Overclocking GeForce GTX 480 with extra GPU voltage [Guru3D.com]

Oh rite, so the 8 pin and 6 pin are capable or drawing more than 150w and 75w respectively?

 

No, but you can have 3 8pins for example. 300W isn't the limit. it's just the spec

 

Still ain't that impressive compared even to a single 5870. I bet that it gains a lot only because of it's memory buffer size. GTX480 performs quite mediocre in shader heavy environments. For me this GPU is a little bit to much of a power wastage.

 

Drivers my friend. This is without driver optimization to the fullest

 

TBH

with the current situation of rising energy bills and the fact you want a silent pc to play as most time is played at evening/night after work i cant see any point in this type of tune.

given the cost of a 480GTX in electricity cost, purchase cost (getting right psu for a start) and heat output + noise and then paying $$$ extra for full watercooling . . .

why not just buy a 5970 and it would probably still work out cheaper over 2 years.


face it nvidia didnt win this round, they build a baseline for the future and will come back stronger.. but for now ATi really is the Daddy

 

Excellent thread Hilbert! Can't wait for beta 5 of msi afterburner!

 

Everyone keeps saying that, but I don't believe it.

Hardware has been more or less final for over half a year now, Nvidia's just been waiting on yields.

I don't think they sat on their hands during this time. They knew where the 5870 was and they knew where the 480 had to be. They would not have allowed it to be so close on release when they had so much time, if there were any "optimizations" to be done.

But only time will tell.

 

Pretty sweet overclock but as was mentioned a few posts earlier I'm going to wait for the revised GTX470/480 too to decide whether I'm going to get one or if I'll just skip a generation...

 

still using the old crappy 197.17 drivers for this review?
maybe the Review was done before the new 197.45 with optimizations for the 480 and 470? :3eyes:

 

Im guessing so thats its a fair comparision from the review he did of the 480, as they used the 197.17's i think.

 

why didn't they overclock the 5870 too i was curious about. can run the 5870 at 1000/1300 or higher. on what they can cause they pushed the gtx 480 farthest they can why not the 5870? was just curious. overclocking looks good. overclocked better than i expected it to.

 

I wonder how long people will keep trying to downplay the 480 for...these are some amazing results, if this is with non liquid cooling then it is crazy, it's about 50mhz higher than the core O.C clocks on the initial review.

Another few drivers and the 480 will overtake the 5970 in crysis warhead....which it very nearly has

50frames vs. 51.

 

They or He rather didn't overclock the 5870

because its a article about overclocking with GTX480 using the "prized" afterburner software.

 

prized by some scored by others.... i think you fit in the scorned section no?.

what else are you going to clock it with ? please tell me?

@hh
i knew right off the bat when even overclocked just 25mgh it showed gains i have never seen before clock per clock.

 

Need power usage figures, please?

 

Very nice, now after overclock the card seems to be in my interest however I will wait until full 512 sp's are implemented.

Look at crysis @ 1920X1200 resolution, msaa X2, hurray finally 60 FPS, took long enough.

I want to see at least 8Xaa multi-sampling @ 1920X1200 resolution with full settings with MIN FPS of 60.

Cranking up to supersampling hinders performance like you wouldn't believe.

Speaking of supersampling, have anyone tried supersampling aa with theses cards??

Whats the loss in performance lets say 16Xaa mult-sampling to 16Xaaq w/ super-sampling? Anyone have any data on this? would be nice.

I saw the bench that hilbert did and it was a loss like 15% in performance on maxing out the aa but I dont think he ever turned on supersampling.

Anyone have any data on this, fill me in. if its still 15% loss w/ supersampling then I might be looking into theses cards in the future, I am a AF, AA w/super-sampling nuthead. Has to have AA for my games, always.

 

Ok Hilbert bring the bench with overclocked 5870 and overclocked gtx480.

 

I'm waiting for the refresh of the 400s (4x5s) before I buy one. That and a good liquid cooling water-block, even if it's third-party. I know Nvidia can do better that what they've served up so far.

 

The correct answer is YES, you can.

There is nothing stopping the Graphics card from pulling 200W from an 8-pin connector, the PSU just has to be able to handle the current increase.

It may be stated that its a 250W card, but unless you measure it properly (like some other sites have with PCIe bridges and multi-meters) you can only guess..

There is no magic wall that states that you can only pull up to 75W on a 6-pin., or 150W on an 8-pin.

When your PSU fries, that was too much

And yes, I would have very much liked an Overclocked 5870 in there for comparison as well...

edit : Holy crap, my system has changed a LOT since I joined here, and this is my first post
edit2 : updated now

 

Where is power consumption test?

anyway bet is more 300W for card only, and that is what i do never accept

damn, my whole rig eats less!