GTX580: 1.025VID: 950/1900/2300: stock cooler: guaranteed?!?

[NapalmV5]

I'm now running 1.063v, 870mhz core, 4300mhz on the RAM... fan speed still auto. I'll probably be able to push a little further on these clocks but thus far they have been rock-solid through lengthy Just Cause 2 & BFBC2 multiplayer sessions.

I tried going to 1.138v but my card does NOT like to run that, it crashes on the desktop quickly even with clocks that ran fine at lower voltages, let alone trying to overclock... 1.125v works, but I'm probably going to stick to whatever I can do on 1.063v for temps and the low noise profile. I'm not going to trade the silence for an extra 50mhz on the core . Now, if I could reach 1ghz... mmmmm.

My card's stock VID is 1.025v (eVGA normal, black PCB).

was i going to sell you into slavery if not?? sheeesh

and btw they all black pcb the edges are best seen as green or orange anyways dont worry about

yeah I'm gonna return my gtx580. It has a low vid, but it overclocks like crap. Even though I can hit up 950-960, its not even close to being stable. I think the lower vid thing is a myth, or I just have a bad card.

so you ran crysis @ 958 and its still a myth thanx!

the problems your having i doubt are the 580 at all you had issues right from the start tried to help ya sorry i bothered

My GTX 480 behaves exactly the same, if you underclock my 480 and set Vcore to 1.138 it crashes! It's fine at any clock as long as I don't go above 1.125V, I ran OCCT for 4 hours with only 5 errors at 900MHz core with 1.125V. Are these stress testing programs (OCCT, FurMark) representing real world games loads or are they greatly exaggerating things?

-Systemlord

Good luck with returning it, my vid is .0986V and it don't even like 1.138V! The lower VID thing is a myth because other components on the PCB could limit your overclock.

-Systemlord

i guess some people would rather just post rubbish as they see fit

fyi 480 is not 580 quite different beasts

and fyi ive experienced a number of different 480 and 580 vids

anywho.. tried to keep thread upbeat but i guess some people are born downers and always will be downers

damn xs used to be fun place to hang around