*Official OMG I got my 460 thread*

[The Running Man]

Other people have been getting the MSI up to 940 Mhz on stock cooling with 1.087v (lucky gits ).

i think 940 is a bit of a fabrication. sure they might whack it to 900+ bump up the voltage and run 3dmark, everything seems fine so they say. wow look at my Overclock!?!

but i doubt its OCCT GPU stable with zero errors over a 10-20minute run.

its like i just read this review of an Asus CU:

As a best practice, it's good to find the maximum stable GPU clock speed, and then drop back 10 MHz or more. While the ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP was stable in many tests up to 850 MHz, there was an occasional graphics defect. In the end, I decided that 850 MHz with full-time stability is a far better proposition than crashing out midway through battle. Adding the 850/1680 MHz GPU overclock onto the 1170 MHz GDDR5 overclock resulted in some very impressive gains!

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...k=view&id=577&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=16

thats because its not a stable OC!!! i can run at many high MHZ and not get huge artifacting in 3dmark but that doesnt mean its rock stable overclock... its very misleading when they say hey could hit 850 etc and not all reviews are genuine and dont say that they did infact see some minor artifacting at that speed/voltage.

 

[HeX]

Yup, 900+ on these cards I can't see, unless they are on water or the fan at 100% or something daft.

850 is very do-able however.

Don't thing there's been a 460 yet that won't do at least 800/1600/4000.

I think nVidia were rather conservative with their stock clocks for the 460.

(no doubt be remedied when they bring out the full shared version and up the stock clocks as well)

 

[r0cky]

msi afternurner is about as simple as it comes u have 3 sliders and like just slide them and click apply...?

MSI Afterburner is not a simple program in the least. It's way overly graphical, lots of status display, extremely ugly. Whereas Nvidia Inspector has simple standard Windows UI sliders for setting the clocks/voltages, and creates shortcuts to directly change profiles. It's bloat-free and nicely designed.

 

[gingergamer]

I havent got a 460 yet, but can I ask which is the better cooler, the Gigabyte Windforce one or the MSI Cyclone?

Thanks

 

[Tysonator]

Hi, to be fair I have not read all of this thread.
However I might be buying Palit Sonic Platinum 460GTX, so any good ! ?

 

[Kelt]

I havent got a 460 yet, but can I ask which is the better cooler, the Gigabyte Windforce one or the MSI Cyclone?

Thanks

They're both very good. I have the Gigabyte version, and it's in-audible up to 60% fan speed, and anything over that (only seen in benchmarking; in my experience, never goes much above 50% in any gaming I've done so far), is a gentle whoosh if air, not a fan whine, like my old 8800GT fan.

 

[p0rks0da]

Hi, to be fair I have not read all of this thread.
However I might be buying Palit Sonic Platinum 460GTX, so any good ! ?

Get a Gigabyte or MSI card instead, they have much better coolers (lower temps and noise) and either will be able to match the Sonic Platinum's overclock easily.

Also to answer gingergamer, they both have excellent coolers.

 

[gingergamer]

They're both very good. I have the Gigabyte version, and it's in-audible up to 60% fan speed, and anything over that (only seen in benchmarking; in my experience, never goes much above 50% in any gaming I've done so far), is a gentle whoosh if air, not a fan whine, like my old 8800GT fan.

I plan on overclocking so I may need to ramp up the fan speed a bit, but thats good that its not too loud.

Plus the Giga version is cheaper

 

[Bozebo]

Don't buy palit in principle anyway, they have a history of ripping people off tbh. My palit 9800gt is a shambles and it has the same horrible fan as the 460 cards.

I dunno about getting a 460 at all though, would I be right in expecting another new fermi sku soon? Tbh the rest of my system performs below par as it is, maby a 460 is all I need or I will cpu bottleneck anyway (or motherboard bottleneck lol), if a new sku does come out it may effect the prices a bit (saving £10 doesn't really warrant waiting months though). I can't make a move until september anyway so I have time to decide.

 

[Kelt]

I plan on overclocking so I may need to ramp up the fan speed a bit, but thats good that its not too loud.

Plus the Giga version is cheaper

Well you can see the overclock I'm running, at default fan profile, no need to ramp up the fan.

Even when I ran it at 880/1760/2100 for a while, the gaming temps remained in the 60's/70's.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

The second card would most likely be for deadicated Nvida physics, not sli mate

I thought that might be the case but I've never used a dedicated physix card before. How would I go about setting a similar configuration up? Is it purely drivers? Thanks for the advice.

 

[Kelt]

I thought that might be the case but I've never used a dedicated physix card before. How would I go about setting a similar configuration up? Is it purely drivers? Thanks for the advice.

In my case, after plugging the 8800 into the PC (no need to connect to a monitor), I had to re-install the drivers, and that was it.

I just set the 8800 to be used as the Physx card via control panel, (the software had already picked it under auto, so probably no need for this step), and away you go.

 

[rickh]

Anyone with the 1gb zotac that could comment on fan noise?
I need displayport and the zotac is the only one.

 

[gingergamer]

Well you can see the overclock I'm running, at default fan profile, no need to ramp up the fan.

Even when I ran it at 880/1760/2100 for a while, the gaming temps remained in the 60's/70's.

Oh right, nice one. Thats a awesome overclock

Can I ask, did you turn memory clock down?
Because OcUK says its 3600 at stock and yours is 2100?!?

 

[Kelt]

Oh right, nice one. Thats a awesome overclock

Can I ask, did you turn memory clock down?
Because OcUK says its 3600 at stock and yours is 2100?!?

Well I used to display it at 4200 (technically that's what it runs at) but the setting is 2100 in Afterburner, so to save confusion (with me ^^), I reverted back to that.

So to answer your question, it's overclocked from default 1800 to 2100Mhz.

 

[gingergamer]

Oh I see.

 

[Kelt]

Oh I see.

And just to complicate things, GPU-Z displays it as 1050 Mhz.

 

[gingergamer]

Ha, thats random

 

[fozzybear]

Got my Gigabyte 460 this afternoon. Everything seems fine so far. I'm just waiting on a few games arrivng tomorrow to test it out fully.

 

[Shaftydude]

i think 940 is a bit of a fabrication. sure they might whack it to 900+ bump up the voltage and run 3dmark, everything seems fine so they say. wow look at my Overclock!?!

but i doubt its OCCT GPU stable with zero errors over a 10-20minute run.

its like i just read this review of an Asus CU:



http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...k=view&id=577&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=16

thats because its not a stable OC!!! i can run at many high MHZ and not get huge artifacting in 3dmark but that doesnt mean its rock stable overclock... its very misleading when they say hey could hit 850 etc and not all reviews are genuine and dont say that they did infact see some minor artifacting at that speed/voltage.

OCCT is far to extreme, getting no artifacts running FurMark and Kombustor is a pass for stability, and running a proper game it would be GTA4 being the most intensive.

Core clock of
850 is stable of no artifacts at v1.087 on everything
875 is stable of no artifacts at v1.087 on everything except OCCT
890 is stable of no artifacts at v1.087 on everything except OCCT
900 is stable of no artifacts at v1.087 on everything except OCCT & GTA4

So for me I'm now running it at 890 as I get no artifacts, also crashing was never an issue.