*** NVIDIA 470/480 Series Thread ***

[Smolka]

Hi guys
I need yours advices!!!!
One week ago I installed on my gtx480 EK copper plexi block and everything was ok. When I started to oc my card I found out that 850/1700/2000 is stable with low voltage 1V, but when i increased voltage (for example 1.05V) I saw artifacts on the same frekvency, so I can´t go higher. Please, help me!!

[NapalmV5]

NapalmV5 I would like to see a GTX 480 reach 1GHz core clock, now that would truly be an exciting achievement!

These GTX 480's overclock like champs even though they run pretty hot on air! I feel that if your going to invest in (2-3 way SLI) these hot cards one really needs water cooling to get the most out of these GTX 480's!

all i can do is 1ghz @ windows @ stock cooler and stock bios



modified bios (ocp and ovp off) and a bit better vcore 975/1950/2200 definitely @ surface deformer benchmark

[QuadDamage]

Yeah the new drivers are defo nice. Here's my Vantage run at my new 24/7 clocks. VGPU is at 1.137V. Next time i'll slap some chilled water goodness on my card and see how far she'll go. BTW, Napalm looks like you've got yourself a decent card. You need to push it some more my friend

[Viss]

Quick compare with single ENGTX480:

X58A-UD7
980X (25x160)
ENGTX480 (stock)
Win7 64b

197.75 vs 257.15

3D2003:




Vantage:




Heaven 2.1:

[Systemlord]

Hi guys
I need yours advices!!!!
One week ago I installed on my gtx480 EK copper plexi block and everything was ok. When I started to oc my card I found out that 850/1700/2000 is stable with low voltage 1V, but when i increased voltage (for example 1.05V) I saw artifacts on the same frekvency, so I can´t go higher. Please, help me!!

When you start to see artifacts that's an indication of not enough voltage to the GPU, the overclocks you are showing aren't from MSI's Afterburner 1.6.0 beta 5. 1v compared to 1.05V is (tiny) nothing, you need to increase the voltage higher and if you can't your using the wrong overclocking program! I'm able to set my GPU voltage from 1.000v to 1.135 volts, I'm max out at 1.135 with an overclock of 852/1704/2100. You can not overclock the Shader and Core separately, you should have them linked!

[Systemlord]

all i can do is 1ghz @ windows @ stock cooler and stock bios



modified bios (ocp and ovp off) and a bit better vcore 975/1950/2200 definitely @ surface deformer benchmark

When you say stock bios what are you meaning? Never heard of a bios update for many graphics cards!

[VoRtAn_MaDgE]

GTX480 reference (gigabyte) stock volts/fan auto
Temp and wattage consumption

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XNITBB5A

[hlonipha]

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[Factotum]

gtx 470 @ 890/1031 - 22933 score w/o PhysX in vantage:

[hlonipha]

How can I disable physX with the latest beta drivers 257.15 ?

Thanks

[Factotum]

nvidia control panel - this PhysX disabled:

[hlonipha]

nvidia control panel - this PhysX disabled:

thanks

[VoRtAn_MaDgE]

The fps increase by overclocking these cards are pretty good...

[OliverM84]

Hey,
a little update @ warm 34°C water, 960/1920/2410MHz, single GTX480.



Olli

[Vanz]

Friend's GTX 470 max clocks with EK water cooling: 940/1880/1165 MHz

[Factotum]

Friend's GTX 470 max clocks with EK water cooling

EK for VRM.
my limit in 1.162-1.175V with mcw60 + stock plate with direct airflow =((

[death]

We happily announce Afterburner 1.6.0 Beta 6! In this version we add over-voltage support of several new card, including new GeForce GTX 465 that is going to launch next week.(5/31)

We also update built-in benchmark tool Kombustor to newer version with many new function like voltage monitor.

Please give us feedback and suggestion on this version.

Download:http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner...up160Beta6.zip

[Changelog for Afterburner 1.6.0 Beta 6]
- Added voltage control for one more MSI N240GT Low Profile graphics card version
- Added initial NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 series graphics cards support
- Changed marketing name for MSI R5670-PD512 in hardware database
- Core clock is now used as primary overclocking domain instead of shader clock on GeForce GTX 400
- Unlocked memory downclocking ability on GeForce GTX 400 series
- Default core voltages for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series cards are no longer hardcoded into the database. Now MSI Afterburner uses new NVIDIA driver API to read variable default fused voltages on GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards. Please take a note that new API reqires updated release 256 drivers, which are not available to public yet. MSI Afterburner will not affect core voltage at all when restoring defaults under curretnly available drivers
- Upper limit for core voltage slider on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards has been upped to 1213mV. Please take a note that regular GTX 400 cards will not allow you to go beyond the reference voltage limits (1087mV for GTX 470 and 1138mV for GTX 480) until unlocked BIOS is flashed
- Fixed <Link> button state saving/restoring issue on old NVIDIA cards caused
by introducing Fermi family support
- MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.7.1. New server improves On-Screen Display 3D rendering mode compatibility with Source engine based games and Star Trek Online and contains updated profiles list

[Changelog for Kombustor 1.08]
- New: added the GPU voltage in the GPU monitoring zone.
- Change: now GPUs indexing follows the same indexing scheme than Afterburner.
- Change: added name of the graphics card in temperature graphs.
- Change: removed the auto-start of Afterburner.
- Bugfix: the benchmarking params group was still grayed.
- Minor bugfixes and changes.

just out as we speak amazing work from unwinde and MSI

all so new best for me 888 core stable 1.162v

[ell]

Hey,
a little update @ warm 34°C water, 960/1920/2410MHz, single GTX480.



Olli

What block you using ?

[Factotum]

Now afterburner sees voltage from the modified BIOS - 1.212 for GTX 470

[hetsaq]

Anyone have a copy of E-Leet 1.0.7.2? Love you long time!

[mk-ultra]

^ here ^

[hetsaq]

You are a gentleman, thank you!

[OliverM84]

what block you using ?

ek ...

[death]

http://blog.orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-...-tool#more-244

NVIDIA Inspector 1.86 - Tool

[Hastatess]

My 470 Under SS