GTX 480 newb

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Originally bought an EVGA GTX 480 for the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe PP and never finalized the AVCHD video editing rig so not it rests in my gamer rig, and thankfully. I'd like to get a little more out of it. I know these suck alot of juice, and I am not aware of the pitfalls these cards have... thinking of doing a little vid card overclocking on it.. good idea? bad idea? how do i do it?

thanks

 

[RussianSensation]

There is really not much to overclocking a GTX480.

1) Download MSI Afterburner

2) Create a manual fan profile (On my GTX470 I set idle fan speed to 32% for speeds 0-50*C and then extended at 45* angle from 50*C / 32% fan speed to 100*C / 90% fan speed. Alternatively you can play around various curves up to load to your liking). I did this so the card's fan speed ramps up much quicker at load than what is dictated by the BIOS.

3) Move the VCore slider to max (I believe that's 1087 mV on the GTX480). It may be a little bit higher, but start from this point.

Alternative to MSI Afterburner is EVGA Precision. PM Grooveriding for his GPU and memory settings. You'll get a much better idea of avg. GPU and memory overclocks expected on a reference EVGA card. I imagine 750-780 mhz GPU clocks are attainable at 1.087V.