AthlonXP
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@Sabregen are your scores consistent with capped clocks?
please rephrase in English
What I'm trying to figure out is if the new driver sets your clock speeds on the core/shader to the stock settings EVEN if you overclock it in afterburner. In your screenshots above it says 700 in afterburner but gpu-z shows stock of 604mhz or whatever. So Is nvidia capping your cloc speed as well with the new driver and eliminating overclocking?
Sabregen why don't quit running pointless torture tests while you're still ahead
UNLESS you want to defeat OCP and run the card naked.
Damn, I didn't even catch this. You're absolutely correct. Even though MSI Afterburner is set to whatever you want, they are not actually being set there. I've confirmed with a Vantage and a 3dmark11 run that the difference between stock and OC'd is within the margin of eror (5%). looks like nvidia cut their losses and capped us off.
Oh well, considering your space/size limitations (mini-ITX) looks like GTX 590 is still gonna be your highest performance option unless a 6990 would fit. LOL.
Damn, I didn't even catch this. You're absolutely correct. Even though MSI Afterburner is set to whatever you want, they are not actually being set there. I've confirmed with a Vantage and a 3dmark11 run that the difference between stock and OC'd is within the margin of eror (5%). looks like nvidia cut their losses and capped us off.
Damn, I didn't even catch this. You're absolutely correct. Even though MSI Afterburner is set to whatever you want, they are not actually being set there. I've confirmed with a Vantage and a 3dmark11 run that the difference between stock and OC'd is within the margin of eror (5%). looks like nvidia cut their losses and capped us off.
it has to be some kind of screw up with ocp. no way it should be kicking in when it is.
Hmm but with this many drivers up to this point, I'm wondering if the issues could be bios or in other words firmware related.
has nvidia ever released a new firmware for their cards to fix such an issue? i'm all for reflashing if thats what it takes. no skin off my back. it's safe to agree that this card has great potential. 850mhz is achieveable and should be a hell of an oc on this card. i don't need to reach e-peen 1000mhz nirvana.
Some weird stuff is going on with this 590 ...
sabregen, but at 772... i bet you got sh*tty scores no?
so is the voltage limited in say smart doctor as well?
I am in the same boat as sabregen, to be honest I will just keep it at stock as its working for what it does, if I could do it all over again though I would have kept my dual 6970's.
I bet this would be sick with a custom water block and some aggressive overclocking - problem is the amount of RAM - why would you limit a flagship model.
Only thing I can think is they don't expect too many people to be doing more than Nvidia 3d instead of the surround (or they don't think people are smart either and associate the ram size with the resolution size required for 3 or 4 monitors)
In the end, this generation I would stick with two 6950's 2gb in crossfire and bios mod them.
I finally got a chance to play with my new 590 last night and (so far) it hasn't burst into flames. The first game I tried was Crysis 2 which was impossible to run in SLI even with the latest drivers, profiles, etc. There were flickering and strange lighting geometry problems. I was getting 60 fps (as I am using Vsync on my TV), but it was generally unplayable. So I switched off SLI and reran the game. I was shocked that with the game set at 1080p and Extreme settings I was still getting 55-60fps with the occasional dip to 45fps. The card really is a beast, it's just a shame that I have to be nervous using it after all of the recent premature death reports.
That's nice, but, see the front of the card, with the open heatsink area near the power connectors, that entire end of the card will blow out massive amounts of heat towards the front of your case, I can see it adding a lot of heat to the inside of the case and craming up right there in that area, even though it is open. I've been doing a lot of testing with this card, and I can see how that could create a heat bubble right there for you in that area.