[Video] T_M doing Aquamark 3 - Aussie Style

[T_M]

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRkqYdzkXM

Complete with all the hisses, crackles, and hardware whines.
Oh yeah, and some smooth DnB backround music :cool:

Retail E6850 @ 4923MHz (~1.7V on Dry Ice)
Asus P5K3 Deluxe Wifi/AP modded vcore/vMCH
Kingston DDR3 @ 681MHz 5-7-5-14 1T
XFX 8800GTX (OC) @ 828/1050 (~1.482V/2.1V on Dry Ice) no shader mod
Western Digital 500Gb (AAKS) SATA2
Silverstone 1000W

#7 Overall in hwbot
#5 Single card in in hwbot
#4 8800GTX results (single or SLI) in hwbot
#1 E6850 based system in hwbot

It's definately an interesting benchmark, requiring a fine balance between vGPU and core clock. I had to adjust vGPU right down to the third decimal place to get 828MHz stable. With ~0.002V less it would pixelate and freeze at the smoke near start, with ~0.002 more it would black screen at the smoke near start. Basically that smoke is a killer :lol: .......... :dodgy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/T_M/Setupon12-8-07.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/T_M/AM34923MHzand830_1050.jpg

[jugeen]

god job! n1 photo! :clap:

[Zannema]

Great job man :up:

[BenchZowner]

Nice job Tim :toast:
Now mod those shaders and go do it again, the gain is big ;)

[T_M]

Im really tossing up whether to mod them or not, given that on different cooling media it will max out at different levels. Once i start playing with DICE its hard to stop benching and do an hour of prep work while pumping in the pellets, instead of using them for scores :)

[G H Z]

Nice run T M :up:

[Solarfall]

nicelly done mate :toast: great scores.
i see you have those Cut off skewers in good use again :D

[T_M]

Like i said, signature hardware :)

[Oliver]

Good run;).

[symphy]

Very nice for only Dryice, and not bad score for this "low" CPU clock.

[massman]

Sweet :)

[i found nemo]

wow i wish that benchmark ran that fast on my pc :( looked like you were fast forwarding compared to my system. congrats

[harleybro]

Good job :up:


Once i start playing with DICE its hard to stop benching and do an hour of prep work while pumping in the pellets, instead of using them for scores

Why an hour? Bios flashing only takes a few minutes I do mine in the middle of LN2 runs. ;)

[BenchZowner]

Yup, and you can use a "standard" frequency ( when I say standard I mean one that works on most cards with dry ice cooling )

[rra]

Nice run mate now that was fun to watch great score too.

[T_M]

Thanks guys.
I meant an hour to optimise it including testing, but i suppose just a safe number would be good.
What's generally a safe shader for DICE?

[PPInDaHouse]

nice cpu you got ;) and your results are great too

regards :)

[BenchZowner]

1998MHz S.D. should be fine with your config T_M ;)

[SoF]

hehe that's a fast AM3 - nice vid :)

[T_M]

Just checked an old screenshot, and at 864 core, my shader is 1944MHz, so the above run would be somewhere around 1900+

[BenchZowner]

2106MHz, should be fine ( but may need to rise the Vgpu a bit ) [ while keeping the GPU & Memory clocks the same ]