Gigabyte GTX 260 SOC + Liquid Nitrogen NexGen Style!

[V2-V3]

Today I started overclocking for the Gigabyte Beat me if you dare competition.

This morning I started with stock air benching in 3D Mark Vantage. to my surprise with stock cooling and stock Voltages I achieved a max stable core clock of 775MHz, 1300MHz Memory, and a Shader clock of 1710MHz.

This is rather impress considering the stock core clock for the SOC card is 680MHz vs the reference clock of 576MHz. Nearly 200MHz of overclocking headroom!!!!

My impressions this far lead me to believe Gigabyte has a card worthy of the Overclock name! (Move over ASUS TOP?)

Rig Picture:


3DMark Vantage Single GTX 260:
Performance 13773 3D Marks


Resident Evil 5 game benchmark: N/A
fps score: 116.6
Screenshot:

CPU: Intel i7 Xeon @ 3200MHz
Motherboard: EVGA CLASSIFIED 759
RAM: 6GB of Patriot Viper 1600MHz DDR3 Triple Channel @ 1866MHz
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 260 SOC (216 SPP) @ 775MHz Core, 1300MHz Memory, 1710MHz Shader clock

Gigabyte GTX 260 SOC (Super Overclock Edition)



Here is the naked PCB with cooling assembly removed


Next I apply heat sinks to the two secondary thermal zones


Kneaded eraser is used to prevent condensation or buildup of ice on the PCB

I have also coated the back of the card and used RAMsinks on the rear MOSFETS


Next I mount the Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator


benching the card with CPU on air


My Benchmarking station


Preparing the EVGA CLASSIFIED 759 Motherboard for Liquid Nitrogen Benchmarking
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Applying Insulation to the CPU socket area


Time for some LN2 Action!


3DMark Vantage Performance Benchmark 15244 3D Marks

Intel i7 Xeon @ 4933Mhz -75c
Gigabyte GTX 260 SOC @ 840MHz Core Memory 1300MHz Shader 1853MHz -120c
Patriot Memory Viper DDR3 3x2GB 1600MHz @ 1969MHz CR @ 1T

Resident Evil 5 Performance Benchmark 142.1 FPS Average


With a max stable core clock of 840MHz at -120c The only thing holding me back are these stock voltages!

I have a Vmod in the works for the GPU Core and will be posting some EXTREME GTX 260 Benchmarks.

Big Thanks to Zuriah, my LN2 helper

[Marco André]

Please reach home fast

[V2-V3]

Just got home!

uploading now

[Hondacity]

hey dude...nice going there....did you unlock the shaders when pushing it? burn bios

clean setup ....i like the clean benching space..

*i'll let you know when i'm around..i'm still recovering from this cough cough*

[V2-V3]

Being held back by the stock voltages, Im currently working on a Vmod and will have some very nice benches to post

[saaya]

super overclock? 0_o weird name...
what do i see there? child labour?!?!?! you damn SOB! set her free already! ^^

[youngpro]

yeah man your looking good so far with this result,

i find that the eraser CONDUCTS heat or in your case cold, so you might be hurting your ram clocking there but conducting cold onto that area... because generally speaking gddr doesnt always clock well when its cold..

[hipro5]

You lucky!.....My Gigabyte 260 SOC is the WORST core ever....
MAX on stock is 702MHz core and at 1.25V goes up to 727MHz with a HUGE heatsink on the core......

[V2-V3]

The Vmod is live! even better LN2 results to come!

[Kal-EL]

what brand of eraser is that? looks like playdoh!

[Dezmen]

Nice job, cute girl xD

[Turrican]

really nice isolation on the card.
good work

[thijs]

suprised that im the first to say this, but nice "No look pour" photo.
Might even be better then, o wait no, that's impossible... :P

GJ on the benchin!

[LAMB OF GOD]

WTH!!! ur doing this 260gtx overclock with stock cooler???
kindly let us know more benches ... some games esp!!!

[V2-V3]

I really don't like this RE5 Benchmark..... 4th time in a row i have tried to take a screen shot of the score and the program closes out to the main menu.........

[[XC] gomeler]

You know what is worse? NVIDIA driver crashing during the score sequence. I had a few killer runs and this happened, not coldbugging the card or OVP tripping, driver just crashes. I really hate the RE5 benchmark, is it 100% inconsistent. I had a better score at 975MHz core 2000MHz shader 1323MHz memory than at 1033MHz core 2200MHz shader 1356MHz memory -_-

[V2-V3]

Ya, this benchmark is really making me angry! I keep having similar driver crashes around 97% test completion and at the score screen

[Onoff312]

Blue pcb=ewwww 840mhz on lnd stock volts? not bad but i would of expected more i can get 790 out of my watercooled 260 stock for benches

[miahallen]

Nice work so far V2-V3...lets see the rest

[miahallen]

Good bench.

im MSI GTX 260 LIGHTNING AIR STOCK COOLER BENCHMARK

Total threadjack dude...not cool

[EXPANDER]

Total threadjack dude...not cool

Gpu no LN2
Stock cooler. Total Score Normal. Not Fastest.

[V2-V3]

Nice work so far V2-V3...lets see the rest

Normally I would have a lot more time to bench and tweak, but over the weekend my store was burglarized and nearly half of my equipment and product was stolen. They even managed to take a few of my benching rigs and some CPU/GPU Pots...... making it a little hard to bench right now with out all my nice tools and hardware Currently neck deep in paperwork for insurance and the police department....

Im going to try and get one more bench in b4 the end of the week.

[DonBanana]

Sorry to hear that, i hope, everything will become fine and the insurance will pay fastly for it

What casing/benchtable is that? Some kind of Mountain Mods work?

[miahallen]

Gpu no LN2
Stock cooler. Total Score Normal. Not Fastest.

SO WHAT...HE NEVER CLAIMED IT WAS THE FASTEST, HE WAS SIMPLY SHARING HIS SESSION.

If you want to share your work - MAKE YOUR OWN THREAD!

His eff is way better than your anyway...you're not impressing anyone

Normally I would have a lot more time to bench and tweak, but over the weekend my store was burglarized and nearly half of my equipment and product was stolen. They even managed to take a few of my benching rigs and some CPU/GPU Pots...... making it a little hard to bench right now with out all my nice tools and hardware Currently neck deep in paperwork for insurance and the police department....

Im going to try and get one more bench in b4 the end of the week.

Sorry to hear that man ...good luck getting things straightened out!

[Hondacity]

damn you got screwed too

hope everything goes well man