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Is MSI Afterburner...?

Winston

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Ok to use to overclock my Asus GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP 768MB? As i've read it's not advisable on non-referance cards which left me confused... :confused:
 
MeddlE said:
MSI Afterburner might not work, it will do no damage to give it a try though. Asus are non-reference boards and can use different configs of voltage controllers. Afterburner will not adjust voltage on my Asus 4890 but then I have no problems with Smart Doctor. I can give you a link to version 5.59 if you need it.
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drunkenmaster said:
As said it depends, if its a standard card then use afterburner, its far far better. If its one of the Asus custom designs you have little choice.

Said this before, Asus have a really fancy piece of nice software for overclocking their "matrix" range of cards, and use smart doctor for everything else. All that needs adding is listing another voltage controller and enabling all Asus cards in the FAR better software, but they won't, its ludicrous.

Smart doctor might be the single worst piece of software I've used from any gpu making company, and there have been some really bad ones over the years.

It would have looked data 10 years ago, its buggy as hell, its incredibly slow to load and insists on another piece of software, also slow to load, to be installed to work correctly, they all take ages to load and even take long just to open from system tray or anywhere else.
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What they mean is that although you will be able to overclock you may not be able to change the the voltage of the card using that program, as the move to a non reference PCB usually comes with a change in the voltage regulators
 
Many non-reference cards can have the voltage changed in Afterburner but you might need to edit the config file (and might not get a full range of adjustment). I can get a 0.1V adjustment on my ASUS directCU 5850 doing this.
 
Winston said:
Ok cool
How do I tell if the card is a reference design?
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Normally has the reference cooler on there, I only know of other ways to check for ATI reference cards as haven't used NV ones in a loooong while

boosfuk said:
Many non-reference cards can have the voltage changed in Afterburner but you might need to edit the config file (and might not get a full range of adjustment). I can get a 0.1V adjustment on my ASUS directCU 5850 doing this.
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Again depends on the voltage reg's used and whether they have been programmed into Afterburner
 
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