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

[donmarkoni]

Here are my stock results. Keep in mind, PhysX was enabled but attached to a GTX 260. I'll run again with it disabled but tend to keep it enabled for Vantage.



I'm curious about the posts above indicating flashing the BIOS. I'll have to read more about that. What tool does everyone use to OC the cards? What if we use different brands? I have a Gigabyte and an MSI 470.

Anyone have Tri-SLI on 470's yet?

Use nvflash for flashing. Most popular OC tool right now is MSI Afterburner. You can use different brands, but it's usually the best to flash them all to same BIOS.

[Factotum]

found bug after bios mod:

1,484V for GPU
but multimeter showed 1,225V

[Factotum]

successful modification of the BIOS and lower temperatures in idle.
In room 27C, but card nice and quiet:

[pr@$r1g]

^So u bought 465 ,how is it compared to 470

[Factotum]

^So u bought 465 ,how is it compared to 470

its PoV GTX 465







But PCB from GTX 470
(gtx 470 shot with my Sony, GTX 465 shot with new Canon - color difference, but in real - some )



after cross-flashing its full GTX 470:



Vantage test:

[pr@$r1g]

^ thanks man

Take a look @ this



http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/7731...65-unlock.html

[Factotum]

^ thanks man
Take a look @ this

PNY random bug.
We try cross-flashing GTX 470, but performance configuration of protection in the card itself, only duplicate in bios
my EVGA GTX 470 SC and PoV GTX 465 have this after flashing GTX 480 bios:


and edit vendor in gtx 465 bios:

[kado-pt]

Finally got my GTX470 from Asus.
It runs very hot on load, about 90c and 47c when in idle. Dual monitor temps are about 75c! I changed the thermal paste from that sloppy job to some AC MX-2 and got 2 or 3c back.
I was able to reduce dual monitor temps by reducing memory clocks to 209mhz using nvidia inspector. Temps are about 55c now.

[Systemlord]

Finally got my GTX470 from Asus.
It runs very hot on load, about 90c and 47c when in idle. Dual monitor temps are about 75c! I changed the thermal paste from that sloppy job to some AC MX-2 and got 2 or 3c back.
I was able to reduce dual monitor temps by reducing memory clocks to 209mhz using nvidia inspector. Temps are about 55c now.

I would set the fan speed to 70% as you will see even cooler temps, I'm idling at 40C with fan speed set to 70%. You will need a program like Afterburner so that when your computer first starts the fan speed will automatically go to 70%.

-Systemlord

[IvanG]

Here checks out mines at iddle not bads at alls. on max load have reached 66C max. see the fan profile

[Sniper]

First test with 2x EVGA 470:


Stock coolers.

[Systemlord]

First test with 2x EVGA 470:


Stock coolers.

Impressive, what's your GPU voltage for both 470's?

-Systemlord

[Helloworld_98]

and are you on water?

[nickless]

Here is EVGA GTX480SC, only GPU under water with modified MCW60:

Vantage - P24474, Phys off: 3d06 - 30447

[Sniper]

Impressive, what's your GPU voltage for both 470's?

-Systemlord

1.087v, stock bios and coolers, 100% fan, 23 ambient.

The first card is a EVGA GTX 470 SC, does 875/1000 single. The second one is a demo/refurb card I picked up yesterday, does 860/980 single. Cpu is watercooled.

258.96 gives a nice boost in Vantage, but cant get sli to work in 06.

[donmarkoni]

1.087v, stock bios and coolers, 100% fan, 23 ambient.

The first card is a EVGA GTX 470 SC, does 875/1000 single. The second one is a demo/refurb card I picked up yesterday, does 860/980 single. Cpu is watercooled.

258.96 gives a nice boost in Vantage, but cant get sli to work in 06.

Check this out: Low usage on 2nd GPU in 3DMark [SOLVED]. I had problem with 3DMark06 not using 2nd GPU.

[Sniper]

Thanks

[THX152]

With 3-Way SLI on the 470's and 258.96 I'm seeing 28473 (PhysX on).



I haven't begun overclocking the CPU or cards yet - this is all stock. I see some folks getting above this with SLI 470's. Am I CPU bound with the X6 1055T? Would moving to an Intel i7 make that big of a difference?

Thanks!

[M_T_M]

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/gra...r-%E2%82%AC400

[Systemlord]

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/gra...r-%E2%82%AC400

That doesn't help us in the states, 449.00 EUR = $578.967 USD. Here there $499.99 US dollars, you sure pay a lot more!

[M_T_M]

http://www.mylemon.at/artikel,nr,274...84bit_Dual.htm

[Andrea deluxe]

http://www.techpowerup.com/126702/AS...celerator.html

[Utnorris]

Ok,
So I have two Asus GTX470's in SLI. I came home yesterday night and started playing BF2142 and during the game I was getting random pauses where the video would stop, but then restart as though nothing had happened. I went and uninstalled all my Nvidia software, i.e. Nvidia Physx, Control panel, etc. I then used driver sweeper from Guru3d under safe mode to remove all the drivers and what not. Then I reinstalled the 257.21 drivers, again under safe mode. Went in and started playing the game and still got the random pauses. I started the game over and had GPUz running this time so I could monitor my cards on the second monitor. I noticed that my GPU clock kept dropping from 607Mhz (stock) to 405Mhz during the game and the voltage would drop also. So I disabled my main card using the RE3 onboard PCIe on/off switch. The pauses went away, but I noticed the same fluctuations in my GPU clock. Any ideas what could be going on?

My setup is as follows:
RE3
980x @ 4.138Ghz
2 x Asus GTX470 at stock speeds
2 x Intel 80Gb G1 SSD in RAID 0
Enermax Revolution 950 PSU

Cooling is:
CPU is water cooled
GTX470's are water cooled by a Koolance GPU-220 GPU only block with the stock sink for the memory and VRM's. My temps never exceed 42c under load.

I haven't done any bios flashing on these cards and as I stated before I uninstalled the drivers, used clean sweeper to clean them off the system and then reinstalled the drivers.

Any ideas would be helpful. On a side note, I did have an issue with my system not wanting to boot at my overclock settings the other day, left it alone over night and everything went back to normal. Not sure what is going on, it's like I have gremlins in the system messing with everything.

Thanks.

[IvanG]

little update new betas drivers dont want whql yet

a minor OC

[Sentential]

So I disabled my main card using the RE3 onboard PCIe on/off switch. The pauses went away, but I noticed the same fluctuations in my GPU clock. Any ideas what could be going on?

My setup is as follows:
RE3
980x @ 4.138Ghz
2 x Asus GTX470 at stock speeds
2 x Intel 80Gb G1 SSD in RAID 0
Enermax Revolution 950 PSU

Cooling is:
CPU is water cooled
GTX470's are water cooled by a Koolance GPU-220 GPU only block with the stock sink for the memory and VRM's. My temps never exceed 42c under load.

......

Any ideas would be helpful. On a side note, I did have an issue with my system not wanting to boot at my overclock settings the other day, left it alone over night and everything went back to normal. Not sure what is going on, it's like I have gremlins in the system messing with everything.

Thanks.

Yes I know exactally what's going on, before you immediately dismiss what I say I want you to look at the bolded parts as to why I came to this conclusion. You have a slow leak coming from your CPU block; likely one of the barbs, see highlighted parts as to why I think that. If you have a slow leak what's the first thing that CPU block is going to drip on, your MAIN card. Also when you leave it overnight what does that do? It removed the positive pressure in your lines causing the leak and dries the water on the card. Check by the PCI-E slot, my money is on a leak ecause I had the same issue and swore Id never get w/c again after I ignored it and blew out my vcard.