285 GTX overclock question.

MouSe-2005

MouSe-2005

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I've gotta problem with my 285...here's a pic.
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These are my settings. I've read others having these settings no problem. Any idea why I'm getting crashes?
 
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I'm able to run XFX Black Edition speeds no problem. Maybe it was crashing for a reason.
 
From my expeience gpu/mem overclocks dont really add much but instability, heat and stress on the cards. Maybe if we could get 20+ more fps out of it, it would be worth the risk and effort.

Maybe someone here can show us better results out of his OCs
 
acroig said:
As you know every component is different and some may not OC as high as others.
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:yep: You're never guaranteed a single mhz over the stock clocks unless you pay for the factory OC. My 4850 barely OC's at all on the core, but that's the lot I drew.

Spyhawk said:
From my expeience gpu/mem overclocks dont really add much but instability, heat and stress on the cards. Maybe if we could get 20+ more fps out of it, it would be worth the risk and effort.

Maybe someone here can show us better results out of his OCs
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Yep, I feel the same way. Sometimes a card CAN get such a significant OC that it really does affect which settings you can use etc., like my old X1800XT. With it's overclock that cars was running as fast as 7900gt's, without it it ran like a 7800gt :\ I might be exaggerating a bit but you get the point, there was a significant difference in games with the OC I was able to achieve. Now, the 4850 I mentioned earlier isn't even worth the extra heat to OC, it only gets like 25 mhz on the core, which amounts to like 1 or 2 fps in game.

As for my 285, I don't know what it's stable at yet. I've been afraid to push it too hard because I was using a psu of questionable quality but I've been running these speeds since I had it because they were stable right out of the gate. Sooner or later I'll take it higher, for right now I'm happy with it as is.

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Spyhawk said:
From my expeience gpu/mem overclocks dont really add much but instability, heat and stress on the cards. Maybe if we could get 20+ more fps out of it, it would be worth the risk and effort.

Maybe someone here can show us better results out of his OCs
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I've always agreed with this and for the most part never did gain much from a gaming experience point-of-view over-clocking.

With Sli there may be a bit more to over-clocking if one gains 7 percent in performance with one core, well, may gain 14, 21, 28 percent with dual, tri, Quad Sli.
 
Spyhawk said:
From my expeience gpu/mem overclocks dont really add much but instability, heat and stress on the cards. Maybe if we could get 20+ more fps out of it, it would be worth the risk and effort.

Maybe someone here can show us better results out of his OCs
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This is pretty much my experience. With as hot as current enthusiast cards get, I just don't like to dick with major overclocks. Though I did OC two of my cards a little to make them match the new one, because I am like that.
 
For the limited returns dictate I don't OC my cards. Back in the 9800Pro days an OC could make games fly... these days the cards have so much raw horsepower and rely so much less on basic clock speeds that the returns don't seem worth it. I do use overdrive, but I'm not going to bump voltages and throw massive amounts of cash at cooling to get marginal speed improvements. I guess I'm not that gamer I once was!
 
I said **** it and ordered the XFX GTX260 Black Edition(666 clock, 2300mem)
I can run FC2 on Ultra High with 4xaa or af? can't remember, but at 1920x1080 resolution vsync on, um that's about it I think. I ran the bechmark and lowest FPS were 40.

Also the card got to 67c while running the benchmark. pretty cool if you ask me.
 
coyote81 said:
I said **** it and ordered the XFX GTX260 Black Edition(666 clock, 2300mem)
I can run FC2 on Ultra High with 4xaa or af? can't remember, but at 1920x1080 resolution vsync on, um that's about it I think. I ran the bechmark and lowest FPS were 40.

Also the card got to 67c while running the benchmark. pretty cool if you ask me.
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Congrats, enjoy the new video card. I think every high end video card needs a happy home in a gamers pc. :up:
 
MouSe-2005 said:
I've gotta problem with my 285...here's a pic.

These are my settings. I've read others having these settings no problem. Any idea why I'm getting crashes?
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Benn playing around with the card again and I've found that the shaders also seem to be the finicky part of my overclock. So I just bumped up my core and memory and left the shaders alone. They cause a BSOD if I try to push them so I settled for 710c /1476s / 2700m (1350). How much performance did I gain, I haven't a clue. No worries though as the card has a lifetime warranty and XFX actually encourages overclocking their cards. The last AGP card I had the 7950GT even included a "How-to overclock" doc on the setup CD. :p
 
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I miss the times where I used to get graphical artifacts if I pushed my card too far :)
Now I just have to hope it doesn't crash :)

I've settled for the default clocks in the end; i really have no need for more performance at the moment.
 
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