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

[darckhart]

have they fixed the sli prob in 3dm11 yet?

[bekuna]

That's great man !

[Hugo381]

EVGA OC Scanner/MSI Kombustor is furmark and stresses the card pretty hard. Some chips just get it done on less volts.

Exactly why I say so. Kombuter, FurMark, and OC Scanner are currently not working properly with GTX 580s, if you REALLY want to stress you card and see the temps rise, use 3DMark11 @ Extreme and Full Experience, you will see the combined heat with CPU n GPU if you WaterCool. Also, GPU3 from Folding@Home stresses the card by itself pretty hard.

Try Heaven Benchmark with all settings High and I bet you will see a ton of artifacts.

[Chickenfeed]

Honestly as useful as these synthetics can be heat / stress wise, in the end I've always found it best just to use the thing running actual games. I had a fair share of cards in my testing that had no issues with Furmark/Vantage/Heaven yet in real games would be unstable. They are a good base line but I wouldn't consider them the be all and end all.

[cole2109]

[Hugo381]

Honestly as useful as these synthetics can be heat / stress wise, in the end I've always found it best just to use the thing running actual games. I had a fair share of cards in my testing that had no issues with Furmark/Vantage/Heaven yet in real games would be unstable. They are a good base line but I wouldn't consider them the be all and end all.

What he said, hehe. Just make sure you run the most stressing game since some dont take your component's potential to the edge. If you try to go from say, Modern Warfare to Metro 2033, you will definitely see a diference after you thought you might be safe with your settings

COLE: That looks really nice! Hope you get the heat issues solved. What kind of thermal paste you using? What RAD do you have on that WC system?

[Hugo381]

For the test results this is what I had: GTX 580 @ 950mhz Core, 2125mhz Memory, 1.125v

Now:
GTX 580 @ 950mhz Core, 2200mhz Memory, 1.138v (Latest test=3hrs Black Ops, Max temp 46deg C)
Core i7 950 @ 4.21ghz (Latest test=3hrs Black Ops, Max temp 64deg C)

[MaddMuppet]

have they fixed the sli prob in 3dm11 yet?

Not yet. Here's hoping they sort it soon.


That is one sweet looking rig there Hugo381.

[PatRaceTin]

My Inno3d GTX580 can

pass 3DMark Vantage max 945 / 1100 / 1890 @ 1.213V

It make me sad!!! I may sell it and grab another GTX580

[cole2109]

950/2300 1.113V gaming
960/2300 1.138V bench
970+ when the temperature goes above 43 black screen and reset. Card needs balcoy party with sub ziro temp. ?

[Hugo381]

[donmarkoni]

I have installed my EK VGA Supreme from GTX 480 to 580 and went over 1GHz



P7567 --- GTX580@1025/2400 --- 980X@4523 --- HyperX T1 2250@2000/6-9-6-24-1T --- R3E --- donmarkoni

[cole2109]

Load temperature? Voltage?

[donmarkoni]

Load temperature? Voltage?

Max temp: 38°C, Voltage set to: 1.200V, idle:1.191V, load: 1.156V.

[Chickenfeed]

At first I looked at the pictures and was like what? 38C? But then I noticed its a gpu only block and it looks like your by an open window... low ambient hacks! Nice overclock.

[donmarkoni]

Yeah, you noticed it good, window tweak and GPU-only blocks are much more efficient then full cover ones. It was around 6°C outside and the blinds were down, no need for me to freeze.
It should be enough for summer days too, as my GTX 480 never went over 51°C. This one tends to crash when reaches high sixties on high clocks (over 950MHz), so this block should do just fine.

[JaredC01]

Alright, question that I didn't get answered in another thread...

What's the maximum safe 24/7 voltages for the 580? I'm running an unlocked BIOS with 1.213v max & 100% fan (currently running on an Accelero Xtreme PLUS as well). Would I be safe with 1.213v 24/7 with the aftermarket cooler / 100% fan?

Stock speeds max temp (typical ambient) is right at 55*C.

[cole2109]

+
I7 930@4500MHz

[nolonger]

My 1.025V crashed Vantage at 950/2300 1.138V. Is there any difference between overclocking through Afterburner or Inspector?

[vern]

I have installed my EK VGA Supreme from GTX 480 to 580 and went over 1GHz



P7567 --- GTX580@1025/2400 --- 980X@4523 --- HyperX T1 2250@2000/6-9-6-24-1T --- R3E --- donmarkoni

Very nice
1025Core

[donmarkoni]

Very nice
1025Core

Thanks!
Yeah, finally over 1GHz.

[bekuna]

Over 1ghz is really great..

[Nemon]

Very Nice OC. We have cold temps too.

The EVGA hydro block does Very well.

Time to up the volts and OC!!!

[dengyong]

What happened to NapalmV5 ? He hasn't been here since last year.

[zalbard]

What happened to NapalmV5 ? He hasn't been here since last year.

Perhaps enjoying his nice setup playing something instead of trying to squeeze every last drop out of it every day?