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

Seems odd they charged me allready for it they reckon it's due in like 13th.. i could go for the EVGA and get it right away but so many people have said the ASUS cards are overclocking the best so stands to reason i should get a good card also.
 
vorticalspace said:
Yeah, read that about the Asus 580's but seems odd as they are all meant to be reference cards.

Can't really imagine why Asus would have a batch of "cherry picked" cores, and I can't think of any other reason why any card would clock higher:confused:

What intrigues me slightly is the varying default Vcore readings between the different brands.
My POV 580 is set at 1.050 by default.

I know that SkyRocket made a big song and dance about this and actually sent his POV580 back:rolleyes:

It may just be the case that POV are playing it safe and it may indeed be possible to reduce the Vcore down abit?

From what I can gather, all 580's dont need much of a bump to hit 875 core stable, which is plenty.:)
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Think Asus are the top Nvidia supplier now as EVGA concentrate more on 2 markets (US/Germany) Asus have the buying power to be global so think they get first dibs on the best cores & biggest inventory as like with GTX480 launch Asus had plenty of stock to go around & its not hard to find one instock most weeks as they have a 3 year warranty vs the 2 years everyone else gives so Asus must know they are getting the best parts to offer an extra years warranty ;)
 
No EVGA are Nvidia's no1 AIB, Asus do AMD as well as Nvidia you think they gonna give them the best cores lol, to suggest they get the best cores is just silly, only reason you may get a higher clock on an Asus is because they ship them with a higher max voltage as they do with AMD cards. Yeah EVGA give you a ten year warranty, even Zotac do five years.
 
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AWPC said:
Think Asus are the top Nvidia supplier now as EVGA concentrate more on 2 markets (US/Germany) Asus have the buying power to be global so think they get first dibs on the best cores & biggest inventory as like with GTX480 launch Asus had plenty of stock to go around & its not hard to find one instock most weeks as they have a 3 year warranty vs the 2 years everyone else gives so Asus must know they are getting the best parts to offer an extra years warranty ;)
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Isn't that all speculation :confused: What's your evidence that asus get shipped better cores ?
 
Flanno i see you now have 3 EVGA 580gtx :D link a picture of those omg drool :)

I think i will phone up tomoz and change my asus order to a evga i cba waiting for 2 weeks plus.
 
Flanno said:
Isn't that all speculation :confused: What's your evidence that asus get shipped better cores ?
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Of course its speculation but:

1: Asus have slightly higher clocked parts.
2: Asus come with Voltage Tweaker Software which does not invalidate the 3 year warranty.

If Asus were not confident that their GPU's were the best why would they risk users causing them RMA issues especially when Asus provide overvolting software which does not invalidate their warranty ;)

Why would other vendors not offer so much if all the GPU's are the same?

We all know that Nvidia provide the GPU's & most of the circuitboard pattern but Asus must know something the others do not & a logical guess is that Nvidia are giving them the best parts first as they will be buying the largest volume so the way the GPU foodchain works is the top companies get the best ;)
 
What's all this bs about giving the "best" cores to ASus or evga?

ASus Nvidia evga don't make MORE money if they overclock well or not.
It's all the same £££ to them. Good core will make same money as a bad core, period.
just different week batches sometimes do better.
 
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MooMoo444 said:
Are you selling it because it doesn't clock to 920+?

It's still a capable card :D

o.o
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no, but it hasn't helped being the lowest clocker ive seen on here

im gonna sell it, see what amd offer, get some money for xmas and either buy 6970 or another 580
 
GJ02 said:
no, but it hasn't helped being the lowest clocker ive seen on here

im gonna sell it, see what amd offer, get some money for xmas and either buy 6970 or another 580
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Right on bro! i had a 580gtx that only did 900mhz-2350 mem.
Returned that sucker got my full refund and I am no sitting on MSI TWIN FROZR II 470 in SLI which are 40£ cheaper faster and quieter.
Had I got a good a gem of a card that does 950 I would have kept it.
 
Skyrocket said:
Right on bro! i had a 580gtx that only did 900mhz-2350 mem.
Returned that sucker got my full refund and I am no sitting on MSI TWIN FROZR II 470 in SLI which are 40£ cheaper faster and quieter.
Had I got a good a gem of a card that does 950 I would have kept it.
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I'm correct in thinking that was a POV 580?
What load temps were you getting at 900 core?

Most people are saying that 950+ core is not a 24/7 clock, just a benching special:)
 
vorticalspace said:
I'm correct in thinking that was a POV 580?
What load temps were you getting at 900 core?

Most people are saying that 950+ core is not a 24/7 clock, just a benching special:)
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I was running it at 75% fan in a case with great airflow.

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It would go into early 70C. on 900mhz and 1.138V

This was a stable OC though. But fan at 75% was loud as hell.
 
Skyrocket said:
It would go into early 70C. on 900mhz and 1.138V

This was a stable OC though. But fan at 75% was loud as hell.
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I've set a fan profile in AB which ramps up quickly to 75%

Kinda found that if you catch temps early, they stay lower:)

Noise wise, not really a problem as running an Antec P192 case with lots of fans.
Game noise tends to take the win anyway:)

The point I was getting to is that pretty much anything over 900 core is going to be temp limited anyway, certainly for sustained use:)
 
GJ02 said:
m gonna sell it, see what amd offer, get some money for xmas and either buy 6970 or another 580
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The problem with selling the 580 is that 6900 may be slightly disappointing or overpriced. Whaterver happens I cannot really see there being much difference, price or performance wise between the two. The 580 is a great card. The 6970 sounds like it will also be a great card but will it really be worth swapping from one to the other?

There are still too many questions to be answered to warrant jumping ship now. From past experience leaked benchmarks (form both sides) always play-up a new cards performance. I remember GTX 480/580 leaks showing double the performance of the 5870's but in reality the gap was much much less. Some people may remember the example below.
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Most 580's will overclock to a stable maximun of 900-940MHz. It is not worth swapping your card for a measily 20 or 30 MHz, especially when nobody sane runs their 580's above 900MHz for 24/7 clocks anyway.
 
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