Asus GTX570 overclock

[Spank]

i want your opinions of how far can i push this card with the less danger because of the burnt VRMS as you know from the reference designs of GTX570

As a start im always looking for stable and daily use :)

So far as you can see i gave it a little overclcok without touch the voltage but i need more !!! :cool3:

As for my temperatures on idle im at 50c and at games about 70c

[Kal-EL]

Are you gonna adjust the voltage at all or just run stock?

[Spank]

I would like to go with stocks as much as it can possible go and achieve stable.
Then i will adjust the voltage a little to push it more

[Kal-EL]

You'll see a drop off in score as you bump the vga clocks incrementally, then you'll start getting lockups and bench failures as you go beyond that. At the score drop off point and failures you'll need to incresae vgpu.

At stock voltages, you shouldnt be in danger of overheating at all unless you live in Mogadishu. (long as fans are 100%.

That being said, its up to your gpu to decide what the highest clockspeed it wants to do at your givin ambient temperatures. If you forcefeed some cold air conditioner air into the gpu you'll get cold scaling beyond your sticking point without voltage increase but not much.

If this is strictly for gaming 24/7 purposes then you'll probably best off just keeping the clocks in the safe zone. Kinda like wearing ganny panties :P

[Spank]

I have set it now at 850/1700/2000 with 1.063 voltage.I will keep it like that for a while see how it goes if its stable and work on it to push it a little more

[ReverendMaynard]

She's hot at 70C load spank, you're going to have an extremely small return on voltage increases.

[Spank]

To be honest i havent seen any big increse of the performarnce with those clocks at 850/1700/2000 and 1.063.
I dont know if its my idea or not but with 802/1604/1999 and without voltage was better. I will try more tests and will decide,but its pity i cant go higher because of the $@#$ reference gtx570 and the crap VRMS

[Kal-EL]

You'd be cpu bottlenecked anyways and probably why scores dont scale, even 5more mhz from your cpu and it'd scale a few hundred points. I wouldnt sweat it cuz it'll game/run just about anything u want.

[Spank]

Yes idd i havent thought of the cpu bottlenecked.
Ok then i will make a profile with stock voltage for daily use gaming etc and another one with more overclock of the gpu and a profile in r2e at 4.4 or 4.5ghz for benches :)

[freeagent]

Thats not too bad, mine will do about 825 with stock voltage, 920 @ 1.1, and I think somewhere close to 950 with 1.15. I generally just let it hum along at 1.1v, since its not in a case it loads at about 60-65.

[Witchdoctor]

You need more CPU to realize the true power of that 570

ripin at 5.4 I am bottlenecked w/580SLI

I am not convinced a 6GHZ CPU can run these to their full potential

You may be looking at futility until you can get CPU speed up to par

[freeagent]

My cpu is bottlenecking the 570?

Running f@h I crush 2600k's that are humming at 4.6-4.7 and thats just with my cpu at 4ghz.

[Kal-EL]

My cpu is bottlenecking the 570?

Running f@h I crush 2600k's that are humming at 4.6-4.7 and thats just with my cpu at 4ghz.

Crusher, I have no idea how F@h handles gpu clock cycles or if it pairs cpu and gpu to make a package. I know that when it comes down to 3dMarks, you can be bottlenecked with a pos cpu clock speed.

When you crush the 2600k's are you comparing the same gpu like two 570's? Are your GPU clockspeeds higher than the crushee's?

[Witchdoctor]

:Dizzy:

[freeagent]

Mm no for f@h I dont use my gpus for folding on my main rig. I wasnt trying to start an argument or anything, I do know the 2600s are about as fast or faster in most things, just not everything :)

I dont know, I guess I have a hard time believeing that a 5ghz 2600 will bottleneck a 570, at least thats how I interpreted your post..

[Kal-EL]

He's running a Core i7 975 Extreme 1366 quad core.

[freeagent]

:ohcrap:

Sorry my bad :)

[Kal-EL]

No problem, I'm still curious tho if your F@H crushing is based off of sheer clockspeed or something to do with a cpu. Not that I'm a big folder/cruncher guy cuz I'm not.

Oh and I didn't think there was an argument brewin but after re-reading I can see how I may have seemed like a bit of a dick. I was actually shooting for mild sarcasm while posing a question ;)

[freeagent]

Im not a huge folder either, I am just going off of times posted by other fellows running the same WU as I was. I wasnt doing anything special really, just run it between 4-4.2. I had a bit of an issue where my boaard would drop out of tri channel, so that was a 12-14k ppd loss.

Nah you arent a dick man, I come off the same way too sometimes so its all good :good:

[Spank]

i would try 1.15 but i dont know if its safe because of problems with burnt reference GTX570 :(

[Witchdoctor]

Keep the air cold, I have been running my 580 at that since they were in the slot

They think it is there standard voltage now ............... :laughing:

I need mora voltage ....

[freeagent]

Im too chicken for more then 1.15 too. Payday is too far away :D

[GeorgeStorm]

Witchy, just use inspector, 1.231v is the standard max voltage with it.

[Witchdoctor]

I'll give it a go George,

have not used it much for other than LOD settings

Thanks for the heads up .... :thumbsup:

[Spank]

Yesterday my 570 on every test i run it (3dmark06,03 etc ) went up to 86c :ohcrap: and
2 times pc shutdown because of the temperatures of 570.

Anyone else has a problem with temperatures ? or might setup the fan at msi afterburner to higher rpms now thats overclocked.

[GeorgeStorm]

What are you running the fan at?
I always run mine 100%, lower temps over noise anyday.

[Spank]

I have it on auto at the moment. Maybe i should set it at 100 % when im benching

[GeorgeStorm]

Why wouldn't you?
There are no downsides, especially if it's only while you're benching, who cares about the noise, the whole point is you want to keep the card as cool as possible ;)

[Spank]

Exactly and thants what im gonna do :)

[Kal-EL]

You'll get more efficient gpu clock cycles the cooler you keep the card. When the gpu gets hot it has a throttling effect causing performamce to drop off.

You wanna run 100% fan a few minutes before the bench to give the temos a good running start at the benchmark :)

Keep at it bro, you'll get the swing of things in no time flat ;)

[Witchdoctor]

Not enough can be said for pulling the side off your case and setting a window unit blowing directly in ......

Getting 970 to 990 out of my 580's using this technique ........... :laughing:

even got 1002 for an AM run ...

Any help on getting over 85% fan on the 580's ????

That seems to be max in Inspector and Afterburner ......:Dizzy:

[Spank]

I have set the fan at 99% for benchmarks and all is good now :)

Edit : Wtf cant set it at 100% for a reason :P