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A M D BugBear · 05-20-2012, 22:54 | posts: 1,588

Speaking about overclocking the gtx 690, anyone messed with the core voltage offset? Seems there is no difference, the power offset to 135+ while overclocked shows performance increase but when lowered, not much or none at all, have to be raised higher to accommodate overclocking the gpu core.

Veteran · 05-20-2012, 23:25 | posts: 7,405 | Location: United kingdom

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Originally Posted by A M D BugBear

Speaking about overclocking the gtx 690, anyone messed with the core voltage offset? Seems there is no difference, the power offset to 135+ while overclocked shows performance increase but when lowered, not much or none at all, have to be raised higher to accommodate overclocking the gpu core.

The 135 PT is used when you are overclocking and your card may not have enough power to run at your selected oc.

All the PT does is tell the gpu that if you need to use extra power to go over the 300w threshold then you can.

If you run an oc and you dont give enough PT then your not allowing the card to run with the power it needs so you may have stability failure.

A M D BugBear · 05-21-2012, 12:20 | posts: 1,588

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Originally Posted by Veteran

The 135 PT is used when you are overclocking and your card may not have enough power to run at your selected oc.

All the PT does is tell the gpu that if you need to use extra power to go over the 300w threshold then you can.

If you run an oc and you dont give enough PT then your not allowing the card to run with the power it needs so you may have stability failure.

So in other words, the Vcore means jack diddle doo?????

so I cant get 150+ with raising the vcore some? I already tried up to +75 and it hanged, from +0-+75, hanged @ +140 on gpus

Veteran · 05-21-2012, 12:40 | posts: 7,405 | Location: United kingdom

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Originally Posted by A M D BugBear

So in other words, the Vcore means jack diddle doo?????

so I cant get 150+ with raising the vcore some? I already tried up to +75 and it hanged, from +0-+75, hanged @ +140 on gpus

The core will vary on different gpus,some will overclock better than others,all that the PT will do is allow your gpu to use more voltage if it needs it.

Denial · 05-21-2012, 13:02 | posts: 6,351 | Location: Above Earth in a Big Rocket Ship

Well I've decided not to RMA, my card hits 120/500 OC with no artifacting as long as it's in the first PCI-E slot - which means I can't use my soundcard, but I think it's a problem with my motherboard and not the 690. On the flip side I still get strange checkerbox flickering on my monitors but apparently multiple people are reporting the same issue so I'm sure it will be fixed in a graphics driver or whatever.

..VeNoM.. · 05-21-2012, 13:51 | posts: 194 | Location: Liverpool, England

Good decision not to RMA mate. I think a lot of issues are driver related right now as the card is still young. How come you can't use your soundcard in another slot?

Denial · *Last edited by Denial; 05-21-2012 at 14:02.*

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Good decision not to RMA mate. I think a lot of issues are driver related right now as the card is still young. How come you can't use your soundcard in another slot?

PCI-E 1x, the FTW3 has the worse layout, it only has 1 slot and it's right below the main PCI-E 16x connector. Soon as Haswell is out (which I guess is a long way off) I'm going to upgrade my whole system. In the mean time i'm thinking about trading my Essence for my friends Claro XT - he has the exact same problem except in reverse, he only has one PCI regular slot on this board and it's blocked. First world computer problems =d

Now all I need is for one of these companies to put out a waterblock. I was too lazy to refill my system so close to the release of a new block, so I just removed my old card with the block still attached in the loop and put it at the bottom of the case.

..VeNoM.. · 05-21-2012, 14:04 | posts: 194 | Location: Liverpool, England

You know 1x cards can go in 16x slots?

Denial · *Last edited by Denial; 05-21-2012 at 14:17.*

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You know 1x cards can go in 16x slots?

I absolutely did not know this, wow. And looking it up makes seem like its pretty standard knowledge. I feel pretty retarded right now.

Edit: In my moment of stupor I forget to say thanks! Everything is working out better than I had initially thought

..VeNoM.. · 05-21-2012, 14:18 | posts: 194 | Location: Liverpool, England

Haha

have fun buddy

blesner · 05-21-2012, 16:44 | posts: 2,372 | Location: SA

Post some gaming benchmarks.

Anyone have a MSI GTX690? Thats what I am getting 10 June.

..VeNoM.. · 05-21-2012, 17:18 | posts: 194 | Location: Liverpool, England

Blesner read through this thread and you'll see

ZebMacahan · 05-21-2012, 19:16 | posts: 183 | Location: Norway

Have now joined this club of exclusive GTX 690 owners

. Had some problems installing it though. Got BSOD followed by the "nvlddmkm.sys" failure. This happend everytime when system tried to load windows after driver install and reboot. Tried different drivers, used driver sweeper etc. Didn't help. Had to change PCIe16x lane on my MB, and that did help. Looks stable on stock clocks so far. Will do some more testing. Using the 301.40 driver.

max883 · 05-21-2012, 19:44 | posts: 155 | Location: Norway

got mine today

PT 135+ GPU offset +120 mem +300

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3479045;jses...h53ihh5yjs1c6c

Veteran · 05-21-2012, 20:13 | posts: 7,405 | Location: United kingdom

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Originally Posted by ZebMacahan

Have now joined this club of exclusive GTX 690 owners

. Had some problems installing it though. Got BSOD followed by the "nvlddmkm.sys" failure. This happend everytime when system tried to load windows after driver install and reboot. Tried different drivers, used driver sweeper etc. Didn't help. Had to change PCIe16x lane on my MB, and that did help. Looks stable on stock clocks so far. Will do some more testing. Using the 301.40 driver.

Congrats on your new card

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Originally Posted by max883

got mine today

PT 135+ GPU offset +120 mem +300

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3479045;jses...h53ihh5yjs1c6c

Congrats and Nice overclock.

A M D BugBear · 05-22-2012, 01:18 | posts: 1,588

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Originally Posted by Veteran

Congrats on your new card

Congrats and Nice overclock.

Do you think drivers overtime will make a better overclock?

You think the power offset in the future can go higher then the 135% max limit????

Any bios mods on this yet? If not, its going to come sooner or later.

Agent-A01 · 05-22-2012, 02:27 | posts: 5,642 | Location: USA

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Originally Posted by A M D BugBear

Do you think drivers overtime will make a better overclock?

You think the power offset in the future can go higher then the 135% max limit????

no power tune will stay the same, its a bios limitation specific to vendors. there is like a max power tune of 145% iirc. and drivers could make a slight difference but it wont make a world of difference so dont get your hopes up.

Veteran · 05-22-2012, 11:37 | posts: 7,405 | Location: United kingdom

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Originally Posted by A M D BugBear

Do you think drivers overtime will make a better overclock?

You think the power offset in the future can go higher then the 135% max limit????

Any bios mods on this yet? If not, its going to come sooner or later.

Ever since the 590 fiasco Nvidia has locked down voltage increase modding through driver level,wether they enable it again remains to be seen,tbh i dont think you will need it according to nvidia as the 1.175 max voltage is plenty for a good oc.

ZebMacahan · 05-22-2012, 21:14 | posts: 183 | Location: Norway

Really impressed on how cool and silent this card is. In Diablo 3 the temps hardly reach 50 degrees, everything maxed out using 301.42 driver. With my 580 SLI's the temps were over 70 degrees. I feel that the 690 is a very efficient card.

A M D BugBear · 05-23-2012, 11:55 | posts: 1,588

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Originally Posted by Veteran

Ever since the 590 fiasco Nvidia has locked down voltage increase modding through driver level,wether they enable it again remains to be seen,tbh i dont think you will need it according to nvidia as the 1.175 max voltage is plenty for a good oc.

you think 145% power boost is to much for 8 pin connectors, TWINS?

Veteran · 05-23-2012, 11:59 | posts: 7,405 | Location: United kingdom

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Originally Posted by A M D BugBear

you think 145% power boost is to much for 8 pin connectors, TWINS?

Nvidia have stated that 1.175v its more than enough to allow a high oc even on water,so a 135% PT supposed to be more than enough,we will see i guess once people start watercooling them.

Denial · 05-23-2012, 12:32 | posts: 6,351 | Location: Above Earth in a Big Rocket Ship

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Originally Posted by ZebMacahan

Really impressed on how cool and silent this card is. In Diablo 3 the temps hardly reach 50 degrees, everything maxed out using 301.42 driver. With my 580 SLI's the temps were over 70 degrees. I feel that the 690 is a very efficient card.

How are you cooling these? With just fans? My temps in Diablo hit 84 and my room temp isn't all that hot.

Darren Hodgson · 05-23-2012, 13:05 | posts: 9,733 | Location: England

@ Denial - Are you playing the game with v-sync off and at 2560x1440 or higher? Are you using core/memory offsets and a custom fan profile? Because that temp looks awfully high for Diablo III otherwise. The game isn't even that demanding and doesn't properly support SLI either.

I see roughly 65% usage on both cards with v-sync off and framerates of up to 350 fps on GTX 680 SLI but I've not seen temps above 65 C even on those settings. With v-sync on the usage is around 45-50% and temps are much lower (low to mid-50s C). I do use a custom fan profile though (temp = fan speed) as I'm using core/memory offsets of +150/+350 MHz respectively.

Denial · *Last edited by Denial; 05-23-2012 at 13:17.*

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Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson

@ Denial - Are you playing the game with v-sync off and at 2560x1440 or higher? Are you using core/memory offsets and a custom fan profile? Because that temp looks awfully high for Diablo III otherwise. The game isn't even that demanding and doesn't properly support SLI either.

I see roughly 65% usage on both cards with v-sync off and framerates of up to 350 fps on GTX 680 SLI but I've not seen temps above 65 C even on those settings. With v-sync on the usage is around 45-50% and temps are much lower (low to mid-50s C). I do use a custom fan profile though (temp = fan speed) as I'm using core/memory offsets of +150/+350 MHz respectively.

Playing at 1920x1080 without V-Sync and I'm not overclocking at all/no fan profile. I'm starting to hate this ****ing card. Maybe I will RMA after all.

I mean between the weird artifacting with the card in the second PCI-E slot, my higher than normal temps, my weird flickering issues with my monitors (other people are experiencing this) I don't actually know what to do. I feel like some of these can and obviously will be fixed with drivers, but the whole artifacting/high temps thing pisses me off. I can't tell if its my system or my card because everything is so random. I feel like I should RMA, but ****ing EVGA won't give me the overnight for free so I'm going to lose my card for at least two weeks only to probably find out that it wasn't the card in the first place but just random bull**** with my system or whatever. I unfortunately don't have another complete system to test it in, at least one that the card can actually function in.

rootz · 05-23-2012, 13:19 | posts: 14 | Location: Aldershot

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Originally Posted by blesner

Post some gaming benchmarks.

Anyone have a MSI GTX690? Thats what I am getting 10 June.

I have a MSI and i am very happy with it.

Side note: Sorry for disappearing so fast but i had to go overseas for work urgency.

I fixed all my problems and everything is running fine.

Sorry veteran i see you wanted me to test something but i had to go. Last thing i did was put it to 700 and that was fine without artifacts. Sorry for disappearing on you but i was out of internet also for a couple of days.

Back to to today's business, still running 301.40 anyone tried the new drivers?