Thread: The quest for more...

As an attempt to stay more active in the community.... I will be duplicating my overclock.net posts for my current pursuit. I appreciate comments and concerns, and am happy to answer questions....

for reference, my current post over at the 590 owner forum is here (page 152): NVIDIA GTX 590 Owners Club - Page 152 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

So my current quest is to crank the most out of this little 590 I have here....

So here is my status:

trying to test individual overclock settings to push the max stable I can get on stock volts....

So far I have stable 612(stock) with a stable 1850 memory, but I am still pushing the memory.....

Will post screenshots when I combine them later.

not stable: 612(stock) and 2004 mem
stable: 612 and 1950 mem

I slaved my old gtx 275 for physx.... in batman arkam asylum I am getting 20-30 more fps... and no dips in fps ever, a rock solid 80.....

Oh and as this forum doesn't have a fancy system signature feature, here is my sig from over there as well....
CPU
Phenom II x6 1055T @ 3.5 ghz

Motherboard
Asus Crosshair IV Formula

Memory
4x 2GB Ripjaw DDR3 @ 1333mhz 9-9-9-25

Graphics Card
Asus Geforce GTX 590

Hard Drive
Combined: 6 TB of space

Sound Card
Asus Xonar D2

Power Supply
CORSAIR AX1200

Case
Corsair Obsidian 800D

CPU cooling
Scythe Mugen 2 rev.B

GPU cooling
Stock

OS
Windows 7 SP1

Monitor
Samsung SyncMaster T260HD

quick update.....

GeForce GTX 580 772 1544 1002 37.06 49.41 192.4 GDDR5 384 11 4.1 1.0 2.0 1581.1 244 $499 £399
GeForce GTX 590 607 1215 855 58.75 77.7 327.7 GDDR5 2x384 11 4.1 1.0 2.0 2488.3 365 $699 £570[8]


Half Way: 689.5 1379.5 928.5 (x2) = 1857 Crashed
Test 2: 660 ------ ------ (x2) 1850 Crashed
Test 3: 612 1225 ------ (x2) 1850 Pass
Test 4: 612 1225 ------ (x2) 2004 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption)
Test 5: 612 1225 ------ (x2) 1950 Pass
Test 6: 650 1300 ------ (x2) 1950 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption)
Test 7: 650 1300 ------ (x2) 1850 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption -- stable for a while)



Reviewers claimed overclocks.....


With volt @ 1050 mV: 809 1618 ------ (x2) 2120


Stock Volt: 678 ------ ------ (x2) 1850 (x4) 3700


Stock Volt (1 core): 687 ------ ------ (x2) 1957
Stock Volt (2 core): 657 ------ ------ (x2) 1857

Update 2......

GeForce GTX 580 772 1544 1002 37.06 49.41 192.4 GDDR5 384 11 4.1 1.0 2.0 1581.1 244 $499 £399
GeForce GTX 590 607 1215 855 58.75 77.7 327.7 GDDR5 2x384 11 4.1 1.0 2.0 2488.3 365 $699 £570[8]


All testing done with Heaven 2.5, DX11, shader:high, Tess:norm, Ani:4, Antiff, windowed, 1680x1050


Half Way: 689.5 1379.5 928.5 (x2) = 1857 Crashed
Test 2: 660 ------ ------ (x2) 1850 Crashed
Test 3: 612 1225 ------ (x2) 1850 Pass
Test 4: 612 1225 ------ (x2) 2004 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption)
Test 5: 612 1225 ------ (x2) 1950 Pass


Test 6: 650 1300 ------ (x2) 1950 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption)
Test 7: 650 1300 ------ (x2) 1850 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption -- stable for a while)
Test 8: 650 1300 ------ (x2) 1830 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption -- stable for a while+)


Test 9: 650 1300 ------ (x2) 1710 Pass --very stable (long test)
Test 10: 670 1340 ------ (x2) 1710 Pass
Test 11: 690 1340 ------ (x2) 1710 Fail /w recovery (black screen)
Test 12: 680 1340 ------ (x2) 1710 Fail /w recovery (black screen)


Test 13: 670 1340 ------ (x2) 1820 Fail /w recovery (mem curruption -- near end of bench)
Test 14: 670 1340 ------ (x2) 1800 Fail /w recovery (black screen)
Test 15: 660 1340 ------ (x2) 1800 STABLE




Reviewers claimed overclocks.....


With volt @ 1050 mV: 809 1618 ------ (x2) 2120


Stock Volt: 678 ------ ------ (x2) 1850 (x4) 3700


Stock Volt (1 core): 687 ------ ------ (x2) 1957
Stock Volt (2 core): 657 ------ ------ (x2) 1857






****This was my 100th post, woot woot!****

Take these at a glance, I wasn't trying for high scores (was super multi-tasking at the same time):


ALL @ Test 15: 660 1340 ------ (x2) 1800 STABLE

GPUZ: techPowerUp GPU-Z Validation vs7xp

Heaven 2.5:


3Dmark Vantage: P24392 Result


3Dmark11: P8237 Result

For my uses a 590 beats 2 580's because of cuda programming for my job (school work as well) and the motherboard I have does not support sli (without ugly software hacks).

FPS in L4D2 sits at a cool 120 fps with dips to 80 when being hoarded.... but my eyes can tell the difference and I get headaches with anything 60 and lower.... a trained eye one could say. Similar story to sound, but we wont get into that.

My current monitor fits my needs as I transport my machine and setup almost daily to various locations. I can carry my entire setup in two trips... built a custom suitcase to hold my keyboard/mouse/etc. But I also have a second display (Samsung 206BW) that I have rotatable for coding long scripts and classes.

I am sorry if I am sounding harsh, but I read your post as rude, which if you did not intend then I am sorry for saying so.

Good luck!

Hmm... I break 11k with my two GTX 570s with 3DMark 11 and 42k with 3DMark Vantage. I also run constant 299 FPS in Left 4 Dead 2, and I have a 27" monitor @ 2560x1440. It seems like you are getting bottle necked somewhere. Possibly with your CPU. Even your 3DMark results are saying your GPU score is lower than it should be, but CPU is fine. Can you get that CPU up to 4.0 GHz?

The GTX 590 is essentially two downclocked GTX 570s on a single PCB. Having two GTX 570s should yield better results in almost every benchmark/game due to the higher clocks. Having two GTX 580s is even better, and the GTX 580s have incredible overclocking potential.

Bottom line, if you are not using nVidia surround display or a higher res monitor, you are not really going to benefit from the GTX 590. A single GTX 580 would have been the better option. Since you say you use the additional Cuda Cores, I guess that is okay, but for gaming with low res, it seems a bit overkill.

Well in L4D2 I run all settings maxed, 16XQ CSAA antialiasing, 16X Anisotropic are the two big ones. I also force ambient occlusion to Quality in the nvidia control panel and have all texture settings to prefer high quality instead of just quality. Also I have 8x supersampling for antialiasing - transparency. I don't think many people use these features, but they make such a visual difference in games..... if you have the performance to sacrifice that is.

My Cpu being a Phenom II does bottleneck the card, its a fact.... I get low scores in 3dmark because 1. its optimized for intel and 2. my cpu cant power the card fast enough.

It is a design flaw with the cores of the Phenom/Athlon 64 line of chips. Bulldozer is the first redesign of the core in a long time, which I plan on upgrading to.

So yes an intel chip will beat me in tests and benchmarks, but I am hopefull and ready for a bulldozer in-place upgrade......

Allright, switching from GPU overclocking to ram overclocking.

I have G. Skill Ripjaw 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 ram. (F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL).
I own two of those kits, making it 4x2GB

So my 3.5 ghz overclock makes it simple to lower the multiplier and achieve 1600 evenly, but because the phenom II's don't like bandwidth as much as tighter timings..... here goes nothing.



G. Skill Ripjaw 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 ram. (F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL)


SPD Settings:


Trp Trrd Trcd Tras Twr Twtr Trtp Trc Tcl
STD @ 533 : 7 4 7 20 8 4 4 27 7
STD @ 610 : 8 4 8 22 10 5 5 31 8
STD @ 686 : 9 5 9 25 11 6 6 34 9


Test 1 ~669 : 7 4 7 20 8 4 4 27 7 PASSED
Test 2 ~669 : .....