512mb 7900GT Sparkle Calibre = Super GTX

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Here my almost Ghetto Mod for cooling the memory mosfets & vreg.

Fan fits with about 1.5mm to spare and gives alotta cool air Needed the slim 80mm due to space confines.

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Looks OK to me

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I re-ran benchies using the optimised defaults that are 552/800 with the card still totally unmodded

Not a bad score for a very minor increase in clocks, I am reasonably sure that the core should do at least 600MHz @ default Vcore, might try later

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I never managed 600 at stock clocks Someone on a local forum has one with the OVP off, am very curious to see how his benchmarks turn out

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I never managed 600 at stock clocks Someone on a local forum has one with the OVP off, am very curious to see how his benchmarks turn out

Using the test in optimised default clocks the most I could get the core was 598MHz which ran all benchies perfectly so I would imagine there in still quite a bit more left in it @ default everything

A free 100MHz on the core and ram with no mods whatsoever and more left would have to make this easily the best value 7900GT 512MB card on the market, you can keep all those non reference PCB cards

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Nice one!! Damn, don't have any conductive paint here otherwise I'd take it off now & re-test... Awsome un-modded clocks

I'm quitely praying for a dual-core so I can do some decent benching

Yeah - and ditto on the non-reference PCB's, those Legend/Gainward based layouts seem to be causing all kinds of strife... Although they where the first 512mb cards around, pity about the dodgy PCB!

My scores on the FX55 system:
Only 89points SM2.0 difference & 81points SM3/HDR
OK, so I'm not ceratin how much CPU knocks score on these tests... Although my CPU score is completely off (soz for very hacked down pic)

[alpha0ne]

You should be able to crank that FX55 up to 3GHz easily which will help your score

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You should be able to crank that FX55 up to 3GHz easily which will help your score

Have only managed 2880 on my clawhammer with air... Even with a Zalman 9500 my temps get high & at 1.65v I'm not getting any further, thats with activley cooling the mosfets which go into the 55C range at those volts... But the difference in mhz between 1.6v & 1.65v seems not to be worth it? Maybe I missed something?

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Hmmm looks like its time for some H2o

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Hmmm looks like its time for some H2o

Thats for my future project after the I win the lotto H2o kit is gonna set me back quite a bit, but my thoughts are there, just not my budget

[Nanometer]

When you reach 100 posts, take a look at the For Sale section. Water cooling stuff goes up all the time and you can pick up components very cheap. You could build a simply system for about 100 dollars.

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When you reach 100 posts, take a look at the For Sale section. Water cooling stuff goes up all the time and you can pick up components very cheap. You could build a simply system for about 100 dollars.

Thanks Nanometer I'm in South Africa, so the exchange rate is pretty tough - R6.5/US$1 - but it is still a very competetive deal as buying a good H2o kit here is gonna cost R2500+! Will keep my eyes open though