Scanning for artifacts when overclocking GTX 470

[Michaeljcox24]

I think ur CPU is holding u slightly back.
Yes I had a 580 gtx played with it for 5 days and returned it. Now I have Msi twin frorz II 470 in SLI which cost me 360£ and spank 900-2350mhz 580gtx for less money and less noise.
Still playing with final clocks but at 800mhz it butchers the 580 aka 485 gtx.

Yes, unfortunately I'm stuck with socket 775 for the time being, board is only 5 months old as it was an emergency replacement of an old P5N-32 series that packed up on me one day in the summer.

I've been looking on a certain auction website and I'm particulary interested in either a Q9550 or a QX9650, I'm told both could overclock a lot more than my current B3 Q6600. Can't afford an I7 full bundle so I'm going to stick with 775 till the enthusiast class sandy bridge come out next autumn.

 

[3t3P]

1.087v on that cooler and 850 overclock hopefully.

furmark for 20s will show you artifacts or not, then close it down and just play some games.

 

[Skyrocket]

^^^ yeah have a look at rroffs CPU.
But 1366 1156 are both dead socket in jan/feb when sandy bridge comes out.

 

[Rroff]

On a decent board the Q9550 should hit 4gig without anything too silly - while the Q6600 is by no means slow the Q9550 was a nice boost for me - quicker windows loading time and much better benchmark scores (previously had a 3.6gig Q6600).

 

[Paracelsus]

MSI Kombuster on the other hand is utterly useless imo, what it deems stable fails loop Crysis bench stable.

Kombustor/Furmark both showed OCs as stable (no artifacts) while Crysis showed small but significant artifacting on textures for me.

So yeah, don't just rely on one program, use a stress tester and a game.

 

[Rroff]

Neither crysis or heaven benchmarks are good for spotting artifacts as both can exhibit "artifacts" normally even so its not always easy to tell unless theres a remarked difference between a stock and overclocked run or it plain crashes/turns into a complete corupt mess.

 

[setter]

Yes, unfortunately I'm stuck with socket 775 for the time being, board is only 5 months old as it was an emergency replacement of an old P5N-32 series that packed up on me one day in the summer.

I've been looking on a certain auction website and I'm particulary interested in either a Q9550 or a QX9650, I'm told both could overclock a lot more than my current B3 Q6600. Can't afford an I7 full bundle so I'm going to stick with 775 till the enthusiast class sandy bridge come out next autumn.

An EO stepping Q9550 would be a nice upgrade, the board you list in sig is one of the best for clocking the 45nm quads.