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

GJ02 said:
:eek: you would have to be real stupid to buy that :eek: i cant believe that ocuk is on of the most expensive places on the net for these
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When the 69xx cards come out, I'd expect prices to level out. I can't see a 69xx card being £500 (oc'd or otherwise) when a 6870 is ~£200 and their dual card is just around the corner, but hey, who knows whats around the corner..increased vat for sure though ;)
 
GJ02 said:
:eek: you would have to be real stupid to buy that :eek: i cant believe that ocuk is on of the most expensive places on the net for these
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the price increase isn't even whilst waiting for stock, its for the same card that was a fair bit cheaper yesterday.:confused:
 
Asus is my no1 choice for Nvidia graphics cards now. It was EVGA for the 10 year warranty but they are sending the majority of their stock to Germany & USA. Other regions are obviously an afterthought & low priority as those 2 markets are their biggest customers so that's where they allocate most stock:( This is why you do not see many EVGA 480/580 in UK recently ;)

Asus include the 50% overclock without losing your warranty tweak but TBH I CBA with that as stock is more than enough to run almost any game @ max detail with decent FPS :D
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Asus 480/580 really has some nice premium quality packaging which gives a good impression of their attention to detail & intent with these high end cards. You only get a Mini HDMI to full HDMI dongle & 6-8 pin PCI-E power convertor here along with the driver DVD. Asus also give you regular 10% discounts via email when you register the card with them.
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Card is very basic looking but who cares its tucked away inside the case. Its actually much lighter than a stock GTX480 weight wise & pretty much the same size as GTX260-216 (my old card fits snuggly into the same box space!)
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This is my old Asus GTX480 with Gelid HSF. 100% Silent at all times @ all loads :D Its going in my Secondary rig which is attached to a 40" HDTV. If only Nvidia had not panicked & put the stock afterthought HSF on the GTX480 its rep would be stellar as the Gelid makes it 100% silent & cool to touch vs the stock HSF will burn your skin off in an instant :eek:
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CBA to reinstall any benchmarking software as uninstalled & deleted all of it recently so will talk about real world performance as that's more important.

Noise wise its 100% silent so far after running several demanding games for a few hours fan speed ramps up to 60% but thats 100% silent (I sit 2ft from my PC on my desk so can tell how noisy very quickly ;)).

The card backplate gets very hot though where it exhausts air out the back of the case so be careful touching that its heats up quickly.

Gaming wise I tried the following all @ 1920x1200 with max everything on the graphical settings including X32AA where possible as well as max AA settings in the NV control panel like X8 Super Sample Transparency AA + very High PhysX where supported.

HAWX2 DX11
Metro 2033 DX11
NFS Hot Pursuit 2010
Kane & Lynch 2
Lost Planet 2 DX11
Just Cause 2 DX11
AVP 2010 DX11
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Splinter Cell 5
Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY + Very High PhysX

All these games except for Metro 2033 run super smooth @ 60FPS with no graphical stuttering whatsoever regardess of onscreen action/complexity :D Metro 2033 is a constant 30 FPS but does go up to 45 FPS in some scenes.

GTX480 could run most of these fine but some had to trade off AA to X16 or X8 or some other settings needing lowering. GTX580 appears to have no such trouble & fly through these games in an amazing fashion :eek: I only expected 10-15% more than GTX480 FPS wise but Nvidia were right talking about slightly greater increases as for some reason the GTX580 just feels a lot smoother so there must be a lot of other optimization going on in the 580 only drivers (262.99 WHQL) as well as the Fermi chipset.

This is defiantely one of the best cards Nvidia have ever made & as mine only cost me £400.87 I feel its good value for money :D
 
Some benchmark at 3.8Ghz


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580 card scale really well!
 
I wonder are most of these 580 core speeds users are posting are 24/7 speeds or just for benching. For instance i can run at 830mhz with no voltage tweak and use this day to day. And 850mhz with a very small voltage tweak and still auto fan profile but the increase in temps is not worth it. And finally if I manually up the fan speeds and keep them constant and up the voltage to just below 1.1v I can achieve 900mhz plus. I have not tested beyond that. I find 830mhz in sli is enough for any gaming situation I have come accross. Even stock is fine.

So I'm wondering would it not be better to post what benches people are getting on there day to day settings. I seriously doubt anyone is playing games at 900mhz plus core unless watercooling or have their fan speed at 85%.
 
I use 830 core at stock voltage for gaming and left 24/7 at that .....cba with benching,
my wife says my e-peen is ok :)
 
Flanno said:
I wonder are most of these 580 core speeds users are posting are 24/7 speeds or just for benching. For instance i can run at 830mhz with no voltage tweak and use this day to day. And 850mhz with a very small voltage tweak and still auto fan profile but the increase in temps is not worth it. And finally if I manually up the fan speeds and keep them constant and up the voltage to just below 1.1v I can achieve 900mhz plus. I have not tested beyond that. I find 830mhz in sli is enough for any gaming situation I have come accross. Even stock is fine.

So I'm wondering would it not be better to post what benches people are getting on there day to day settings. I seriously doubt anyone is playing games at 900mhz plus core unless watercooling or have their fan speed at 85%.
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I can't really comment apples to apples, as you have SLI so your airflow may be different. I've got the fan running on a profile between 60% (inaudible above other fans) and 75%, and the temp hovers between 65 and 85. This is at 920mhz core and about 1.15v.

Unless your case airflow is really bad, I don't see where the high 80s and 90's come from.

edit; This is with the standard reference cooler also.
 
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MooMoo444 said:
I can't really comment apples to apples, as you have SLI so your airflow may be different. I've got the fan running on a profile between 60% (inaudible above other fans) and 75%, and the temp hovers between 65 and 85. This is at 920mhz core and about 1.15v.

Unless your case airflow is really bad, I don't see where the high 80s and 90's come from.

edit; This is with the standard reference cooler also.
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My case actually has good airflow, and I've tested with just 1 card and in SLI too and there is a 5 degree delta. In SLI, Heaven at 2560x1600 at 830 on the core at stock volts (1.0v and 1.013 respectively) results in a max of 85C. Knock 5 degrees off, if testing a single card. This is line with what most reputable review sites have posted. So this is where you 85C comes from. Of course all this depends on ambient, and my room is small and pretty hot this time of year (rad is stuck in on position :)). What is interesting is I have tested up to 900, and 85 degrees is the max these cards get to due to the fans kicking in to compensate. I suppose I could mess with custom profiles and push higher clocks. But as I cannot see any gain in going beyond 830 other then in benchmarks, I'm staying at 830. I don't need to be concerned with fan profiles at this speed, as the fans hardly kick in when gaming. Plus I have yet to see it go over 70 when gaming.

I'm intrigued you are running at 1.15v. The max I see on afterburner is 1.138. Are you using another tool like Nvidia inspector ?. Also, don't you consider 1.15v a bit dangerous ? I briefly tried 1.113 and it was unacceptable from a fan noise point of view. Then again I like my fans running at 40-45% :)
 
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Flanno said:
My case actually has good airflow, and I've tested with just 1 card and in SLI too and there is a 5 degree delta. In SLI, Heaven at 2560x1600 at 830 on the core at stock volts (1.0v and 1.013 respectively) results in a max of 85C. Knock 5 degrees off, if testing a single card. This is line with what most reputable review sites have posted. So this is where you 85C comes from. Of course all this depends on ambient, and my room is small and pretty hot this time of year (rad is stuck in on position :)). What is interesting is I have tested up to 900, and 85 degrees is the max these cards get to due to the fans kicking in to compensate. I suppose I could mess with custom profiles and push higher clocks. But as I cannot see any gain in going beyond 830 other then in benchmarks, I'm staying at 830. I don't need to be concerned with fan profiles at this speed, as the fans hardly kick in when gaming. Plus I have yet to see it go over 70 when gaming.

I'm intrigued you are running at 1.15v. The max I see on afterburner is 1.138. Are you using another tool like Nvidia inspector ?. Also, don't you consider 1.15v a bit dangerous ? I briefly tried 1.113 and it was unacceptable from a fan noise point of view. Then again I like my fans running at 40-45% :)
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As I mentioned, the fan is pretty much inaudible over other case fans at 60ish. The new beta version of rivatuner goes all the way to 1.4, but obviously it's madness to go that high ^^

My card was stock vid of 1.05, so a bump of 0.1 is nothing in my eyes, I've seen some much higher.
 
Just bought a Gainward GTX580 after 10 odd years with ATI......

Who wants 2 x 3870x2's lol. Wonder if I would get cash for those :D

So I'm hopeing this is an upgrade :D
 
bro306 said:
The water block am using is off my old 480GTX EKfull cover! All i have done to the block is put a extra thermal pad on the vrms!Works a treat the volts i was running for that run where 1.075!
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you dont have any issues at all do you? got a 580 incoming and i have an ek 480 waterblock. also any pics from when you installed it?
 
Took delivery of a vanilla Gainward 580 today. Default volts are 1.037v and that seems good for >850core but needs a little bump to reach 900. 1075 seems the limit for the memory, but I may squeeze an extra 20-30MHz out of the core.

Here Heaven 1920x1200 @ 900core/1075mem.
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