Thought you guys might like this, 10k with a MX440-8X! =)

[Colin]

Not a big deal, but 10k in 3DMark2001SE with a DX7 card! :)

http://colins.tripod.ca/MadOnion/mx4401.gif
http://colins.tripod.ca/MadOnion/mx4402.gif

Hopefully when MO fixes the ORB so I can publish the score. :rolleyes:

Edit: Oh ya, the card is clocked at 415/715.... The core can go higher I'm sure but Riva Tuner is maxed out.

[majormav]

there is a way to increase riva tuner colin i dont personally know how but im sure one of the other guys will post a how to for ya ... congrats on your excellent efforts and welcome

[Colin]

Hey majormav! :) Thanks for the welcome.

Actually once you mentioned that there is a way to change the limit in Riva Tuner I think I found it.

It's under Rivatuner \ Overclocking \ Current Device. There you can change the hex value's to enable higher overclocks! :D

I guess I'll try benchmarking the card a bit more when MO fixes the orb.

Thanks again!

[hamzam]

Wait, so you're Coca Cola?!!

I was wondering what happened to you!

And congrats!

[Colin]

Hey hamzam! Yes, this is Coca_Cola from the MO forums. :)

Actually Coca_Cola is my 2nd account, originally I was Colin there too but was banned earlier this year (still don't know why).

What's your nic at MO?

[SPQQKY]

Hey Colin. Welcome to Xtreme. Don't worry about the ban at MO, those forums were turning sour. I was tired of asking questions over there and getting answers like "get a better cpu, a$$hole".

Anyway, seriously nice score with that MX440. Now I'm not so proud of my Ti200 score, although my cpu is running 1500MHz less!!! LOL

[N8]

Colin,

Welcome to Xtreme :)

Very nice score there!

[Colin]

Hey SPQQKY! Long time no see! :)

Ya, I only returned to MO to talk to a few friends that are still there. It seems like that forum is now overrun with kid's who just want to flame. It's pretty sad.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

[PiLsY]

Jesus thats one hell of an overclock. AGP 8x be damned, I want that GPU and memory....

You running vmods or any mad cooling? My MX440 can manage 371/502 on air with no vmods. With a vmod I may be in your ballpark area, but if thats an unmodded card - good god.

Remember guys the default clock for an MX440 is 260/400. Youre looking at an almost 100% core and memory overclock. Incredible stuff.

Youve taken me down with a cpu deficit of only just under 500mhz and at least 30mhz memory speed less as well.

PiLsY.

[Colin]

Hey PiLsY! :)

Actually that oc is what I can get with the MSI MX440-8X stock! Didn't have time to mod it yet on the wknd.

The card uses 3.6ns BGA Hynix DRAM and as you can see it overclocks like MAD! :D

I do have a lot of airflow in my test system, had 2 120mm 103 CFM fans pointing both on the back and front of the card, it seemed to help a bit.

To be honest I was completely blown away at how well this baby oc'ed! If you get your hands on this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if you could break 11k or 12k! ;)

[PiLsY]

All I can say then is wow what a card!

And dont sell yourself short colin - thats a very fine 3dmark score despite the huge graphics clock. It takes a lot of tweaking and a lot of graphics clock to get that sort of increase over a system with as much of a cpu and memory advantage as I have. Good job there m8 :). Im very impressed.

Give the 640 x 460 x 16 test a go m8. Id be interested to see how well you did in that. Even at that res im still graphics limited to a massive extent, so I reckon youd most likely beat me quite soundly at that as well :).

And dont forget your XtremeSystems.org 3D Mark Team tag ;).

PiLsY.

[Colin]

Thanks for the kind words PiLsY! :D

I'll run 640x480x16 and post it in a bit.

[Colin]

Ok PiLsY... Just benched the MX440-8X at 640x480-16bit and here it is.

I got a new score at default bench and compared it against that. Well you'll see what I mean. ;)

http://colins.tripod.ca/MadOnion/10vs6.gif

The card is clocked at 415/715 for all the tests, I'm not really sure why my fill rates at 640x480 are lower then 1024x768... Weird. :rolleyes:

Oh ya, as you can see, my rig is just a tad faster... I'm now running 158 MHz FSB. Woohoo! :p