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*Official OMG I got my 460 thread*

Smak said:
I managed 800/1600/4000 stable with OCCT at 0.975, shame I'm sending em back :(
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Mine is stable at this @ 0.975V as well. It bluescreens instantly with core above 800MHz at that voltage though. Not sure if I should added a tiny bit to the voltage to make sure 800MHz to give a little headroom for stability?
 
r0cky said:
Mine is stable at this @ 0.975V as well. It bluescreens instantly with core above 800MHz at that voltage though. Not sure if I should added a tiny bit to the voltage to make sure 800MHz to give a little headroom for stability?
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As Tim the "Tool Man" Taylor would say...

"MORE POWER!"
 
It's stable in OCCT GPU at 0.975V and in game, but going to bump it up one notch to 0.987V to be on the safe side! Don't want any bluescreens!
 
Got the MSI - very nice and a definite improvement over my ageing 8800 GTX.

Although I've found with extra overclocking it can go pretty high but only if i manually increase it over time.

If I use Afterburner to jump straight to the high setting which has been previously stable it BSODs immediately.
 
merseymal said:
Got the MSI - very nice and a definite improvement over my ageing 8800 GTX.

Although I've found with extra overclocking it can go pretty high but only if i manually increase it over time.

If I use Afterburner to jump straight to the high setting which has been previously stable it BSODs immediately.
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What sort of speeds are we talking about here? I thought pretty much all of the 1GB cards could hit 800/1600/4000. Most without voltage adjustment. Or have I just been reading about the lucky people!?
 
Hmm. Pride comes before a fall, I think.

My Gigabyte 1GB OC has been running stable since I got it. I overclocked it to 800/1600/200 and it was running really well, cool, quiet and fast.

However on Sunday during an extended session of Just Cause 2, it suddenly glitched and the game ran slower.

And it wasn't only Just Cause 2 either. All my games were running slow. Now I've checked what's happening in MSI Afterburner, and it seems the card is clocking back to half speed when overclocked!

It seems to run fine in Kombustor at default clocks - at least for a while, but any fiddling with the core speed makes it go to 400 under a few seconds of load, and I was even getting some artifacts which I never got before.

If it goes to 400 for any length of time it stays that way until I reboot.


As I said it was fine until Sunday. I reckon something's failed. The trouble is I'm not sure I'll be able to get it replaced if it does this just while overclocking, as overclocking is officially supported :(

I haven't fiddled with the voltages yet. I suppose it could be my PSU not putting out enough power, though it's a quality 500w. I might disonnect a drive or two to see if it makes any difference.

Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?

EDIT: I just pulled out my PC to check the card is seated properly and the fans are working, and it all looked ok. I also took my blu-ray drive out to see if it's a power problem and now the card is overclocking properly and ran Kombustor for 15 minutes with no problems. Weird. I'll have to try putting the blu-ray drive back in, but now I'm going to play some games for a bit to see how that goes.
 
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Antec Earthwatts 500. It's got enough power on the 12v rail, I checked. I've been playing Just Cause 2 for the last hour and it's fine now. I'll stick the blu-ray drive back in tomorrow to check if it goes wrong again.

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I put my blu-ray drive back in, and ran Kombustor for 15 minutes and it's all working fine now.

Weird. Must be some sort of dodgy power connection or something. I'm not going to touch it now it works! I'll see if it plays up again later.
 
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Picked up a Gigabyte 460 OC over the weekend.

Upgrading from an 8800 GTS 320 - what a difference!

Great card, whisper quiet and very very cool.

Pending a PSU upgrade and some extra cooling in the case I'll be looking to SLI a pair.
 
Ok still wondering which card to go for....I'm tempted to just get a "MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card" ...I'm upgrading from a 8800 GTX and the card upgrade will be for playing Final Fantasy 14 online.
 
Ravenger said:
Antec Earthwatts 500. It's got enough power on the 12v rail, I checked. I've been playing Just Cause 2 for the last hour and it's fine now. I'll stick the blu-ray drive back in tomorrow to check if it goes wrong again.

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I put my blu-ray drive back in, and ran Kombustor for 15 minutes and it's all working fine now.

Weird. Must be some sort of dodgy power connection or something. I'm not going to touch it now it works! I'll see if it plays up again later.
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Not saying this is happening in your case, but I had one of those Antec Earthwatts power supplies. Hideous thing it was, unreliable from new, sometimes PC wouldn't start properly. I couldn't face RMAing it (the PSU annoyingly came with the case), so I skipped it and bought a Corsair the same day. Fortunately this was on my spare PC, my main PC has been Seasonic/Corsair for years.
 
Xion said:
Ok still wondering which card to go for....I'm tempted to just get a "MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card" ...I'm upgrading from a 8800 GTX and the card upgrade will be for playing Final Fantasy 14 online.
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Honestly I'd wait a little while until the actual game comes out. Reading the hardware requirements and benchmarking threads on bluegartr shows the benchmarks are all over atm and the 460 does not perfom well at all (sub 5830).

Of course this could well just be due to a lack of maturity in drivers but you're in no rush. Still got til the 22nd of September to see what performs best with the game for the best price. At least that's what I'm gonna do.

Also you're gonna have little trouble running it until you make a decision as my 8800GT barely struggled with the alpha or beta.
 
mikeo said:
What sort of speeds are we talking about here? I thought pretty much all of the 1GB cards could hit 800/1600/4000. Most without voltage adjustment. Or have I just been reading about the lucky people!?
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so far i've got it up to 850/(can't remember off top of head)/4200 and it's completely stable if I slowly set it to that speed, but if I immediately go from MSI's stock settings to it, it BSODs. Have also upped the voltage to about 1.08V with same results.
 
r0cky said:
Not saying this is happening in your case, but I had one of those Antec Earthwatts power supplies. Hideous thing it was, unreliable from new, sometimes PC wouldn't start properly. I couldn't face RMAing it (the PSU annoyingly came with the case), so I skipped it and bought a Corsair the same day. Fortunately this was on my spare PC, my main PC has been Seasonic/Corsair for years.
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Up until recently Antec's EarthWatts were made by Seasonic. Sounds like you just got a bad batch. I've got an EarthWatts 380w powering a Radeon 4850 Pentium dual-core rig with no issues.
 
merseymal said:
so far i've got it up to 850/(can't remember off top of head)/4200 and it's completely stable if I slowly set it to that speed, but if I immediately go from MSI's stock settings to it, it BSODs. Have also upped the voltage to about 1.08V with same results.
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Strange it does that...

Mine's at 850/1700/4200 @ 1.087V from the second it hits windows and it's never had a problem.
 
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