Overclock gtx 470: Overclocking my GTX 470 | Overclock.net

Overclocking my GTX 470 | Overclock.net

Hello. I would like to know the best ocing potential for my card. here is my graphics card specs and my computer specs.

Computer:

* Asus M4A785-M Motherboard
* AMD Athlon II X4 620 Quad Core Processor (Including CPU Fan)
* 4GB OCZ Titanium XMP PC9200 DDR2 1150MHz Dual Channel Memory
* 750GB Seagate SATA Hard Drive
* LG Gh32NS50 22X DVDRW SATA Drive
* Ultra X-Blaster Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with Front USB, FireWire and Audio Ports
* Ultra LS600 Lifetime Series 600W Power Supply
* Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit Operating System (OEM)

Graphics Card:

Model
Brand GIGABYTE
Model GV-N470D5-13I-B
Interface
Interface PCI Express 2.0 x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA
GPU GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi)
Core Clock 607MHz
Shader Clock 1215MHz
Stream Processors 448 Processor Cores
Memory
Effective Memory Clock 3348MHz
Memory Size 1280MB
Memory Interface 320-bit
Memory Type GDDR5
3D API
DirectX DirectX 11
OpenGL OpenGL 3. 2
Ports
HDMI 1 x mini HDMI
DVI 2 x DVI
General
SLI Support 3-Way SLI
Cooler With Fan
Dual-Link DVI Supported Yes
HDCP Ready Yes
Features
Features NVIDIA CUDA technology with CUDA C/C++, DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL support
NVIDIA PhysX technology
NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Ready
NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts 3 years limited
Labor 3 years limited

PLZ HELP!!!!!! BEcause i want the best out of my card!!

This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread.

Please consider creating a new thread.

GIGABYTE Extends Super Overclock Series with GTX 470 SOC Graphics Card | Noticias

2010/08/06

Taipei, Taiwan, August 6^th, 2010 – GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics
cards, introduces a powerful new addition to its Super Overclock Series: GTX 470
SOC (GV-N470SO-13I). To qualify for Super Overclock Series, a GPU must go
through GIGABYTE’s innovative GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting process and it must be
equipped with Ultra Durable VGA or VGA⁺ boards. Designed specifically for
overclocking competition and gaming battle, GIGABYTE’s secret weapon GTX 470
Super Overclock Edition is built with NVDIA GeForce GTX 470 GPU. Based on 40nm
processor and advanced GDDR5 memory technology, the powerful new GPU consists of
ground-breaking features including Microsoft DirectX® 11 and NVIDIA PhysX™ which
leads to incredibly immersive HD gaming experience and unrivaled performance.
GV-N470SO-13I also features WINDFORCE™ 3X, 14 phase PWM design, OC Guru graphic
card smart tuner and voltage read point.

WINDFORCE^{TM –}GIGABYTE’s Latest Cooling
Solution

GIGABYTE introduces WINDFORCE™, the latest cooling technology that
differentiates the brand’s graphics cards from the rest. GIGABYTE understands
that a fan is crucial to the graphics card, so only the fan with the most
efficiency is selected for WINDFORCE™. To qualify for WINDFORCE™, the cooling
solution must be equipped with anti-turbulence inclined-fin, ultra quiet PWM fan
and pure copper heat pipe. Inclined-fins redirect airflow and help to reduce
excessive heat and turbulence. Depending on its orientation, there are 3 types
of inclined-fin designs: parallel-inclined, mirroring-inclined and 3D-inclined.
Each type contributes to generating excellent exterior airflow for efficient
heat dissipation from the interior GPU core.

WINDFORCE^TM 3X: Anti-turbulence
Cooling

GV-N470SO-13I is equipped
with WINDFORCE™ 3X cooling solution. WINDFORCE™
3X features 3 ultra quiet PWM fans. The special inclined triple-fan design
effectively minimizes the flow of turbulence between three fans. With a unique
vapor chamber, WINDFORCE™ 3X is
able to transfer heat from the hot spot to the cool spot as thermal energy
becomes evaporated to the surrounding air. By capillary action, the condensed
liquid droplets circulate back to the base of chamber. The cycles of evaporation
and condensation enhance heat dissipation for greater cooling efficiency.
Moreover, WINDFORCE™ 3X is
equipped with three copper heat pipes to strengthen the speed of heat
dissipation.

Pure Power Architecture

GV-N470SO-13I has incredibly pure power. It is compatible with ATX
standard length PCB. 14 phase PWM design includes 12 for GPU, 2 for memory.
Standard GTX 470 graphics card has five power phases whereas GIGABYTE’s GTX 470
SOC has 12, two times the reference card. Not only does GV-N470SO-13I have three
times power phases than reference card, the 12 power phase status LED indicators
indicate graphics card’s current power phase, helping users monitor power
consumption. This feature ensures a more stable system and better overclocking
capability.

GPU
Gauntlet™ Sorting

GIGABYTE’s very own GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting process is the key to the
best GPUs for Super Overclock Series. A GPU must pass a sequence of tests to be
selected. This unique process offers three major advantages. First,
full-throttle performance tuning improves overclocking ability by at least 10%
to 30%. Second, optimized thermal efficiency lowers extra temperatures by 5% to
10%. Fan speed is guaranteed at standard rpm in high-rated 3D and
physics-accelerated games to reduce noise for an absolutely quiet environment.
Lastly, expert power switching lowers power switching loss by 10% to 30%. With
GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting, GIGABYTE SOC graphics card guarantees higher overclocking
ability.

Ultra Durable VGA⁺

Thanks
to Ultra Durable VGA⁺ that features 5+1 quality components,
the Super Overclock Series supports top performance in graphics benchmarking.
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable
VGA⁺’s 5 proadlizers on graphics cards are able to provide
1.6 times purer power supply compared to traditional power design (zero
proadlizers).

Proadlizer® Quintuple

One of the quality components of Ultra Durable VGA⁺ is
GIGABYTE’s exclusive use of proadlizers. Unlike other leading brands that only
use one proadlizer on their graphic cards, GIGABYTE generously uses five units
of NEC Proadlizer®, also known as film capacitor, to provide amazing current
capacity up to 5000uF and extremely low ESL/ESR for super overclocking ability.
Five times the regular capacitance indicates the amount of electric energy
stored is fivefold. By placing five proadlizers around GPU, electric currents
are able to be charged and discharged rapidly to support super overclocking
activity. The quintupled proadlizers transmit more stable power even during
heavy loading.

OC Guru –
Graphic Card Smart Tuner

GIGABYTE proudly improves its graphics card smart tuner OC Guru. This
graphics card tweaking utility puts together the best combination of
software/hardware overclocking. It now features 3 profiles: OC (for overclocking
mode), Gaming (for gaming mode), and Green (for power saving mode). The
different modes cater to users’ different needs. GIGABYTE’s distinctive
adjustable software offers gamers to adjust tuners for memory, voltage, and fan
speed. OC Guru, the user-friendly software, gives hardcore gamers liberty when
overcloking.

Voltage
Read Point

GIGABYTE’s specific voltage read point supplies hardcore gamers an
ultimate benching experience at overclocking competition. Heavy users can change
the voltage simply through software instead of manually adjusting any components
on PCB. It is easy for overclockers to master the platform and monitor GPU
workload at any time just through voltage read point.

The GIGABYTE Super
Overclock Series includes HD 5870, HD 5770, GTX470, and upcoming GTX460. For
more details about the Super Overclock Series, please visit the GIGABYTE VGA
website at: http://www.gigabyte.com.mx/products/main.aspx?s=43

GIGABYTE SOC:
http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/72/index.html

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/GIGABYTE-VGA/138376338834?ref=nf

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/GIGABYTE_VGA

GeForce GTX 470 detailed look | Page 7

The Swiftech MCW60 universal water block, which has become a classic, has helped me with cooling more than one video card, and it has not failed even now. Those who bought such water blocks more than a year ago will be able to find a mount for NVIDIA 8800 video cards in the package. From June 25, 2009, instead of the G80 adapter we need now, the GT200 adapter is included in the package. My version was purchased a long time ago, so the G80 KIT adapter was in place. After checking the availability of the necessary, first of all we return the plate from the factory CO back to the card — this method of cooling the memory chips and power transistors seemed to me the most rational:

Trying on the water block on the map:

It is worth paying attention to the fact that the base of the water block almost lies on the convex parts of the holes for mounting the factory cooler, so universal water blocks with a flat base may not be compatible with the factory plate:

We fix the water block and install the card into the system:

A small test that warms up the card to the maximum with a stability check:

Excellent temperatures, ready to overclock again.

With the maximum possible voltage without modifications of 1.087 V (1.145 on a multimeter), the video card was overclocked to 800 MHz for the core and up to 950 MHz for the memory:

video card remained normal, despite significant overclocking. However, the overclocking result seemed clearly insufficient to me. After a detailed study of the issues related to the possibility of programmatically changing voltages, it was found that it is possible to expand the possible voltages on the GPU by modifying the BIOS. At the moment, BIOS editors that support work with video cards of the Fermi family are in closed testing, so I can’t share a link to the editor, but I’ll share the firmware method. nine0003

For those who, for one reason or another, want to flash the card with a new BIOS, you need to download the latest version of the NVFlash utility. The flash driver works from under DOS, so the utility must be placed on a bootable USB flash drive.

Be sure to save the original BIOS before flashing with the following command:

nvflash --save original. bin bios. nine0003
Using this method, I was able to flash the card with a modified BIOS, after which voltages up to 1.212 V became available in NVIDIA Inspector: MSI Afterburner beta 5 still limits the possibilities to a maximum voltage of 1.087 V, further overclocking was carried out using NVIDIA Inspector. We managed to overclock the video card to 885 MHz for the GPU core and 980 MHz for the memory, for this it was necessary to increase the voltage to 1.162 V (1.229 V according to the multimeter): Further overclocking required an increase in voltage, but for the power subsystem 1.162 V turned out to be the limit when cooled using the factory plate, despite the additional airflow to the VRM area. Softer settings were chosen for constant use, at which the card showed absolute stability in games: Segment up to $400. Review of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 470 or when factory overclocking is a ''gift''. Introduction. In today's review, you will be presented with a video card from the company Galaxy , - GeForce GTX 470. The video card has a design already familiar to our regular visitors - it differs little from the previously tested Galaxy GF GTX 465 product. However, it should be noted that the tested video card has a modified board, which has become shorter by an inch. Modification of the cooling system allowed the manufacturer to perform a small factory overclock to 625 for the core and up to 1250 for the shader unit. Overclocking video memory manufacturer is not a manufacturer. nine0003 A notable innovation is the installation of a faster type of memory from Samsung, with a response time of about 0.4 ns. This circumstance should allow us to achieve a much higher overclocking potential of the video card. Complete set. The video card comes in a box of a familiar design, on which we are informed about the product package and its features. In particular, the presence of 1240 MB of video memory on board and a modified cooling system with a folding fan, which, apparently, serves to facilitate its cleaning from dust. Although this problem for modern housings with filters is no longer relevant. nine0003 In the box were found: 1. Video card. 2. Instruction. 3. Disc with drivers. 4. DVI-to-VGA adapter. 5. HDMI cable. As a rule, an HDMI cable is found only with Galaxy video cards. Visual inspection of the video card. Externally, the GF GTX 470 video card from Galaxy is no different from the GF GTX 465 video card from it. The cooling system has been modified. The fan is shifted to the middle of the board, directly opposite the core. This circumstance improves the cooling of the video core, but worsens the cooling of the power supply system of the video card. nine0003 The video card is soldered on a blue board. We did not find any unsoldered elements. When voltmode a video card, keep in mind that the power supply scheme of the video card may differ from the power supply system of the reference design video card. At the present stage, we try to limit ourselves to voltmod through the BIOS of the video card. The video card has a dual-slot cooling system. On the rear wall there are two connectors for additional power supply of the video card, which can reduce the load on the power system of the PCI-Exp 2.0 16x port of the motherboard and extend its service life. nine0003 The video card has three ports for image output: 2xDVI, HDMI. As already mentioned, the fan of the video card cooling system leans back with a slight movement of the hand. Despite the fact that this is convenient when cleaning the cooling system from dust, we consider this function to be unreasonable. Firstly, it worsens the cooling of the radiator. Secondly, not tight fixation leads to increased noise from the operation of the cooling system. Although, it is necessary to pay tribute to Galaxy, in general, the video card is noisy - it's hard to call it. nine0003 When turned on, the cooling fan is illuminated in blue, which should be positively received by modders. Video card specifications. 1. Number of CUDA cores: 448 2. Core frequency: 607MHz 3. Shader frequency: 1215 4. Memory frequency: 1674 MHz 5. Memory: 1280MB GDDR5 nine0069 6. Memory bus: 320-bit 7. Technologies: - NVIDIA SLI® - NVIDIA PureVideo® - NVIDIA PhysX™ - NVIDIA CUDA™ - Microsoft DirectX 11 - OpenGL 3.2 8. Slot: PCIe 2.0 x16 9. Maximum core temperature: 105 degrees Celsius. 10. Minimum power supply: 550 watts Video card testing. The video card from Galaxy was tested on the basis of our previous standard configuration, only a TV tuner was additionally installed, which should not affect the results of our tests: 1. Intel Core i7 920 processor. 2. Motherboard ASUS P6T. 3. 2x3 Gb Samsung Original DDR3-1600 4.WD 1TB WD1001FALS Caviar Black SATAII 5. Hiper M1000 power supply. nine0069 6. Thermaltake Mambo case. 7. The room is 27 degrees. 8. The system is assembled in a closed case. The system is running Windows 7 64 bit operating system. 1. The temperature regime of the video card. According to the presented graph, we got rather strange results. In fact, there is nothing strange about them. It's just that the GF GTX 470 video card has a cooling fan running at a much higher rotational speed than the tested GF GTX 465 product from Galaxy. nine0003 2. Video card overclocking. The origin of the GF GTX 470 and GF GTX 465 video cards can also be traced in their overclocking potential. In particular, in terms of the core, we could not cross the line of 800 MHz, and in terms of memory, the frequency equal to 985 MHz turned out to be the limit. Approximately similar results in core overclocking were obtained when overclocking the GF GTX 465 video card from Galaxy. 3. Performance level in Crysis Warhead. nine0069 The image was displayed on the LCD panel, so only FullHD resolution was used. From the test results, we clearly see that factory overclocking does not allow the video card to achieve any advantage over the reference solutions. Only "home overclocking" of the video card by our forces allowed it to accelerate by 25%. 4. Performance level in BattleForge DX 11. In the second gaming test, we got results that tell us that the difference in the performance level of the reference design graphics card and the factory overclocked Galaxy is within the statistical error. Our "home overclocking" of the video card allowed it to accelerate by 24%. nine0003 5. Far Cry 2 performance level. This game makes much less modest demands on the user's components. Factory overclocking allows the Galaxy graphics card to show some advantage, while our overclocking allowed us to achieve a performance level increase of 14%. 6. Performance level in 3Dmark Vantage. The synthetic test from Futuremark, as always, tries to assess the performance levels of solutions less biased and clings to every megahertz of the video card frequency.