Quote Originally Posted by QuadDamage View Post
the card crashes at 875Mhz almost instantly in '06, at 850Mhz it crashes in the second test but it should do 835/840Mhz core. I haven't pushed the memory yet. I'll do that now.
So many times I prediced that GTX 480 would barely OC. That nVidia would have an impossible time reaching 750Mhz.

If so many people are getting 800Mhz+, perhaps 480SP and 700Mhz had more to do with limiting power consumption than yields.

If you had chips easily able to do 800Mhz, why else would you sell them at 700Mhz?

By using LN2 cooling on a GeForce GTX 480 video card he was able to take the core clock from 700MHz up to 1165MHz, which is an amazing 66% overclock! He then used an Intel Xeon E5640 processor at 4GHz and was able to score just shy of 30,000 3DMarks in the Performance test of 3DMark Vantage

Holy Smokes Batman. Can somebody do the math on how much current must be going through those 6 voltage regulation circuits!!?

Me thinks at whatever ungodly voltage Shamino used for 1165, "normal" 1200W-1500W PSU could be not enough for the system.

At stock voltage it seems LN2 alone gets 900Mhz on the core - ie cooling seems to be the main issue

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/geforce_gtx_480