*** Nvidia GTX 460 Overclocking Thread ***

[xcaninox]

Right, I know that. I asked if they were square shaped or are they longer rectangular shaped and what he attached them with (if not, the stock white sticky stuff).

they r square bro, im 99% sure.. look at the photo..

[smut]

they r square bro, im 99% sure.. look at the photo..

I did look at the photo, I mentioned that in my post. I mainly wanted to know what he used to attach them (if not the stock white sticky stuff on the bottom of the sinks). So while he was at it, he could also confirm they are square since as I said before, it is hard to tell if it 2 square sinks next to each other or longer rectangle sinks. Thanks though.

edit: I love how cool these cards run. I use a CM 830 sTacker Evo with the 4 fan side panel so it is always getting cool air fed to it.

another edit: My GPU and q8400 both run at 42 degree idle. One of my older GPUs (8800gt) ran at like 75 degrees idle. This GTX460 runs less then that at full load! Technology is effing sweet

[Aedubber]

Im sure they come with some 3m thermal something that is supposed to be really great to hold them on.. But i might be mistaken. im sure he will chime in

[Gaul]

ADD gtx 470 def Vantage score as reference on page 1, here : http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=256635

[poparamiro]

Aircooling/20c ambient

[Stormad]

They tweeked the performance profiles, or clock domains if you will.
There are four levels labled 3(2d) 7(?) 12(3d idle), and 15(3d max).

On the old bios 12(3d idle) was missing (or all clocks set to 0), so Im guessing the when the driver tried to put the card in 3d idle, it actually caused an error, then it would jump back to 15(3d max)?

Thanks for the info CrazyNutz!

[Pekalion]

Yey! Finally I got my GTX 460! Its a EVGA GTX 460 768Mb SC, and so far I tested 910Mhz for the core and 1920 for Mems with 1.087v.

Beside of that, how can I unlock the voltage to set it up like poparamiro done? It will be really helpful! Another thing. I Im testing the stability with MSI Afterburner, how much time I should run it or what program I should run to see if it is stable?

Tomorrow I will post some screens, right now I have little time.

[Ccaution]

@poparamiro

...is that a ref card? Any mods on it?

[lowfat]

Aircooling/20c ambient

And what air cooling would this be? Definitely not stock. I can't even get 35C load temperatures under water.

[OC Nub]

^^ +1 At 1.21v ambient must be extremely low and/or ac blowing on the rig.

[poparamiro]

Ambient ~20c and voltage ~1.32v

[CrazyNutz]

Yey! Finally I got my GTX 460! Its a EVGA GTX 460 768Mb SC, and so far I tested 910Mhz for the core and 1920 for Mems with 1.087v.

Beside of that, how can I unlock the voltage to set it up like poparamiro done? It will be really helpful! Another thing. I Im testing the stability with MSI Afterburner, how much time I should run it or what program I should run to see if it is stable?

Tomorrow I will post some screens, right now I have little time.

BIOS Mod will get you up to 1.21v! post your bios and I"ll fix it for ya. or go donate at http://www.mvktech.net/ and mavke will send you nibitor 5.8 and you can do all the bios mods you want

[cowie]

Ambient ~20c and voltage ~1.32v

Very nice!
would you know the vc hard mod for the 1g palit sp card?

[Olivon]

Got a Gigabyte 1GB OC and it's pretty cool ...

850MHz @ 1.037V (default)
900MHz @ 1.087V
Fan auto

idle



10mn Kombustor



Works like a charm on games

[Pekalion]

BIOS Mod will get you up to 1.21v! post your bios and I"ll fix it for ya. or go donate at http://www.mvktech.net/ and mavke will send you nibitor 5.8 and you can do all the bios mods you want

Thanks dude! How can I get my Bios so I can post it to you? And after modificating it, how I can put it into my vga so it will work? Im like a totally noob with that kind of things.

BTW, I will really love to donate but, its end of the month, I have no money left and in this week bankers are not going to work, so I will probably pay my salary next week

Anyway, please tell me what to do and I will inmediatly post my Bios! Thank you so much Crazy!!!

[poparamiro]

Very nice!
would you know the vc hard mod for the 1g palit sp card?

I don't have that card, you must find datasheet for the vgpu controler.

[xcaninox]

Ambient ~20c and voltage ~1.32v

thats incredible, really AWESOME WORK!!!!

[OC Nub]

Are those square size sinks? I have some sinks that look exactly like those from back in the 7900GT silver paint volt mod days. Except mine are square and your looks like rectangle (or is that just the angle the photo was taken?). What did you attach them with? I just found my sinks and they still have the original white sticky glue sorta stuff on them.

I am very interested in using the sinks since they are sitting in my supplies box gathering dust and I wanna put them to good use.

Sorry I missed the post, those are the Enzotech ramsinks, they stick very well with the tape that comes on them. It took 8 ramsinks per card.
Yes they are sqaure, each ramsink has 5 rows of pins. to make them fit I had to cut one row of pins off 4 of the ram sinks. I believe they are the 14x14mm ramsinks.

[WrigleyVillain]

This is about my limit with 1.087. 940 cause display driver crash before Proxycon was complete. Pretty impressed with this thing esp for a 192-bit 768MB.

[OC Nub]

^Nice score for a single card

[WrigleyVillain]

Thanks. Gonna try to squeeze out 25K then submit it to the Bot.

[cowie]

heres a MSI 460 HAWK bios that opens it up to 1.21v in NVI use ab for the rest all the way up to a card frying 1.35v+ if you want.
I'd keep it under 1.25v for benching more if you want at your own risk thuo...
all else in bios is same as stock.
http://www.easy-share.com/1912531736/msi460hawk121

[WrigleyVillain]

Thanks cowie

[cowie]

np but i think only for 460hawk not tested on any other card.
you guys with hawks for more then 1.21v that ab gives you if you dont want to flash you can still get more with using nvI for 1.08 then add 100mv for up to 1.28-9ish but BE CAREFULL!!
I did kill two cards with this trick but under 1.26ish you should be ok.
after post up some scores/results
anyone know how to get rid of slow cold issue on 460 hawk?

now that the msi 450/460 contest is over i'd like any of the pros to please share results/mods/tricks if you can
thanks

[WrigleyVillain]

Ah thanks for clarifying...