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****Official GTX580 user reviews/benchmarking/overclocking thread****

straxusii said:
No offence Raven but I'll take techpowerups opinion of the noise level of a 480 over an individual owner of a 480.

With an individual's opinion there is too much scope for what noise level is acceptable, I know my 5870 is right on the limit for my personal preference as to how loud I want my graphics card and I know the 480 will be significantly louder.
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Yeah " custom fan profile " let it sink in. Review sites leave the fan on auto it then kicks in when the cards doing 80c+ and it's then a losing battle to keep the card cooler and quiet. Loads of fermi owners have commented the card is cooler and quieter when you take the time to do a fan profile.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah " custom fan profile " let it sink in. Review sites leave the fan on auto it then kicks in when the cards doing 80c+ and it's then a losing battle to keep the card cooler and quiet. Loads of fermi owners have commented the card is cooler and quieter when you take the time to do a fan profile.
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I'm sure you were ranting about having to create an afterburner profile to keep powerplay working on ATi cards, stating something about how you shouldn't have to do it. Is this not the same principle?
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah " custom fan profile " let it sink in. Review sites leave the fan on auto it then kicks in when the cards doing 80c+ and it's then a losing battle to keep the card cooler and quiet. Loads of fermi owners have commented the card is cooler and quieter when you take the time to do a fan profile.
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Nope don't get it - custom profile will only either run the fan slower than the bios settings which will be quieter but allow the card to run hotter or will run it faster which will be louder but keep the card cooler - there is no magic sauce that can make it faster and quieter at the same time? :rolleyes:
 
A fan profile is not mandatory, if you don't want stuttery games with dodgy AMD powerplay then a work around is mandatory.


^Andy^ said:
Nope don't get it - custom profile will only either run the fan slower than the bios settings which will be quieter but allow the card to run hotter or will run it faster which will be louder but keep the card cooler - there is no magic sauce that can make it faster and quieter at the same time? :rolleyes:
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You have no clue, my fan ramps up at 55c it steadies out a 70% 80c, now if I left it on auto the fan starts to kick in at 75c and slowly goes up with temps as fan is only doing 50% at 80c. That's right you don't get it.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah " custom fan profile " let it sink in. Review sites leave the fan on auto it then kicks in when the cards doing 80c+ and it's then a losing battle to keep the card cooler and quiet. Loads of fermi owners have commented the card is cooler and quieter when you take the time to do a fan profile.
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I agree, when you've set a fan profile for a 480, it runs great. If you leave it to it's stock profile, it sounds like someone has just turned on a hair dryer when it hits above 80 odd :p

Do you reckon you'll be upgrading to a 580 or 69xx card Raven?
 
Try playing a game that does not use much GPU power, battlefield 2 for example, the clocks will bounce up and down when there is not much GPU intensive action going on, this causes stutter. Nvidia have an option in the CP to set max performance for all games or individual games, clocks stay put.

Nocky24 said:
Do you reckon you'll be upgrading to a 580 or 69xx card Raven?
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Nope, Sticking with Nvidia for the foreseeable future, prefer the CP and power options.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah " custom fan profile " let it sink in. Review sites leave the fan on auto it then kicks in when the cards doing 80c+ and it's then a losing battle to keep the card cooler and quiet. Loads of fermi owners have commented the card is cooler and quieter when you take the time to do a fan profile.
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Again I doubt that is the whole story otherwise why would Nvidia ship it like this as default?

Aren't you using non stock cooling though Raven?
 
Furmark causes the fan to get noisy, with games it stays perfectly reasonable. Nvidia used a quieter fan profile which works great in combination with a decent case with good airflow. I still prefer to do a custom profile because I have a substantial overclock on.

My Zalman VF3000F is gathering dust currently, the XFI sound card blocks the left side fan and hindering temps badly, I like my quality sound so I'm going to get a PCIE sound card and then install the cooler.
 
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kmufc77 said:
No, there are new components on the 580 compared to the 480 that wont allow a 3rd party 480 cooler to fit a 580.

Ive researched this already:)

The new cooler on the 580 is great compared to the 480, but imo the 580 could still do with 3rd party coolers as once you raise the core to 900 and increase volts the card still gets very hot.

I have had thermal throttling when running heaven at 925mhz
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What volts are you using for 925mhz on the 580 ? And any artifacting during Heaven ?
 
Flanno said:
What volts are you using for 925mhz on the 580 ? And any artifacting during Heaven ?
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I was using 1137 i think mate,no artifacting,just super super hot after a few minutes. The fan was on 85% and i had thermal throttling in no time.

I think i had 18kish in Heaven with 925mhz i cant remember now

My card is currently sat @

Voltage: 1031

870 Core

2180 Memory.

Fan on auto i haven't seen temps above 89c yet and that was playing some very intensive games.
 
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kmufc77 said:
I was using 1137 i think mate,no artifacting,just super super hot after a few minutes. The fan was on 85% and i had thermal throttling in no time.

I think i had 18kish in Heaven with 925mhz i cant remember now

My card is currently sat @

Voltage: 1031

870 Core

2180 Memory.

Fan on auto i haven't seen temps above 89c yet and that was playing some very intensive games.
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Thanks for that info. Yeah, 1137 is almost max voltage for Afterburner on the 580. My gpu's are 0.98v and 1.002v at stock speeds, though they both iron out at 1.013 in afterburner. The max I have tried is 1.038 and managed 850 core in Heaven with no artifacts. Dodgy above that so you obvioulsy have better card(s) than me. Didn't bother clocking the memory. Max temp on both gpu's I saw was 85 degrees and fans kicked in a bit. When gaming I never saw gpu's go over 67. To be honest I'm not seeing enough gains to make overclocking these useful in day to day gaming. Handy for benching I know. I'm probably going to go back to stock settings. The cards run cool and quietish at stock and plenty fast.
 
Heaven is NOT the test you run to check your if your GPU clock are solid.
Tropics Demo v1.3 is, if it loops that twice your fine.
I can hit 950 and run HEAVEN - 3DMARK and other stuff but Tropics crashes straight away.
Especially when the day turns into night.

Show us your Tropics Demo v1.3 scores on your highest OC.
 
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