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Palit sonic 580 GTX recalled.

I actually suspect there is a fault with the fan controller and they overheat with high demand games. My fan speeds never really changed when I put load on it although the temp went up a lot.
 
thing is, all the none OC boards, they are all reference boards just badged. Mechanically they should be close to identical.

thats why im thinking (and hoping) that the problem is entirely down to voltages not being liked at the overclock the OC version is on.
 
Voltage said:
thing is, all the none OC boards, they are all reference boards just badged. Mechanically they should be close to identical.

thats why im thinking (and hoping) that the problem is entirely down to voltages not being liked at the overclock the OC version is on.
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Ahh but I believe there are 2 parts of the reference design that are *optional* and I *think* one was to do with fan/cooling which is why I thought they had possibly swapped that out of the ref design for the OC editions.
 
Voltage said:
it would be rather good if some kind peep with a standard palit could confirm my question (im at work now :p)
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Mine was running fine at 910mhz core last night for hours. Had it up to 950mhz for a glory short but I wasn't sure where the limit lied voltage wise, as afterburner goes up to 1.3v, which is obviously far too much.

So to answer your question - the regular cards OC fine. They just didn't adjust the voltage correctly on the Sonics.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Mine was running fine at 910mhz core last night for hours. Had it up to 950mhz for a glory short but I wasn't sure where the limit lied voltage wise, as afterburner goes up to 1.3v, which is obviously far too much.

So to answer your question - the regular cards OC fine. They just didn't adjust the voltage correctly on the Sonics.
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Hi ive just took delivery of a 580 can you tell me what Voltage you used when running at 950hz please,did you change the memory aswell,just need some info if you would please
 
Ran a few demos at 1.14 for 950. Memory 1050.

Didnt go higher. Temps with a slightly modded fan profile didn't go over 85.
 
kmufc77 said:
Thanks for that

You say memory is 1050 for the 580,a tad confused my memory on my 480 is at 2000?
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Perhaps it was 2050, I'm not too certain as I'm at work. It was 50 over stock as I was only tinkering. Seem to recall afterburner showing it as 1000mhz though?

I'm intrigued now :)
 
kmufc77 said:
Thanks for that

You say memory is 1050 for the 580,a tad confused my memory on my 480 is at 2000?
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Thats 1050Mhz at Double Data Rate. ie 2100Mhz

Should be effective 4000Mhz stock but it could be down to how the utility works.
 
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