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***THE OFFICIAL GTX480/470 END USER REVIEW THREAD***

DragonRR said:
I'm pleased you're seeing some results. I can't, however, say the same. AS5 doesn't seem to have done a great deal either. It will still be in it's curing cycle but given the state of the original TIMM I would have expected to see a lot more than, well, virtually no difference at all!

Generally my PCB temp in Windows idles at around 52deg, GPU @ 63deg fan @ 44%

Kombuster: GPU ramps to 94deg which is 1deg cooler than with stock TIMM. The fan kicks up to 92%. The GPU drops to around 91deg and then creeps back up to around 95deg. My PCB ramps up to around 70deg. The card stays at these temps running 92% fan constantly (this is a test I ran just now at least).

In games e.g. Assassins Creed 2. GPU 83deg, PCB 65deg, fan between 80% & 92% (usually the latter).

Unlike you I'm not overclocking at all.

It seems fairly obvious to me (aside from not getting much improvement for replacing the TIMM) that my biggest issue is poor air flow. Unfortunately my front fan blows air past 4 pretty warm HDDs so the airflow is blocked to a degree AND warmed up! This is pretty obvious since removing the case side drops my temps considerably! I'm considering a HAF or something similar, possibly accompanied by a 980X :)
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been trying some more stuff and tbh, there's bugger all difference really! Need a big aftermarket cooler or the omni to keep this thing quiet and cool
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Antialiasing-mode, enable ' override any application setting ' and this should open up the AA options.
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TSSAA isn't linked to the main AA options. He should just have them open to him.

I have them and I'm on 197.41. Do a complete up and re-install of your drivers if I were you. Always a good place to start. Maybe run Driver Sweeper in safe mode as well.
 
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Raikiri said:
You idle at 50% fan speed!?
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yup forced in afterburner, its not noisy at all to me and i can't hear it anyway even on 100% cos i use in ear headphones. use almost exactly the same fan profiles as on my gtx 260 and it hits almost exactly the same load temps but idles 15c lower
 
KWJay said:
TSSAA isn't linked to the main AA options. He should just have them open to him.

I have them and I'm on 197.41. Do a complete up and re-install of your drivers if I were you. Always a good place to start. Maybe run Driver Sweeper in safe mode as well.
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Just uninstalled drivers, used driver sweeper, re-installed 197.41 and i STILL don't have the option. WTF
 
OK sussed it out

I disabled my 9800GT in device manager, and lo and behold the TSSAA options became available. set it to 2x, re-enabled the 9800gt and now it shows as 'custom'

will need to test if it keeps.

pain in the arse tbh.
 
Wow! these cards look like great overclockers when running under water. Can anyone get to 1GHz with a 480 running under water? I would like to see benchmarks comparing an overclocked 5870 to a 480 @1GHz core clock.
 
mattjd said:
Pleasew attempt getting to 1GHz please :) Really want to see benchmarks for a 1GHz core clock gtx480.
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With the current software voltage adjustment, the maximum of 1138mV is is not possible to get up to 1Ghz core clock on the GTX480, water-cooled or not. Cooling is not the issue here. Those insane 1.3Ghz+ you see on LN2 is achieved with hardware modded voltage increase, or modified versions of overclocking software where higher voltage settings is unlocked.

Maybe there's a reason there are still no 1Ghz core clocks 2 weeks after availability of 4XX series using air/water cooling. :)
 
I believe the asus cards are meant to clock higher than other cards as they are advertising a 50% voltage overclock vs other cards which are offering 15%. I am not 100% sure if the bios is slightly different with the asus cards. :confused:


mattjd - I am looking forward to seeing how far I can push it. :cool:
 
Razor Time said:
I believe the asus cards are meant to clock higher than other cards as they are advertising a 50% voltage overclock vs other cards which are offering 15%. I am not 100% sure if the bios is slightly different with the asus cards. :confused:


mattjd - I am looking forward to seeing how far I can push it. :cool:
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There has been talks about this extensively on Xtremesystems.

The common conclusion is that the 50% extra overclock marketing on the box is actually relative to the extra 50% of clock you can achieve when compared to if you didn't have access to core voltage increase.

Say you could clock 100Mhz higher then stock, say from 700Mhz to 800Mhz with stock voltages, with a bump in voltage using ASUS' software, you can achieve 850Mhz, 50Mhz extra, hence 50%.

ASUS' software actually have a slightly lower maximum voltage you can set for the GPU core compared to MSI Afterburner, so you'd want to use Afterburner if you want higher voltage bump.
 
eternal_fantasy said:
There has been talks about this extensively on Xtremesystems.

The common conclusion is that the 50% extra overclock marketing on the box is actually relative to the extra 50% of clock you can achieve when compared to if you didn't have access to core voltage increase.

Say you could clock 100Mhz higher then stock, say from 700Mhz to 800Mhz with stock voltages, with a bump in voltage using ASUS' software, you can achieve 850Mhz, 50Mhz extra, hence 50%.

ASUS' software actually have a slightly lower maximum voltage you can set for the GPU core compared to MSI Afterburner, so you'd want to use Afterburner if you want higher voltage bump.
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Cheers for the info mate, I have been trying to find out if the bios was slightly different and if the Asus cards were in fact slightly better than the rest of the fermi cards. So it seems it was all marketing on Asus behalf if the caps and bios is the same as all the other cards. MSI are advertising that they are offering better caps with their cards, I was hoping Asus was doing the same due to the 50% statement.
 
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