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Need Help, GTX460 not sure if i'm happy

opethdisciple said:
Just run the add remove function in the control panel, get it to do an express unistall, when it prompts you to unistall the install/unistall manager say yes.

Reboot, if prompted.

After reboot, delete any remaing folders in program files (as thats the 64bit directory in visat 64) then install Nvidia drivers.... should be fine.
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Cheers bud.
 
Meaker said:
GTX 460 1GB ~ HD5850
GTX 460 768MB ~ HD5830
HD 4870 crossfire > HD 5870 (when crossfire works properly)
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He already overclocked his GTX460 768MB to 900MHz, which should be pretty much at a bit over stock 5850 or GTX470 level.

JIM, have a run on the Just Cause 2 Benchmark again, but try with 2xAA/4xAA and see how different are the average frame rate comparig to 0xAA. If it is the CPU bottleneck the GTX460, the frame rate wouldn't change too much I think.
 
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Right i've made a "small" breakthrough, multiGPU was turned on, and i turned it off and JC2 jumped from 44.51 odd FPS to 54-58 ish, which isn't bad! it's improving however i've just tried to run it and twice now the drivers have crashed and recovered on me then when i run the JC benchmark again the fps is back down to 40-44ish, it did this earlier on the Global Agenda game, is there something i shouldn't of touched? i turned from adaptive power to max prefered, and multi to single gpu (only 5 mins ago on the multigpu to singlegpu)
 
I used the demo version one, I don't have the whole game installed anymore so i had to use the demo.

EDIT: I'd also like to add the driver's won't stay stable, i can get a near almost solid FPS rating of 56 with JC2 demo bench but the driver's crash about 10 seconds into the bench then they recover and the fps goes sloppy, is this a known problem?
 
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Have you tried dropping the core speed back down to may be 850MHz?

I recall when I was overclocking my 9800GTX+ back then, I was getting the odd driver crashes as well.

And do give the PC a reboot and see if that help as well.
 
The latest indeed, Sitting on All Points Bulletin and hasn't happened yet, however the horrid frame rates are still here, idle it's 61 fps, soon as i shoot or run drops as low as 28 mind boggling, only thing i can think of is my cpu is holding it back? but then i wouldn't of thought it'd bottleneck it this bad could it?
 
Really? What clock speed did you have your e6750 at? nontheless can an e5400 realistically hold me back quite as bad as half the fps i should be recieving?
 
Marine-RX179 said:
He already overclocked his GTX460 768MB to 900MHz, which should be pretty much at a bit over stock 5850 or GTX470 level.

JIM, have a run on the Just Cause 2 Benchmark again, but try with 2xAA/4xAA and see how different are the average frame rate comparig to 0xAA. If it is the CPU bottleneck the GTX460, the frame rate wouldn't change too much I think.
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GTX460 768MB overclocked is about at GTX460 1GB stock speeds and is therefore a bit behind the HD5850.
 
Somthing's definately not right with that 3dmark 06 score. I know it's very CPU limited but I get 16,300 with my gtx 460. I have a quad core cpu but it's clocked a fair bit lower at 3ghz. My sm3 score is around 5,500 and sm4 is around 7,500.

Are you sure you're not still forcing 32x csaa which the first screenshot showed?
 
ugly ferret said:
Somthing's definately not right with that 3dmark 06 score. I know it's very CPU limited but I get 16,300 with my gtx 460. I have a quad core cpu but it's clocked a fair bit lower at 3ghz. My sm3 score is around 5,500 and sm4 is around 7,500.

Are you sure you're not still forcing 32x csaa which the first screenshot showed?
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Well I get 16000 with my 8800Gt in 3dMark06, so that probably isn't a good benchmark for the 460.
 
J-I-M said:
Really? What clock speed did you have your e6750 at? nontheless can an e5400 realistically hold me back quite as bad as half the fps i should be recieving?
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Easy way to tell. Run the benchmark at a lower resolution. If you get a similar result then your CPU limited.
 
Meaker said:
GTX460 768MB overclocked is about at GTX460 1GB stock speeds and is therefore a bit behind the HD5850.
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Actually a GTX460 1GB overclocked to 820MHz is around same speed as a 5850...so taking into account that the GTX460 768MB has 8 less ROPs than the 1GB version, the extra 80MHz of the 900MHz may make up for the lacking in ROPs.
 
Ive just run the benchie at the same settings you did and got 35FPS, thats with the rig in my sig. I tried to get a screenie but failed lol
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Actually a GTX460 1GB overclocked to 820MHz is around same speed as a 5850...so taking into account that the GTX460 768MB has 8 less ROPs than the 1GB version, the extra 80MHz of the 900MHz may make up for the lacking in ROPs.
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Ok well it depends on the game.

In crysis warhead it needs 930mhz or so to start matching the 5850 (still a little behind) but thats still behind a stock 1GB card.

In battleforge the 756mb and 1GB are closely matched.

In BF bad company it needs that 930mhz again to get close to the 5850 and is close to the 1GB model at 840mhz.

Ofc if you properly overclock an HD5850 it will wave goodbye to the 460.
 
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