MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk (mods + oc)

[massman]

INTRO

Just got this card in house. Only air cooling results so far, need to use the little bits of LN2 I have left to test Lightning first.

Card can do ~ 1050/1200 on air with elevated voltages. Unlike with the 6950, increasing pressure to stock cooling did not gain any more results.

LN2 test will come!

THE CARD








THE MODIFICATIONS



THE SCORES

[[XC] gomeler]

Interesting. Looks like the Hawk is the same PCB as the Twin Frozr II except you have fancy toggle switches to enable the OCP and CBB overrides. You don't need to perform the GPU VRM OCP mod, the toggle switch shorts IMAX to GND. That isn't even needed though, IMAX doesn't even get close to the trip point. Get some serious fans on the fets, past 1.3vgpu and they roast. Wish I had your fancy pants fet heatsink on mine.

Look forward to seeing what you can do with the card. They are fun little things

[massman]

If I'm not mistaken, the OCP unlocker only changes overall OCP and not per channel. The mod is for the per channel OCP.

I think the IC is also a bit different than for TF2. This one's uP6218, the one for TF2 is ~ uP6x13 right? PCB is pretty much the same, though.

[[XC] gomeler]

If I'm not mistaken, the OCP unlocker only changes overall OCP and not per channel. The mod is for the per channel OCP.

I think the IC is also a bit different than for TF2. This one's uP6218, the one for TF2 is ~ uP6x13 right? PCB is pretty much the same, though.

Yes, OCP unlocker only grounds the IMAX on the controller for overall OCP. AFAIK the ISEN pins for the individual phases handles the load balancing between the phases. This shouldn't need any modding as you want each phase to be balanced but I could be wrong. If you measure ISEN you'll see even at crazy clocks the current draw isn't close to the trip point. Running the core at -120C has some benefits on power draw

Ahh, not the same PCB. The Hawk has 4x2 VRM versus 3x2 for the TF2. My controller is a 3-phase controller, yours is a 2/4/8 phase controller. Will be interesting to see if that affects things.

[MaJ0r]

massman here is all mods http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=267473&page=2

[massman]

I think that's a different card, no?

[dude1992]

#6

Yeah This hawk version is like the big brother. Have you tried it on LN2 yet ?

[massman]

Not yet. I'm focussing currently on MOA EMEA final so testing GTX580 lightning

[MaJ0r]

I think that's a different card, no?

I'm sorry, my mistake Good luck on MOA

[massman]

Well that was quick ... this session took around 45 minutes before closing down again.

SETUP:

- Core i7 990X
- SF3D Inflection Point (keep CPU temp ~ 20°C)
- GIGABYTE X58A-OC
- 2x 2GB ADATA "no, not hyper" XPG+ series
- MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk
- Ryba Fat Pot
- Coolermaster 1000W PSU

SETTINGS:

- 1.45V Vgpu
- 1.67V Vmem
- 1350MHz core at -70°C
- 1300MHz memory (1350 at 1.8V)
- Coldslow at -73°C

I'm all out of slider too ...

6442 at 3DMark11, link: http://hwbot.org/community/submissio..._ti_6442_marks

PICTURES AND VIDEO:

Only a retarded 3DMark11 screen. Who cares running other benchmarks if there's a coldslow, right! Uploaded some video to Youtube as well, but since there are no youtube tags here you'll have to check out the HWBOT submission.





More once the good BIOS arrives.

[ME4ME]

P6442 - lol

[massman]

Sorry Henry!

Received the coldslow BIOS, so flashed quickly and tested again. This BIOS is actually for the 560 ti Twin Frozr, but works perfectly on the Hawk too .

Using Nvidia Inspector to increase the VGA clocks now instead of Afterburner.

SETUP:

- Core i7 990X
- SF3D Inflection Point (keep CPU temp ~ 20°C)
- GIGABYTE X58A-OC
- 2x 2GB ADATA "no, not hyper" XPG+ series
- MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk
- Ryba Fat Pot
- Coolermaster 1000W PSU

SETTINGS:

- 1.46V Vgpu
- 1.86V Vmem
- 1350 / 1300 MHz @ -70°C
- 1400 / 1300 MHz @ -90°C
- 1450 / 1300 MHz @ -110°C
- 1475 / 1375 MHz @ -135°C
- 1500 / 1375 MHz @ -145°C (crashed in GT3)

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...marks?new=true

[ME4ME]

impressive!