Quote Originally Posted by Vapor View Post
877 core @ 1138mV (set....drooped to 1070-1075mV or so under load)

All the pretesting to decide final settings was done on the Bitspower and at voltages above like 1180mV (set, not actual), it was having runaway issues (i.e., failure).

All blocks passed the overclocked settings for this test (877 core at 1138mV), but better blocks can definitely take more voltage. I don't know where the eVGA block would begin to fail, but it was really close to 100C for VRM temps at the standard overclocked settings, so possibly not much more than that. Putting a fan on it helps significantly though
So if someone wants the highest overclock on their water cooled GTX 480 should we just flash the BIOS with at setting of 1.2v and hope for the best? I've never flashed a graphics card BIOS before, but would like to learn. I expected by now a guide with pictures showing beginners how to set voltages and flash a graphics cards BIOS.