Gtx 560

[NathObeaN]

I still dont understand why people use furmark or any of those static image tests, Furmark stresses your VRM's more than the GPU it self. Your better of looping Crysis warhead ambush at all maxed settings for 30 loops compared to 1hr in Furmark.

FurMark draws the most power, therefore you can see if you are really putting enough power into your card or your clocks are too high for the current voltage output.

Crysis will stress your card, but won't suck the card for power as much as FurMark will. Personally I have found it is best to use FurMark as a starting ground. Determine your most stable clocks under extreme power output. The second stage is then to test various games and image stressing to see if there are any image quality problems.

I also found FurMark was much more sensitive to Memory clocks than most games were, and it was fairly easy to diagnose (the fur cube contracts sporadically).

[Jodiuh]

I'd be surprised if anyone got a stock card that doesnt manage a 950 Mhz overclock.

You can imagine my surprise when I tried overclocking an EVGA SC and got nil past 900Mhz. That's right...the "paid more for overclocked version in hopes of some sort of proper binning" idea completely backfired. Voltages for SC's are all over the place. My stock VID's 1.062. I can bring it all the way back to .975 and it still runs fine...so no clue what's going on, lol.

As for furmark vs Crysis, I don't play furmark...I play BC2. So kick it up and enjoy the game. If it crashes, fix it. If not, enjoy my game.

[p3gaz_001]

Calibre gtx 560 Ti def clock SLI

serious one!!

[JFV93]

My MSI GTX560 TwinFrozrII VID is 1.000v and hit 1000Core/2000Shader/4580Memory with 1.100v


Good or Bad?

Sorry my english, Im Portuguese =)

[vern]

My MSI GTX560 TwinFrozrII with VID 1.000 hit 1000Core/2000Shader/4580Memory with 1.100


Good or Bad?

Sorry my english, Im Portuguese =)

1V 1000Core , Nice

[JFV93]

1V 1000Core , Nice

No... Hit 1000Core with 1.1.

[vern]

No... Hit 1000Core with 1.1.

generally 560 can do it

[JFV93]

1.100v is not too much for GTX560?

[HelixPC]

1.100v is not too much for GTX560?

Its ok for the msi card.

[Mungri]

The MSI cards tend to do either 950 Mhz at stock volts, or 1000 Mhz at 1.100v with lucky cards.

Theres not really much difference between the two to be worth running them at 1000 Mhz 24/7 anyway, better to just use that for benching, and 950 Mhz with stock volts for 24/7 use for lower temps and noise.

I dont get why they didnt just release their 950 Mhz SOC version instead of the 880 Mhz ones as default, I'm still interested in flashing mine to the 950 Mhz MSI SoC bios, but I cant find it anywhere.

If anyone knows where I can get it from, and a compatible bios flash tool for these cards, please let me know

You can imagine my surprise when I tried overclocking an EVGA SC and got nil past 900Mhz. That's right...the "paid more for overclocked version in hopes of some sort of proper binning" idea completely backfired. Voltages for SC's are all over the place. My stock VID's 1.062. I can bring it all the way back to .975 and it still runs fine...so no clue what's going on, lol.

As for furmark vs Crysis, I don't play furmark...I play BC2. So kick it up and enjoy the game. If it crashes, fix it. If not, enjoy my game.

Ouch, sorry for the late reply, I only just read this.

I have mine running at 950 Mhz and 1000 Mv. 1000 mhz is a complete no go though . I'm actually underclocking them now to 950 Mv and 850 Mhz for spring + summer, and reducing my CPU to 3.8 Ghz + 1.25v, My PC gets far too toasty.

[Gaul]

serious one!!

Thanx M8

[Gaul]

next oc

[vern]

next oc

Nice 5000Memory , ?vGPU

[Gaul]

Nice 5000Memory , ?vGPU

thx, def vid 1.025

[ci2kla]

TBH 1.1v may not be safe for GTX 560s...
I own 2 MSI NGTX560 and a friend of mine bought himself a Golden edition.
He pumped the volt to 1.1v and core to 1Ghz and started furmark for stability testing. After 5 min the whole system shuts down and never power on, finally came to conclusion that the card is dead...

BTW both of my cards can do 1040Mhz with 1.05v (Jus 3DM vantage testing thats all) under air cooling powered by IcyVision.

[Hausmeister]

hi guys
I have been playing with my msi twinfrozer... i thought 950/2400 was stable with default voltage, i can play battlefield bc2 for hours, 3dmark and kombustor also run fine.
I only have this issue in Crysis2: the game runs fine, for some time like 15 minutes and then it freezes up for ~5sec and then the performace is crap - because the card is running at half clock as in power saving. Only way to get it to normal clock it to reboot. I have tried this also with much lower settings (910/2300) eg. which should work fine - but it also happens. More voltage does not help. Temps seem ok - around 60°C.
It does not happen with default clock.
What would cause the card to downclock? normally when its unstable i get image errors or the driver crashes... but i get none of these, it just downclocks.
A Issue with crysis2? Some feature of the 560? Not enough power?

[NathObeaN]

hi guys
I have been playing with my msi twinfrozer... i thought 950/2400 was stable with default voltage, i can play battlefield bc2 for hours, 3dmark and kombustor also run fine.
I only have this issue in Crysis2: the game runs fine, for some time like 15 minutes and then it freezes up for ~5sec and then the performace is crap - because the card is running at half clock as in power saving. Only way to get it to normal clock it to reboot. I have tried this also with much lower settings (910/2300) eg. which should work fine - but it also happens. More voltage does not help. Temps seem ok - around 60°C.
It does not happen with default clock.
What would cause the card to downclock? normally when its unstable i get image errors or the driver crashes... but i get none of these, it just downclocks.
A Issue with crysis2? Some feature of the 560? Not enough power?

You kinda answered your own question. It doesn't do it at stock clocks but with the overclock which means it is related to the overclock.

I had exactly the same thing with Crysis 2 and other games. When the card encounters an issue, it automatically reverts to stock settings or it reverts to 2D clocks.

The only way to overcome this issue is to downclock the card or up the volts. The only reason it is happening is because your card simply isn't happy with the overclock.

I found that some clocks would last an hour on furmark, but 10 minutes later it would crash. I also found Battlefield Bad Company 2 to have very few problems, but occasionally a white square would pop up - shader related.

Overclocking graphics cards can be quite tricky when finding the best OC with 100% stability.

Your problem may appear to be Crysis 2 related but given time the same issue would occur in other applications.

EDIT: A word of advice would be to start with the core clock first. 2300 clock on the memory might not sound like a lot but it can cause issues. I found 2400/2500 could cause very strange image problems and even crash the card completely. Find your best core OC, spend hours benchmarking/playing games. When you are absolutely SURE it is stable, THEN move to the memory.

[Hausmeister]

thx nathobean
I just didn't know it would downclock itself. I know gpus are tricky. I will try again from the beginning...
I'll have enough time soon. just had my tonsils removed, still at hospital

[Biner01]

Hi guys, I just sharing my result
I set VGPU GTX 560 Ti at 1.05V and can run on the GPU clock / Mem 1000MHz/1150MHz and 1015MHz/1150MHz

[vern]

Hi guys, I just sharing my result
I set VGPU GTX 560 Ti at 1.05V and can run on the GPU clock / Mem 1000MHz/1150MHz and 1015MHz/1150MHz

Nice , I guess your card can use low voltage to run 1000Core

[Biner01]

Thanks vern

[Gaul]

[Ket]

As much as I would like to pick one of these up to play with their just not worth £170-£200. I can pick up a GTX480 NEW for £200. Somebody needs to give these companies a reality / price check.

[Jodiuh]

Fry's had the Crysis edition for $220 with free shirt earlier this week.

Mine's running along at P4830. I could probably bump that up, but I built up my latest setup for silence and there's just nothing in my daily routine that requires a 3+ Ghz chip, so it runs stock. I turbo when I'm getting frisky though!

How does 89 C sound? A little high? Does it matter since it's EVGA? I currently have only 1 exhaust fan, but I could add a top tomorrow...thinking it over. Motivate me, lol.

[Ket]

3DM11 really doesn't care about CPU or memory speed none too much so if you are happy with stock settings there so be it. I'm baffled by your 3DM11 score though... seems low given your clocks, I score 4422 with my GTX460 (Clicky). I would say your GPU temps are high as well.