ASUS Nordic OC weekend - GTX 480 first touch

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05-23-2010, 10:01 AM
SF3D

ASUS Nordic OC weekend - GTX 480 first touch

Hi all!

ASUS Nordic or to be more exact, Kinc invited me and elmor to bench in their office. Idea of the benching weekend was to get used to GTX 480.
We got 8 cards and first they were V modded and then tested separately on LN2.

One of the mods were not correct and we lost a lot of valuable time and resources. In the end we did not get any high scores or the scores we wanted and estimated.
Typical conversation was like this: "It should work, just trust me" and you can imagine where that took us :rofl:

But in general, weekend was perfect and we got huge amount of very important experience and information, so this swedish duo can produce some nice scores in the near future.

I have to say few words to GTX 480 - I hate you and I love you at the same time :shrug:

Thanks ASUS and Marcus for the weekend. Hopefully we will do this again soon :up:

Setup:

ASUS Rampage III Extreme
ASUS ROG 4-way SLI extension board
ASUS GTX 480 x 8
Silverstone + OCZ PSU's
Corsair GTX 2 memory
SF3D OC Inflection point LN2 cooling
Win 7 64-bit

Here is some random 2D scores we did between 3D tests:

Superpi 1M @ 6682MHz:
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...perpi%201M.png

Superpi 32M 6515MHz with medium efficiency:
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...32M%206515.png

Pifast (WR) @ 6668MHz:
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...ifast%20WR.png

Quite good, if you ask me :D

Quick 3DM05:
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...80%203DM05.png

Vantage with single GTX 480
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...%20Vantage.png

Vantage with 4- way SLI:
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...%20Vantage.png

We did not get more scores after that :( because all possible problems appeared like PSU failures etc.
We used retail 980X with one memory stick and there was no cold bug. Even there was more than enough bad luck, first score is ok :up:

Pictures frome weekend:

http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...%20station.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...0extension.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...0extension.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...20insulate.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...ll%20cards.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...r%20things.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...%20drivers.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...0graveyard.jpg
http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/ASUS%20Supe...0go%20home.jpg

That's all!

New 4-way SLI scores will come soon from the dynamic duo :up:
05-23-2010, 10:10 AM
carpo93

awsome results man
05-23-2010, 10:15 AM
ViViD

OMG Nice Pic

Bravo WR That's Amazing Guys
05-23-2010, 10:20 AM
Oliver

wicked weekend :D

strong benching man,

keep pushing it
05-23-2010, 11:11 AM
redratamd

OMG It's great. Congratz guys ;)
05-23-2010, 12:23 PM
George_o/c

That's what I'm talking about! Outstanding A0 - 6668MHz PiFast :shocked: Congrats on the WR by the way :p:
That retail ain't too shabby at all though... Almost 6GHz Vantage ;)

All in all, looks like you had fun and also managed to pull out some great scores :clap:
05-23-2010, 12:32 PM
Marvin54

wow men 4-SLI :D
05-23-2010, 12:54 PM
Boulard83

Great great !
05-23-2010, 01:10 PM
paill

good job
05-23-2010, 02:12 PM
hiwa

:clap::clap: Nice job petri :up:
05-23-2010, 02:15 PM
sofos1990

Great scores there guys :D
:up:
05-23-2010, 09:18 PM
karandiru

How is this chip..:shocked:
05-23-2010, 11:15 PM
Cookiesowns

Woh.. First the asus OC panel, then now the ROG 4-way? damn, whats asus going to come up with next !!

Very nice setup too, :)
05-24-2010, 01:09 AM
MaJ0r

As always great scores!!! Awesome! :clap:
05-24-2010, 05:24 AM
elmor

Thanks guys, we have som stuff to work on when it comes to 4-way SLI. Let's say we got lots of experience ;)

First PiFast attempt:

http://imup.se/i/E8n8DqNsSn.jpg

Us vs GTX 480:

http://imup.se/i/9km8PrDsFA.jpg

Still had fun :D

http://imup.se/i/wtLftrD5Nl.jpg http://imup.se/i/uCOcLyEpWb.jpg
05-24-2010, 08:48 AM
SF3D

Thanks all!

Haha elmor.. you don't need to remind me about those *error in computation* runs :) and how can you take such a retard pictures :rofl:
05-24-2010, 08:49 AM
AndreYang

Nice clock:up:
05-24-2010, 10:03 AM
Brian y.

looks like you guys had a great time.

LOL at the dead 480's:rofl:
05-24-2010, 10:19 AM
elmor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian y.

looks like you guys had a great time.

LOL at the dead 480's:rofl:

Actually one was buried alive, so only one dead (mosfet burned due to condesation). ;)
05-24-2010, 10:28 AM
SoF

woooow nordic sessions like these are simply the best - high clocks, high fun factor :yepp: :up:
I like the pics of you with these big smiles - says it all :)
05-24-2010, 12:21 PM
Gautam

Love the PiFast- great work guys :)
05-25-2010, 10:56 AM
SF3D

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoF

woooow nordic sessions like these are simply the best - high clocks, high fun factor :yepp: :up:
I like the pics of you with these big smiles - says it all :)

Yeah! Luckily ASUS nordic is strong office and they have Kinc!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gautam

Love the PiFast- great work guys :)

Thanks! Pifast is a nice test.. I have learned to like it.
05-25-2010, 11:35 AM
KonradGT

nice benching :D

how many litres of ln2 did You use?
05-26-2010, 03:06 AM
SF3D

Quote:

Originally Posted by KonradGT

nice benching :D

how many litres of ln2 did You use?

I think around 150 liters. Not that much for whole weekend and for 4-way SLI :p:
05-26-2010, 08:56 AM
Achill3uS

amazing job guys :up:
05-26-2010, 10:19 AM
Hazzan

one word....." AMAZING " :up::up:
05-26-2010, 01:13 PM
Leeghoofd

What's up with the 0047 bios :p new 07 bios in the making ?
05-26-2010, 08:50 PM
SF3D

NO :) These are internal beta bioses, which will usually find their way to public in some point. 0047 is very good for everything!
05-26-2010, 11:10 PM
Leeghoofd

2D vs 3D, Bloomfield vs GT ? elaborate a bit plz SF3D
05-26-2010, 11:20 PM
BenchZowner

I think I noticed a "pre-45nm BIOS" de-javu :D
Better SuperPi 1M efficiency with pre-Gulftown support BIOS ( easy to fix, just remove the Gulftown micro-codes from any BIOS version and you're set ;) )
05-29-2010, 09:21 AM
saaya

cool, looks like fun guys! 3 people sounds nice n quiet, more people and it gets a bit messy in my experience :D
petri, just out of curiosity, why the hate and why the love for the 480?
hate = driver, love = hardware? :D
did you have problems with the memory getting too cold and not clocking well?
and how was the daughter board insulation wise? is it as much pain to insulate as it looks like or was it actually no problem at all?

i like the pictures :toast:
05-29-2010, 09:30 AM
BenchZowner

The memory/memory controller cold, memory overclock limit doesn't exist on the GTX's Sascha.
Most of the times you can also clock the mem's higher on LN2 compared to your max on air.
The hate could be about the cold slow bug ( under a specific temp, varies from -70C to -85C from card to card, the card slows down ( throttles and performs like a GeForce 2 MX :D ) ).
05-29-2010, 10:29 AM
AndreYang

Quote:

Originally Posted by BenchZowner

The memory/memory controller cold, memory overclock limit doesn't exist on the GTX's Sascha.
Most of the times you can also clock the mem's higher on LN2 compared to your max on air.
The hate could be about the cold slow bug ( under a specific temp, varies from -70C to -85C from card to card, the card slows down ( throttles and performs like a GeForce 2 MX :D ) ).

Are you sure these guys have this problem?:p:
05-29-2010, 10:53 AM
BenchZowner

I don't think so, notice the word COULD :p:
05-30-2010, 12:44 AM
SF3D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

2D vs 3D, Bloomfield vs GT ? elaborate a bit plz SF3D

Quote:

Originally Posted by BenchZowner

I think I noticed a "pre-45nm BIOS" de-javu :D

Correct, you got the answer there already :p:

Quote:

Originally Posted by saaya

cool, looks like fun guys! 3 people sounds nice n quiet, more people and it gets a bit messy in my experience :D
petri, just out of curiosity, why the hate and why the love for the 480?
hate = driver, love = hardware? :D
did you have problems with the memory getting too cold and not clocking well?
and how was the daughter board insulation wise? is it as much pain to insulate as it looks like or was it actually no problem at all?

i like the pictures :toast:

Thanks Sascha!

3 peoples is near perfect in this type of event. I agree on that.
The Xpander is actually more easy to insulate than any motherboard ever. There is no extra components and the cold will not spread to the motherboard. I like the solution very much. It is better to have separate board than a bit worse performance and hotter motherboard.

The hate goes to PCB and power design. It is not the best there is, but it can do the job anyway. Scaling is another thing which is not making me too happy. I am not able to bin cards, so high clocks are not so easy to achieve.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndreYang

Are you sure these guys have this problem?:p:

Quote:

Originally Posted by BenchZowner

I don't think so, notice the word COULD :p:

Yes, no cold issues with single card. -140C was the best operating temperature. Too bad that the cores were not the best around.
08-02-2010, 01:58 PM
SF3D

Hey!

Sorry that I waked up this ancient thread, but I finally got a chance to edit some video of it :up:

So, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/user/SF3DOC

I made it quick, so it would not be so boring :D

P.S Remember to watch at 1080p if you like good quality.
08-02-2010, 02:13 PM
DEVIL K-ce

Speed of bench :P Nice video :)
08-02-2010, 09:04 PM
Johnny87au

Quote:

Originally Posted by SF3D

Hey!

Sorry that I waked up this ancient thread, but I finally got a chance to edit some video of it :up:

So, here you go: http://www.youtube.com/user/SF3DOC

I made it quick, so it would not be so boring :D

P.S Remember to watch at 1080p if you like good quality.

thanks mate just watched it took me 30 minutes to stream it lol as im capped, Hope to see more results from you soonish mate! ;)