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What GTX280 Overclocks You Got ?

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The pre-overclocked cards should go higher than standard clock cards because when the chips are being tested, before manufacture, the chips that can handle slightly more power are put aside for overclocked versions of cards
 
My Zotac's come stock at 700/1400/1150. Most I've had them up to fully stable is 713/1426/1297 then I started getting artifacts due to excessive temps (74C+). I've got one of them W?C'd until I install the 2nd block, which, without the stock cooled one enabled, I've had up to 748/1530/1304 without seeing artifacts.
 
jarvo1 said:
My Zotac's come stock at 700/1400/1150. Most I've had them up to fully stable is 713/1426/1297 then I started getting artifacts due to excessive temps (74C+). I've got one of them W?C'd until I install the 2nd block, which, without the stock cooled one enabled, I've had up to 748/1530/1304 without seeing artifacts.
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Was it difficult to install the water block?
 
anant_shah94 said:
The pre-overclocked cards should go higher than standard clock cards because when the chips are being tested, before manufacture, the chips that can handle slightly more power are put aside for overclocked versions of cards
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Only if they are the top end binned ones, i.e. XXX or "For The WIN" etc.

All the ones in between like "SC" or "KO" or whatever are junk.
They test them all and the ones that don't clock well, they turn the clocks back down a little for safety and then slap a pretty sticker on it with some catchy name and lure customers in.

I garuntee if you took one hundred vanilla cards and compared them versus the medium pre-clocked ones, the vanilla would clock higher much more often.

Besides, these days, cards like the GTX280 don't even need an overclock. I pushed a Vanilla card to 730core/1316mem/1490 shader and gained TWO, TWO FPS on average in multiple games, including Crysis.
 
Evga maxed out at 735/1325/1525 .

I made it through the crysis bench but only ran for about 5 minutes in cod4 so i wouldnt concider it stable .
 
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