Zotac GTX 460 1GB - Overclocking

[ArchAngel777]

So I decided to pickup a Zotac GTX 460 1GB (should arrive today) and am curious if anyone can point me to the latest and greatest software to modify the voltage and clock speed.

Also, I am the knida of guy who likes to flash the BIOS with the new stable clocks. I am thinking, that because nearly every one of these can hit 800Mhz, that I will test it for a few days with slightly higher clock and then BIOS flash it to the new speed. Call me old school, but I am not a fan of software overclocking, despite the fact that I am probably being silly about it.

So.... Since I am so far out of the loop (been 2 years since I have overclocked a video card) I am curious if someone can share some tips or websites to assist me with this!!! 😀

Oh yeah, everyone who ever called me an ATI Fanboy, here is yet another nVidia card in my arsenal.

 

[Skurge]

MSI afterburner is pretty good.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I agree. Msi afterburner. Is that the external exhaust version? I have a gtx 460 external exhaust Evga superclock. They have higher temps than the reference version so that will probably affect your oc'ing potential.

 

[superccs]

MSI afterburner is pretty good.

This.

 

[drizek]

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[toyota]

you picked up a gtx460 to replace your gtx280? that was barely an upgrade at all.

 

[ArchAngel777]

you picked up a gtx460 to replace your gtx280? that was barely an upgrade at all.

Oh, I would have normally agreed with you. But since I found this for $143 AR, shipped, sold my dad's GTX 260 for $70, that allowed me to upgrade both my machine and my fathers (he received my 280) for about $75. Two machines upgraded with an average increase of 30% performance each (260 to 280 - ~30%, and my 280 to 460 @ 800Mhz ~30%)

99% (just throwing that number out there, because I have never seen a 460 clock lower than this in any review) hit 800Mhz+ that is sizable increase over my GTX 280.

The GTX 280 stock was generally about 10% behind the 285. So, if I use the numbers from AT's review on the 460 FTW (850Mhz core) and and the 285, I come up with a decent increase in performance.

Take Crysis, for example, the 285 which scores 36.3 average FPS versus the 460 FTW which scores average 50.0 FPS which is a 38% performance increase at the resolution I play at.

If we take the Crysis Minimums it is 22.2 versus 33.6 which is a 52% increase!

Battleforge is ~30% faster. It looks like on some of the opengl based games the performance is only slightly better (15-20%).

For $75 bucks, I am pretty happy. 😀

 

[ArchAngel777]

BTW, thanks for the MSI Afterburner recomendation. I am currently clocked at 850Mhz, 1700Mhz and 2000Mhz respectively.

 

[ArchAngel777]

It was stable all the way to 900Mhz until it hits around 75c. Since I don't particularly care for the fan noise, I opted to drop voltage down to 1.0 and run the unit at 822/1644/2000, which is where I have it set to auto load. So far it runs just great. Very pleased with this card. It is within 10% of a stock 560 and was only 143 AR shipped.