GTX 680 unlocking the volts?

[Gregster]

With EVGA precision X, I can get stable clocks of GPU offset of 170 with the mem boosted to 451 (maybe more on this but not tried).

What I do find frustrating is the volts slider. It will only go to 1.175 (at work so excuse me if that figure is wrong). Now if I put the fan onto full, temps will not go over 45C.

Now I know each card is chip dependant but does anybody else feel the card is capable of more? I personally do and would love to be able to up the volts at some stage and even add a waterblock to keep it cooler if needed.

Seeing Zotac releasing a 1.4ghz 680 only confirms what I suspected.

If anybody has any further info/links, I would appreciae it.

Will it be a proggy that could fix the volts or would it need to be a bios flash?

 

[Gregster]

I know mine is definitely capable of more, if I run heaven at +170 core it runs for a bit then somewhere in the bench it will crash, I just know a touch more volts will probably unlock over +200Mhz.

Given how dynamic the card is I'm not suprised you can't set a fixed voltage. What I would have liked to have seen is, much like the rest of the controls, a + voltage option.

On a separate note I love how these things crash, you just get a message about the d3d device being removed and you are back to desktop, lovely. No hard locks ever for me

I also like how it just crashes to desktop with that error. Also I have had "The driver has stopped responding and has recovered" I used to get that with my 560TI and a bios flash which slightly upped the volts cured that problem.

The workings of GPU's are well above my knowledge.

 

[Gregster]

lol. One thing I seriously don't care about is "low/mid/high range" The card is a beast and capable of being even more beastly.

Seems with that guy at techpowerup, not good then

 

[Gregster]

If truth be told, the card is top notch but I hate looking at the heaven 3.0 thread and seeing the top 3 cards

I know it is only a bench but man that does chew away at me....

 

[Gregster]

I am sure the real-world results for Crysis 2 and Batman AC will be consolation enough for Nvidia fans :>

My 7970 is screaming for mercy trying to catch the 680 at Crysis 2, she cannae take nay 'mare volts captain!

lol and fair point.

If I am even more truthfull....I actually would be happy to make 3rd, just so I get ahead of Dave Beast . I think he is 5 points ahead of me and on my last run it crashed on 25/26 arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Still I did beat him in 3Dmark11 Score so fair I guess.

I hate you Dave Beast














only joking

 

[Gregster]

I'm not at all bothered by that, those kind of threads have people using clocks that aren't 24/7 just to get the top spot, pointless.

It's a Dave Beast thing only...All his bragging and belittling of the 680...Just wanted to beat him for a bit of banter was all.

I don't really care tbh.

 

[Gregster]

Guys over at Kingpin cooling modded a card to give lots more power and up to 1.5 (or was is 1.6V?) and got it stable at 1900MHz on LN2

They also got it stable at 1400MHz/1.4V on air.

Set a new single card WR for 3DMark 11

I did link a while back to a Hard modded card which let them alter the volts. It does show like you say these cards have more in them.