to push a little further on these clocks but thus far they have been rock-solid through lengthy Just Cause 2 & BFBC2 multiplayer sessions.

I tried going to 1.138v but my card does NOT like to run that, it crashes on the desktop quickly even with clocks that ran fine at lower voltages, let alone trying to overclock... 1.125v works, but I'm probably going to stick to whatever I can do on 1.063v for temps and the low noise profile. I'm not going to trade the silence for an extra 50mhz on the core . Now, if I could reach 1ghz... mmmmm.

My card's stock VID is 1.025v (eVGA normal, black PCB).

was i going to sell you into slavery if not?? sheeesh

and btw they all black pcb the edges are best seen as green or orange anyways dont worry about

yeah I'm gonna return my gtx580. It has a low vid, but it overclocks like crap. Even though I can hit up 950-960, its not even close to being stable. I think the lower vid thing is a myth, or I just have a bad card.

so you ran crysis @ 958 and its still a myth thanx!

the problems your having i doubt are the 580 at all you had issues right from the start tried to help ya sorry i bothered

My GTX 480 behaves exactly the same, if you underclock my 480 and set Vcore to 1.138 it crashes! It's fine at any clock as long as I don't go above 1.125V, I ran OCCT for 4 hours with only 5 errors at 900MHz core with 1.125V. Are these stress testing programs (OCCT, FurMark) representing real world games loads or are they greatly exaggerating things?

-Systemlord

Good luck with returning it, my vid is .0986V and it don't even like 1.138V! The lower VID thing is a myth because other components on the PCB could limit your overclock.

-Systemlord

i guess some people would rather just post rubbish as they see fit

fyi 480 is not 580 quite different beasts

and fyi ive experienced a number of different 480 and 580 vids

anywho.. tried to keep thread upbeat but i guess some people are born downers and always will be downers

damn xs used to be fun place to hang around

[bigKr33]

so you ran crysis @ 958 and its still a myth thanx!

the problems your having i doubt are the 580 at all you had issues right from the start tried to help ya sorry i bothered

I wasn't trying to be ignorant or anything. If you read the first page of this forum, I actually did finally get the drivers installed properly. I even explained how I fixed it. Still my card keeps crashing in games after 30-45mins of gameplay. Having to increase volts on stock clocks to keep stable is an issue to me. Believe me I've been trouble shooting the card practically the whole weekend so far. I've done every piece of advice here on the forums and my best friend google.

Although I completed crysis benchmark at 950 it was artifacting. I would actually say the card was legitimately stable at 930mhz on the core though with max volts.

[Gaul]

app says 66fps max and i seen ~70fps - is this the latest version of the tool ?

oh and sorry dont have 1200p

no problem......thanx and pretty nice score.

my last request would u test warhead again on GTX 580 DEF CLOCK , cause my 6870 CF it's on def clock to...

if u don't mine

[NapalmV5]

[B] I wasn't trying to be ignorant or anything. If you read the first page of this forum, I actually did finally get the drivers installed properly. I even explained how I fixed it. Still my card keeps crashing in games after 30-45mins of gameplay. Having to increase volts on stock clocks to keep stable is an issue to me. Believe me I've been trouble shooting the card practically the whole weekend so far. I've done every piece of advice here on the forums and my best friend google.

Although I completed crysis benchmark at 950 it was artifacting. I would actually say the card was legitimately stable at 930mhz on the core though with max volts.

look like i said you got a good vid there if you quickly rma it you may end with a much higher vid and still having the same issues make sure you rule out everything your whole system unless you are sure its card

can you try a beefier psu? another motherboard? another system

card clocks up to 960 in crysis and yet you cant game at default clocks ??

reset motherboard bios.. reinstall windows.. something somewhere down the chain is the cause

then again maybe its the 580 just rma it

good luck!

[NapalmV5]

no problem......thanx and pretty nice score.

my last request would u test warhead again on GTX 580 DEF CLOCK , cause my 6870 CF it's on def clock to...

if u don't mine

def clocks?!?!? abomination! blasphemy! what the hell is wrong with you? you didnt have enough of reviews @ def clocks ??

clock for clock fair enough? good!

900/1050 vs 900/1050

[Systemlord]

i guess some people would rather just post rubbish as they see fit

fyi 480 is not 580 quite different beasts

and fyi ive experienced a number of different 480 and 580 vids

anywho.. tried to keep thread upbeat but i guess some people are born downers and always will be downers

damn xs used to be fun place to hang around

You make it sound like I'm complaining when all I'm doing is reporting my experience to someone (bigKr33) with the same problem I was having, I hardly deserve to be called a downer!

-Systemlord

[bigKr33]

look like i said you got a good vid there if you quickly rma it you may end with a much higher vid and still having the same issues make sure you rule out everything your whole system unless you are sure its card

can you try a beefier psu? another motherboard? another system

card clocks up to 960 in crysis and yet you cant game at default clocks ??

reset motherboard bios.. reinstall windows.. something somewhere down the chain is the cause

then again maybe its the 580 just rma it

good luck!

The card runs crysis at 960, but it was only 3 passes and artifacts and stuttering were defiantly apparent. I don't even think it would run the game legitimately for 5-10mins.

I would like to try it with a different system, but the one I'm using is the only one I have right now. I sold my other board and chip. However i do have an extra power supply, and that's the only thing I haven't tried. Personally i think the psu is fine considering it ran my gtx480 perfectly even overclocked. Hopefully some new drivers come out soon. Maybe I'll get better results.