GeForce GTX 560 Ti disappointment

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Hi guys,
I purchased and swapped out my GeForce GTX 460 v2 for a GTX 560 Ti yesterday, and I'm not really impressed with the results. I do not see much improvement while running 3Dbenchmark11, and it seems I could not overclock the GPU as much as people have bragged about online. Maybe I'm missing something? The drivers are fully updated.
The highest I was able to OC the graphics card was around 940mhz/1850mhz for the core clock and shader clock, and 2250mhz on the memory clock. At one point I had the core clock set to 950mhz, and it crashed quickly. So I dropped it down 1 mhz at a time, and it seemed to just crash slower. I was able to pay BF3 for about 5 minutes at 947mhz before it crashed on me. ( I ran through benchmark fine but it wasn't for that long.)

Any tips would be great.
-Thanks :)
 
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How do I tell which card it is? I was just reading it off the box lol.
I was using stock voltage, and started to adjust it slowly. I'm gonna give it another try now, hopefully find steady settings for 950mhz.
What about the memory clock, what exactly is too high for that setting?
 
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I've got stable overclock settings on my GTX 560 Ti:

Voltage: 1112 mV
Core clock: 975 MHz
Memory clock: 2150 MHz.

My card seems to crash if I get memory too high..

Anyway, the exact model should be written on the box, it will also say the brand which made the card (gigabyte, MSI, EVGA, etc). For example mine is Gigabyte GV-N560OC-1GI
 
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I have GTX 460's and they came stock at 763/1526/1900. I can overclock them to 820/1640/1900 without boosting the voltage from 0.962 V. Beyond that they become unreliable. I have o/c'ed them to 900/1800/2000 only by bumping the voltage to the max. allowed in MSI afterburner which is 1.08V. I don't run them that high though.
O/C'ing the video card only gives a 10%-15% boost in FPS. The real magic comes when you SLI them.
 
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Thanks, I tried that setting and I haven't crashed yet while running benchmark a couple times. I still can't find the brand lol I believe it's EVGA though.


You're probably right, but I sold my 460 to my friend on the spot and needed something lol



I could fit 2 more 560's on there, so I'll have to look into SLI'ing a little more, I thought a lot of games didn't support the SLI feature? Or at least the older games didn't.
 
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I have an old Alienware case that was given to me. Horrible ventilation in my opinion, but there's a rear 120mm fan (I think) that's right behind the GPU. I have it unplugged because it's so loud and my mobo doesn't control it for some reason, but a program in W7 can control it... Anyways, I'll plug it in a give it a shot. Thanks.
 
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Yeah it is, I connected the rear case fan and the temp lowered to a consistent 80C, but it still said the max was 90C. I'm gonna reset it and see what happens.
 
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Yes! It should be available within your overclocking program. On MSI afterburner, which I use, I set it to get to 100% when I'm at 73C:
afterburner.png
 
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Sweet, I just enabled the fan curve feature, I'm going to set the curve similar to yours. Once I hit 70C I'll go to 100%. I set it manually to 70% and the temp dropped 10C so that's good news.
 
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I'm a bit confused..... when ya bought the card, what card did you buy ? Check the Order Form...check the packing slip, what name is on the box ? what name is on the card ?

I could fit 2 more 560's on there, so I'll have to look into SLI'ing a little more, I thought a lot of games didn't support the SLI feature? Or at least the older games didn't.
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You can't SLI three 560 Ti's .... 2 is max. Two 560 Ti's @ 900 Mhz (862 fps in Guru3D game test suite) will outperform the 580 (616 fps) by 40%

My son's 560 Ti' are at 980 MHz for the summer (was at 1020 in winter) and, going by memory, the voltage is 1.0875 ..... temps w/ 2 cards in SLI are < 80C on the top card.

FALSEHOODS:

1. All 560 Ti's are created equal.
2. It makes no sense to get a factory overclocked card, you can overclock it to the same level yourself with Afterburner.

If it is an EVGA card I wouldn't expect much as to my knowledge all but the Classified version use the reference card's 4 phase VRM. The big overclocks that you see are generally on models such as the Asus 560 Ti DCII TOP which has an oversized and more efficient cooler design and 7 phase VRM.

http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1201&page=17

Here's the latest version of AfterBurner (2.2.0 Beta 15) for overclocking and setting fan profiles a well as OCCT which ya can use for your load testing.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/MSI-Afterburner-2.2.0-Beta-15-download-2884.html

http://www.ocbase.com/index.php/download
 
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Thank you for clarifying that, I was assuming you could SLI three because the 460 I used to have supported 3 SLI.

I bought it at bestbuy, kinda regret that but I didn't have a card and needed something. The box just says "GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti" with Nvidia written all over it. I think a giant EVGA logo is covering the box, I'm not 100% sure though.
How exactly are there the same cards from different people? They just take the internals and basically mod them and come out with there own version?
And thanks for afterburner, I was using 2.1, didn't know there was a beta.
 
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I ran OCCT for over ten minutes and the highest temp I got was 85C. One thing I noticed was in afterburner the fan speed wouldn't go over 75%. The program said it was at the highest, and wouldn't allow me to enter 100%.
 
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Ah I see, thanks.
Idk what to do about the fan, I'll try restarting.

Nope still stuck at 75%.
 
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