GTX 680 OC - Result-Thread --- Post your results here

[andressergio]

It might make a little difference with up to four GPU's, I've never heard of anyone in the existence of PCIe suffering from performance losses do to a lack of PCIe bandwidth.

yes its just as you say even on the tests x16 and x8 is min dif

[andressergio]

this cards eats game like crazy

this is Crysis2 with ALL maxed out on ULTRA settings with DX11 + high res text + MALDO HD new 3.0B mod, frames are cap to 50 dunno why even so feels like 100fps super smooth













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[aussie-revhead]

My 680 hit its limit at +180, it seems a few others have the same limit, I would like to know how many are able to bench higher than +180.

Also, I heard an 850w psu is enough for two of these, can any of you with two 680's confirm this?

I was hoping Ivy would be the next benching adventure for me but water results dont sound good .....

[Manicdan]

i get artifacts on my stock heatsink at 210,
200 is ok but i like a little more security than that, so my 24/7 is currently 175

EDIT: i wish the card was able to push more volts, every test i run only uses 120% of tdp and so 132% seems like a moot point unless im running furmark

[andressergio]

My 680 hit its limit at +180, it seems a few others have the same limit, I would like to know how many are able to bench higher than +180.

hey buddy how are you ? my SLI does +200 / +540



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[Andrea deluxe]

please share the EVGA SC or SC+ bios

PS: backup with the latest nvflash.

[BababooeyHTJ]

please share the EVGA SC or SC+ bios

PS: backup with the latest nvflash.

Seriously, I want that bios.

i get artifacts on my stock heatsink at 210,
200 is ok but i like a little more security than that, so my 24/7 is currently 175

EDIT: i wish the card was able to push more volts, every test i run only uses 120% of tdp and so 132% seems like a moot point unless im running furmark

Does that make it through a couple of loops of Heaven? Even a 200mhz offset is a lot.

[Manicdan]

Does that make it through a couple of loops of Heaven? Even a 200mhz offset is a lot.

im having trouble with 200mhz again. i actually spend the last few hours running heaven to see the scaling with different speeds, and to see where memory ecc kicks in and lowers scores (tip, it never did)
ill have a screenshot up soon of the results.

but now that im on water, im actually not happy with what nvidia did with their voltage output. i did alot of reading and the voltage control is about as dumb as they could get. i understand the basic idea that as your temps are high, you lower voltage to lower power draw and bring it to a safe level. but dynamic volts and dynamic OC dont mix very well at all, and so for people on air the moment they break 70c they get a drop in volts, and a very minor drop in mhz, and crash. for us on water the 1.175 (which for me is reporting 1.162) is no where near enough to hit the 132% of tdp unless we run things that we are not suppose too, like furmark.

[Andrea deluxe]

Seriously, I want that bios.



Does that make it through a couple of loops of Heaven? Even a 200mhz offset is a lot.

just for the info.

i just flashed my msi to evga (stock ) bios and work well.

NO PROBLEM WITH DIGITAL SIGNATURE.

[batmang]

hey buddy how are you ? my SLI does +200 / +540



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Nice results.
On a side note, what CPU gadget is that? That is pretty rad looking.

[andressergio]

Nice results.
On a side note, what CPU gadget is that? That is pretty rad looking.

thanks buddy !!! its this

http://www.xyberdyn.com/tools/

its very light no fancy i must admit but u can see real charge of cores on each

cheers !
Sergio

[andressergio]

im having trouble with 200mhz again. i actually spend the last few hours running heaven to see the scaling with different speeds, and to see where memory ecc kicks in and lowers scores (tip, it never did)
ill have a screenshot up soon of the results.

but now that im on water, im actually not happy with what nvidia did with their voltage output. i did alot of reading and the voltage control is about as dumb as they could get. i understand the basic idea that as your temps are high, you lower voltage to lower power draw and bring it to a safe level. but dynamic volts and dynamic OC dont mix very well at all, and so for people on air the moment they break 70c they get a drop in volts, and a very minor drop in mhz, and crash. for us on water the 1.175 (which for me is reporting 1.162) is no where near enough to hit the 132% of tdp unless we run things that we are not suppose too, like furmark.

at first only my upper card did +200 after i start using slowly and shooting 3DM11 she would do it, and also if you are on SLI the best is NOT to use SYNC, something's bugged and cards would not do the same synched...

thats so far are my small investigations, posted on EVGA forums also some ppl had good results not using it, maybe software bug

cheers and good luck
Sergio

[aussie-revhead]

So does that mean that when guys work out how to bypass the thermal monitoring or force constant voltage that max clocks will increase? Or is that basically what kingpin and co did for that world record LN card? I guess that's something that can be addressed with non-ref models when they come out.

Something to look forward to maybe

[Manicdan]

update: my card is going back as defective

i was noticing that at almost any memory OC i would see an artifact every now and then, and then while in windows the screen went all green and it did a permanent crash (no driver recovery) and now i get artifacts everywhere, even in motherboard bios, and the card cannot be recognized by windows. so doing a replacement as defective with newegg.

[Systemlord]

update: my card is going back as defective

i was noticing that at almost any memory OC i would see an artifact every now and then, and then while in windows the screen went all green and it did a permanent crash (no driver recovery) and now i get artifacts everywhere, even in motherboard bios, and the card cannot be recognized by windows. so doing a replacement as defective with newegg.

That sucks man especially if you have everything setup for water cooling, I always run my new hardware on air until it proves itself worthy!

[aussie-revhead]

hey buddy how are you ? my SLI does +200 / +540

Hey mate, Im good. Im not surprised your cards clock well as everything you buy seems to clock better than average ....

[andressergio]

Hey mate, Im good. Im not surprised your cards clock well as everything you buy seems to clock better than average ....

hey why ? i just picked them random only part good is both are of consecutive series

at first didnt go well, as days passed second card started to OC same as first

[Manicdan]

That sucks man especially if you have everything setup for water cooling, I always run my new hardware on air until it proves itself worthy!

i did, and saw the same exact problems where artifacts happened at almost any setting but never really crashed unless i pushed the core. at +600 on the ram it definitely had issues so i quit but it never caused a crash. the only difference on the waterblock was thats when it just totally gave up

sucks how newegg charges 7$ to ship it out, which i got free with a coupon. but to ship it back to them is 14$.

[Manicdan]

as promised, unigene scaling at a number of different speeds

right click and view image if its not full size (site shrinking images is nice, but i wish it had options for those of us who dont want to)


what i did was put in a light OC onto one side as i scaled up the other. so all memory overclocks were done with a 100+ on the core, and the core was done with 300+ on the memory.

there were a few times where the scores jumped higher than they should have, however oddly there was never a time when it was under the very clear scaling line. except when i overclocked both the core and ram, where its OCed 18%, but only got 14% faster

for the 2 right columns with % values, i took the average of the OC to ram and core. so if core is 0 and ram is 10%, its actually listed as a 5% OC, and as you can see the combination of both almost scales perfectly with the games increase.

enjoy

[emertX]

anyone here with the evga hc?

[BababooeyHTJ]

this cards eats game like crazy

this is Crysis2 with ALL maxed out on ULTRA settings with DX11 + high res text + MALDO HD new 3.0B mod, frames are cap to 50 dunno why even so feels like 100fps super smooth

I'm running Crysis 1 with 4x MSAA, 4x transparency SSAA, a few texture mods, POM, 16x AF, and a tweaked autoexe.cfg so that I see next to no popins on a single card and still averaging around 60fps. I'm impressed. That config alone eats 1.5GB of vram at 1080p.

[andressergio]

I'm running Crysis 1 with 4x MSAA, 4x transparency SSAA, a few texture mods, POM, 16x AF, and a tweaked autoexe.cfg so that I see next to no popins on a single card and still averaging around 60fps. I'm impressed. That config alone eats 1.5GB of vram at 1080p.

im runing also Crysis 1 with all mods but i still didnt find the way to uncap to 60fps with VSYNC
incredible that an old game like Crysis 1 looks SO good

did you try Maldo for Crysis2 ?

[BababooeyHTJ]

im runing also Crysis 1 with all mods but i still didnt find the way to uncap to 60fps with VSYNC
incredible that an old game like Crysis 1 looks SO good

did you try Maldo for Crysis2 ?

Yeah, I've just been using adaptive v-sync. Performance isn't consistent enough with vsync so the framerate jumps around for me. Have you tried just forcing it from the control panel?

I haven't tried Maldo for Crysis 2. I'll have to give it a shot. I've heard good things.

[andressergio]

Yeah, I've just been using adaptive v-sync. Performance isn't consistent enough with vsync so the framerate jumps around for me. Have you tried just forcing it from the control panel?

I haven't tried Maldo for Crysis 2. I'll have to give it a shot. I've heard good things.

yes the guy should be hired to work at Crytek he modded 1k textures, added tessellation and lots of stuff...see pics above

you can download all from here hope you enjoy

http://maldotex.blogspot.com/2011/10/maldohd-30.html

any problem drop me a PM

cheers form South America amigo !
Sergio

[sepol]

please share the EVGA SC or SC+ bios

PS: backup with the latest nvflash.

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/1...48.120329.html

Already flashed my gtx 680 with that bios. Work flawless. Enjoy.