| EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified: Overclocked |  |
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| Written by Austin Downing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 17 November 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: Crysis 2Crysis 2 launched in the US on March 22, 2011 and runs off the Crytek 3 engine. Although it had a rough start because of the lack of DX11 support and somewhat muddy textures it was later vindicated with the updated DX11 and Hi-Resolution texture package which enabled the "Ultra" Settings. With these additions Crysis 2 was turned into the DX11 beast that it was supposed to be. Using the Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool v1.0.1.12 we will be going through the Central Park benchmark. The Adrenaline Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool will generate the same run through of the end game Central Park level which provides many different visual effects to help push our test system to its very limits while keeping track of our FPS for each run. We will be using the highest available setting for our Crysis 2 Benchmark.
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Comments
Based on newegg reviews owners got 900-920 mhz at default volt. I'm hoping to get the same. Extra 20 to 40mhz for a 0.2 volts extra is too much. Did toy try to oc without volt tweaking?
Can't wait to bench mine.
More seriously, I doubt you could get to 1000 watts without those liquid-He/Ni cooling ideas. Still, if you could get it to 600 or 700 watts using air or water, that would be amazing. It's already drawing more power than most people's entire systems - it'd be both humorous and educational to see if it could outdraw most enthusiast systems.
Anyway, another enjoyable article. You guys run an excellent operation here at BMR.
I can not test for anything over the power draw I had on during this test due to thermal constraints. Even so during our test I was drawing almost 500w just for this card.
Thank you for the compliment it means a lot to know that our readers appreciate our work.
Nice to see an unashamedly "enthusiast" review.
Seems a little late to the party ( evga ). I can't see getting the classified when Kepler is around the corner now ( the first round of consumer cards and then the enthusiast cards soon after )
FYI Even if you wants to buy this gpu you can't it has bin sold out since launch and available in limited quantaties. Meaning when kepler hit I should have no problem selling the thing due to the limited quantities and demand @ a good price. Besides how would I play skyrim with all the hd mods out there already as well as bf3 @ max!
#m.tweaktown.com/news/21713/rumortt_nvidia_s_28n m_desktop_gpu_roadma p_revealed_no_high_e nd_geforce_card_unti l_2h_2012/index.html
I hope not another fermi
OC is like over speed limit.....if ya going 10% over the 60 mph peed limit, that's 1.10 x 60 or 66 mph ....66/60 = 1.10 or 10% over speed limit
% Overclock = 100 x (OC Speed / Stock Speed - 1)
100 x (940/772 - 1) = 21.76%
Or another way ....
% OC = (OC speed - Ref Speed) / Ref Speed
(940 - 772) / 772 = 21/76 $ same answer