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MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC
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Soldato
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You might as well try bumping it to 950MHz. Unstable overclock would only crash the driver, or the PC at worst, it won't damage your card.
When overclock is unstable, either take the clock speed down a notch, or increase the voltage by a bit.
Yea, just do a vantage run to check for stability. My ram is fine at 2200, but not at 2300 so I dont recommend going any higher unless you know how to stress test your cards.
950 Mhz will be absolutely fine too, it might need a little more voltage though.
You need to look for the 2.1.0 beta 6 version of afterburner to use voltage modding on these cards, or wait for the official 2.1 release.
Remember that any overclocking done within afterburner is covered by the warranty on these cards. Its perfectly safe to use, if you use an unstable overclock vantage will artifact or crash within the first two gaming tests and the card's drivers will stop responding and reset, or just black screen. Hit restart if it locks up and turn it down from any unstable setting.
950 Mhz and 1025 mV is completely safe on these, but each card may require more or less voltage. Some might manage 950 Mhz on stock volts, others might need more than mine at 1025 mV.
So basically, if you dont know much about overclocking - Set this card to 1050 mV (only 1 degree hotter than 1025 mV in my testing and it should work on all these cards), 950 Mhz core, and 2200 ram. Run a few vantage tests. If they all complete without any errors you are fine. Only go higher than that if you know how to overclock + stress test.
Heres my voltage + temp testing with the afterburner settings at my stable max OC of 950 / 2200 for reference:
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9286/560950.png
Theres hardly any temp difference between 1050 and 1025 mV, but I got much more performance at 1050 mV somehow. If you only have one card your temps should be even lower than my 75 degrees.
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I don't know where do you know it from, but I recommend you update your knowledge. For example, by following this link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...compare,2487.html?prod[4515]=on&prod[4529]=on
9800GTX+ is the same what GTX250 is (sometimes faster, because some GTSes have lower memory clockspeed). You don't have to explain what SLI is as I am happy user of it, and have seen couple opinions of users who swaped their GTS250 SLI to simple GTX460 and now they are dissapointed
But - as said - such swap to GTX560 Ti is quite good idea, exept spreading money just like that because it's new card on market 
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I don't need someone to tell me about what 9800GTX+ is like as I HAVE THE CARD thank you very muchI don't know where do you know it from, but I recommend you update your knowledge. For example, by following this link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...compare,2487.html?prod[4515]=on&prod[4529]=on
9800GTX+ is the same what GTX250 is (sometimes faster, because some GTSes have lower memory clockspeed). You don't have to explain what SLI is as I am happy user of it, and have seen couple opinions of users who swaped their GTS250 SLI to simple GTX460 and now they are dissapointed
Do you not realise the link you quoted the tests are carried out with inconsistent settings (some with 1680 res, some with or without AA), rather than unified 1920 res at 16AF 4xAA? Also, do you realised dual-GPU does not deliver even close to same "smoothness" as a single GPU on the same frame rate?
Is the GTX460 faster than 9800GTX+ SLI? Yes.
Is it worth upgrading from 9800GTX+ to a GTX460? No, as the gain is not significant enough to justify the cost, unless someone aims to reduce power consumption and heat rather than performance boost.
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wooohooo mine has arrived One sexy looking card and I was surprised that it was shorter then my old gtx260 by a long way. And its silent.
One sexy looking card and I was surprised that it was shorter then my old gtx260 by a long way. And its silent.
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hey for you guys who already own this card and also own F1 2010 just wanting to check if the game still works? Started it up tonight went through the usual GFWL log in and then when it goes to the paddock it shows up black.
Every other game works great all silky smooth on my 120 hertz monitor including CM games such as Dirt 2 and grid.
Every other game works great all silky smooth on my 120 hertz monitor including CM games such as Dirt 2 and grid.
Soldato
Yes, windows 7 is a lot better than Vista for everything.
Yes, windows 7 is a lot better than Vista for everything.
Agree. Vista was a major pain to keep running. It kept on getting corrupted every few months ad required a reinstall for me, and I had to dual boot with XP because lots of old games I had wouldnt work and overall XP was still a lot more stable and reliable.
Since I moved to Windows 7, I've never had to reinstall, except when changing my windows drive to my SSD, and I've never needed to use XP anymore because my old games work fine with either the compatibility mode, or Windows XP Virtual machine.
Soldato
Yes, windows 7 is a lot better than Vista for everything.
Good to hear as i decided to buy windows 7 home premium and i like how you get the 32 & 64bit version
.I also had some problems with vista so pleased i will be building my system on this OS , really thinking vista should have been what 7 is .
Just got my card . thanks agian overclockers for the fast delivery .
Not installed it yet . But noticed theres no header for the audio input from my sound card
I thought that this card would support audio over hdmi . If theres no header how is this possible ?
Not installed it yet . But noticed theres no header for the audio input from my sound card
I thought that this card would support audio over hdmi . If theres no header how is this possible ?
just noticed there no heatsinks on the vram to . is that normal
Yes, there werent any ramsinks on my MSI Cyclone 460s either.
Even Gigabyte dont use Ramsinks, also after I used to attach ramsinks myself, they didnt make hardly enough difference to overclocking to be worth it.
The dual fan coolers that these cads use provide enough airflow to properly cool the ram and VRM chips.
I wanted to test my cards for artifacts and stability, and couldnt get MSI combustor to give each card a 100% load. So I downloaded OCCT, left it running in the background and carried on browsing the web. The cards were at 950/4400 ad the driver stopped responding but recovered after some time so I thought 'Oh, they arent stable'. I went back to OCCT / Afterburner and nearly had a heart attack. 95 / 94 degrees for the two cards, driver instability happened right when the top card peaked at 95 and I thought 'lol, like they're ever gonna get that hot in any games or benchies'.
There was also a strong burning metal smell coming from my case, so I got worried and openend it up. The twin frozr heatsinks were so hot that they burned if touched for just 1-2 seconds, and the interior of the case was really warm with a nice roasted side panel as well.
I could have cooked food in there, Yummy!
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idling im getting temps of 20-23c , i played arma 2 for a good 45 mins and it hadn't gone a bove 37c, i have oced the card slightly more than what it came at. im very impressed with it.
my old 8800gt sli where idlilng at 60c and only with fan at 70% would it hold the temp in game
my old 8800gt sli where idlilng at 60c and only with fan at 70% would it hold the temp in game