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GTX580 Overclocking Help

SirCanealot said:
Surely in general the lower you can go, the better?
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The lower the temperature and voltage when overclocking the better, that's obvious, but the more you overclock, the higher the temperatures and power usage, there's no getting away from that.
It depends what you want to achieve, if you want a good overclock of 900-950MHz then you're going to experience higher temperatures (unless of course you deal with the heat using water cooling). 80c is perfectly fine for these overclocks.
 
Rossi~ said:
The lower the temperature and voltage when overclocking the better, that's obvious, but the more you overclock, the higher the temperatures and power usage, there's no getting away from that.
It depends what you want to achieve, if you want a good overclock of 900-950MHz then you're going to experience higher temperatures (unless of course you deal with the heat using water cooling). 80c is perfectly fine for these overclocks.
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I'm new to the scene myself but the pops has being repairing electronics and dabbling in PC's the last 40 years and he always reiterates; "With silicon, if it is running over stock volts and clocks it must be kept under stock temps to compensate for the life of the chip." It may have no problem operating at near stock temps on higher voltages and speeds but it won't have the longest possible life. And considering it's always a gamble with silicon I'd rather prolong the life of mine for as long as possible. He hasn't had anything blow up or die on him yet. Also the cooler a chip, the less voltage it loses and can give higher OC's.

The stock temps of my cards are 77 and 72 so when OC'ing I keep them at 68 and 62.
 
chipachap said:
I'm new to the scene myself but the pops has being repairing electronics and dabbling in PC's the last 40 years and he always reiterates; "With silicon, if it is running over stock volts and clocks it must be kept under stock temps to compensate for the life of the chip." It may have no problem operating at near stock temps on higher voltages and speeds but it won't have the longest possible life. And considering it's always a gamble with silicon I'd rather prolong the life of mine for as long as possible. He hasn't had anything blow up or die on him yet. Also the cooler a chip, the less voltage it loses and can give higher OC's.

The stock temps of my cards are 77 and 72 so when OC'ing I keep them at 68 and 62.
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I would assume that would only make a life span difference of say 6 years instead of 8 years or something but if that's what you do then fair enough. I'll stick to what i know and my experience along with a large percentage of overclockers.
 
Rossi~ said:
Hey hlennie. I'm only on 4400 for the memory (1100), what voltage are you running the memory? .
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I can't adjust memory voltage on mine thought that was only msi cards in afterburner

Voltage set at 1.150 mind U I do have the bios tweaked to allow up to 2.150
 
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