Caporegime
80c is fine temp wise, though you could mount a fan behind the cards to help cool them a bit.
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***DEAL OF THE MILLENIUM - MSI GTX 470 Twin FrozR ONLY £143.99 Inc. VAT!!*****
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Bought a couple of these in the end and they're flying! 
Got them up to 840 on the core and 1900 on the memory. Applied extreme burn test settings in Furmark and didn't exceed 77°C!
Great cards and a great price - nice one Gibbo!
Got them up to 840 on the core and 1900 on the memory. Applied extreme burn test settings in Furmark and didn't exceed 77°C!
Great cards and a great price - nice one Gibbo!
Man of Honour
Hi guys,
Can those of you that have this card tell me if the metal plate that has the MSI carved out in it, are most of the corners where there are cut outs, are they bent slightly? My previous card metal plate was all straight?
Cheers
Can those of you that have this card tell me if the metal plate that has the MSI carved out in it, are most of the corners where there are cut outs, are they bent slightly? My previous card metal plate was all straight?
Cheers
Associate
Been trying out some folding, but I'm finding if I leave it for a bit the GPU activity drops to 0, and when i click "Display" in the folding menu, it starts again. any ideas what is going on??
got my MSI 470 yesterday ..today i had some time so fitted in my pc and its flying..not OCed it yet but its fine at stock at the moment.
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Man of Honour
Hi guys,
Can those of you that have this card tell me if the metal plate that has the MSI carved out in it, are most of the corners where there are cut outs, are they bent slightly? My previous card metal plate was all straight?
Cheers
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Man of Honour
Man of Honour
Not getting much out of overclocking as a pair in SLI.
At stock speeds the top card can get upto 84 degrees with the fan going at 100%
As a single card I can get 800/1600 @ .987 volts but in BFBC2 the game WSOD after about 20 minutes, even though the temps dont get above 75 degrees. Benchmarking in DIRT2 it's fine and stable at those clocks but performance is only increased by 15% for a 30% increase in clock speeds. Upping the voltage to 1.00 and the card just shuts down and doesn't even recover back to stock speeds.
I am a bit disappointed really, I could have added a second GTX 460 to what I already had and clocked them to 800/1600/2000 and gained the same performance as these 2 MSI GTX 470's at stock speeds and spent less money, as these 2 cards have cost me £186 after the £100 I got for my GTX 460.
I would have thought with the custom cooler and higher grade components in the MSI FrozR 2 would have at least been able to get to 750/1500 without any trouble at all.
At stock speeds the top card can get upto 84 degrees with the fan going at 100%
As a single card I can get 800/1600 @ .987 volts but in BFBC2 the game WSOD after about 20 minutes, even though the temps dont get above 75 degrees. Benchmarking in DIRT2 it's fine and stable at those clocks but performance is only increased by 15% for a 30% increase in clock speeds. Upping the voltage to 1.00 and the card just shuts down and doesn't even recover back to stock speeds.
I am a bit disappointed really, I could have added a second GTX 460 to what I already had and clocked them to 800/1600/2000 and gained the same performance as these 2 MSI GTX 470's at stock speeds and spent less money, as these 2 cards have cost me £186 after the £100 I got for my GTX 460.
I would have thought with the custom cooler and higher grade components in the MSI FrozR 2 would have at least been able to get to 750/1500 without any trouble at all.
Caporegime
Try a fan behind both cards, this really helped with my pair, (reference blower cooler cards albeit), voltage wise i can run both on stock, 0.987v at 751mhz core without issues, tried 800 at 1.00v, failed halfway through a second loop of heaven bench, upped the voltage to 1.012 and both have been fine so far, also the wsod in bc2 can be a driver issue, i had this problem with the 266.35 beta's when using higher than 4xaa, no issues with the latest official 266.58 drivers though. What psu are you using btw?
Gpu cooling mod.
Not gonna win any prizes for looks tbh, but it lowered the temps of my top card by 8-10c.
Gpu cooling mod.
Not gonna win any prizes for looks tbh, but it lowered the temps of my top card by 8-10c.
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Something not right there - with the reference cooler mine don't get much above 60C with the fan at 100% (except in furmark). I'll be very very suprised if you get 800MHz on .987 and I only know of one person who has got 800MHz under 1.02v.
EDIT: With the different cooler on the MSI (disperses heat into the case rather than out the back) getting 84C w/ 100% fan suggest very poor case cooling/airflow you may have a situation where the exhaust fans are trying to pull more air out than the intakes allow in.
EDIT: With the different cooler on the MSI (disperses heat into the case rather than out the back) getting 84C w/ 100% fan suggest very poor case cooling/airflow you may have a situation where the exhaust fans are trying to pull more air out than the intakes allow in.
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Man of Honour
Power supply is Corsair 850 watt
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-019-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084
Case is a Zalman GS 1000, I have one 120mm fan on the bottom drawing in air and one 120mm fan at the top expelling air. My i7 920 is under a Corsair H50 with two fans in push/pull config exhausting to the top rear of the case.
The main problem is that my 2 cards are next to each other since I can't use the bottom PCI Express Slot of my motherboard to leave a gap between each card like Setter's set up above.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-019-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084
Case is a Zalman GS 1000, I have one 120mm fan on the bottom drawing in air and one 120mm fan at the top expelling air. My i7 920 is under a Corsair H50 with two fans in push/pull config exhausting to the top rear of the case.
The main problem is that my 2 cards are next to each other since I can't use the bottom PCI Express Slot of my motherboard to leave a gap between each card like Setter's set up above.
Caporegime
Psu is fine, i use the same myself. What motherboard, i know that pcie slot spacing on some of the gigabyte x58 boards is very close compared to the asus p6t dlx im using. Can you add another intake fan on the front of the case to help with airflow? As a comparison, i tried one of my cards in an eclipse 62 case based rig i have, (one restricted intake fan due to the hdd bay) the card ran 10c hotter than it does in my main case in sig, dual 140mm intakes plus another 120mm mounted in the 5.25 bays.
Man of Honour
It's not the motherboard slot spacing it's the case physically won't allow a double slot card to fit into the bottom PCI Express slot. There's a steel reinforcer just above the PSU and that prevents me from fitting the card.
Man of Honour
Looks like I need a new case, looking at the Coolermaster HAF X.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-203-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29
Seems to offer much better VGA cooling and has space for tri sli, so I can leave a spcae between each card.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-203-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29
Seems to offer much better VGA cooling and has space for tri sli, so I can leave a spcae between each card.
Associate
Looked at the memory overclock tonight to see how far it could go. Right now sitting at 1v on 800/1600/1800 which i am really pleased at. After an hour or so of metro 2033 temperature hadn't exceeded 75 degrees (with fan on 45%). Haven't looked at pushing it any further but I am sure there is the potential for it to go higher!
Does produce a lot of heat, has raised the case temp and CPU temp by a few degrees, but nothing my arctic freezer 7 pro can't handle!
Does produce a lot of heat, has raised the case temp and CPU temp by a few degrees, but nothing my arctic freezer 7 pro can't handle!
Caporegime
The HAF X is meant to be a very good case as far as cooling.
Havent bothered much with the memory on mine tbh, 1700 is the most ive benched it at, (1684 stock), my case temps did rise initially but i added another intake fan which helped bring things back to normal.Looked at the memory overclock tonight to see how far it could go. Right now sitting at 1v on 800/1600/1800 which i am really pleased at. After an hour or so of metro 2033 temperature hadn't exceeded 75 degrees (with fan on 45%). Haven't looked at pushing it any further but I am sure there is the potential for it to go higher!
Does produce a lot of heat, has raised the case temp and CPU temp by a few degrees, but nothing my arctic freezer 7 pro can't handle!
Man of Honour
A single card on stock voltage I can do 800/1600 and the temperature maxes out at 70 with a fan speed at just 47%. So with proper spacing and extra VGA cooling I should be able to duplicate that overclock in SLI mode.
I've got a choice to make now.
Keep one card at the above clocks and get very good performance and sell the other one. Or spend another £130 and overclock both cards and have plenty of perfromance in reserve for future games.
I've got a choice to make now.
Keep one card at the above clocks and get very good performance and sell the other one. Or spend another £130 and overclock both cards and have plenty of perfromance in reserve for future games.
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Does afterburner only alter the speed of one of the two fans because this thing is pretty loud. Having a closer look at the fans it appears only one gets slower (the closest to the ports) when you alter the slider from 30% to 100%...