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

[Darkstormz]

910MHz @ 1h MSI Kombustor aircooling fan at 86%

[donmarkoni]

910MHz @ 1h MSI Kombustor aircooling fan at 86%

Great card you got there!

[Darkstormz]

Great card you got there!

Yeah its pretty good, will try more later on

[papatsonis]

910MHz @ 1h MSI Kombustor aircooling fan at 86%

great!!.. 910mhz.. air cooling and 58 Celsius during.. kombustor... only to my eyes.. this is fraud...? (for watercooled i have no doubt.. its relative easily the 910 on water)

[Darkstormz]

great!!.. 910mhz.. air cooling and 58 Celsius during.. kombustor... only to my eyes.. this is fraud...? (for watercooled i have no doubt.. its relative easily the 910 on water)

It´s a Zotac AMP! with VF3000 cooler from Zalman

[owcraftsman]

Yep it looks like it could do the job

Does that thing cover three slots?



I have a 480 at 800 1600 1900 that runs at 104c +/-3c during extended BFBC2 play. in fairness the fan never really exceeds 44% either.

[_AntLionBR_]

For people who have GTX470 is the normal temperature reaches 107ºC playing any game? Before I used to overclock 800/1600/1900MHz (mV 1.037v), temperature was 107 º C playing, stability test (Kombustor) the same 107º C.

Now I degrades the clocks to 750/1500/1800MHz (1.013v) and the temperature remains at 107º C playing, same for stability test.

PS: That I've changed the thermal paste on the video card, I used the Arctic Cooling MX-3 for the GPU. Temp Idle 38ºC (gpu). Room Temp 30~32ºC.

My English is not the best, hope you understand.

Thanks!

Someone to answer?

[donmarkoni]

For people who have GTX470 is the normal temperature reaches 107ºC playing any game? Before I used to overclock 800/1600/1900MHz (mV 1.037v), temperature was 107 º C playing, stability test (Kombustor) the same 107º C.

Now I degrades the clocks to 750/1500/1800MHz (1.013v) and the temperature remains at 107º C playing, same for stability test.

PS: That I've changed the thermal paste on the video card, I used the Arctic Cooling MX-3 for the GPU. Temp Idle 38ºC (gpu). Room Temp 30~32ºC.

My English is not the best, hope you understand.

Thanks!

No, 107ºC is not normal, it's too much. If it's like that even after changing thermal paste, then something is wrong. Maybe heatsink is not seated properly on GPU, or it's not flat.

[_AntLionBR_]

No, 107ºC is not normal, it's too much. If it's like that even after changing thermal paste, then something is wrong. Maybe heatsink is not seated properly on GPU, or it's not flat.

Thanks for the reply.

Well, when I bought the card, it already had this temperature (800/1600/1900MHz) without using AC MX-3, with the new thermal paste, the temperature decreased 3°C degrees in Idle, nothing more. However, in the stability tests, it never occurred problems, no blue screen, crash, artifacts. Still, I have to worry about? Remembering that here in Brazil is very hot, about 28 ~ 32ºC today.

[donmarkoni]

Thanks for the reply.

Well, when I bought the card, it already had this temperature (without using AC MX-3) with the new thermal paste, the temperature decreased 3°C degrees in Idle, nothing more. However, in the stability tests, it never occurred problems, no blue screen, crash, artifacts. Still, I have to worry about? Remembering that here in Brazil is very hot, about 28 ~ 32ºC today.

When I changed thermal paste (before I got GPU watercooled) temp dropped from around 85 under load to around 80 and all that at around 25ºC room temp. So, considering temp differences, your GPU should not go over 90ºC.
I think your GPU is throttling and that way it's keeping itself at 107ºC in either case, but I might be wrong.
It would be good if you could disassemble your card and take pictures of thermal paste spread over GPU, so it can be seen if it has a good contact.
You could also check you heatsink's flatness using razor blade this way. GPU should be perfectly flat, as I have never seen anybody reporting otherwise.

[_AntLionBR_]

I think your GPU is throttling and that way it's keeping itself at 107ºC in either case, but I might be wrong.

I do not really understood what you meant in that sentence because my understanding of English, but what would be the "throttling"?

It would be good if you could disassemble your card and take pictures of thermal paste spread over GPU, so it can be seen if it has a good contact.

Here I always changed the thermal paste properly, I think it is not, but you never know.

I just have a picture of when I opened it, but the thermal paste was placed in the center of a drop gpu, and then spread with a card around.

[hodgy1971]

I do not really understood what you meant in that sentence because my understanding of English, but what would be the "throttling"?


Here I always changed the thermal paste properly, I think it is not, but you never know.

I just have a picture of when I opened it, but the thermal paste was placed in the center of a drop gpu, and then spread with a card around.

Throttling is when the gpu automatically decreases you clock speed. This is done to keep your gpu temps under control. That’s why you don’t see any difference in temps between your over clocked gpu and your standard gpu clock speeds. Maybe you could run afterburner while using a benchmark tool and see if your gpu clock speeds are running at your set speed or throttling back the speed to keep your temps under control.

Hodgy.

[donmarkoni]

I do not really understood what you meant in that sentence because my understanding of English, but what would be the "throttling"?

Here I always changed the thermal paste properly, I think it is not, but you never know.

I just have a picture of when I opened it, but the thermal paste was placed in the center of a drop gpu, and then spread with a card around.

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/126/1002971d.jpg

You got a very good answer from Hodgy.

About thermal paste, it looks like heat-pipes not touching GPU. I can only see lines on GPU made by metal part that separates heat-pipes. If you can do the razor blade test and take a picture, it would be great.

[cowie]

with the 470 ref heatsink you need to make sure the 4 screws on the heatsink itself are tighten just right for proper contact with the ihs,It looks in the picture that its is not.

107c with the fan at 80% or above does not sound right if your airflow is ok or ambient temps are not too high.

[hlonipha]

My best scores to date.

[owcraftsman]

Great score even better temps those DD blocks must be sweet

[LedHed]

nice scores in here guys

[tobo8888]

Bought it off someone 3 days ago. That's on the stock cooler that it came with.

Can't wait for it to get here!

[sn0man]

Bought it off someone 3 days ago. That's on the stock cooler that it came with.

Can't wait for it to get here!

68C @ 1.175 - where does this guy live?

[tobo8888]

68C @ 1.175 - where does this guy live?

north carolina

Those are pretty average temps, I loaded out at around 67 with 1.087 on my card.

It's a 465 GE flashed to a 470, badass full copper cooler.

[sn0man]

It's a 465 GE flashed to a 470, badass full copper cooler.

Ahh, didn't see that it was a 465/470.

[Smoking]

Anyone tried GTX480 with cold and without vmods?
What program did you use for voltage and overclocking?(MSI AB extreme?)
How far did the card go?

[cowie]

Anyone tried GTX480 with cold and without vmods?
What program did you use for voltage and overclocking?(MSI AB extreme?)
How far did the card go?

since i killed my other 480 i took it easy on my good 480.
close to 1000 with 1.18v(nvi or ab) on hipros cold mod bios with ln2 should be ok.
cbb -65c ish cb -100c ish

[Funky]

little surprised not to find a single result for MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II. Expecting this to land here sometime next week (its shipping from Hong kong sometime this week ). Cant wait to start benching it.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

little surprised not to find a single result for MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II. Expecting this to land here sometime next week (its shipping from Hong kong sometime this week ). Cant wait to start benching it.

Speak of the Devil! I just ordered one openbox. It was way too good of a deal to pass up.

I'll run it stock and report temps & scores.

Besides MSI afterburner, Kombustor and 3dmark, what other benches should I run?