*** Nvidia GTX 460 Overclocking Thread ***

[PatRaceTin]

i will try my Asus & Inno3d in SLi

[95blackz26]

here's my latest run. haven't had the card for long but this is about as far as it will go on stock volts.

the card is a MSI N460GTX Hawk Talon Attack GeForce GTX 460 1gb


i had Kombustor shut down while i was doing the screen shot but it is stable and temp get's to about 60*c

[Demo]

920Mhz core is great with stock volts!

[Karossua]

Mine´s is just an overclock normal...
Maybe later move on these´s clocks, now is stable and runs great...

See ya!!

Windows 7 64bits, 4xDDR2 1020 Kingston Hyperx, MSI DKAG790GX Platinum, AMD Phenom II 945 C3 3900mhz @ 2600mhz NB, Hyper 212+ Plus, NZXT Tempest case, Raid 0 Samsung 320GB 16MB cache, ANTEC Earthwatts 750 watts and that´s it´ ..i believe that´s it...

[Glow9]

On a laptop right now sold my 8800GTS going to be ordering a MSI GTX 460 768mb card the twin fan one here soon. Couple questions: Are the 263.06 still considered the best drivers? Also where is a good place to download them?
Lastly what should I expect to OC this thing too w/out raising the voltage (average estimate)? I'm not sure what it is running at stock, but the card is running at 750Mhz.

[_AntLionBR_]

I have an Asus GTX460 TOP (700 gpu default), but I'm having a problem. In idle the card is at 405 and 51MHz instead of 700MHz (default). I would always leave to 700MHz, is it possible? Thanks!

PS: Sorry for my English!

[_AntLionBR_]

I have an Asus GTX460 TOP (700 gpu default), but I'm having a problem. In idle the card is at 405 and 51MHz instead of 700MHz (default). I would always leave to 700MHz, is it possible? Thanks!

PS: Sorry for my English!

Problem solved!

[PatRaceTin]

My Asus GTX 460 Direct CU TOP SLi

3DMark03 = 125541



3DMark05 = 45742



3DMark06 = 36509



3DMark Vantage [PhysX Enable] = 39039



3DMark Vantage [PhysX Disable] = 34230



3DMark 11 = 7891

[Gaul]

up, any golden gtx 460 ?

[Glow9]

So I ran 3DMark11 @ 800Mhz with my 768mb card this is the score I got. I didn't have my driver settings all fancy when I ran it though can you guys tell me if these are good or not?
P3272 3DMarks What I don't understand in the Results on their website it says my processor is a Intel Pentium III Xeon? WTF is that about? http://3dmark.com/3dm11/946427
It also says Physical / Logical Processors 1/4????

I also ran 3dMark Vantage at 750Mhz yesterday and got:
3DMark Score 11981.87 3DMarks,
Graphics Score 13599.55,
CPU Score 8830.63

I just want to make sure everything is where it should be.
270.51 beta drivers

[Ket]

up, any golden gtx 460 ?

If you want a golden GTX460 you need to buy one that comes from the factory with a really high core clock (the GPUs on these cards are picked based on low k leakage) otherwise you will find "normal" GTX460s hitting about 850-900MHz. Problem with this method is that super clocked 460s sell for close to the price of a 2GB GTX560.. so may as well get the 560 in that case.

[Ket]

So I ran 3DMark11 @ 800Mhz with my 768mb card this is the score I got. I didn't have my driver settings all fancy when I ran it though can you guys tell me if these are good or not?
P3272 3DMarks What I don't understand in the Results on their website it says my processor is a Intel Pentium III Xeon? WTF is that about? http://3dmark.com/3dm11/946427
It also says Physical / Logical Processors 1/4????

I also ran 3dMark Vantage at 750Mhz yesterday and got:
3DMark Score 11981.87 3DMarks,
Graphics Score 13599.55,
CPU Score 8830.63

I just want to make sure everything is where it should be.
270.51 beta drivers

3DM11 may be being slightly biased as you have a 768MB card. I can't comment specifically as you don't say what your CPU and memory is clocked at but for comparisons sake my 1GB GTX 460 @ 875 / 4000 scores around 4050pts in 3DM11, so your score of 3272 seems slightly off the mark to me I'd say it should probably be around ~3600pts.

[Glow9]

3DM11 may be being slightly biased as you have a 768MB card. I can't comment specifically as you don't say what your CPU and memory is clocked at but for comparisons sake my 1GB GTX 460 @ 875 / 4000 scores around 4050pts in 3DM11, so your score of 3272 seems slightly off the mark to me I'd say it should probably be around ~3600pts.

When you run it do you guys have your card set to high performance or quality?

P3209
Okay so I changed my setting in the drivers to what you said in my other thread and all my scores went down even more lol
AF 8x
Antialiasing Transparency 2x
Multi display set to single display performance
Power Mng mode Prefer Maximum performnce
Texturing filtering set to clamp
Texture set to High Quality
Tiple Buffering On
Vertical Sync Force Off

I ran everything the same as above except I set it to High performance P3213 3DMarks
Hardly any difference 3 points.

Running my card at 850Mhz P3353 3DMarks

What am I doing wrong here?

[Ket]

When running a benchmark you leave the CP alone reset the CP to defaults and re-run the test.

[Demo]

A lot of people run it either at default or high performance, I always run my benches at high quality.

[Glow9]

When running a benchmark you leave the CP alone reset the CP to defaults and re-run the test.

800Mhz with 3d settings = P3209
800Mhz with default/High Performance/Single monitor = P3275 3DMarks
Only 66pt difference ?

[Ket]

I still think your score is a bit off base, but theres a plethora of hardware and software optimisations to do to get the absolute best score which need to be factored in. Your missing points are likely amongst unoptimised hardware and software configurations.

[Glow9]

I still think your score is a bit off base, but theres a plethora of hardware and software optimisations to do to get the absolute best score which need to be factored in. Your missing points are likely amongst unoptimised hardware and software configurations.

Well I'm open to some general ideas, what do you have in mind?

[Ket]

Well I'm open to some general ideas, what do you have in mind?

Theres quite a few things I do, none of them are "cheats" (for example, those people who disable aero to squeeze more points) my optimisations are simply that, optimised configurations without sacrificing visuals or stopping Windows services that would otherwise be running. Be ready to take notes

- Download modded Quadro 267.17 drivers (very good performance and image quality, stable too)

- Click start>run>type "services.msc" google the services on startup type "automatic" and "delayed start" and decide which you can switch to manual which won't affect you. (Don't outright disable the services, if you do anything that depends on that service will not be able to start) This won't only help speed up Windows, but also reclaim some of your RAM.

- Of course, the usual HDD, registry and boot-time defragmentations along with cleaning out all those old musty restore points and making a single new fresh one and a cleanup of the registry. Diskeeper and Tuneup utilities are excellent apps for these tasks.

- Again obvious, but the latest drivers for all your hardware.

- Download Regcleaner and click the "startup" tab, you'll be surprised at all the sh|t that starts up with Windows that really doesn't need to. This is yet another way to speed up Windows and reclaim more RAM.

With the software side done, moving on to hardware

- Make sure your hardware is optimised for is current configuration, for example; memory timings, FSB/BCLK, any on-board mainboard hardware you don't use is disabled, etc.

- Lastly, don't be too conservative with your 24/7 OCs, as long as load temps are reasonable, you're good to go.

Well, theres the rough and ready guidelines but you can't go too far wrong following them. Just remember a benchmark is not the defacto of a PCs performance, benchmarks are little more than a simulation. Try to run tests based on real games such as the AvP benchmark, Crysis / Warhead benchmarks, Stalker benchmarks, etc.

[Glow9]

- Click start>run>type "services.msc"

- Download modded Quadro 267.17 drivers (very good performance and image quality, stable too)

- Download Regcleaner and click the "startup" tab, you'll be surprised at all the sh|t that starts up with Windows that really doesn't need to. This is yet another way to speed up Windows and reclaim more RAM.

found mini guide for services.msc http://www.askvg.com/master-tutorial...-7-super-fast/ I'll look into regcleaner, How are the 267.17's vs. 270.51's? Do you have a link to thw 267s that are ready to go for win 7 64bit? I don't have to modify any inf files or anything to get it to run will I? Thanks

With Nvidia do I need to run driver cleaner or does Nvidia when starting the driver do a good job of getting rid of the older one since it seems to have that feature now

[Ket]

Drop me a PM with your email and I'll send you the modded inf to get the 267s to install.

[OC Nub]

My best results with Nvidia GeForce 460 sli, 3rd screen was with a single card. This was with Kets bios mod. Sry for the crappy screens, I dont have the originals anymore.

http://i54.tinypic.com/6drbky.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/a0ccj4.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/30s856q.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/2lj6kqw.jpg

[Ket]

Thats one hell of a GPU OC you got going there, water setup?

[OC Nub]

Thanks, thats with the moded bios you sent using stock cooling and very cool ambient. Got some points at HWbot for those runs. 1st place in 3dm03 2xgtx460 class, 1st place in 3dm05 2xGTX460 class.

[Mungri]

OC Nub you should list the pictures vertically, not horizontally.

Page stretches are annoying.