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GTX 570 SIMPLY STUNNING

Jakus

Jakus

Jakus

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I've had a gtx570 for a few month's now and quite recently Nibitor 6.0 came out and I've been playing ;)
Totally disappointed that I could not edit the fan settings, save for min and max speed I thought I would see what could be done with the voltages ;)
My card was running 0.912v idle and 0.962 (full 3D)
Dropping the idle voltage to the lowest the bios is happy with is simple, but I wanted to drop the other 3D voltages, I'll just cover the full 3d setting here.

Started lowering the vcore as far as I could go which was to the low 3D vid 0.913v the card was still 100% happy benching Crysis etc, as I could not go any lower on the volts I thought it best to start overclocking the core.
Well by the time I'm up to 800mhz on the core and all is well I'm thinking hang on it can't really be doing this...double checking with other monitoring software etc.. Well it eventually gave up @ 820 on the core !!!, I think that's pretty stunning :eek:

Settled for a 0.925 max vcore, so I can easily up the core to over 800 if I need to without adding any extra volts ;) But on that note except for Crysis the card is so powerful (and I have not got My head around why) in My sandy bridge PC that I don't need to....example F12010 in My old E8600 @4GHZ used to give at the settings I run about 55FPS av this same GTX 570 gives 120FPS av (109 min) sure that game must be very CPU dependent but other 3D benches have scaled incredibly.

Quite sure You could take the other angle and get this card up to near 1ghz and really chase some benchies if You wanted to ;)

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Update
Seems I was way overvolting My core :D @ 0.92volts, with the updated bios I could drop the P0 (full3d) power phase voltage lower for testing (P8 phase voltage was limiting me to 0.92v ) ...ready for this

Now running P0 phase (full 3D) at 0.88 volts and it is happy on the core at full load up to 760mhz (I did not try higher as it hurts me to crash components) so My stock 732mhz is 100% solid.
I can't tell You exactly how much the temp it has dropped (as I also have a problem letting my gear run much over 60c) but I would guess stock (near silent auto fan) would have been mid 80c while testing on auto fan it's now mid 70c with the fan only going to 50%.

The full 3D power has dropped about 30watts (that's 2.5amps less on the 12v rail) and of course the performance is identical to stock

I've posted this not to "big up" My card or Nvidia , just because I'm sure it would be of interest to a few of the more discerning Guys out there, and I'm sorry if some of You have GTX570's that need more voltage.
Remember If You want to make Your GTX570's graphics performance increase, Don't reach for the "overclock tab" get the rest of You system up to at least an equivalent 4.4GHZ sandy bridge performance.

I would like to thank Orbmu2k for his fantastic Nvidia Inspector tool http://www.orbmu2k.de/

and Mavke for Nibitor 6.0 http://www.mvktech.net/component/op...temid,26/func,select/id,135/orderby,2/page,7/

Cheers
 
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555BUK said:
Made the above changes to my GTX480 (yes 480) a month ago and it also runs cooler and quieter. From memory I set the idle volts to 0.65v and load volts to 0.85v for "stock clocks".
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Well that's equally stunning :) I read fermi does not like less than .825 at idle so I did not try, the low 3d setting was the tricky one as the card switches through to high 3D.
 
mattjd said:
I used a modded Asus bios for my GTX480 which sets the idle voltage to 0.7v but theres obviously a limit on how low it can go because when checking with GPU-Z the voltage is 0.82v. But I got a 7 degrees drop in temperature @idle :)

Playing games @ 820 core I get about 76 degrees which is usually about 56% fan which isn't bad.
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Next mod is a 120/140mm fan at 45degrees on the bottom of the case blowing right up its chuff ;) I want middle-late 60's max on auto fan....it's a pain manually setting fan or fan app to run.

Have You seen these....http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=M020-00-000171&family=Accessories - Hardware&sw=4
 
Cythx said:
The first one was a Zotac, I settled at a stable 1.037v with 880 mhz, then about 2 months later my PC shut down randomly while playing mw2. I then went back onto mw2, played a match for 3 minutes, crashed.
went back onto mw2, played a match for 2 minutes, crashed.
went back onto mw2, crashed.
PC wouldn't turn on.

So I sent the card back and got an asus in return. that's not bad right? everyone loves asus! wrong.

I tried getting my clocks back but it turns out on my new card I need 1.150 V to achieve the same clocks.
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Strange failure, if electronics get over the first few hours they are normally good for most 80% of their life, bet You wished You tripple checked the card before sending back now ! Asus motherboards yes, gfx cards not so much, they often mess with them
 
pv123 said:
I also have one, however I am pretty much a temperature freak, my card never went over 55oC at full load, idles at 27-28oC, seems good. Do you notice great gains in the OC?? My card has been pretty much destroying all I throw at it.:D
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TBH , I've never noticed great gains OC'ing GFX cards as it's always the Min FPS that ruins the nice smooth game play.

As I've said what's really got Me is how this GFX card performs better and better the quicker the rest of the system can feed it...sure reasonable jumps like sandy bridge don't come around every 6 months, but I've had enough Crossfire & Sli powerful systems to not be quickly impressed ;) and i've gamed at 1920x1200 for a good few years which has always pushed the graphics.

Yes, I would think the std nvidia cooler @ about 85% fan could keep the card under 60c at max load, so gaming at 55c sounds about right..The reference Nvidia coolers are excellent, quiet and powerful and dump a good majority of the hot air out the back of the case
 
Cythx said:
Also to answer your previous question, it depends on what you mean by 'great gains'. I know an overclocked GTX 570 performs at least on par with a GTX 580. I'd like to assume this is similiar for other cards to, that overclocking would get you on par or more to the next card up.

ie, OCd 560 = stock 570, OCd 460 = stock 470

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Careful here, a GTX570 overclocked can give equal numbers to a GTX580 in benchmarks, but that is a long way from making it as powerful as GTX580
Sure it impresses the "boys" but the 570 will always lack the physical architecture of the vastly superior GTX580 in the real world.

We Have about I exception in all this that I know of, and that's ATI's 69** series where the 6950 is virtually a 6970 to begin with ;)
 
Ok, I set the fan speed to just 80% (as I have a lower vcore) and looped Warhead the max temp was 49c, did it again after the card was heat soaked and it got to 50/51c max. I think that settles it ;)

The manufactures know high temps are not good for anything, but they continue to set stupid fan profiles that let cards run at 90c ! no one here would let their CPU run at that temp but plenty seem happy to cook their Graphics cards/PCI slot and surrounding motherboard :rolleyes: Which singularly often costs as much as the rest of the whole system !!!
 
Cythx said:
My current 570 gets to 90 C and 80% (about 3600 rpm) fan speed with 880 hz @ 1.150 V

My last card was similiar but since, as you know, it only needed 1.037 V, it ran slightly cooler and I never saw the fan go above 3000 rpm in mw2.

Also, he says he has the fan at 50-60% @ 50c, not 85% ):
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Sorry, I did not see his second post....You need to sort out Your temps there, Is it reference cooler ? and what case do you have ?
 
pv123 said:
If I don't forget I'll throw in a video together later tonight show the temperature oscilations and current settings. I'll also use some of the mentioned software and see what results I get - if I don't forget :cool:

p.s. My fan is NEVER hitting 85% speeds - probably 60%.
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Which cooler does Your card have ?
 
Cythx said:
Stock cooler
Silverstone FT02 with all the case fans removed except the 200 mm fan directly under the GPU which spins at 700-800 RPM.

It is on the PCI slot closest to the i7 950 @ 4 ghz which is cooled by a noctua cooled by 2 140 mm fans @ 700 RPM.

The airflow from the Silverstone FT02 comes mainly from the bottom, through both sides of the clearance under the case, one side is blocked because I have it under my desk, backed up again the side of the left hand side of the desk.

I am pretty confident these temps are normal for 1.150 V because I had similar temps, albeit slightly cooler w/ a slower fan at 1.037 V
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Well I don't know what to say really, what does it run at with stock volts and the fan at 80% ? benching crysis like I did ?
 
Cythx said:
Deff. get the 570, a 570 performs almost identical to a 480 in most cases.

A clocked 570 will even perform at least on par with a 580 and a 580 > 480 > 470

edit: It's also probably quieter than your 470.
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Cythx, You check those temps at stock clocks and volts yet ?
 
You have some serious cooling issues in that case, at 70% fan that should be getting on for 30c cooler.

I Just played Crysis2 for an hour with fan at 65% and it got to about 60c max.

Up to You, but You will kill that card, Why the hell don't You put the fan on manual and set it to max (which will be 85%) on std bios and take the side of the case to see if it helps ?
 
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