Post Your Best GTX460 Overclocks & Benchmarks

according that you have to donate to get one that works with gtx460.

guess i will wait for the free one. i just wanted to give what you suggested a try.
 
gesicht said:
according that you have to donate to get one that works with gtx460.

guess i will wait for the free one. i just wanted to give what you suggested a try.
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Wow man all you gotta donate is $1.00 minimum. I could find that in my couch LOL. But your RIGHT, I missed that part. I'd donate if I had a 460 being as I feel $1.00 is worth the convenience of modding my own custom bios and getting more performance and stability out of my card. Anyway when it goes public I hope you try flashing your vga bios and everything goes well. How far have you been able to push your card up to this point with software?
 
http://www.guru3d.com/article/pov-geforce-gtx-460-tgt-ultra-charged-review/20

The above article is for a POV Ultra overclocked 768MB GTX 460. The pushed the core to 920 mhz. and the memory to 4208. The noise was still acceptable and so was the temp. 80 degrees or so.

Now imagine you were a crazy bastard like Lord_Exodia :D and you bought 2 GTX 460s 1GB, lapped your GPU's (dont care about warranty) <----- told you I was crazy, re-applied the cooler and modded your bios to core 920 memory 4200 and added more aggressive yet stable memory timings along with a bitching 1840 shader clock and threw both of them in SLi.

I could be wrong because I don't have a system to compare them to but at these frequencies It could be the same performance as reference clocked GTX 480s in Sli, except of course where video memory plays a huge role.

Anyone go this [H]igh yet?!!!?
 
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I am running a Palit Sonic on water. I can pass most benches @ 1000 core. I get some "glitches" sometimes so I would not call it stable. I have it running at 950 right now and it is running great. Been playing Dirt2 super smooth. Temp stays under 40c.
 
anyway back on topic, i thought i posted mine. i lapped the heatsink , used AC5. idle temps 33c , after 30 minutes of unigine heaven max temp is 65c. also put a drop of oil on the fan axis, beard trimmer oil ( thinnest oil i could find at home ) and sanded the fan blades a little in an attempt to quiet it. with little tweaking the galaxy cooler is not to bad. my max temps drop 7C

galaxy GC default 700/1848
default vcore .975 , 800/2000 ( i use this right now, my 24 inch monitor died, so using 19 atm so not much i pushes the card at this lower res )
vcore 1.000 850/2100
vcore 1.037 900/2100
i use fan speed 100, to test once, then if it passes, i then set fan to auto and test again

i use unigine for stress testing for like 20-30 minutes. it seems to get the highest temps.

general question, why are the galaxy cards the lowest default core voltage?
 
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gesicht said:
anyway back on topic, i thought i posted mine. i lapped the heatsink , used AC5. idle temps 33c , after 30 minutes of unigine heaven max temp is 65c. also put a drop of oil on the fan axis, beard trimmer oil ( thinnest oil i could find at home ) and sanded the fan blades a little in an attempt to quiet it. with little tweaking the galaxy cooler is not to bad. my max temps drop 7C

galaxy GC default 700/1848
default vcore .975 , 800/2000 ( i use this right now, my 24 inch monitor died, so using 19 atm so not much i pushes the card at this lower res )
vcore 1.000 850/2100
vcore 1.037 900/2100
i use fan speed 100, to test once, then if it passes, i then set fan to auto and test again

i use unigine for stress testing for like 20-30 minutes. it seems to get the highest temps.

general question, why are the galaxy cards the lowest default core voltage?
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Nice job!! That's a mod. :D Nice clocks too. I'd be proud to have 2 of those in my case ;)
 
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53oval said:
I am running a Palit Sonic on water. I can pass most benches @ 1000 core. I get some "glitches" sometimes so I would not call it stable. I have it running at 950 right now and it is running great. Been playing Dirt2 super smooth. Temp stays under 40c.
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What water block are you using for this? I'm getting ready to put together a gpu loop - I was thinking the mcw80 although there is no plate for it so I'd have to mod it... no biggie though. Also, what is your voltage?
 
lanken123 said:
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All you guys running 900+/1800+/4200+ do you have any idea how that runs on your rig compared to a stock clocked gtx 470 or gtx 480. I remember back in the day you could see in the 3dmark orb what similarly equipped systems were scoring with the same or even slightly different hardware. It'd be nice to see what levels of performance you've obtained by achieving such a high overclock on these cards. I know the GTX460 is a cut down core but at these extreme frequencies you have to be above GTX 470 (stock clocks) right? :confused:
 
VitaminTee said:
What water block are you using for this? I'm getting ready to put together a gpu loop - I was thinking the mcw80 although there is no plate for it so I'd have to mod it... no biggie though. Also, what is your voltage?
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I am using a mcw80, it bolts right on with the g92 pattern the Palit has. My voltage at 1K is 1.175. At 950 I use 1.125 or so. I am still fiddling to find the right combo's. Right now I have it set at 925, I figure that is in the safe zone of voltage and graphical errors. I had a three hour session of dirt2 and GTR evo last night @925 and the rig ran great. Never went above 38c.(the AC was on). 950-1000 is hit and miss with stuff. I can "pass" everything but not always without small graphical glitches. I have done Kombuster @1015 and it ran but with small glitches.
 
wow all the way to 1015. My god this card has huge potential. Great overclock and nice setup.
 
OCCT Is the ultimate GPU Test, it will find things 95% of other stress testers will not. I urge you to run OCCT with an overclock of 1015 and see what kind of crap it finds.
 
I had 815/1970 pass OCCT. Any higher and I get errors.

I had it at 840/1970 and played metro 2033 from start to finish as well as many other games without a single problem.

The games don't push the gpu temp higher than 75. OOCT takes it up to 84. This is at 100% fan speed.
 
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Yeah, at 840 core i was getting computer freezes and blue screens and the temp never got above 75.
 
Kainzo said:
OCCT Is the ultimate GPU Test, it will find things 95% of other stress testers will not. I urge you to run OCCT with an overclock of 1015 and see what kind of crap it finds.
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I am sure it would. I am not proclaiming it a stable overclock, only showing the potential of these chips. I did play Dirt2 for over an hour last night @985 so I might test that clock on OCCT and see how stable it really was. Dirt2 ran over 70fps @1080p with all the eye candy on max.
 
The strange thing is, I seemingly can't adjust my voltage, is this restricted by my BIOS/mobo? I see in several screenshots people are adjusting the voltage slider, I don't have that option its just grayed out.
 
Kainzo said:
The strange thing is, I seemingly can't adjust my voltage, is this restricted by my BIOS/mobo? I see in several screenshots people are adjusting the voltage slider, I don't have that option its just grayed out.
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Off topic a little
Kaizo did you ever fix your freezing issue?

Back on topic.
I know that some of the GTX460s were not supposed to be able to be volt changed while others were. They touched on this a little during the launch.
 
Hey Kainzo, in MSi Afterburner you have to go into settings and check the box that allows you to mess with the voltage settings.

I have a new EVGA GTX 460 1GB EE @ 855/1710/1991. The voltage is at 987. It never seems to hit past 70 temp-wise. This was through a few trials of Borderlands & Age of Conan. At stock settings, Borderlands was stuttering. After I inched up the overclock, the gameplay was pretty smooth. Age of Conan seems to run better than it did with my 480, go figure.

I will run OCCT once I find it. I know the games I tried weren't Metro 2033 or anything ( I have that coming in) however in my own little test, I like what I saw!
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Off topic a little
Kaizo did you ever fix your freezing issue?

Back on topic.
I know that some of the GTX460s were not supposed to be able to be volt changed while others were. They touched on this a little during the launch.
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The freezing was resolved by the core clock being at 840, after I turned this down to 800 it didn't have any freezing while in games. However, I still see freezing sometimes when adjusting MSI afterburner clocks, not on the first go, but the second one without a restart, i'm almost certain this is a driver issue, I've seen it happen on more than one occasion with different rigs and 460 cards.

I'm suppose to be meeting with a guy today to trade my 460 + $100 cash for a EVGA 480... I won't be able to go SLi on my current board so I think its the best bet. However, I will miss the overclockability and low heat/power consumption :(
 
RX3 said:
Hey Kainzo, in MSi Afterburner you have to go into settings and check the box that allows you to mess with the voltage settings.

I have a new EVGA GTX 460 1GB EE @ 855/1710/1991. The voltage is at 987. It never seems to hit past 70 temp-wise. This was through a few trials of Borderlands & Age of Conan. At stock settings, Borderlands was stuttering. After I inched up the overclock, the gameplay was pretty smooth. Age of Conan seems to run better than it did with my 480, go figure.

I will run OCCT once I find it. I know the games I tried weren't Metro 2033 or anything ( I have that coming in) however in my own little test, I like what I saw!
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I couldn't get the core clock that high, though I didn't mess with the voltage - I got several blue screens yesterday whenever I up'd the clock to 815 - it could have been driver issues, after I put it back to stock, it never had an issue. I am very impressed with the stability of the 460 and recommend it to anyone who has any questions about upgrading an older generation card.
 
Damn, well at least it isn't freezing anymore.

I have to 100% agree with ya Kainzo. I cannot believe how stable this card is! So much headroom to play around with.

Just throwing in my two cents here, but when I had my 480 I was a little depressed about the way it preformed out of the box. I did not overclock it, but I assumed it would blow me away with its graphics prowess straight away without touching it. In all honesty, my 460 has been performing way better and staying much cooler. It could just be me and my setup though. I have not read up on its performance since I sold it about 2 months ago.
 
My MSI GTX460 1GB cyclone is stable at 860/1720/2000 @1.087v for 15min using OCCT with no errors. If I go to 870, there are 4 errors at 15minutes. Do I need to run OCCT longer?
 
I picked up an EVGA GTX460 768MB SC. Stock speed is 763/1900, and using the EVGA precision tool, I got it up too 900/2200 with the stock voltage. Temp max out at 61C and the card is near silent (fan never budges from 40%). I didn't bother get past 900Mhz, but I am sure there is some headroom left. Stress tests were done with OCCT and the MSI Kombustor (30min. each). Overall I am pretty happy for a card I picked up for $150.
 
deanx0r said:
I picked up an EVGA GTX460 768MB SC. Stock speed is 763/1900, and using the EVGA precision tool, I got it up too 900/2200 with the stock voltage. Temp max out at 61C and the card is near silent (fan never budges from 40%). I didn't bother get past 900Mhz, but I am sure there is some headroom left. Stress tests were done with OCCT and the MSI Kombustor (30min. each). Overall I am pretty happy for a card I picked up for $150.
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sweet deal for a sweet card :D
 
deanx0r said:
I picked up an EVGA GTX460 768MB SC. Stock speed is 763/1900, and using the EVGA precision tool, I got it up too 900/2200 with the stock voltage. Temp max out at 61C and the card is near silent (fan never budges from 40%). I didn't bother get past 900Mhz, but I am sure there is some headroom left. Stress tests were done with OCCT and the MSI Kombustor (30min. each). Overall I am pretty happy for a card I picked up for $150.
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That is a VERY nice card you got there. Put that bad boy under water!!!!:D
 
RX3 said:
Hey Kainzo, in MSi Afterburner you have to go into settings and check the box that allows you to mess with the voltage settings.

I have a new EVGA GTX 460 1GB EE @ 855/1710/1991. The voltage is at 987. It never seems to hit past 70 temp-wise. This was through a few trials of Borderlands & Age of Conan. At stock settings, Borderlands was stuttering. After I inched up the overclock, the gameplay was pretty smooth. Age of Conan seems to run better than it did with my 480, go figure.

I will run OCCT once I find it. I know the games I tried weren't Metro 2033 or anything ( I have that coming in) however in my own little test, I like what I saw!
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what resolution are you running? borderlands runs silky smoothe on my 460 1gb EE, 800/1600/1900 at 1680x1050. you shouldnt have been having any issues considering the game is a console port and not very demanding.

did you by chance buy your card during the metro 2033 promo from evga? i managed to get my copy on the same day i registered my card. would really like to see what type of FPS you are getting with your OC in that game.

tonight im gonna try and push the card higher, i just turned it up to 800 for the hell of it and everything runs great. i know it can do better.
 
i got a question for you EVGA 1gb gtx460 EE owners. i have not messed with the voltage on my card, and im staring at OCCT right now and its reading 1.21v on the vcore. thats seems WAY higher than what you guys are reporting. i heard stock is supposed to be .975? why is mine running so high? this seems like it could be bad for the card. also i read somewhere that voltage is not adjustable for this card? anyone know what thats about?
 
Lord_Exodia said:
For everyone overclocking their cards, I suggest you look into updating your cards bios. It's not really that hard. Hell I think it's more work downloading afterburner and all that stuff to overclock it. Yes you can set it to boot up with the settings but it would be so much easier for you to find your cards stable tollerances and then use nbittorr to back up your vga bios and re-write a new custom bios with the stable voltage, gpu shader and memory setting and then use nvflash to flash the bios so that your cards run this way on the hardware level. I've been doing this for years. Hell even earlier in this thread we saw that software can limit you. The EVGA program overclocked worth a crap for a previous poster. Afterburner fared even better. Just throwing my 2c in there. :D
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where do I get the bios for my PNY card?
 
foxnews said:
where do I get the bios for my PNY card?
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It's currently on your cad, you would use nvflash to back up your current videocard bios. I usually name mine old.rom, then open it in windows using nbittorr and modify it with your stable clocks/voltages and save the bios as new.rom. Then flash it with new.rom using nvflash again. You should run your new overclock on the hardware level now. :) As far as I know the version of nbittorr available doesn't support 460 but if you donate $.99c you can get the version that supports modifying of the core shader, memory and voltage, I believe they are still working on fan speed tweaks and that is not available yet.

see here for some info http://www.mvktech.net/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,26/func,select/id,126/ and download links for both nvflash and nbittorr. Look up some bios flash guides on google for instructions.
 
deanx0r said:
Are you sure it's not reading the vcore of your cpu?
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you are correct. i figured when i clicked the GPU tab on OCCT it would be reading me the GPU stats, but it wasnt. core voltage according to afterburner is 1.012. still a little higher than i would like considering i have heard of people getting cards volted under 1, but way better than what i thought.
 
herfalerf said:
you are correct. i figured when i clicked the GPU tab on OCCT it would be reading me the GPU stats, but it wasnt. core voltage according to afterburner is 1.012. still a little higher than i would like considering i have heard of people getting cards volted under 1, but way better than what i thought.
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My Gainward GS-GLH is apparently .987 and can't be adjusted. Trying to change it in Afterburner just resets it back to .987. Interesting though that it's .987 at 800/2000... wonder how fast this thing could really go. But I don't really need the extra speed, what I need is more silent operation.
 
running into a bit of a problem here. upon startup afterburner applies my overclock (790/1580/1900) but any attempt to change the OC up or down will result in a BSOD. disabling afterburner will set the card back to stock clocks 763/1526/1900 without BSOD. the same thing happens with evga precision. why would setting the clocks back to factory settings cause BSOD?
 
I got in on the recent Chiefvalue deal for an EVGA Superclocked GTX 460 768mb @ $158. I'm batting 855 on the core, 2102 on the memory per MSI Afterburner w/ max voltage at 1.087, keeping fan on manual @ 65% which yields temps of around 75c (211 fps). Testing method I've been using is 15 minutes w/ OCCT at fullscreen 1920x1200 w/ 0 errors. Next series of tests will be where I can remain there while lowering voltage.

I want the best bang I can out of this puppy - Would bios flashing be applicable to my setup, or should I be happy where I am? Anything I'm missing? I'd love to be stable in the 900mhz territory. Furthermore, is there an "acceptable" error level tolerance I ought go with when using OCCT, such as 3 errors/10 minutes, or are 0 errors my best route?

Thanks!
 
valdamax said:
I'm batting 855 on the core, 2102 on the memory per MSI Afterburner w/ max voltage at 1.087, keeping fan on manual @ 65% which yields temps of around 75c (211 fps). Testing method I've been using is 15 minutes w/ OCCT at fullscreen 1920x1200 w/ 0 errors. Next series of tests will be where I can remain there while lowering voltage.

I want the best bang I can out of this puppy - Would bios flashing be applicable to my setup, or should I be happy where I am? Anything I'm missing? I'd love to be stable in the 900mhz territory. Furthermore, is there an "acceptable" error level tolerance I ought go with when using OCCT, such as 3 errors/10 minutes, or are 0 errors my best route?

Thanks!
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I'm at 860/2000 on my EVGA 768MB vanilla with 1.087 stable in OCCT. I think you should be happy with what you have. If you want to try something, maybe back off the memory speed a bit and see if you can push the core farther. That's a tip I've seen elsewhere. There's only so much you can do with the 768MB card and 1920x1200.

And yes, stick with OCCT stable with 0 errors. There are a lot of tall tales out there with overclocking these (all cards really) cards. Keep it honest.
 
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