GTX 460, worth pushing it?

[calinkula]

I recently picked up an Asus DirectCU GTX 460 (675 clock) to replace my aging 8800gt. I've bumped it up to 826/925/1652 for the GPU/Mem/Shader.

So far with FurMark it plateaus off at 72C with the auto fan profile running the fan up to 60%. The card has been rock solid and I haven't had any corruption or crashes. I'm considering trying to push the GPU up into the 900 range since I think it'll get there. But I'm a tad sensitive to loud fans and at 60% it's starting to make a slight hum.

Anyone out there get that high of clocks on their 460? Get more than a frame or two in games?

Relevant pieces of the Rig:
E8200 @ 3.6 on a P35 mobo
4GB RAM @ 1081
Monitor running 2048x1152
Antec EarthWatts 650

I don't seem to be bottle necked by the CPU as I've seen good fps gains from the GPU overclock.

 

[calinkula]

I don't think I even need to go that high with the volts to hit 900. I'm still at the stock 1.012v @ 826 and I guess I should mention that I got the 1GB version.

 

[calinkula]

So I've done a couple of 3dMark benches to see where I stand with the upgrade.

3dMark 2006 pulls a paltry 16970, which seems a little low to me. Considering my 06 score with the 8800gt was ~13500.

3dMark 2011 pulls a P score of 3404. Comparing that to some numbers from the GTX 560 review on Tom's, it shows my rig beating an OC'd 2600K sandy CPU + stock GTX 460 by almost 200 points.

Not too bad for a 3 year old rig!

 

[phenom-opteron]

there is not that much of a difference that i have noticed from 826 to 900 but there is a pretty good difference from the nvidia stock speed to 900 or even 826 so i think if you can get there great but if not 826 is awesome






PS.. psyco that is one impressive number that sandy bridge must be screeeeeeeming along