*** Nvidia GTX 460 Overclocking Thread ***

[Aedubber]

Dammit stormad I love your score man ! I'm so upset nobody will make a waterblock for this card , it would be a beast under water . When I had my card I couldn't get 900mhz stable in vantage cuz I have no fans inside my comp lol everything is watercooled . Best I did was 880 and was shy of 20k

[lanken123]

for those of you who've achieved 1ghz with the msi cyclone 1gb,was it withthe stock cooler orr water?

[Aedubber]

With proper cooling you can't prob hit it on air , dunno how stable it would be tho , just like the review they did , but nobody knows if it was stable or not , either way def good card and there are waterblocks for them .

[azureoval]

3d06 @ 1015. I had some very small graphical glitches in the last two test so I am not calling this stable, only that it passed.

[Aedubber]

What's your total gpu score bro ? I can't see this graph too well cuz I'm on my iPhone on the forums .

[azureoval]

What's your total gpu score bro ? I can't see this graph too well cuz I'm on my iPhone on the forums .

Yeah I should have only captured the active window.
25360 total
2.0 = 9893
3.0 = 12241
cpu = 6888

[Aedubber]

Damn that is an awesome score and that's just for 1 card right??

[Boulard83]

VERY good score but damn high clock for 24/7

[azureoval]

Damn that is an awesome score and that's just for 1 card right??

Yep. @985 I didn't get artifacts so that is the highest clock so far I would call stable even though 1015 passes easy.

OT: does anybody on here have Dirt 1 , and if so can you try it with the 460. My copy will freeze as soon as I press the "race" button and those annoying flying accomplishment screens stop. My dirt 2 works just fine up to 1ghz.

[azureoval]

VERY good score but damn high clock for 24/7

My 24/7 clock will probably be 925 when I'm done playing around. I get 23xxx in 3d06 and over 60 fps in Dirt2 everything maxed, so that good enough for me. But of course I'm not done playing yet.

[xcaninox]

@azureoval wow that's a damn nice overclock!! i guess you colling it with water right? what pcb are yours? reference? what voltage are you using for this kinda of clock?

[azureoval]

@azureoval wow that's a damn nice overclock!! i guess you colling it with water right? what pcb are yours? reference? what voltage are you using for this kinda of clock?

Palit pcb with g92 hole spacing with a mcw80 swiftech gpu block. Enzotech copper 'sinks on mem and vregs. I think I used 1.200 volts for 1015. For 985 I think I used 1.187 or so. I'm a little hesitent to go to 1.212v but I will probably try it again.

[azureoval]

Alright I bit the bullit and got Vantage.
I saw some small artifacts in "Jane" but "calico" was clean. weird
Update: I redid this @1000 1.200v and It ran clean. Got P19400 3dmarks

[Aedubber]

You did the run without PhysX? Try applying it and then do the run again, your scores should be higher

[lowfat]

You did the run without PhysX? Try applying it and then do the run again, your scores should be higher

Or course they would be higher. But enabling PhysX and you won't have a legit score.

[Aedubber]

Ya but i just wanna see the score lol..

[xcaninox]

Palit pcb with g92 hole spacing with a mcw80 swiftech gpu block. Enzotech copper 'sinks on mem and vregs. I think I used 1.200 volts for 1015. For 985 I think I used 1.187 or so. I'm a little hesitent to go to 1.212v but I will probably try it again.

uhhh nice!! tell me something how can you get these high voltages?softmod or hardmod? i was told that the max voltage is 1.087 via soft.. so im kinda confused now..

i guess then you are using a modified bios right? but how to modify a bios if nibitor do not supporty 460 yet? if yes where did you get it?

nice score btw! have you tried @1.20 with aircooling? just curious to see what the results would be....

[kup]

Look a few threads down. Ket is modding the bios for us.

[xcaninox]

Look a few threads down. Ket is modding the bios for us.

wow brother thanks, u really helped me out on this.. i found the thread, it's like i've discovered a new horizon now!!!!

i haven't bought my GTX460 until now, waiting for an advice to get the perfect PCB... i mean there's various PCBs on the market.. and i want the one with bestest VRE.. may someone please point out the pcb with the bestest VREGs?

ps: discard HAWK i can't wait for it..

[kup]

I would say the Asus Direct CU is a good contender for the best PCB, it's reference but the quality is brilliant. Just my 2 cents.

[VoRtAn_MaDgE]

I've applied the new Gigabyte F2 bios on my card with the unlocked fan settings and now(fan maximum) i could reach 900 Mhz in Vantage, with Physics on i finally broke the 20k limit:

fan@100% and volts ?
Grabbed one too.
Reaching fan auto and stock volts 860mhz/1720/2300 so far
Dunno if it's maxed out yet, gonna try later tonight stock fan/volts and with "juice" too.

[OC Nub]

Just put the card in, ran MSI Kombuster at 1080res, 8xAA, DX11 for around 8 minutes at 900mhz core, temps didnt break 65c. Not sure what the best test for stability is, I will use BC2 tonight and see how high it goes.



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[Aedubber]

Vantage is pretty aggressive on the cards , I perfer to run a few runs wth vantage on my cards without any atifacts or tears and that's considered stable for me . But ya def tweak what you can little by little

[Stormad]

At Vortan Madge, the Voltage used was 1.087!

[OC Nub]

Vantage is pretty aggressive on the cards , I perfer to run a few runs wth vantage on my cards without any atifacts or tears and that's considered stable for me . But ya def tweak what you can little by little

Looks like Kombuster isnt so good, video driver stopped responding in Vantage at the same clocks. Guess Ill have to bump up voltage. I have another card comming tomorrow so they will run at stock most of the time, not to concerned about oc'ability on them.

I ran Vantage at 800 core and set physx to the cpu, score wasnt good, just over 16k, thats with an i7 920 at 4300mhz, seems low.