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To overclock today we tried various tools, and settled on MSI’s Afterburner, or Rivatuner as it is better known.
MSI Afterburner allows for three series of voltage changes with this card, and the image above left highlights all three maxed out. This is not recommended however as the card temperatures will increase significantly and we experienced a system shut down. We tuned the Core Voltage to a +100mV, with memory voltage set to +50mV and aux voltage to +10 mV.
Our final clocks were extremely impressive, reaching 951mhz on the core and 1116mhz via the memory. The memory did increase to over 1200mhz, but we noticed some minor artifacting, even at 1125mhz.
Thanks to the substantial manual overclock, the end results are boosted considerably, to almost 74 fps, a new record for a single GPU based card design. Only 15fps behind the GTX590!
I saw this at OCUK a while ago, over £400 for a video card. ouch.
Looks great, but I need a new job. my 460 will have to last a while longer
Their cards are great, they normally take a lot longer to get to retail, same with ASUS. its down to their engineering teams who make the mobos. always can do more than the main players we associate such as powercolor, evga etc.
Id rather have one of these than the hideous 590./ what a dogs dinner that card was.
I bet tho if MSI made a 590 they wuold get the power regulation wright.
Wicked card, love it
two of these in SLI for folding @ home = perfection.
WEll it certainly shows that Nvidia should have got MSI to built their GTX590 instead of skimping on the power delivery system.
Asus and MSI rock, I do think its best actually waiting for a few months for these guys to release the cards, rather than jump onboard earlier with a poorer version.
the power on these cards is so important. its becoming more noticeable now.
Can kitguru find out if they are making a GTX590 with enhanced power components? id love an 18 phase 590. ive held off buying one due to the recall and problems. Thank god I didnt have the money at the time or id be the not so proud owner of a turkey now.
Excellent, now you need to review their new one !
WOuldnt mind one of these myself, I can only dream !