MSI Nvidia GTX 560 Ti Hawk Overclocking Issues

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I bought a 560 Ti Hawk from MSI a few days ago. The card is clocked at 950 rather than the stock 822. The problem is that I am unable to overclock the card beyond 980 MHz even after applying insane amounts of voltages (tried +150 mV). The display driver keeps crashing (Nvidia 270 series)

Also, there are PWM LEDs on the card (8 in total) that indicate the number of phases being used at any moment. However, since I have bought the card all LEDs are constantly ON. Not even one switches off. Can there be a problem with my card? Is this causing the card not to overclock properly? I have read about people pushing the card to 1010 MHz without overvoltage. Please help !!

 

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I bought a 560 Ti Hawk from MSI a few days ago. The card is clocked at 950 rather than the stock 822. The problem is that I am unable to overclock the card beyond 980 MHz even after applying insane amounts of voltages (tried +150 mV). The display driver keeps crashing (Nvidia 270 series)

Also, there are PWM LEDs on the card (8 in total) that indicate the number of phases being used at any moment. However, since I have bought the card all LEDs are constantly ON. Not even one switches off. Can there be a problem with my card? Is this causing the card not to overclock properly? I have read about people pushing the card to 1010 MHz without overvoltage. Please help !!

No two processors are the same, trying to get yours to someone else's spec if never guaranteed so don't waste your time frazzling your card for nothing. It's probably got an inbuilt feature to keep all the phases active once overclocked even 1Mhz.

It sounds like your card is not bad but not paticularly overclockable either, just stick with 950 or 940 to be safe and leave it at that (with a little extra voltage but keep it minimal).

 

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No two processors are the same, trying to get yours to someone else's spec if never guaranteed so don't waste your time frazzling your card for nothing. It's probably got an inbuilt feature to keep all the phases active once overclocked even 1Mhz.

It sounds like your card is not bad but not paticularly overclockable either, just stick with 950 or 940 to be safe and leave it at that (with a little extra voltage but keep it minimal).

Thanx for the reply. But the phase LEDs might not be the scenario you talked of since even when I manually underclock the card to 900 or 822 (default Hawk is 950 - no overclock/overvolt) all LEDs are still lit up. No idea why

 

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Thanx for the reply. But the phase LEDs might not be the scenario you talked of since even when I manually underclock the card to 900 or 822 (default Hawk is 950 - no overclock/overvolt) all LEDs are still lit up. No idea why

With ATI/ AMD cards once you have something above the AMD reference frequency and/ or voltage it keeps everything in overclock mode [unlocked] so if this phase feature was on an AMD card it would stay on permenantly once overclocking mode has been unlocked, even if the card came at that frequency out the box. It should be the same principle for a Nvidea card.

My Catalyst Control Centre still has the overclocking panel unlocked even though I have since replaced that overclocked 6950 (which fryed, but that's irrelevant) with a stock 5770 and then further replaced that with stock 5870 crossfire

 

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Thanx for the reply. But the phase LEDs might not be the scenario you talked of since even when I manually underclock the card to 900 or 822 (default Hawk is 950 - no overclock/overvolt) all LEDs are still lit up. No idea why

GO to MSI website and download MSI Active Phase Switching ... here is the link
http://in.msi.com/product/vga/N560GTX-Ti-Hawk.html#/?div=Utility&os=All ..

Good Luck....

Have the same card , facing the same issue... unable to OC .... still trying ...
will get back soon ....