Yes, it's voltage locked. However, I have read things saying that something in the neighborhood of 1150/1575 is still possible. But this is the internet, so take it with a grain of salt. I haven't bumped mine up that high yet, but even bumping up the core another 100MHz made ZERO impact on the core temps. At full utilization, it still doesn't break 60 degrees C, the fan speed has never gone above 63%, and the noise it makes is still barely noticeable.
All in all, I think the message here (and from other comments) is that it will OC some more out of the box, but don't expect godlike OC numbers.
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Yoan_L 04/16/13
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This video card is probably the video card i woud reccomand to any gamers who would like a high end gaming computer. It just run every games at ultra and 1080p. Althought i would't reccomand this card to overclocker maniacs since the voltage is locked
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KyonCoraeL 04/07/13
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This is a great video card to own, it runs cool and using gigabytes OC guru software I have easily created my own fan curve to have it run around 65 degrees max while maintaining around 60% fan speed. As a result this video card has been way quieter than any stock solution from AMD or nvidia that I have tried in the past and runs cooler as well.
I understand why Gigabyte is locking the maximum voltage of the card but I really wish I had more control in reducing the voltage required. At the moment the voltage can be reduced if the GPU is underclocked at certain speeds and the voltage decreases are few and far between.
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Yes, it's voltage locked. However, I have read things saying that something in the neighborhood of 1150/1575 is still possible. But this is the internet, so take it with a grain of salt. I haven't bumped mine up that high yet, but even bumping up the core another 100MHz made ZERO impact on the core temps. At full utilization, it still doesn't break 60 degrees C, the fan speed has never gone above 63%, and the noise it makes is still barely noticeable.
All in all, I think the message here (and from other comments) is that it will OC some more out of the box, but don't expect godlike OC numbers.
(Read More)
This video card is probably the video card i woud reccomand to any gamers who would like a high end gaming computer. It just run every games at ultra and 1080p. Althought i would't reccomand this card to overclocker maniacs since the voltage is locked
(Read More)
This is a great video card to own, it runs cool and using gigabytes OC guru software I have easily created my own fan curve to have it run around 65 degrees max while maintaining around 60% fan speed. As a result this video card has been way quieter than any stock solution from AMD or nvidia that I have tried in the past and runs cooler as well.
I understand why Gigabyte is locking the maximum voltage of the card but I really wish I had more control in reducing the voltage required. At the moment the voltage can be reduced if the GPU is underclocked at certain speeds and the voltage decreases are few and far between.
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Great card overall. Just a heads up, the older reviews (early-mid 2012) had the unlocked versions of these cards, Gigabyte now locks them (late 2012?.)
Other than that.. it runs great. No problems whatsoever. Can still squeeze out a little OC but nothing much, still it is insanely fast. I wish I had known it was locked before, but it's not NCIX's fault!
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