Problem with Stability Factor in Nvidia GeForce GTX 260

**Bhagwandas** · 24-03-2009

I am facing a big proble with my new video card. I have recently bought a new Nvidia GTX 260 video card. I am really confused regarding the stability of my gtx 260 video card. The gpu is kept and standard no fan/cooler has been changed. I tried testing with furmark v1.6.5 Mssa x16 with the help of extremeburn. And If I try with the Intel i7 720 it crashes.

Please provide some views regarding this

Your help will be appreciated

**Omari** · 24-03-2009

I own a XFX GTX 260 Black Edition card. I purchased it at Newegg.com for $279 but it came with a $30 dollar Mail In Rebate (After rebate: $249). At the moment, you are correct.. This card is the FASTEST GTX 260 you can buy. During testing, this card even performed on par with the GTX 280 (at normal clock speeds). On a few occassions, this card tested a few frames per second faster, than a stock GTX 280! I am running a Q6600 quadcore overclocked to 3.6ghz and my setup absolutely chews through my small list of games that I play (Farcry2, Crysis, COD4). I downloaded Rivatuner and adjusted the fan speed on my GTX 260, up to 65%. Now, my card idles around 41c! After a few hours of gaming, the highest I've ever seen it get is around 53c. I've included a screen shot (I just took this screen shot for the purposes of this thread). Obviously, I HIGHLY recommend this XFX GTX 260 black edition over all others.

**lorenz** · 24-03-2009

The Corsair 650w should be perfectly fine. Lemme know when you get it installed and a few benchies have been performed.. I'm just curious to see if it is worth an "upgrade" to the i7 platform from my current DDR2 / socket 775 socket setup.

**Hockson** · 24-03-2009

Just one thing to consider. Are you interested at all in the 55nm GT200? If you are you can hit up BFG or EVGA, depending on if they rebrand it or not. I think there is a chance they may still call it the GTX 260 even if it is 55nm. As a result you may not be able to actually step up to it. So in the end XFX may actually be the better choice, since you can pass the warranty onto someone thus it will retain a higher sale value later on.

**Viceman** · 24-03-2009

800 is pretty unlikely even with more voltage. You'd have to cool it pretty well to make that stable I think. Even then that would probably be like "3dmark stable but crash during an actual game kind of stable". Mine is at 700 core 1400 shader and 1250 memory. Thats without the voltage tuner and on the stock fan speed. I haven't tried for higher yet but i'm sure I could get a little bit more.