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Philly_Boy
11-18-2007, 05:05 PM
Yeah...I know it's no big deal for those who oc with extreme cooling, but I set up my rig on water (see sig) and played around this weekend. I got the quad to 3.7 stable and with a little oc on the Ultra's I got this result:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e265/philly_boy/06-19568.jpg

ORB link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3814806 (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3814806)

The ORB is incorrectly reading my quad as a QX 6850...it's actually a QX6700. I am also a bit stuck....can't get the cards any higher...nor can I get the quad to be stable any higher. Gonna set up my cold air induction box this weekend and pipe in some 0c air over the rads and see if that makes a difference.

Anyone got any advice?
darkorb
11-18-2007, 05:14 PM
what are ur temps atm?
Philly_Boy
11-18-2007, 05:41 PM
Boot up idle is 32c on the CPU and 38/39c on the Ultra's.
Loaded gets to 43c for the CPU during the CPU tests of 3D Mark 06.
Loaded for the GPU's is about 42c.

If I increase the CPU to even 3.73 it hangs at frame 9 of CPU test 1 in '06. I've tried using different multi's to see if it was a fsb hole on the mb and ran the v-core up to 1.5v but to no avail.
cadaveca
11-18-2007, 05:47 PM
Got RAID? good for some points...
dinos22
11-18-2007, 06:01 PM
you just need a slightly faster CPU

i did 20K easy with 3.96Ghz on quad and 8800GT cards in SLI 711/999 OC :)
Philly_Boy
11-18-2007, 06:02 PM
ummmmmm......looks at sig.....yup.
cadaveca
11-18-2007, 06:16 PM
Sry, Philly boy, but not everyone actually benches what's in thier sig. I think you, of all people have covered almost all the bases anyway...

I'm doing the same chase, BTW, posted for hints too, but wasn't gonna just toss up a "subscribed!":

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3616932

Although I'm not as close are you are.
dinos22
11-18-2007, 06:19 PM
just sell the CPU on ebay and get a G0 Q6600 and you're done mate :up: and you'll have spare cash left over too :D
Philly_Boy
11-19-2007, 06:42 AM
I could sell the CPU...but I want to see if I can reach this goal with what I own. I will play around a bit with memory timings tonight and juice the PCIe buss a bit and see where that gets me.
dinos22
11-19-2007, 06:51 AM
use LOD :D
Philly_Boy
11-19-2007, 12:48 PM
use LOD :D
The Ultra's don't seem to benefit from the LOD tweak like cards did in the past. I could get +100 points in '06 with my GTX's...but only +20 or so points with the Ultra's. LOD at +2.5 seems to be the sweet spot for me after testing a few different LOD settings.
Cpt.Planet
11-19-2007, 12:55 PM
Needs more ln2
darkorb
11-19-2007, 01:31 PM
just try and hit 3.9ghz and ur there, just set ur VCORE to 1.6 and just bench it, get it, and clock it back down


im trying to hit 10k with my setup. iv maxed out the volts on this board for CPU/MEM, 1.5v 2.7ghz and 2.9v ddr450

im at 9,400, im sure i can squeeze 2.75 out of my CPU, but its not stable, just good enough to bench 3dmark
dinos22
11-19-2007, 02:50 PM
on intel mobos RAM setup/ frequency and timings make a bit of difference in '06 points so try that too

LOD gains points what level are you using?
Philly_Boy
11-20-2007, 07:41 AM
on intel mobos RAM setup/ frequency and timings make a bit of difference in '06 points so try that too. LOD gains points what level are you using?See previous comment below. I tried everything from +.5 to +9.0 with only a modest gain coming at +2.5.The Ultra's don't seem to benefit from the LOD tweak like cards did in the past. I could get +100 points in '06 with my GTX's...but only +20 or so points with the Ultra's. LOD at +2.5 seems to be the sweet spot for me after testing a few different LOD settings.

Needs more ln2
LOL...need your pots to make that happen! When we getting together to try the new copper pots?
Ava1anche
11-20-2007, 07:58 AM
use LOD :D

What is LOD? Do you have a link? I have not heard of it before.
harleybro
11-20-2007, 08:07 AM
Use 169.xx drivers and adjust the shader clocks to max with rivatuner. The 169 drivers alone at the same clocks should easily net you 20k. ;)
Cpt.Planet
11-20-2007, 09:00 PM
See previous comment below. I tried everything from +.5 to +9.0 with only a modest gain coming at +2.5.


LOL...need your pots to make that happen! When we getting together to try the new copper pots?

No new copper gpu pots. Just cpu.
dinos22
11-20-2007, 09:05 PM
What is LOD? Do you have a link? I have not heard of it before.

search this forum
there are plenty of references how to use this tweak for benchmarking

i use 3.9 for '06
Philly_Boy
11-21-2007, 07:25 AM
search this forum
there are plenty of references how to use this tweak for benchmarking

i use 3.9 for '06I will try 2.5 thru 3.9 to see if any of these settings net me any gains. Had to work late last night so I couldn't bench by the time I got home. I'll try this tonight and post my results.

**gonna buy Crysis tonight on the way home and bench the time demo as well**
Philly_Boy
11-21-2007, 07:30 AM
Use 169.xx drivers and adjust the shader clocks to max with rivatuner. The 169 drivers alone at the same clocks should easily net you 20k. ;)I have the 169.09 driver so I'll try that as well. How can you manually adjust the shader clocks in rivatuner? I thought they adjusted as a ratio of the core clock. What is max for the shader clocks for the 8800 Ultra? I remember the max on my GTX's was around 2000.

search this forum
there are plenty of references how to use this tweak for benchmarking

i use 3.9 for '06I will try 2.5 thru 3.9 to see if any of these settings net me any gains. Had to work late last night so I couldn't bench by the time I got home. I'll try this tonight and post my results.

**gonna buy Crysis tonight on the way home and bench the time demo as well**