What's the story with my 2gb gtx560 sc?

[skipsneeky2]

I just purchased today a very weird Evga 2gb gtx560 sc today.

I picked it up for $260 before tax from Best buy and they had some gtx550tis as well in a white box flavor.

I didn't think much of till i pulled up msi afterburner and eyeballed the stock speed of 865 mhzs.
Pulling up newegg and evga they only got two oced cards a ftw model and a superclocked with the ftw being 931mhz and the superclocked at 850mhz.

Front of the white box is a exclaim"Exclusive superclocked +55 on the gpu clock"

While i won't complain about the extra bump i was wondering what the story was as my first thought it was a best buy exclusive but checking the entire box theres no mention of such thing....

 

[VirtualLarry]

BestBuy sells "white box" products?

 

[skipsneeky2]

BestBuy sells "white box" products?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/EVGA+-+...=1218421870828&skuId=3628108&st=gtx&cp=1&lp=5

Thing is evga nor newegg carry this model on their site....i never saw this model till today and it threw me off.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Unless you actually need 2gb for something other than gaming you should take it back and just get the 448 core 560 ti for $250.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Unless you actually need 2gb for something other than gaming you should take it back and just get the 448 core 560 ti for $250.

Story goes BF3 which will be my primary game i will be playing likes having a much larger memory buffer size to use and i wasn't excited about a 1gb card.

Been using nothing but 1gb cards and with some settings msi afterburner showed full memory usage then i got vram errors so its vram limited for sure...

 

[BallaTheFeared]

BF3 has a memory leak, you should have gotten a 6950 2gb for that much it would have been faster.

However neither card is going to push enough detail settings read: AA to require that kind of frame buffer. You'd need two at least for any other typical game, as I said though BF3 has a memory leak, I wouldn't purchase a slower card with a large vram buffer just for one buggy game personally.

 

[skipsneeky2]

BF3 has a memory leak, you should have gotten a 6950 2gb for that much it would have been faster.

However neither card is going to push enough detail settings read: AA to require that kind of frame buffer. You'd need two at least for any other typical game, as I said though BF3 has a memory leak, I wouldn't purchase a slower card with a large vram buffer just for one buggy game personally.

Perhaps it has a memory leak but it isn't stopping no one from purchasing 2gb 6950 and 6970 video cards still.

You are right about the 6950 2gb being a better choice but idk Best buy is about 10 mins away from me its a grab and go product any issues same day exchange or refund as if i purchased a 6950 online and had to do a rma i would have plenty of downtime for me more hassle for a bit more performance.

As long as motion blur is off and deferred aa is off full on ultra isn't a problem so far it seems for me at 1080p even with hbao enabled with this card and its pretty smooth.

 

[EVGA_MatthewH]

We have some bestbuy specific skus you can only purchase through them, and they do come in a nice white box :biggrin:

 

[chimaxi83]

My 6950 regularly pushes between 1.4-1.8 GB VRAM usage in BF3 64 player air maps. 1080p, all ultra except AA where I just use post AA on high. Average about 50 fps. That 560 will probably be pretty close in performance, especially with an overclock.

 

[Attic]

We have some bestbuy specific skus you can only purchase through them, and they do come in a nice white box :biggrin:

Good to see an EVGA presence on the boards. Much respect to your company.

To OP, i'd enjoy the extra bump and the 2GB's of VRAM for the future.

 

[EVGA_MatthewH]

Good to see an EVGA presence on the boards. Much respect to your company.

To OP, i'd enjoy the extra bump and the 2GB's of VRAM for the future.

Thanks for the positive feedback! If you see anyone having an issue on the boards with an EVGA product shoot me a PM or email, Matth@evga.com, with a link to the thread and Ill see what I can do to make sure they get the support they need.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Thanks Matt for clearing that up and as far as this card goes its been very great.

Hell i never had a evga card let me down yet but i am curious to know if your team can verify if this model can hit 900mhz core 4,200 memory on stock voltage?

 

[EVGA_MatthewH]

Only way to know is to test, and you may need to bump the voltage. Give it a shot, run OC Scanner and see what you get.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Only way to know is to test, and you may need to bump the voltage. Give it a shot, run OC Scanner and see what you get.

Just played BF3 for 3 hours straight on a 920 core,2150 memory clock using msi afterburner without even touching the voltage settings.

Played be me BC2 as well along with Crysis and no problems.

 

[EVGA_MatthewH]

Sweet! I recommend keeping the temps under 90c and seeing if you can go higher.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Sweet! I recommend keeping the temps under 90c and seeing if you can go higher.

Seems my card has a locked voltage as msi afterburner refuses to unlock voltage control even the cfg file trick did not work but this card is a gem even still for stock voltage ocing...

950 core,2350 memory game stable as well as 1 hour and counting of furmark extreme burn in testing 70% fanspeed temps under 70cel on load.

Will update tomorrow morning if these clocks hold if so i freaking love this card as it will officially have slightly better then gtx560 ti performance but with 2gb of vram.:biggrin:

 

[EVGA_MatthewH]

Hrm, try uninstalling afterburner and trying precision (evga.com/precision). We recently added voltage control. Ill double check tomorrow but I am almost positive you should be able to turn up the voltage on that part number.

I would also advise against using furmark as it can damage your card. Try our OC Scanner program, OCCT, or something similar in place of it. Then use something like heaven to test the memory.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Hrm, try uninstalling afterburner and trying precision (evga.com/precision). We recently added voltage control. Ill double check tomorrow but I am almost positive you should be able to turn up the voltage on that part number.

I would also advise against using furmark as it can damage your card. Try our OC Scanner program, OCCT, or something similar in place of it. Then use something like heaven to test the memory.

Think nearly 3 hours of furmark and stable gaming will prob ensure i got a stable oc and when i played BF3 to test out the card it was using nearly 1200mb when i benched it and put some strain on it and it handled like a champ.

Yeah i wouldn't use furmark if i went over stock voltage and i think i am satisfied with the oc my i3 2100 is borderline starting to bottleneck the card in both BC2 and BF3 and personally i care more about stability with a stock voltage oc rather then a higher ocer with a possible shorter lifespan do to extra voltage and heat

 

[FlutterPwn]

Just played BF3 for 3 hours straight on a 920 core,2150 memory clock using msi afterburner without even touching the voltage settings.

Played be me BC2 as well along with Crysis and no problems.

I wish I could get my card to go that high. Any higher than 920 and 2020 and I get artifacts and BF3 will crash after an hour or two of playing it.

My GPU:
EVGA 02G-P3-1469-KR GeForce GTX 560 Superclocked Video Card 2GB

My Build:
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=53595

Also i have submitted my rebate for $30 twice and once was directly to a EVGA Rep and I still never got my Rebate. I've had the card for over a year and a half.

 

[OCGuy]

I wish I could get my card to go that high. Any higher than 920 and 2020 and I get artifacts and BF3 will crash after an hour or two of playing it.

My GPU:
EVGA 02G-P3-1469-KR GeForce GTX 560 Superclocked Video Card 2GB

My Build:
http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=53595

Also i have submitted my rebate for $30 twice and once was directly to a EVGA Rep and I still never got my Rebate. I've had the card for over a year and a half.

Dude no offense but before you should ask for advice on a forum like this one before you ever build another machine. :/