Hi, I have the Asus "TOP" edition of this card (at the time it was by far the cheapest 460 I could find and was a bit of a bargain) and wondering if people have any experience of over-clocking it. More specifically if anyone has any luck with memory overclocking.
My theory is that although overclocking the core would give overall a better average fps, overclocking the memory exclusively would improve the minimum fps, likely caused by large textures etc combined with the restricted bandwidth in this card. I would think it to be useless to overclock the core to go from 50 to 60 FPS average if the minimum FPS was not helped that much and stuttering still occurred?
I get very annoyed when reviews only quote average FPS, to me minimum is at least as important.
I'm going to try some benchmarks out this evening to see if I'm correct. I imagine at lower resolution/lower texture detail core overclock is more beneficial, and at higher resolutions memory clock would be.
I've read some things about a weak memory controller on this card in an anandtech review so they only overclocked the core, anyone know about this?
Lastly (and this applies to cards generally), is it often possible to be able to overclock the memory higher if you leave the core alone?
Cheers, Oliver


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