sdla4ever

Ok i cant find the VRM temp anywhere! i wanna know if that is why i artifact. Also whats the best drivers so far for OC'n it seems ever since i went 185.85 my OC had to drop down a strap.

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Mikecdm

I hear the 185's aren't so good. Have you tried the 186?

Also here is a SS of some of my VRM temps using everest and gpu-z.
Based on the cooler that you got, I'd say the temps that have sky rocketed, those would be your VRM.

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How to overclock and understand Nvidia shader straps

sdla4ever

those dont show up in my everest ultimate 5 or GPU-Z, could this be because of the 275 being decently new??

I have them downloaded but havent stopped folding long enough to change them!

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Mikecdm

Maybe the VRM's in that card have no way to monitor temp just like you can't raise the voltage on them via software?

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How to overclock and understand Nvidia shader straps

sdla4ever

ugh! than how am i supposed to know lol! i had 8880 points to day also mike! and hopefully the 2 more straps so far will yeild even more! but OT anyone else find a way to see 55nm 275 temps??

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brettjv

We have a winner ... lots of ATI cards expose all kinds of handy voltage-related readings to software like everest and RT, but the only nvidia cards that have done so (in recent memory) are the ones with Volterra VRM's like the 65nm 260/280 line, and the original gtx295.

IOW I'm about 99% sure you will never see these types of readings on a 275.

I'm going to guess your artifacts are coming from your shader clock being too high.

Usually too high a core clock will cause other problems, and your memory seems well within range of what those cards can do. Whereas your shader clock ... is pretty danged high, and artifacts can def. be caused by it being too high.

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