The GTX 400 owners club!

[johnspack]

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 - 2 gtx480
[Ion] - 2 gtx460s 1 gtx470
Wrigleyvillain - 1 gtx480
TB13 - 1 gtx480
trt740 - 1 gtx480 1 gtx460
Athlonx2 - 2 gtx470
rainbow dash - 3 gtx470
GreiverBlade - 1 gtx460 1 gtx480
Jstn7477 - 1 gts450 4 gtx460 1 gtx465 1 gtx470
XL-R8R - 1 gtx460

 

[cdawall]

In with my couple of 470's.

 

[johnspack]

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!

 

[johnspack]

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!

 

[cdawall]

Should be the evga superclock bios.

 

[sneekypeet]

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.

 

[claylomax]

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

 

[johnspack]

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

 

[johnspack]

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

 

[claylomax]

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.

 

[Maban]

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.

 

[cdawall]

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

Trying those clocks until I get on water.

 

[johnspack]

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.

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!

 

[cdawall]

Phsyx is off for this one

 

[johnspack]

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

 

[johnspack]

Okay, my basemark... my sli gtx285s at stock. I'll compare to my gtx480 tomorrow:

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:

 

[claylomax]

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.

 

[cdawall]

Edit3: cdawall, my test at extreme shows 1920x1200 res, what is yours?

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

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

 

[cdawall]

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?invtid=VIV-LWM-26&cat=MON

2 of these

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=STV1024M&cat=MON

 

[rangerone766]

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

this is my 24/7 gaming settings-



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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.

 

[cdawall]

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.

 

[johnspack]

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!

 

[Flibolito]

got time to tinker with it tomorrow?

 

[johnspack]

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

 

[rangerone766]

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.