Benching Team

[TheKarmakazi]

jamie that sig is PURE BAMF

now just add a unicorn for me

What did you think I was gonna add to yours and gomelers?

thanks for the awesome siggy, jamie

+1

Your welcome!!

If I have some more time I will personalize everyone a sig with their name or graphic. Just let me know I also have a hefty collection of Piratey Fonts, even a "wingding"-ish font set with pirate graphics! For any of you feeling like taking a stab at photochop!

[[XC] gomeler]

Hey guys, noob question with GTX295s. Using Vista 32, 2 295s, and testing various drivers. Problem is Rivatuner is currently saying "No supported drivers for this display adapter" with the 190s or 186s.

Do I need to use older drivers or is there something up with the GTX 295 that I don't know about?

[TheKarmakazi]

Hey guys, noob question with GTX295s. Using Vista 32, 2 295s, and testing various drivers. Problem is Rivatuner is currently saying "No supported drivers for this display adapter" with the 190s or 186s.

Do I need to use older drivers or is there something up with the GTX 295 that I don't know about?

Googled some stuff and found this, dunno if it will help

Under the Power User tab:

RivaTuner \ System

Set the "ForceDriverVersion" option to 18585

This will allow you to use Rivatuner as normal with the 185.85 drivers.

[[XC] gomeler]

k, trying the 182s right now, will try that next.

[[XC] gomeler]

182s work. This is what I get for not having touched Nvidia since the 8800GT..

[The Nemesis]

You can force any drivers as The Karmakazi said. I'm running 186.18. Are you running dual or single PCB? The older drivers don't work as well with the single pcb. I haven't tried 190 yet but might give it a go. Also set memory lowgap to auto in bios so you will have at least 1.5GB of avail system memory. This improved my gpu's performance in vantage. I still seem to score better with 3 GTX 280's in 3DMark 06 than with 2 GTX 295's.

[[XC] Oj101]

I also want a custom hwbot sig but whenever I try to change it from my current one nothing happens. I click the force refresh link and right click the old one, View Image, CTRL F5 as it says you must do on hwbot but it NEVER changes

[TheKarmakazi]

I also want a custom hwbot sig but whenever I try to change it from my current one nothing happens. I click the force refresh link and right click the old one, View Image, CTRL F5 as it says you must do on hwbot but it NEVER changes

Looks like your sig is working to me?

[Brian y.]

Googled some stuff and found this, dunno if it will help

Under the Power User tab:

RivaTuner \ System

Set the "ForceDriverVersion" option to 18585

This will allow you to use Rivatuner as normal with the 185.85 drivers.

[[XC] Oj101]

I see that, weird thing is any other sig than this and the small black one don't work. I've had it on the white hwbot sig for about two months but the black one always showed.

[loonym]

Good work breaking into the top 100 Nemesis!

[Slovnaft]

Alright guys,

I've got a 230L to be delivered Friday morning ($78 +delivery ). Unless we have any mates near MA with absurd hardware to bench, I'll be looking for cool ways to waste LN2.

Getting bored with these SPi32 WRs getting tossed around AU.
Time to CRACK DOWN.

[k|ngp|n]

Time to CRACK DOWN.

[3oh6]

so any word on the database there boss? haven't gotten an e-mail or anything and it has been a couple days.

[k|ngp|n]

Still waiting on the mysql info, its out of my hands atm, should be any day, Is it ready?

[3oh6]

Still waiting on the mysql info, its out of my hands atm, should be any day, Is it ready?

yeah, i can't really do much more until i have it up on your server so it will be ready a couple days after i get the info if i am not busy when it comes down the pipeline

[TheKarmakazi]

ok guys i gotta quit wasting time & LN2 on LCC crap and get back into the top100...

[[XC] gomeler]

Alright guys,

I've got a 230L to be delivered Friday morning ($78 +delivery ). Unless we have any mates near MA with absurd hardware to bench, I'll be looking for cool ways to waste LN2.

Getting bored with these SPi32 WRs getting tossed around AU.
Time to CRACK DOWN.

... I am driving to New Hampshire to deliver a cascade Sunday and I can stop by Boston on Monday if you have any LN2 left and a place I can possibly sleep for the night?

[Slovnaft]

... I am driving to New Hampshire to deliver a cascade Sunday and I can stop by Boston on Monday if you have any LN2 left and a place I can possibly sleep for the night?

I have my digital circuit design class during the week so I won't be benching during the day at least.
And my girlfriend will be over so I definitely can't sleep more.
If you wanted to stop by on your way up though you might be able to squeeze a few hours of benching in
I live in North Andover which is only about 20-45min from pretty much anywhere in NH.

The 230L monster is sitting in my garage. But JAMIE I still need that hose/phase sep!!!

[Gautam]

... I am driving to New Hampshire to deliver a cascade Sunday and I can stop by Boston on Monday if you have any LN2 left and a place I can possibly sleep for the night?

damn you guys are picking the worst weekends for me, too bad i'll be in europe, i do owe you one

[[XC] gomeler]

I'm backed up a day due to MOA09 and blowing a board late last night. Don't think I'll be able to stop in Boston on the way down, being pushed back a day screws up my schedule for next week.

[Slovnaft]

damn you guys are picking the worst weekends for me, too bad i'll be in europe, i do owe you one

I'm backed up a day due to MOA09 and blowing a board late last night. Don't think I'll be able to stop in Boston on the way down, being pushed back a day screws up my schedule for next week.

It's all cool. This is so cheap I can afford to do it....whenever

Just getting started, and everything about this sesh is ghetto.
Ghetto black pvc mount
Ghetto makeshift pvc tubing gas hose no phase sep.
Ghetto thermoses instead of a lab dewar.

The chip is finnickey as hell, firm CBB at -115, runaway current as low as 1.4v if i don't fight it.
The problem is my horrible pot, Gautam knows what I'm talking about.
I need an F1

But I'm working on it and I'm not too far away from an initial 5.3 SPi32.

[Gunslinger]

It's all cool. This is so cheap I can afford to do it....whenever

Just getting started, and everything about this sesh is ghetto.
Ghetto black pvc mount
Ghetto makeshift pvc tubing gas hose no phase sep.
Ghetto thermoses instead of a lab dewar.

The chip is finnickey as hell, firm CBB at -115, runaway current as low as 1.4v if i don't fight it.
The problem is my horrible pot, Gautam knows what I'm talking about.
I need an F1

But I'm working on it and I'm not too far away from an initial 5.3 SPi32.

Sounds like fun. I finally get a GPU pot to pair with my F1, but forgot to get sinks for the uncovered parts.

Good luck.

[[XC] gomeler]

Depending on the cards, it is possible to run with just the GPU pot. I've been running my dual-PCB GTX295 through Vantage with no sinks on the fets or io/GT200 chips. I have a 60mm fan blowing over the GT200 chip and a 80mm fan sandwiched between the fets and it works like a charm. I ran my HD4850 naked also, never had problems blowing fets on them.

[Gunslinger]

Depending on the cards, it is possible to run with just the GPU pot. I've been running my dual-PCB GTX295 through Vantage with no sinks on the fets or io/GT200 chips. I have a 60mm fan blowing over the GT200 chip and a 80mm fan sandwiched between the fets and it works like a charm. I ran my HD4850 naked also, never had problems blowing fets on them.

It's a dual pcb 295, but only using DICE, so I'll wait for the sinks. Should be here Wed.

You have them vmodded or are you using software voltage adjustment?