Fall 2009 XS Cheapazchips 3D Challenge

[massman]

Guys, with low-end gpu's it doesn't matter how much CPU power you have ... the GPU will be the limiting factor anyway.

[loonym]

So, what card is the favorite? I grabbed an el cheapo open box 1gb from newegg. I figure if it's real dog, I can always throw it in one of the cheap builds I sell occasionally and try something a little better. I hope you guys are gonna share mod tips and pics because I need help!

[MTP04]

loonym, what brand did you get?

[loonym]

loonym, what brand did you get?

Sapphire

edit: It's the 1gb model, which I may end up regretting, but it was $53 open-box from egg.

[George_o/c]

edit: It's the 1gb model, which I may end up regretting, but it was $53 open-box from egg.

Why regretting it mate ?

[s0lid]

Why regretting it mate ?

Mems might not go that high?

BTW there's 3 different versions, GDDR2, DDR3 and GDDR3, so is DDR3 and GDDR3 versions same or different versions?

These cards are little pricy over here :/
64€ => 94$...

But what the hell, let's get one and kill it!
4.5-5GHz E8x00 or 4.0-4.4GHz I7 should be enought with these.

[Riska]

Do not get the 1gb version they oc bad on mem the 512mb version do great on mem over 1250mhz on all my 4 cards HIS HD4670 ICQ

[loonym]

Why regretting it mate ?

Yeah, exactly what s0lid said, I have a feeling the mem might not be the best for oc but perhaps I'll be lucky. We shall see.


edit: My thoughts when ordering were, if I totally hate the card, I'll throw it in a cheap build I'm doing for a neighbor and simply order a nice MSI or Giga 512.

[STEvil]

Do not get the 1gb version they oc bad on mem the 512mb version do great on mem over 1250mhz on all my 4 cards HIS HD4670 ICQ

get the 900mhz 1gb cards, they do 1100-1150 pretty easy.

Diamond and ATi ref cards are the only ones that have 900mhz 1gb mem iirc. 1gb mem also gives better bench results

[George_o/c]

1gb mem iirc. 1gb mem also gives better bench results

That's what I initially thought, but I must admit, I'm a little bit confused right now. 100MHz more on Video Memory can possibly make that much a difference in scores when it comes to 512MB vs 1GB editions ?

[Riska]

The 512mb is 1000mhz mem and they do easely 1200mhz

And 100mhz mem can do alot for your scores because the card is not cpu bottlenecked but mhz on core and mem bottlenecked
I have played with theese cards alot and i have nearly all the wrs with them

[SpikeP]

Well im going away for a week, but just to verify, any HD4670 is fine. If so, then i got a fair idea what i will order, and i will do it so its here when i get back. - Paul

[[XC] gomeler]

Any HD4670 is fine so long as it has the HD4670 core. No rebadged HD4770s as DH4670s

Just woke up, whip up or copy that logo and get this under the hwbot competition engine.

[STEvil]

The 512mb is 1000mhz mem and they do easely 1200mhz

And 100mhz mem can do alot for your scores because the card is not cpu bottlenecked but mhz on core and mem bottlenecked
I have played with theese cards alot and i have nearly all the wrs with them

I poked through a lot of hwbot results, the 1gb cards are faster clock for clock 1150 is the highest 1gb card on hwbot.

The problem is hwbot doesnt sort the cards based on mem amount so you have to dig and its annoying lol

[Riska]

I have had 11 Wrs with the card and it is a 512mb and clock for clock it is faster because they clock much better

[M.Beier]

4850 exceeds budget??? I think that could be fairly interesting choice !

[quake6]

Yeah, that would be nice... But I think 4670 is also good

[M.Beier]

Can someone please throw me a mail when choice has been picked? Im all in =)

[[XC] gomeler]

Can someone please throw me a mail when choice has been picked? Im all in =)

I would say the HD 4670 is the card to use given how there is roughly a day left. Check back in ~24 hours and you'll have your answer

[[XC] gomeler]

Sent Massman a PM with the info for the challenge. The card of choice is the Radeon HD 4670, so whip out your credit cards and start swiping! The challenge starts in roughly 10 hours, hopefully we'll have a HWBot page up in the next couple of days so the early birds can start submitting scores

[Riska]

I have 300k+ in aquamark3 ready and 25k+ in 3d05 ready new wrs for that card

[massman]

Hwbot's engine is ready to host scores from the moment it goes online.

Let's see some BIG scores people!

[[XC] gomeler]

Ok, now the important part. If you are competing in the challenge this year please PM me and I will give you the password. This will insure that those submitting scores will also be posting in this thread. I'd like to keep all the conversation centralized so we can all share the stories that are sure to occur. Good luck everybody!

SCRATCH THAT!

Ok, turns out the hwbot HCE has a few bugs regarding passwords and such. The competition will be open to the general public so we might get some randoms in there also. Once Massman sees my PM I imagine it'll be open season, so have fun guys

[JamesBong420]

so Gom did ya figure out the pw stuff?

[[XC] gomeler]

Nope Hopefully in the next 24 hours we'll have it solved. Will update you guys when we finally have a solution. So far we've got ~1 dozen members