Went with the Gigabyte GTX 460

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Hey all, finally gave up and decided to try Gigabyte's board. This thing is barely audible at 100 % fanspeed. Very briefly to note, got it upto 850 @ stock voltage and 885 @ 1.087v . I can game @ 900 so far but Kombustor causes some black line artifacts, very few at that. I'm pretty happy with it. Does have the factory VRM heatsinks which is nice. You will not believe how cool this thing runs. I still dont believe it. I REALLY REALLY want that 900 mhz stable but may need to do the bios flash for just a few extra mV to get it stable.

As of now, im folding @ 825/1650 only 49c @ 72f ambient.

Any game needing it, gonna stick to 875/1750/4200 and any game not needing it will run at stock clocks. Love this thing so far. Still have lots of playing around to do before i decide to keep her.

Sheeebbbzzz ( my bro ) was surprised to find he had control of 2 gpu's now in precision ... Tossed my 260 in his rig as a surprise .

Just gotta do the tweak around on his to get both gpu's folding for some real action.

Ill be back later with some screens.
 
GTX 460 is roughly 9k ppd overclocked (OC the shaders for more PPD)

My bro (bearboy99) doesn't stand a chance now. :(
 
I now have a 950 mhz on with only +50 mv on core and +10 mv on AUX.

My HAWK is a BEAST, shader running at 1900. 950/1900 , not too shabby :D , and no lines or anything, tested in Kombustor AND Furmark.

I think you willl regret going with the Gigabyte, as ive heard LOTS of complaints of one of something coming loose, and it making a huge whinning sound.

Anyway, good to hear your not experiencing any of those downsides :D

Il see if I can push 1000 mhz on Core, and Il report back if I do :D
 
Yea i dont really get much extra OC by overvolting, but i do get plenty of extra heat. I had my heart set on the HAWK then ran into a really really nasty post about one guys problem he had getting to 900 mhz and frying 2 cards in a row...

I still may order a HAWK and see how it holds up , maybe he just had really bad luck or whatever...

All games 100 % stable @ 900 core , still working up . However Kombustor does not agree...

Whining sound??? Heard of it before but i literally hear nothing from my card at 100 % fan speed, overvolted, overclocked, under full load, running anything. Those may just be defective cards bro.
 
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Aight, Just remmember, Furmark and Kombuster are WORST case senario.

Metro doesnt even run my card at full load on Stock on High DX11 4XAA. I think it is hard pressed to hit 70% load.
 
Folding about 15 hours @ 910/1820 . Do you have the in-game monitor that shows gpu usage enabled ?
 
Hey skope - im getting some screens ready, lets see yours and compare for fun ! Yay fun !
 
Yesterday was reading about 11k, today is reading about 15k off the 460. The 260's were doing about 7k a piece.
 
The new 900-925 point WUs get me up to 15K ppd, the standard 611 pointers get me 10-11k ppd on my gtx 460 @ 850/1700/1800. It is a really superb card, mine tops out at 63C ingame (69C furmark) in my crappy dell case (and runs on my 400w psu!).

I hope you enjoy the card! :biggrin:
 
Yea i was getting the 611's yesterday on my 460, then the 900s came along n are really helping. I was kinda dissapointed at first seeing under 12k . My other machine isn't listening to me again ... seems to be folding but cant get fahmon to show anything correctly.
 
I got my 470's today


cant wait to see what the ppd is like on the 900 wu's
 
I bought them off a guy ($425 for both)

they are MSI
(<--- MSI fanboi)

Folding at 26k ppd atm
My i5 is offline until i get this system stabilized, I had to reinstall windows due to nvida/ati driver conflict
 
:D

I'm not sure I am going to keep them.

ATM I cant get surround to work without crashing. Might have to go back to AT....errrrr...AMD
 
Not bad at all for $425 . MC has the EVGA SC's for $299 on sale.

I haven't used any of my cpu cores for folding, just the GPUs.
 
QuikSkope , lets see those screens ! Curious to how high you clocked that beast.
 

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