-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
GTX 570 SIMPLY STUNNING
- Thread starter Jakus
- Start date
Associate
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.
Playing games @ 820 core I get about 76 degrees which is usually about 56% fan which isn't bad.
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.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.
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
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.
Associate
Next mod is a 120/140mm fan at 45degrees on the bottom of the case blowing right up its chuff
Have You seen these....http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=M020-00-000171&family=Accessories - Hardware&sw=4
I need a new case and PSU first. Then I will probably get the new extreme Intel CPU at the end of the year and watercool the CPU and GPU('s) Might get another 480 if they are cheap enough second hand at the end of the year.
Even though in the bios it might say 0.65V, iirc fermi has a hard limit on how low the voltage can go of around 0.8V. So even though the voltage register might say 0.65V in gpu-z, hw-monitor, etc, if you use a multimeter it would still read ~0.8V I guess.
0.85V for stock clocks though is pretty impressive.
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
I forgot to mention I smelt burning coming from the GTX 570.
Associate
bacon???
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.
Watercooled? or bull****
or
you live in antartica and use 10,000 guinea pigs to power your fermi card?
No watercool, no overclock and that is the temperature that both smart doctor and speedfan softwares show. Under 30oC at idle and around 50oC at peak. Let me know if there is another more reliable way let me know. I live in Portugal so hardly cold, probably around 20oC room temperature.
Also worth mentioning that I have it setup to trigger 50-60% fans on 50oC
Last edited:
I'd use MSI Afterburner or GPU-Z, I've never used smart doctor or speedfan though.
I live in england, and even without the heating on. My GTX 570 idles at 45 c and reaches 90 c on load
Although I am overvolted/overclocked.
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
But that's going off what I've seen from comparing my 570 OCd benchmark results to other peoples stock 580 results.
So if you think getting that much of a gain, for free, is 'great', sure, it's a 'great gain'.
Last edited:
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.
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
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% ):
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
Don't think fan speed was mentioned.....I see how arguments start
I have a few mins, let me go and test and report back
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
Which singularly often costs as much as the rest of the whole system !!!
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
Which singularly often costs as much as the rest of the whole system !!!