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Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti OC and OCCT

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I took my card today to the retailer and he tested it with heaven and crysis benchmarks. Both tests passed. He wasn't willing to test it with OCCT and ATITOOL, both of which give errors. The card was therefore returned to me with no fault found.

I would appreciate if anyone who owns this card would test it with OCCT and ATITOOL and post their findings. Thanks in advance.
 
Makes you wonder if they are starting to maybe push the chip a little too far in these cards!

While I "only" have an MSI 460 GTI HAWK and while it will pass benchmarks like Vantage and Heaven at 900MHz (and games), OCCT will throw a complete wobbly at this at this frequency.

Now I know that some people disagree, but to my mind... if it's not stable in anything and that includes OCCT... and yes I do appreciate how HARD this stresses a card (and also appreciate that some consider it unrepresentative of real world stress) then the card isn't stable in my opinion. The comment applies even more so at stock frequencies!

Only my opinion. Not looking for an argument here. :)

So I await with interest to see what other people think. Hopefully there will be some comments from other people who actually own one of these cards.
 
Don't have a Gigabyte but tried OCCT on my MSi GTX560Ti Twin Frozr II which I've got overclocked to 1000mhz and OCCT passes without errors
 
i cloked my 560ti to 950 clock last night and while playing tdu2 it started with the snowy stuff on screen so put it back too stock and was fine,

if i get the chance i'll try mine on occt tonight and post back
 
Why not just play some games instead of worrying about benchmarks

Not really the point is it? They may be stress tools and benchmarks but it *should* still pass them.

If I got a CPU from OcUK and at stock it played games fine but failed Prime it'd still be going back.
 
Not really the point is it? They may be stress tools and benchmarks but it *should* still pass them.

If I got a CPU from OcUK and at stock it played games fine but failed Prime it'd still be going back.

Which is why I asked, did you know that some stress tests such as FurMark push them to far even to the point that AMD and nvidia have whatever it was they introduced to stop the cards from experiance issues under such stress tests
 
There is no "pushing it too far". If the card is capable of having all it's vertex/pixel/geometry shaders filled as fast as possible then it should be able to handle the workload.
 
Hmmmm, your opinion or AMD/nvidia

Thats a hard one, but I understand what your saying, personally if its not a gaming based based benchmark IE Crysis Just cause etc, its not worth bothering with
 
It has to be said the cards are being marketed for parallel computing. They should be able to handle a 100% sustained load like a CPU.

I have bough cards solely for folding and I would expect them to run the client at 100% as intended.
 
It has to be said the cards are being marketed for parallel computing. They should be able to handle a 100% sustained load like a CPU.

I have bough cards solely for folding and I would expect them to run the client at 100% as intended.

Indeed.
 
Iv got the Gigabyte 560ti Oc with the same problems.

Iv had to downclock it to 850mhz to stop it crashing. I tried adding more volts which did help a bit but was making it to hot at about 95c.

Looking around most people say its the drivers as its happening with other cards.
 
Why not just play some games instead of worrying about benchmarks

You're right. It indeed crashes in games and this is why I've been checking it for errors. My retailer, not OcUK, only use heaven and crysis benchmarks to test and the card passes both these tests. I know something is wrong and having paid £200 I feel let down.
 
Iv got the Gigabyte 560ti Oc with the same problems.

Iv had to downclock it to 850mhz to stop it crashing. I tried adding more volts which did help a bit but was making it to hot at about 95c.

Looking around most people say its the drivers as its happening with other cards.

I copied the clock settings from the MSI bios (880/4200) and flashed the bios. Now it's stable as hell.
 
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