Overclocking the ASUS GTX 580 Voltage Tweak Edition Comment Thread

[YukonTrooper]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't all the GTX 580's be reference design right now? If so, you'd be able to tweak the voltage just as easy on non-ASUS cards. Maybe you'd have to track down a BIOS from another member here or elsewhere, but that's usually pretty easy.

[rjbarker]

OC'ing these 580's will be a breeze with Precision (new release specific to this Card) and Overvolting with the new latest release of ELeet....but really, sounds like hitting 900 mhz core with no Voltage could be a possibility ....

btw...my Vanilla Evga 480's are 700 mhz core (stock)...825 Mhz OC with no Over Volt, a slight Over volt and managed 835 Mhz......so figure the Evga 580Sc come stock at 797 Mhz....900 Mhz most certainly could be a possibility without Over Volting ;)

Evga Precision works pefectly fine for OC'ing the GPU's ...very simple and now the new release Evga ELeet can be used to Over Volt the GPU's........

Look for crazy OC'able 480's for sale @ BST (great price) with Backplates high Flow Brackets etc etc...(hint hint)

[ImmaPC]

Originally Posted by YukonTrooper

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't all the GTX 580's be reference design right now? If so, you'd be able to tweak the voltage just as easy on non-ASUS cards. Maybe you'd have to track down a BIOS from another member here or elsewhere, but that's usually pretty easy.

Wait like a BIOS that can edit voltages? So like an Asus BIOS to make it work with SmartDoctor or whatever their crap software is? I dunno, I trust EVGA more. And yeah all 580's are reference design, but I mean the 480's been out for 8 months now and there's not alot of design tweaks with it.

Damn, still torn...

EDIT: JUST REALIZED WE'RE NUTS OFF TOPIC. SORRY FOR THREADJACKING SKY! Oh, and forgot to thank you for the review too. I don't normally read many reviews but lately I've been going nuts with them. Thanks man

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by ImmaPC

I read this article and I was like:

I'm f**king getting one.

If the throttling doesn't affect OC's or F@H performance or game performance when card is OC'ed, it's damn worth the extra $$$ for this beast. Ironically I was juuust about to order an EVGA SC 580 when I read this article. THANKS SKY!

Just to be certain, it's THIS ONE, RIGHT?

Yes, that's the one.


Unfortunately, the ASUS Voltage Tweak software is locked to cards registering the ASUS BIOS handle.

[belgolas]

Man I want these but am gonna skip this generation unless some killer app comes out where I need more performance. These are such good cards!

Thanks for the review!

[Shozzking]

Would you be able to change the voltage on an evga one if you use afterburner?

[mikellini]

Afterburner allows voltage adjustment on pretty well all reference designed cards as well as on some non-reference MSI cards.

[sswilson]

Assuming that the latest version of Afterburner has support for the 580. If it doesn't, it's fairly safe to assume that it will soon.

[mikellini]

Originally Posted by sswilson

Assuming that the latest version of Afterburner has support for the 580. If it doesn't, it's fairly safe to assume that it will soon.

There's a beta that has support for it, 2.1.0 Beta 4, but unfortunately someone at MSI screwed it up a little so that the voltage adjustments can't be monitored and don't reset until you cold boot. I'm waiting for the final release which is coming after AMD releases their 6900 series.

[Dazmode]

Sky, would you expect even better overclock for this card if it is water-cooled?