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

[Yaka]

ek water block on mine its doing great

 

[Josh P]

Received my OcUK 580 today, it's sitting at 850MHz at the moment quite happily. I am blown away by the performance. ArmA2: Operation Arrowhead benchmark is the only one I've run so far - at 2560x1600 2xAA, 4k view distance and Normal Post Processing I get 39fps in the benchmark. Game looks so beautiful with SSAO/DoF effects.

 

[Rofflay]

default volts for 850 core mate?

 

[V_R]

What brand was the OcUK card Josh?

 

[Josh P]

It is a Palit card, comes with DVI-VGA adapter and an HDMI-miniHDMI cable. I had bumped the voltage up to 1.050 but reading around it sounds like this probably isn't needed (my first Nvidia card for years), so I'm going to have a play later - 900HMz is my target on air.

What are acceptable max temps?

 

[Rossdh]

Is it worth going from 480 to a 580?

 

[Josh P]

Depends what you play, and at what resolution etc - some games see a massive jump (20-30%), others the increase is not going to be noticeable. Depends how much the noise of your 480 bothers you too I suppose.

 

[Rossdh]

I use my system for ArmA 2 and FSX

 

[RavenXXX2]

Is it worth going from 480 to a 580?

Not worth it for performance, if you want 580 performance just clock your 480 to 780Mhz on the core and you're looking at 6% slower than a 580. If heat or temps are a problem then just grab a third party cooler like the icy vision.

 

[Rossdh]

Cheers Raven

 

[Josh P]

What are acceptable max temps?

Sorry to bump, does anyone have an answer to this?

 

[wuyanxu]

about 90c is the max i'd say. try to keep it under 80c when overclocking.

1.1v 900MHz seems to be standard achieveable. my KFA2 one and a friend's Zotac both can do 1.1v 900MHz without any other tweaking.

 

[Josh P]

Great thanks, I'll give that a go. What are people doing with the memory clock? I'm really impressed with the fan - at 60% it's not obtrusive at all, I had been a little worried after all the GTX480 horror stories!

 

[Yaka]

Depends how much the noise of your 480 bothers you too I suppose.

i had 2 in sli crazy noise and gave out too much heat was extracted (missed em during snowy december) have one 580 atm tempted to go for another one

 

[Rossdh]

So if I was going to SLI in the future you recommend getting rid of the 480 and getting a 580?

 

[V_R]

So if I was going to SLI in the future you recommend getting rid of the 480 and getting a 580?

After having a 480, i'd certainly not SLI them, at least not on air...




Which brings me onto my reson of posting here.... (Copied from the Case Gallery Thread)

Ok, Dont care if you think its mad or not but i've upgrade from a 480 to a 580. Just call it upgradeitus..!

Friend is buying the 480 off me, which saves me some hassle.


Full spec is...

- Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz Overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366) with 2 Noctua NF-P12 120mm Fans
- Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
- Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel Memory
- Asus GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 (waiting to be OC'ed)
- Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music Sound Card
- Crucial M225 128GB Solid State Drive
- 2x 500GB Hard Drives
- Corsair HX 850w Modular PSU
- Asus Sata DVD RW
- Lian Li PC-7FW
- Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64bit
- Samsung 2443 24" LCD Monitor
- G15 and G500 Keyboard and mouse
- Acoustic Energy Aego M 2.1 Speakers
- G25 Racing Wheel

+ more that i've probably forgot


Pics.... (I really need to do something about that 8 pin across the cards.... I even have of of these, but haven't got round to adding it in yet)

Excuse the dust, case hasn't had a clean out for a while!

 

[arc@css]

^^Lovely looking rig. I rather fancy the Noctua designs, heard they perform well.

 

[Yaka]

had the noctua D12 and prolly best cooler on air i hav ever had.

as for 480 sli, i had mine through the summer and heat and noise was a major issue or me which is why i went for watercooling my whole rig. having said that ive not had my 580 running on air so not sure if it that much better noise wise

 

[V_R]

Ok, just ran Heaven, how does this look for a first time.... Not really tweaked yet though...

Good, bad, average?

i7 is @ 4ghz despite what heaven says.

 

[RavenXXX2]

^^ Looks about right for 850 core, temps look high though. I got the same case, cards get toasty with no side panel ventilation which is not helped by the HD cage restricting the front fans air flow.