Anyone getting a 580 soon? I want to compare stuff

[digibucc]

I might be getting a 1090T phenom, so I avoid performance issues.

that only helps if you need the extra cores for multithreading. it will not give a crap-ton of performance gain in games.

you're better off OCing 4 cores than going with stock 6.

 

[{JNT}Raptor]

If you want to get rid of the bottle neck.....your gonna have to learn to overclock your CPU.....whatever one you get.....anything under 3.8-4.0 will hold the GTX 580 back. IMHO

Hope it helps.

 

[trt740]

overclocking a 1090t = changing one or two setting and it takes about 5 minutes to hit 3.6 to 4.0ghz and even a dual core AMD at 3.8ghz to 4.0ghz will be more than enough to get a gtx 580 to make anything playable at very high frame rates..

 

[DannibusX]

I might be getting a 1090T phenom, so I avoid performance issues.

It's so very easy to OC that 965 to 3.8 that you would be literally wasting money buying a 1090T. It's been a while since I checked my OC, I'll post some numbers when I get home.

 

[EarthDog]

# of cores wont help out any bottleneck from a GPU I wouldnt imagine, clock speed will.

 

[Borque]

I'll look up an overclock tutorial for my 955.

I'll use AMD Overdrive tool.

EDIT: Just got the thing to 3.4 with a couple of clicks. Suppose that it's still too little.

OOOK, put the multiplier at 18.5, so I managed to pull off 3.7 GHz stable. at 3.8 my computer restarts. It seems my RAM was downclocked to 1066 MHz, so I raised that too, to 1333 MHz,.

Anything I should know or change? I only raised the multipliers, did not touch the north bridge or anything else. Am I safe?

The idle temp of my CPU is 40-45 º Celsius, it oscillates quite a bit.Well, the CPU itself, 35-40, the cores, a bit higher.

I suppose that at 3.7, bottleneck problems would be less likely to appear, right?

 

[Animalpak]

Just ordered the Asus ENGTX 580 factory overclocked ( the only version from asus for now ), cant wait to get it !

 

[MxPhenom 216]

I'll look up an overclock tutorial for my 955.

I'll use AMD Overdrive tool.

EDIT: Just got the thing to 3.4 with a couple of clicks. Suppose that it's still too little.

OOOK, put the multiplier at 18.5, so I managed to pull off 3.7 GHz stable. at 3.8 my computer restarts. It seems my RAM was downclocked to 1066 MHz, so I raised that too, to 1333 MHz,.

Anything I should know or change? I only raised the multipliers, did not touch the north bridge or anything else. Am I safe?

The idle temp of my CPU is 40-45 º Celsius, it oscillates quite a bit.Well, the CPU itself, 35-40, the cores, a bit higher.

I suppose that at 3.7, bottleneck problems would be less likely to appear, right?

NO!!!!! do not use windows made applications to overclock! the worst thing you can possibly do. Do it through the BIOS. Also download prime95 to stress test it for 8 hours and then get coretemp to monitor the temperatures

You dont know if the overclock is stable by just sitting at windows. you got to run a stress testing program like a mentioned. Prime95

 

[erocker]

NO!!!!! do not use windows made applications to overclock! the worst thing you can possibly do. Do it through the BIOS. Also download prime95 to stress test it for 8 hours and then get coretemp to monitor the temperatures

You dont know if the overclock is stable by just sitting at windows. you got to run a stress testing program like a mentioned. Prime95

AMD Overdrive works fine. It also has a stress test built in.

 

[douglatins]

So i was planning on OCing this with an AXP (480) but.... (trying not to go apeshit on curses) but Evga so nicely glued my screws and they wouldnt move. Now they are stripped and i cant use it

 

[Borque]

NO!!!!! do not use windows made applications to overclock! the worst thing you can possibly do. Do it through the BIOS. Also download prime95 to stress test it for 8 hours and then get coretemp to monitor the temperatures

You dont know if the overclock is stable by just sitting at windows. you got to run a stress testing program like a mentioned. Prime95

I ran a stress program.3.7 ghz 1.4 volts, doesnt seem to be unstable. Amd overdrive let me put it at 3.4 and upped the voltage to 1.4 automaticly. I upped to 3.7 manually and since the voltage is already raised i didnt touch it.


I ran the test for very little. Ill run another one today. Is 3.7 ok? Or do i need more?

 

[MxPhenom 216]

AMD Overdrive works fine. It also has a stress test built in.

I never felt safe doing it through windows. i like doing it through the traditional BIOS

Also stressing it for 10 minutes does nothing for CPU stability.

At least 4 to 8 hours is in order.

 

[DriedFrogPills]

Like performance at same clocks, in some benchmarks, like vantage, mafia2, etc.

Preferably an i7 as cpu

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4012/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580-the-sli-update/3

work has already been done. Hope this is the info you where after

 

[Borque]

It seems that at 1.4 V, 3.7 GHz the 955 is stable (it's C2) 50 ºC full load.

I think I'm gonna stay there. If I suffer any bottlenecking, I'll deal with it, I suppose it wouldn't be too big or very noticeable.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Went ahead and pulled the trigger. Had some extra cash, and was walking around the 'shop' when I saw it. Was too much to resist.

 

[p3gaz_001]

connected

 

[BraveSoul]

there is another review with gtx580 downclocked to gtx480 speed, only 1 game tho

Just ordered the Asus ENGTX 580 factory overclocked ( the only version from asus for now ), cant wait to get it !

upgrading from gts250? what a boost
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[yogurt_21]

there is another review with gtx580 downclocked to gtx480 speed, only 1 game tho
upgrading from gts250? what a boost
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interesting that the review would show almost no increase.

and the jump would be nice for the op I myself went form a 9600gt to my gtx470. it was a nice jump indeed.

 

[trt740]

This might be off topic but this seems like gtx 580 performance for allot less, thats no normal gtx 480 GIGABYTE Super Overclock Series GV-N480SO-15I GeFo...
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3620&dl=#ov

 

[iamajunky]

This is an overclocked 480gtx no thanks, specs are exactly the same as the 480 with higher clocks

 

[p3gaz_001]

overclocking a 1090t = changing one or two setting and it takes about 5 minutes to hit 3.6 to 4.0ghz and even a dual core AMD at 3.8ghz to 4.0ghz will be more than enough to get a gtx 580 to make anything playable at very high frame rates..

i do not agree... a dual core, even @ 4ghz speed is a full bottlneck for a GTX580 ...

i'm using a 1090T actually (wich is going to push 2 580s in a quite future, and i'm coming from 955 & 965 Amd cpu's ..... the 965 was nice... was using the 965 @ 4 ghz daily use, watercooled ..

 

[trt740]

This is an overclocked 480gtx no thanks, specs are exactly the same as the 480 with higher clocks

really? No the specs are not the same it has like double the power phase and much better cooling and is overclocked past 580 gtx speeds. http://www.legitreviews.com/news/9360/ plus you would save about 90.00 not including the after market cooler. The 580 has a decent cooler but it's not like this one.

Here are some of the changes and it has more not listed
GV-N480SO-15I has incredibly pure power. It is compatible with ATX standard length PCB. 14 phase PWM design includes 12 for GPU, 2 for memory. Standard GTX 480 graphics card has 6+2 power phases whereas GIGABYTE’s GTX 480 SOC has 12. Not only does GV-N480SO-15I have more power phases than reference card, the 12 power phase status LED indicators indicate graphics card’s current power phase, helping users monitor power consumption. This feature ensures a more stable system and better overclocking capability.

 

[erocker]

i do not agree... a dual core, even @ 4ghz speed is a full bottlneck for a GTX580 ...

i'm using a 1090T actually (wich is going to push 2 580s in a quite future, and i'm coming from 955 & 965 Amd cpu's ..... the 965 was nice... was using the 965 @ 4 ghz daily use, watercooled ..

Northbridge speed is a big factor as well.

 

[trt740]

Northbridge speed is a big factor as well.

Correct and a dual core at 4.0 ghz with a 2600 to 2700 N/B would not bottle neck a gtx 580 in most games.

 

[p3gaz_001]

Northbridge speed is a big factor as well.

i know but with certain mainboard is not easy to keep high speed on nb , when i was using those 9XX with crosshair III mb, can't get more than 2.8ghz ... it depends from mb, aren't all the same