Nvidia 5xx Series

[impar]

Greetings!

Nvidia, Asus put the clamps on GTX 590 voltage
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The main cause of the problem, as we've noted, appeared to be excessive overvolting during overclocking attempts and the failure of the card's onboard power-protection circuitry to prevent the worst. We first understood this problem to be confined to an early driver set which shipped out to reviewers—and potentially to end-users, I believe—on a CD enclosed with the card. We used slightly later drivers in our testing, prior to the GTX 590's release, and the card correctly slowed down clock speeds during our too-aggressive overclocking and overvolting attempts, saving us from fiery grief.

We now understand part of the potent cocktail of smoky death may have also been a modified video BIOS shipped on Asus cards that allowed more extreme overvolting than the 1.025V peak we attempted. (Since our review unit was a reference model directly from Nvidia, we weren't able to venture much beyond that point.)

[powerarmour]

GTX 590 refresh in the making :-

Nvidia Corp. plans to release a new version of its dual-chip flagship GeForce GTX graphics card that will be more overclockable. The company intends to re-invent print-circuit board of the graphics card in a bid to improve its reliability in cases of overclocking, a media report claims.

The new GeForce GTX 590 graphics card - which is powered by two code-named GF110 graphics processing units (GPUs) and features 3GB of GDDR5 memory - will have new inductors, larger printed circuit board (PCB) and a new cooling solutions, reports VR-Zone web-site. The new inductors and design will eliminate possibility of failure during overclocking, which is something that enthusiasts demand from a top-of-the-range graphics cards.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/disp ... Media.html

[powerarmour]

GeForce.com Previews the NVIDIA GTX 560 :-

http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Card ... 60-Preview

Tempted to go SLI with a pair of these...

[impar]

Greetings!

GeForce.com Previews the NVIDIA GTX 560 :-
http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Card ... 60-Preview

Isnt PhysX, that proprietary thing, dead yet?

[powerarmour]

Isnt PhysX, that proprietary thing, dead yet?

Apparently not!, I didn't realise it was to be used in the new Alice game though...

[powerarmour]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Review Round-Up :-

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/05/17/ ... ew_roundup

[powerarmour]

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560: The Top To Bottom Factory Overclock :-

http://www.anandtech.com/print/4344

Edit/Off Topic: Damn, one day I'll have a reason to swap out this HD 5870, but heck, look how much compute grunt it still has!



Possibly the best GPU I've ever bought on launch day, nearly two years old now and it still rocks.

[powerarmour]

Palit GeForce GTX 560 2 GB review :-

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Pali ... _GB/1.html

No point at all in 2GB yet really... And when it is, you'll likely need a better card than a GTX 560!

[camelsaw]

damn i need to upgrade soon, thanks for showing us the chart

[powerarmour]

Triple slot GTX 580 :-

http://www.xfastest.com/cms/tid-61294/
http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/05/25/ ... m_spy_pics