The overclocking team NHOC is moving up the ranks and we have seen several interesting results over the last week, and there is more coming. Henry “ME4ME” de Kruijf has given a preview, by overclocking MSI GeForce GTX 480 Lightning to 1450 MHz.
Henry managed to reach over 1400MHz during MSI MOA 2010 together with Jon “elmor” Sandström and this rendered them the victory of MSI’s prestigious overclocking competition.
After coming home to Sweden Henry has been hunting for a processor worthy of being used in the same system as MSI’s new beast, but in the meantime he decided to check what the card can do here up north, and it still delivers.
Using liquid nitrogen and a whole lot of flatter Henry managed to push the card to 1450 MHz GPU and 5060 MHz memory frequency, the highestregistered GPU clock frequency for GeForce GTX 480. And it was stable through 3DMark Vantage GT2, which is a very intense benchmark.
Even more impressive this is a GPU overclock of more than 100% and the card already coneums plenty of power at 701 MHz, but things really escalate when it goes twice as fast.
Exactly how much heat the card outputs and power it consumes isn’t certain, but according to Henry the nitrogen evaporates almost too fast too handle. What kind of performance it would deliver with a good CPU to help it remains to be seen, but to quote Henry;
“more… much more to come!”
