The GTX 400 owners club!
 

http://img.techpowerup.org/121002/GTX480-18.jpg
Now that prices for GTX480 ect have been slashed, many people who couldn't afford these cards before, now can! This series, especially the 470/480s require a few tricks to oc and get the most out of them. This club is for discussion on how to deal with the the GTX 400 series. I receive a brand new EVGA GTX480 in the morning. Let the games begin!

Member List:

cdawall - 3 gtx470s
clayomax - 2 gtx480s
Maban - 2 gtx470s
rangerone766 - 1 gtx470
Flibolito - 1 gtx480
johnspack - 1 gtx480
[Ion] - 2 gtx460s 1 gtx470
Wrigleyvillain - 1 gtx480
TB13 - 1 gtx480
trt740 - 1 gtx480 1 gtx460
Athlonx2 - 2 gtx470
rainbow dash - 3 gtx470

In with my couple of 470's.

I'll try to add some structure to this thread when I get time. For now, just list which card you have, maybe add a screenshot of gpuz. Perhaps we could show our max stable oces, and maybe a Vantage run!
Let's add 3DMark11 scores as well!

First discussion I'd like to have, is what bios to use for unlocking voltage on my EVGA card. Any ideas, please throw them out!

Should be the evga superclock bios.

all three of the 470s I had from EVGA were ready to go with voltage, you just had to turn on the over voltage in MSI AB.

I swear there was a thread about 400 series ...
Anyway, I'm in.
Two reference GTX 480
Stock clocks
Stock voltage (load): 0.987v

Nice, and I tried to find a clubhouse, but only one for gtx460 owners....
or, that's all I could find....

And clayomax, that looks like a nice vid, have you tried to oc those things? Although with 2, not much point....

Most of the GTX 480 have this voltage. Some batches at launch needed a higher voltage to reach stock clocks resulting in rather hot and noisy cards (especially some EVGA) with little room for overclocking. If your card has a 0.987 voltage you can expect it to do 800mhz at minimum. The highest I reached was 921mhz with 1.138v and the fans at 100%. Don't bother with the memory, it won't overclock well and adds heat to the card preventing you from reaching a higher core clock, at least this is my experience.

I have two GTX470's folding in my spare right now. Both are at their max stock voltage stable 725MHz. One at 1.037v and the other at 0.987v.

downloading vantage as we speak since my DVD copy is a bit old...

http://img.techpowerup.org/120930/Capture045988.jpg

Trying those clocks until I get on water.

Yeah I figured since they use slower clocking ddr5 ram on these, ocing them is just going to make heat. Wish it was faster ram. So I'm hoping I've got a newer stock card with the low voltage... crossing fingers!

Phsyx is off for this one

http://img.techpowerup.org/120930/Capture046.jpg

Nice, now I'd like to see if physx runs better on 4 series than 2 series!

Okay, my basemark... my sli gtx285s at stock. I'll compare to my gtx480 tomorrow:
http://img.techpowerup.org/120930/Sli285s.png
And yes, physx is on, I'll have to do a 2nd without.
Edit: okay that's my 285s at max oc actually... forgot to downclock them. Sad kind of....
Edit2: I'm going to add 3dmark11 as well.
Edit3: cdawall, my test at extreme shows 1920x1200 res, what is yours?
Edit4: Default settings as presented by Vantage for my system:
http://img.techpowerup.org/120930/vantage285s1.png

Extreme on Vantage is 1900x1200 if I remember well.

Mines normal extreme settings. Only thing I didn't do was run the feature tests since they don't affect the score.

http://img.techpowerup.org/121001/Capture047.jpg

Remember my cards are@800mhz as well that's a pretty sizable overclock.

Just ordered my 3 monitors and wall mounts for NV surround. Can't wait for them all to show up :)

3 of these

HP L2045w Black-Silver 20.1" 5ms Widescreen LCD Mo...

1 of these

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...LWM-26&cat=MON

2 of these

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...V1024M&cat=MON

this is my max benchable single 470, under water ofcourse-

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/3710/asicl.jpg


this is my 24/7 gaming settings-

http://imageshack.us/a/img818/3253/470d.png

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it plays battlefield 3 just fine with high settings and 1920x1080. i had a second for sli, but i just wasnt happy with the increase i got. with vsync on, i run steady 60fps. no reason to upgrade yet, as much as i want to.

I can't wait to see what mine do under water. I'm tempted to volt mod the memory up since the Asus card sucks.

Arg, one more day for me I think. It seems Ncix is successfully clearing out stock on these... none left in BC, so they finally shipped one from Ontario. So my 480 is currently on a cross-Canada trip!

got time to tinker with it tomorrow?

Of course! The wait is killing me.... Looks like getting a 2nd one is going to be a pain.

i did mod the bios on my gtx470 to allow higher voltage. i can max it at 1.212 volts. but i game at 1.175 and 900mhz on the core and 1076mhz on the ram. but if i push things any higher i get random crashes in bf3. temps never go above 55-58c under water. but really i have no need to go higher the game runs smooth and looks great.