MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB Cyclone OC Overclocking Results Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this is going to be a quick overclocking guide well not really guide just an
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overclocking result video for the GeForce GTS 450 Cyclone from MSI so I
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have dialed in my final overclock on the GPU so I've got 942 MHz on the core
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2.22 GHz on the RAM and the Shader with
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all firmy architectures is locked to the core at this time I have maxed out the
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voltage but you can see my temperatures are still well within reason at about 60
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° with uh 64% fan speed which isn't too
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loud really considering that the GPU is under full
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load so I'm just going to do some performance benchmarks and then at the
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end of this video you'll see What GPU artifacting looks like in a very extreme
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example of uh me pushing it a little bit too
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far here's my default score with the GTS
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450 Cyclone from MSI now bear in mind
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this is going to be a little bit higher than what we'd get with a stock clocked
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GTS 450 because the Cyclone OC which I
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didn't mention before it is an OC card is stock overclocked so uh there you go
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there's our Baseline and I'll be back
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with the overclocked performance in a
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moment so you can see here with my overclocking profile which I actually
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did have to adjust slightly since I did that last shot the RAM was not it was
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stable in fir Mark but it was not quite stable in 3D Mark Vantage I was getting
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some artifacts so my final overclock ended up being 942 MHz on the core 2.2
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GHz on the RAM so you can see with that overclock we managed to get a pretty
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sizable increase in our Vantage score and uh I guess that pretty much
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concludes my overclocking results for the MSI GeForce
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gts450 Cyclone well this is probably the
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funkiest example of artifacting I've ever seen I'm working on my overclocking
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guide I guess I'll just uh throw this video at the end of the overclocking
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guide but uh I turned up the memory clock to 2.3 GHz and even turning it
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back down didn't fix it but I just wanted to show you guys this is a fairly
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extreme example of what uh artifacting
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can look like you can vaguely see the ring from furmark spinning sometimes in
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the background but other than that the screen is basically gibberish now odds
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are excellent I haven't damaged the card you can see I've set it back to what I
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know is a safe setting so I've still got the core cranked up and I've still got
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the uh memory clock at 2.25 GHz actually
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it was stable a little higher than that so we can try one more setting anyway
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this is just part of the process and uh sometimes you get some pretty
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spectacular fireworks displays when you're overclocking a graphics card