GTX 460 Overclocking

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g4m3rof1337

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So I'm trying to overclock my 460, and my system keeps shutting down after running FurMark for a little bit. From stock: 675/1350/1800 @ 1000v, I've tried 851/1702/2100 @ 1.037 and 1.047. I even disabled the auto fan setting and upped to 60 from the default 40. So I'm assuming it's a voltage problem.


Anyone have any tips?
 
When I had my 460, 845 and I think around 1685 was around mine stayed perfectly stable without touching the voltages. Mine was an EVGA, and I used EVGA precision to overclock it. I never touched the fan speed, just left it on auto. I wasn't to sure how to adjust the voltages, I know with ASUS cards they have a utility that let's you play with the voltages. Maybe try MSI afterburner, I hear that's a good utility.
 
I'm actually using MSI Afterburner on my Zotac card and it appears to be working great. Did you notice that much of an FPS gain? I did notice though that all the clocks I tried kept hitting 80C, so I may have been overheating.. I also can't find any aftermarket coolers, so I may have to replace the thermal paste and do some temporary mods until something comes out.
 
These cards are good to 105C, so your fine. Mine hit around 78C sometimes 82C, that's was with my hot ass I7. And yes, I noticed a huge difference, nips at the heals of my 5850 when it's at stock clocks, and mine was the 768 mb version. Try running the Alien VS. Predators benchmark, just Google it, easy to find. Then test at stock speeds and keep increasing until the driver stops responding then turn your clocks down by about 10 mhz, I gained about an extra 14 fps.
 
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Alright, I'll change some of the clocks and run some tests again then. What are some good clocks to start with?

So far I've tried 851/1702/2100 @ 1.037v and 900/1800/1950 @ 1.087v. And for the first one, I tried 1.047 and 1.050 too.

All of them climbed past 80C, though that appears to be fine now. I also retried the 1.087v one with FurMark, and my screen went black, then came back and the program was just a white screen.





Thanks.
 
Try backing the memory down to 2000mhz. Mines' running 800/1600/1000 (2000 actual) on stock voltage which is 1.037v isn't it? Though this card is a sonic platinum which is basically stock overclocked.
 
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Try backing the memory down to 2000mhz. Mines' running 800/1600/1000 (2000 actual) on stock voltage which is 1.037v isn't it? Though this card is a sonic platinum which is basically stock overclocked.
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My stock clocks are 675/1350/1800 @ 1.000v. I'll try your clocks and see if anything happens.



Thanks.
 
So I changed my settings to what you recommended, even changed my stock 1.000v voltage to 1.037v and it appears to be stable. I've been running FurMark for a little over 10 minutes and it hit 90C and seems to be staying there.

I'd still like to change the thermal paste to AS5 until some coolers come out.. but yeah, lol.




Thanks.
 
Thought it would, That reminds me, i should change the paste to AS5 and see if i can keep my card under 60c load :cool:
 
I just finished playing a little over an hour of Dead Rising 2 and didn't encounter a single problem. But it appears my GPU clocks reset when I crashed when I was loading something.. So since I ran the stress test for 20 minutes, I'm going to set them back to the settings you mentioned and see what happens.
 
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My ram overclocks the same. I can run 2100 for benching but for extended gaming it will BSOD so I just run 2000. So it sounds like this was your same issue.

Also, you shouldn't need extra volts for 800 core clock. For some reason you can only go up to 70% fan speed with MSI afterburner. I usually set mine to 50% and never see 70c with 800 core and 2000 memory while gaming.
 
Mine's at complete stock settings and I haven't had problems, I fixed my C&C3 problems with the tiberium texture, was something off in a .cfg file (to do with the game itself)
 
Yeah with 8x/8x AA/AF playing COD WAW for me I never fall below 100 FPS LOL. I increased the max capped FPS to 125 if the cfg files, originally set to 90 FPS max. The 460 is a beast.
 
1012v 808/1616/2003 i get 40fps on bc2 with everything on high 32xcsaa 1680x1050...

my cpu is pined at 100% most of the time, [email protected] my gtx 460 is the 768mb version-sli of these cards will be awesome

i dont play it that high though, i just go for medium
 
Your CPU is the bottleneck most likely there. CPU usage pegged at 100% too? Although the lower memory bandwidth does hurt with high AA and AF settings.
 
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