GTX 580

[barthalamoo]

I have a couple EVGA GTX 580's I am planning to overclock as soon as I get my watercooling loop installed but from what I have been reading they are very limited in their OC'ing abilities. I was hoping for around 1000 gpuMHz clock with ram and shader clock comparable. The former I know will be easy to do, but in 6 or so months when they start being outdated I fear they won't be able to go to much higher. Would I be better off selling these and getting some 670FTW/680's?
*They are the 1.5GB version.

 

[bigcyco1]

They should be good for another year after that i would consider selling them if you really think about it 580 is still quite a beast there is only a few cards that can out preform it the GTX 690/680/670/590 R7970/R7950/R6990 other than those cards it's the top dog.

 

[Krusher]

It depends on what version of the 580 you have. My EVGA reference version will do 855MHz easily on air @ 1.088V with MSI's afterburner. (EDIT: But not 1GHz! The EVGA Classified Ultra should do 1GHz fairly easily.) If you have more than one monitor or a monitor with greater than 1920x1080 resolution then I'd consider the upgrade to get more VRAM. But as bigcyco1 mentioned this is still a great card unless you have some unusually high requirements that "a couple" of 580's won't fill.

 

[barthalamoo]

Thanks for the quick responses!
@Krusher- Was temperature the limiting factor for the 855MHz at 1.088v?

 

[barthalamoo]

I have an EVGA GTX580 1.5Gb reference card with the IHS. Was temperature your limiting factor? Or power? Or the cards design?

 

[scopey86]

Up until recently i was using 2 gigabyte gtx 580s in sli under water, they could both easily do 1000mhz-1075mhz with no problem, shader clocks were a little more iffy, my mobo turned out to be the issue, so I don't know about what you can expect there. Hoping to put mine on sale soon, but those cards will last you for a while on single screen gaming.