Overclocked and undervolted, wtf

[s44]

Bought one of Gigabyte's GTX 460 models -- 1GB OC2 (760/1520/3600). Fan is excellent, silent idle and very quiet even under load. Try some gaming. Unstable, but the temperature never goes above 60C... Turn on the voltage control in Afterburner and it's at .962 default!

This is lower than stock/reference for even any 768mb version I've read about. A quick bump to .975 (still on the low side) and poof, no more game crashes. Whose brilliant idea was it to send out a card that's significantly overclocked *and* undervolted so that it won't even run properly out of the box?

 

[RavenSEAL]

Bought one of Gigabyte's GTX 460 models -- 1GB OC2 (760/1520/3600). Fan is excellent, silent idle and very quiet even under load. Try some gaming. Unstable, but the temperature never goes above 60C... Turn on the voltage control in Afterburner and it's at .962 default!

This is lower than stock/reference for even any 768mb version I've read about. A quick bump to .975 (still on the low side) and poof, no more game crashes. Whose brilliant idea was it to send out a card that's significantly overclocked *and* undervolted so that it won't even run properly out of the box?

Gigabytes'?

 

[happy medium]

ok,now put the slider on 1.087 and the fan speed at 50/60% and push the core slider up to 900+.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Yah, overclock it for more POWA!

Those cards are very overclockable without much trouble and heat.

 

[s44]

Now it's randomly lowering itself back to .962, causing crashes even in Aero. Time for RMA!

 

[Seero]

Bought one of Gigabyte's GTX 460 models -- 1GB OC2 (760/1520/3600). Fan is excellent, silent idle and very quiet even under load. Try some gaming. Unstable, but the temperature never goes above 60C... Turn on the voltage control in Afterburner and it's at .962 default!

This is lower than stock/reference for even any 768mb version I've read about. A quick bump to .975 (still on the low side) and poof, no more game crashes. Whose brilliant idea was it to send out a card that's significantly overclocked *and* undervolted so that it won't even run properly out of the box?

Idontcare had this problem and was resolved, search it.

 

[s44]

Idontcare had this problem and was resolved, search it.

He had a downclocking problem, but this is the max volt setting.

 

[s44]

The RMA replacement I got from the Egg is even *more* undervolted (.950 max), but seems totally stable anyway. Funny.