mmm thats a good few of us so far then ..
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**Gigabyte Super OC GTX 480's - VERY LOW PRICES!**
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mmm thats a good few of us so far then ..
its a great card for the price
just frustrating it won' trun at its stock clocks/settings - nowhere near in my case
just makes you wonder how they stress test them/choose the volts etc ?
I mean I was excited at first 1.035V for 820 is really low - but why choose it if not stable ??
just frustrating it won' trun at its stock clocks/settings - nowhere near in my case
just makes you wonder how they stress test them/choose the volts etc ?
I mean I was excited at first 1.035V for 820 is really low - but why choose it if not stable ??
It is worrying how many are getting arefacts at stock, how can Gigabyte make a pre oc card and not test it??
not sure perhaps its our systems ? or perhaps not every card is tested ? perhaps only a sample of batches is tested ? I have no idea
but mine was immediately apparently in Heaven - like 10 seconds in that I was getting artefacts, and OCCT was into the hundreds of errors within 20 seconds .
I wondered re my PSU but the fact that the 12V line looks fine, and that if I increase volts to the card it becomes stable - makes me doub its the PSU
but mine was immediately apparently in Heaven - like 10 seconds in that I was getting artefacts, and OCCT was into the hundreds of errors within 20 seconds .
I wondered re my PSU but the fact that the 12V line looks fine, and that if I increase volts to the card it becomes stable - makes me doub its the PSU
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That is a shot just after i came out of a two hour crysis run at 1920x with 4xAA.
And this is a shot whilst playing BC2 for about 5mins
Now are those gpu voltages correct, beacuse its crazy low right? I haven't run any benchmarks yet, but not crashed or had any problems playing BC2& Crysis.
Card is maxing out at around 74c whilst in crysis and can only hear my 180 fans spinning everything else is silent. Really, really happy with this card so far, first nvidia card for 3 years
does seem low volts - which is good if stable
try Heaven 2.5 bench - and see if you get any artefacts
artefacts on mine are flashing horizontal lines flash up, flashing textures occasionally etc - very obviousanyway - but you have to watch it running as it carries on running regardless without crashing
try Heaven 2.5 bench - and see if you get any artefacts
artefacts on mine are flashing horizontal lines flash up, flashing textures occasionally etc - very obviousanyway - but you have to watch it running as it carries on running regardless without crashing
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Downloaded and ran Heaven 2.5, during some of the transtions i had some flashing bright colours from where the sun was i think, and during the night everything seemed to have a blue outline. But no crashes and voltage not going above 1.016 for the core, could it be somthing to do with the mem voltage and shader/memory clocks ?
Having no problem with actual games though, so not going to phased by a bad heaven run.
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Just bumped my memory voltage up a notch (pressed the + button once). Ran Heaven 2.5 with no artifacts of any kind. Current clocks and volts are:
GPU Volt=1.025
Mem Volt=1.590
Gpu Clock =820
Shader Clock = 1640
Mem Clock= 950
Hope that helps any with the issue. Allso temp maxing out at 62 in heaven but 72 in crysis, anyone have an idea as to the 10 degree difference?
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Just how the different programs load the card.
just that Crysis stresses it harder than Heaven - nothing to worry about
seems mines going to have to be replaced then
I tried b umping even to 1.1 to get 820 stable with no joy
annoying really as 790 at 1.088 is stable, and I'm relatively happy with that - but its not what the cards about
what would I do if I ever sold the card on - yes its a great card - but btw it doesn't work out of the box without tweaks, you hae to up the voltage and down the clock to make it stable ... righty ...
seems mines going to have to be replaced then
I tried b umping even to 1.1 to get 820 stable with no joy annoying really as 790 at 1.088 is stable, and I'm relatively happy with that - but its not what the cards about
what would I do if I ever sold the card on - yes its a great card - but btw it doesn't work out of the box without tweaks, you hae to up the voltage and down the clock to make it stable ... righty ...
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just that Crysis stresses it harder than Heaven - nothing to worry about
seems mines going to have to be replaced then
annoying really as 790 at 1.088 is stable, and I'm relatively happy with that - but its not what the cards about
what would I do if I ever sold the card on - yes its a great card - but btw it doesn't work out of the box without tweaks, you hae to up the voltage and down the clock to make it stable ... righty ...
Damn shame Buckster
Finally got my issues sorted today, card has always been fine. just had to take my cpu overclock back to stock as was unstable (mind you was only pushing 1.22v to the cpu). tested the Coolermaster 700w PSU 12volt rail with a multi meter and all ok even when stressed 12.1v have now upped the voltage on the core for the 2500k to 1.285 and back to 4.6Ghz so all good now. mem 1.52v.
Really pleased with the performance of this card and my system
Heaven 2.5 1680*1050 1176
3dMark 2006 just over 30,600.
With the cpu at 4.6Ghz and standard clocks on the 480Soc.
Soldato
thanks
anyone tried using the oc tool that comes with it ?
each time I press "apply" GPU voltage changes .... sometimes 1.03, sometimes 1.11 ???
this is with v oltage set to manual, and say if I set to 1.08 - press apply it goes to 1.03 !!
It looked exactly the same as afterburner so i just use that instead
I was prob just clutching at straws to why it wasn't stable at stock clocks/volts
tried 4 different nvidia drivers now - and all the same loads of artefacts at stock, but drop clocks and gets better and better - just finding out currently what clocks are possible at stock v olts
tried 4 different nvidia drivers now - and all the same loads of artefacts at stock, but drop clocks and gets better and better - just finding out currently what clocks are possible at stock v olts
Soldato
STABLE
What temps were you getting in OCCT?
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Hi guys i is back
Just to say i have mine @ 1025v and stock SOC timings and i get no problems at all
If i bump the core clock to 850 to match my other (pixelview) 480 then i get crashing and funny colours in games etc (no voltage increse)
i put the card back to stock and all is good again
Gigabytes guru prog dont work for me tells me there is an error when loading it up (think this is due to me having a pixelview card in there with it) so i use msi AB
my core volt is 1025 at stock whats yours people on this card as they seem to differ ???
I Have my first 480 cards core voltage at 1100 and 850 gpu, 1700 shader and 2000 ram
GIGABYTE stock at 820 core, 1641 shaders and 1900 ram and as i say at 1025 v
Just to say i have mine @ 1025v and stock SOC timings and i get no problems at all
If i bump the core clock to 850 to match my other (pixelview) 480 then i get crashing and funny colours in games etc (no voltage increse)
i put the card back to stock and all is good again
Gigabytes guru prog dont work for me tells me there is an error when loading it up (think this is due to me having a pixelview card in there with it) so i use msi AB
my core volt is 1025 at stock whats yours people on this card as they seem to differ ???
I Have my first 480 cards core voltage at 1100 and 850 gpu, 1700 shader and 2000 ram
GIGABYTE stock at 820 core, 1641 shaders and 1900 ram and as i say at 1025 v
thanks therutz - my core voltage is 1038 according to Afterburner
what will be quicker with OCUK returns wise ? return under DSR get refund, and re-order a replacement ?
or send back as faulty (which it is) - and get replacement - obviously this will save me cost of postage return - but how long will they take to test etc ?
or perhaps ask for a partial refund and I'll pretend its not a SOC ! lol
on searching the interweb it seems others of 480 and other card ilks have had problems with SOC cards running at SOC clocks - so it does make you wonder how thoroughly they are tested - I'm not saying its the norm that they don't - its obviously not - but if they were individiually tested - you'd expect hardly any reports of them not running at SOC clocks
what will be quicker with OCUK returns wise ? return under DSR get refund, and re-order a replacement ?
or send back as faulty (which it is) - and get replacement - obviously this will save me cost of postage return - but how long will they take to test etc ?
or perhaps ask for a partial refund and I'll pretend its not a SOC ! lol
on searching the interweb it seems others of 480 and other card ilks have had problems with SOC cards running at SOC clocks - so it does make you wonder how thoroughly they are tested - I'm not saying its the norm that they don't - its obviously not - but if they were individiually tested - you'd expect hardly any reports of them not running at SOC clocks
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