underclocking gpu

[BassJunkie]

Hi, I'm having issues with my GPU, running gtx460 1gb OC edition (gigabyte edition, didn't overclocked it my self...)

from a research I did over the net I found that many people having this bug causing PC to freeze, if they have the OC editions of this gpu with nvidia drivers superior to 314.22,

my question is, do you thing that running my GPU underclocked like the regular version of the GTX 460 can make this bug fixed for me...??

I would have stayed with the 314.22 driver, but I can't run battlefield 4 with it...

[Warrior2023]

Are you specifically experiencing this bug?
If not I'd say just leave it alone.

Define "can't run Battlefield 4 with it" Are you having FPS problems, is it not launching? If it's FPS, your card probably just can't run it. I'm still rather new to PC gaming, so I have almost no knowledge of graphics cards that were made before the AMD 7700 series or Nvidia GTX 500 series.

You can always rollback the drivers, but if you really have to underclock your video card, use MSI Afterburner.

[BassJunkie]

if I'm running the 314.22 driver no freezes occur, but I get stuck on the deploy screen and can't play BF4 (actually the game give me a message at lunch that my driver is old and won't run the game properly and then I get stuck on the first deploy screen)

the weird thing is that I can actually have no issues if I'm running my old gpu 9800 GT, I can even play BF4 without any issues.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Cause for 9800, there is no newer drivers. But not like the 9800 will run BF4 very well.

For GTX 460, u should have the latest available drivers installed. Try a clean install of them as that can fix file conflicted issues.

If u are not experiencing lockups, reboots, game crashing; then leave the GPU clocks alone, as that is not the issue. Yes I have seen cases where an pre-OC'ed GPU was unstable on certain games because of that default OC. But drivers for that don't have anything to do with GPU brand or it's clocks. Now they can be model specific to a certain degree, but that is just because as a GPU gets old, they no longer support it in any future drivers after a certain point, but for 400 series, it's still supported. And for game like BF4, it is recommended to use the latest drivers, as they are still tweaking newer drivers for such new games as this.

[BassJunkie]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

If u are not experiencing lockups, reboots, game crashing; then leave the GPU clocks alone, as that is not the issue.

as for now I'm having a lot of issues...but usually not while playing games, yesterday
I've change to the latest beta drivers and gpu started running noisy while only using uTorrent...also freeze of mouse usually occurs when I'm changing my display settings.

I guess it's time for a new GPU, it's a shame, I thought I cold hold with this one for another year...even considered going SLI...now I'm gonna move to AMD GPU.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

BETA drivers are for testing purposes. Suggest using only the latest stable WHQL drivers.
While a BETA version driver might show as latest to date, try the latest one that is WHQL Certified. During install select Custom and then select the Perform Clean Install box.

SLI is not really a viable option for such an outdated GPU model. As it is doubtful u'll find new GTX 460 around for sale.

What do u have for Power Supply brand & model# ?

[BassJunkie]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

What do u have for Power Supply brand & model# ?

it's funny that u ask, this is actually the main reason y I'm so angry, my first response for this bug was buying a new power supply, (I bought a new PC but was going cheap with my power supply with only 550W) so after I experienced these issues I bought the Corsair TX750M.

after having these issue with the new power supply I thought I damaged my GPU with the low power supply I had before, but searching for this bug I found posts of people with the same issues...

here are some of other people posts about this bug

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/573333/gtx-460-driver-issues-everything-past-314-22-has-stability-issues-win-7-64-bit-/

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/550032/

http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2018559

underclocking just seemed to be my last solution for now, I want to save some money for some really good GPU...don't wanna rush and regret it later.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Can't hurt to under-clock it. Just be careful in regards to any GPU Core Voltage changes.
If anything, just try running your GTX 460 at the NVIDIA Reference Clock Speeds and see if that helps. For your model the reference clocks would be...

Core: 675
Shader: 1350
Memory: 3600

Use an app like MSI Afterburner to do this with ease.

If still remains unstable, exit your game (if any) and then open Afterburner and move the sliders down, down-clocking it a bit more (go in small steps of 10 - 20 mhz), apply and then retry your game or benchmark tests.