LOL...yeah I know, but it sounded good for all those guys that don't know that you and I go all the way back to the days of soldering cache divisors on the old classic Slot A Athlons. Boy has time flew by :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by OPPAINTER
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LOL...yeah I know, but it sounded good for all those guys that don't know that you and I go all the way back to the days of soldering cache divisors on the old classic Slot A Athlons. Boy has time flew by :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by OPPAINTER
http://smly.org/smly/clap.gif Awesome score! http://smly.org/smly/clap.gif
Wooh !
Impressive as always, Mike.
I generally find your results the most relevant and inspiring, as your machine is a great indicator of what moderate cooling, off-the-shelf parts, and old-school tuning ability can bring you. I love the bleeding edge benchmarks as well, but theyre hardly something to judge a 24/7 system by. ;)
Anyways, keep it xtreme. :cool:
mdzcpa, pls do some 3dmark2001 too.
very good score, beat 12,1k??????;)
Thanks! Although I still enjoy benching when a new system comes together, I made a conscious decision a few years back to push my systems as "real" working PCs rather than sprawling specific purpose benching rigs. I thought the challenge of building and running a 24/7 usable system was more fun and rewarding as I am a big gaming guy as well as OCer. Shooting for the best of both worlds kinda thing:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hallowed
But, don't get me wrong, I still appreciate the incredible overclocks the cascade guys get. That is some amazing work as well.
I give it a whirl. SLI does not really shine much with such an old benchmark, but I've got some SLI driver tweaks that might help. I try to get some results posted tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by marius7
Great thread! Your posts are always very entertaining and enlightening.
I'm looking at the pics and I see 2 80mm fans sitting on top of the memory and northbridge. Since you're using TCCD you're probably not drawing volts off the 5v line via the jumper setting. Are the temps on those sticks high enough to warrant using fans? How much voltage are you using on the memory and chipset? Is the other fan just to help the stock northbridge or the video cards memory? Are you using both fans to cool the board in general?
The reason I'm curious about the fans is that I was playing with my DR over the weekend and had some strange temps. I was cooling with a Thermalright 948U for some initial air-cooled tests with my new 3500+. Just the mobo sitting on a box so ambient temps were low. I started with some TCCD just to see how high the CPU and FSB would go. (FSB was great but the CBBID as expected was weak) Then I swapped out the TCCD for some BH-5 and goosed up the 3.3 line a bit with the OCZ PSU. Immediately I could feel (yes I felt it w/o touching the board) a dramatic change in the amount of heat, not so much from the dimms but the northbridge. Rather than continue testing I decided on the BH-5 until I can get it in a case where I can use some brackets to get some extra cooling on the board. Can you share any heat issues you might have had with the board? Thanks.
Mike, I used your setting of 11.5x287(on your Gskill LE review) on my neo2...24/7 for months :D Always an indicator of 24/7 max. stable overclock.
Thanks :toast:
Hehehe I still got one of them, a 750 doing 1ghz :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mdzcpa
Cheers
Gundamit, I think the fan that he has on the memory/mosfets is entirely worth it. I am running pretty much the same setup (GSKILL TCCD) and without a fan there (2.9VDIMM) I can only do 300 1:1. With a fan there I am at 315 1:1 24/7 stable. I played WOW for over 6 hours straight this weekend @ 315 1:1 without as much as a hiccup.
Great Board MDZCPA! Awesome results! I am another that did the mod and with the Ultra-D's great overclocks and (modded) SLI ability I improved my 3dmark01/03/05 scores over the already good Gigabyte SLI board.
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nice! congrats mike! :toast: :)
The fans are there purely for benching stability. Its hard to tell from the pics, but these fans are 80mm wide, but only 10mm thick, and run at only 3000rpm, so they are very quiet.Quote:
Originally Posted by gundamit
I put them there for two seperate reasons. First, the fan on the memory is only precautionary at the moment. I'm currently putting only 2.8v to 2.9v to the dimms so heat really isn't a big issue at all. However, as I plan on moving the memory up beyond 300mhz 1:1 I know I'll need more voltage so I'll be ready to go with the fan already in place. The TCCD does indeed take more voltage on this board than it did on my NF3 boards, but the results speak for themselves. The Dimms are rock stable and don't seem to mind the voltage...and I think the fan does help at 3v and above. Running in the 265 to 280 range, the fan isn't really needed. Running at 300 and above, it helps.
The second fan is soley to provide cooling for the video card memory. The GPUs are water cooled, and the memory is cooled with BGA Ramsinks. Because the cards are co close together, airflow is poor without any extra fans. Again, I'm using a silent 80x5mm quiet fan. The Ramsinks and fan were worth another 30mhz on the memory over the stock memory heatsink.
I haven't found any real trouble hot spots on the board. I may find some warm spots that need cooling as I continue to press the board up to new limits though. We'll see.
good to see youve forgotten all the people that were cheering you up back from icronticforums :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by OPPAINTER
Very nice.
It good Ultra mod to SLI.
:toast:
Eric and I go back a long way before the icrontic days, so don't take offense:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Voodoo|Minion
Congrats mdzcpa,
Nice score and well done. Mine is just a few days away so anxious to see what kind of torque it has, small question if I may, you mentioned that you ordered a SLI bridge from DFI ? Do you by any chance happen to have a part number? And was your order confirmed?
I ordered through a friend here on XS from a distributor in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, I don't have all the details as I relied on him to buy them and ship them to me. I ordered a few extra so PM me if your are interested and I might be able to help.
BTW, I've put a little cushion on the 05 WR:
12,153 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=593372
I'll be trying things out with the whql 66.93 over the weekend when I have more time.
Thanks for the info. It squares with what I'm seeing. On my DFI LPUT mobo I tested single OCZ TCCD 512 sticks, one went slightly over the 300fsb mark and the other slightly under at 2.9v. On the new DR I snapped off 20 loops of Memtest test #5 2x512 at 300fsb 3.0v, but I had to place 80mm fans on top and on one side of the dimms to keep them cool. Northbridge was getting quite warm despite the NB bios setting at 1.5v. Strange how OPB's TCCD runs 292 with 2.6v, but mine needs 2.9v to get to the same place. Maybe its the type of PCB OCZ used, but you and dnavarro both have GSkill TCCD that also seems volt hungry.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdzcpa
I may be looking at getting another gig of TCCD (GSkill) soon, but not before I replace my craptastic CBBID 0451 3500+ which failed Prime at just under an hour set at 289x9 1.61v.