Kinc and crotale w/ ASUS ENGTX280 TOP Live @ Dreamhack

[crotale]

Dreamhack as usual, and we got a set of GTX280 just on time, so here are some results from another part of the world.



Specs:
ASUS Striker II Extreme
3 x ASUS EN280GTX
Inte Core 2 Extreme QX9770 C1 @ 5600 (-120C)
Corsair 1800C7 @ 900 7-6-6
Corsair HX1000 (GFX) + Silverstone Olympia 1200W (system)
Kingpin F1 EE
2 x Kingpin Tek 4.0
MM Solid GPU pots




Extreme preset:
X17478



High preset:
H24300


Performance preset:
P29547



We'll work our way down the scale

Many greetings to Noname and his crew at AwardFabrik and Mushkin!

[jas420221]

Solid! I take it these are heavily CPU limited ehh?

[Oliver]

Good to see the pictures up Crotale and Kinc...

Keep pushing it.

[massman]

Is it just me, or is everyone refusing to use other benchmarks to bench these cards with?

[k|ngp|n]

Is it just me, or is everyone refusing to use other benchmarks to bench these cards with?

haha they are so nice with vantage though

Awesome job guys, these cards rock. Double post some runs?

[Horus´]

Is it just me, or is everyone refusing to use other benchmarks to bench these cards with?

I guess getting high scores in new stuff is more fun then milking an old farted cow no?

[Charles Wirth]

Thanks, was looking around for your scores from Dreamhack. Nice SLI runs.

Is it just me, or is everyone refusing to use other benchmarks to bench these cards with?

I ran the older benches.

[mrlobber]

I'm with massman on this one.

I guess getting high scores in new stuff is more fun then milking an old farted cow no?

Show us some 110k+ numbers in '01 yourself first, and then start talking about milking old cows and fun (and skill) of doing it.

[personal opinion on]
With Vantage, the real milking cow are actually we, benchers, and the one who milks us is Futuremark.

These cards should be pretty much optimized for Vantage and there's no better way for nVidia doing its PR at launch than to give these cards to selected legendary overclockers, which is the case here.
[/personal opinion off]

Other than that, nice scores, I wish I had the opportunity to be there as well.

[elmor]

Nice work Marcus and Robert, only the best from you guys as always

Did you figure out the vGPU-mod for the GTXs? If so what voltage were supplied? How cold did you run them (any sign of coldbug)? What clocks did you get out of them?

Oh, and that cascade looks awesome

[Achill3uS]

congrats guys, amazing setup but (sorry to tell this) why only Vantage numbers? im more curious to other benchmarks, especially 01 nature scores baah cant wait to test this newbies

[sobih25]

old benchmarks please +1

[Leghorn]

great score with new NV cards boys

[M.Beier]

Ser godt ud drenge... Er det elmor's chip?

[Kinc]

Performance preset update.

We took the wrong screen dump with us back to the hotel so we have to post screens from the orb instead. Print screen will be up tomorrow.

Ser godt ud drenge... Er det elmor's chip?

No it is one from Intel Sweden.

[Nosfer@tu]

EVIL strikes again

GREAT WORK GUYS

[SoF]

that's another blast on dreamhack - every year something special nice show-off there with the new cards

[SF3D]

Nice scores guys!

Maybe it's time to start benching this finally..

[saaya]

haaallloooooooo
nice scores!
hope you can post some more pics

elmor, vrzone has the vgpu mod up in case your still looking for it

[crotale]

Nice work Marcus and Robert, only the best from you guys as always

Did you figure out the vGPU-mod for the GTXs? If so what voltage were supplied? How cold did you run them (any sign of coldbug)? What clocks did you get out of them?

Oh, and that cascade looks awesome

Thanks Jon

It has the same vreg as the GX2, and here is a picture: (opposite side of the vreg IC)

We used a 100 ohm, but if I would redo it I would use a 50 ohm.

We didn't really have time to check what voltages that were required, but we ran at around 1.55 (stock ~1.2v)
One card had 1.70 for a brief moment (my bad)
Some cold throttling at around -70C, we think. Again, not much time to test extensively.
Clocks were around 950/1950/1250, +/- 50.

[Johnny Bravo]

crotale how did you find the ASUS Striker II Extreme ? Was it well behaved throughout all this

[perkam]

3d'06 please

Plus, why do legends keep using 3 cards when bottleneck would be a lot less and pots a lot bigger with just two cards

Perkam

[Sampsa]

Good job guys!

[MaSell]

Older 3DMarks please, we want to see real power of this rig, not only one "bench" with crazy optimized nv drivers.

[SF3D]

3d'06 please

Plus, why do legends keep using 3 cards when bottleneck would be a lot less and pots a lot bigger with just two cards

Perkam

This is not the case with vantage X / H scores. They scale pretty well and are mostly GPU bounded. P score is little more CPU related, but it still scale nicely with more GPUs / MHz. So 3 cards give you best results and later when 55nm GX2 cards come out, vantage will be fun to test.

3DM06 is almost pure CPU test with current high end cards in SLI or Quad whatever.

These comments show how little we know about vantage It's not that awful, even if it looks like that

[1Day]

3DM06 is almost pure CPU test with current high end cards in SLI or Quad whatever.

These comments show how little we know about vantage It's not that awful, even if it looks like that

I agree with you we do know very little about Vantage (I certainly know little about it) but we are familiar with the others 2001 03 05 and 06 toss in a AM3 for good measure. I am really puzzled why both Vince and now these reports are not showing the known benchmarks. Is there a embargo on posting those results due to bad performance of the cards? That is what I am thinking at present, that the cards are optimized for Vantage and nothing else.