OCC reviewer ccokeman examines a card from ASUS with voltage tweaking capabilities that promise up to 50% better performance, but can it deliver on that promise? To find out, check out our review of the ASUS GTX 580 - http://www.overclock..._gtx580_review/
GTX 580 Graphics Card from ASUS Tested
Started by Nemo, Nov 30 2010 03:43 AM
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 03:43 AM
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 09:13 AM
Nice review! So much for the 50% overclock performance with voltage tweak. 
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 09:28 AM
Nice review! So much for the 50% overclock performance with voltage tweak.
Lol, my asus said thats too. They're not lieing , you can get a 50% overclock . They forget to mention on ln2
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 10:01 AM
oh that 5970 
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 10:34 AM
Looks like 580 oced can take even the 5970.
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 03:16 PM
Uses less power, is cooler and performs better than the HD5970(Not all the time, but it does with its OC and that wasn't even watercooled yet). Where is IVI, I think its time you start recommending this card over the others ^_^
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 03:37 PM
More expensive, cant do it yetUses less power, is cooler and performs better than the HD5970(Not all the time, but it does with its OC and that wasn't even watercooled yet). Where is IVI, I think its time you start recommending this card over the others ^_^
Great card, but can't recommend something that doesn't have price/performance in check (which the 5970 could either until I started finding them for ~$400, and 480s even more at ~$300)
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 04:10 PM
More expensive, cant do it yet
Great card, but can't recommend something that doesn't have price/performance in check (which the 5970 could either until I started finding them for ~$400, and 480s even more at ~$300)
Lowest I found on the egg was $500, $440 with rebate....
But you must agree, Nvidia got it right with the GTX 580, they are going the right way anyways right?
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 05:01 PM
Yeah definitely its a step in the right direction, I just always have a hard time liking the highest price card despite it having many positive qualities.Lowest I found on the egg was $500, $440 with rebate....
But you must agree, Nvidia got it right with the GTX 580, they are going the right way anyways right?
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 05:30 PM
Nice review! So much for the 50% overclock performance with voltage tweak.
It says "Up to 50% so they have seen 50% on some cards with the feature. To get 50 % with this card you would need a 390MHz overclock and I was able to get 180 stable but could get about 20mhz more for some lightly loaded benchs.
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Man, every time I see a 580 I want one even more.
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Posted 30 November 2010 - 09:28 PM
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Great article,, but i have a question about the power regulator. The 580 gets a new hardware fix for futurmark and whatnot and many have made a deal about it. I thought AMD had done this long ago.
http://www.geeks3d.c...rmark-and-occt/
This is the same thing just different wording, is it not?
Please fill me in if i am wrong.
Great article,, but i have a question about the power regulator. The 580 gets a new hardware fix for futurmark and whatnot and many have made a deal about it. I thought AMD had done this long ago.
http://www.geeks3d.c...rmark-and-occt/
This is the same thing just different wording, is it not?
Please fill me in if i am wrong.
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