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Is my GTX 560 performing as well as it should?

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December 7, 2011 5:30:40 PM

Good Afternoon,

I recently upgraded my PC with a MSI GTX 560.

I'm a little underwhelmed with the overclocking potential. Stock core is 810MHz. With Afterburner I am having crashes even on 890. After first getting the card I had clocks of ~930, and I have been lowering the clocks ever since. I see some forum users posting clocks of easily 950 and up to 1GHz with this card.

Now it might just be that my power supply is along the lines of the minimum required for the card (450W Max, 500W Peak but high quality) and I'm also using the newest beta nVidia drivers (290.36) but when playing demanding games I have been experiencing crashes. Not just that the game crashes, but the video card seems to stop responding and a reboot is required. Temperatures during these crashes are not an issue, even when the card is stressed the highest I have ever seen it is high 70s with fan at 80%.

All other possible problems aside, the one question that I need to address in the short term is if it is possible I have a bad card. There is a small window during which I could return this card to replace with another. If these clocks are just the reality of my power supply or drivers or stock cooling etc. etc. etc. than returning this one for another is obviously pointless and I'll have all the time in the world to address the other issues. If there is any chance this is a sub-par card I could return it for another.

I've heard of cards totally burning out and that is obviously not the case here. Is it possible that a card is simply damaged a little and not performing up to standard? Is there a utility which can test the performance of a card and what it should be? Thanks for your time.

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December 7, 2011 6:02:39 PM

Sure, you could run 3d mark and check orb to see where you sit with other GTX 560 users. Crashes could be attributed to any number of things, I w9ould start with drivers.
First remove any overclocks to eliminate that issue.
Ensure you are running the latest drivers and your PC has the latest OS updates.
Then run some benchmarks to test the system. Stress testing may reproduce some of the issues you've been seeing.

Yes, its quite possible that you could have a card that is less than perfect and causing some of these issues. It happens all the time. I do think you should act quickly so you can RMA it ASAP.
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December 7, 2011 6:04:42 PM

Also I think that PSU is borderline for what you need, but I'd have to know more about the rest of the system. Its reasonable that the PSU is not quite up to snuff when overclocking.
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December 7, 2011 6:28:48 PM

buzznut said:
Sure, you could run 3d mark and check orb to see where you sit with other GTX 560 users. Crashes could be attributed to any number of things, I w9ould start with drivers.
First remove any overclocks to eliminate that issue.
Ensure you are running the latest drivers and your PC has the latest OS updates.
Then run some benchmarks to test the system. Stress testing may reproduce some of the issues you've been seeing.

Yes, its quite possible that you could have a card that is less than perfect and causing some of these issues. It happens all the time. I do think you should act quickly so you can RMA it ASAP.


I used 3DMark06 and I was pretty much in the range of other users on stock speeds. Something interesting however, speaking of that, is when I did overclock I got virtually the exact same 3DMark06 scores, even when I pushed core clock from 810->900. How is this?
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