ASUS Nordic OC weekend - GTX 480 first touch

[SF3D]

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

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

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

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:


Superpi 32M 6515MHz with medium efficiency:


Pifast (WR) @ 6668MHz:


Quite good, if you ask me

Quick 3DM05:


Vantage with single GTX 480


Vantage with 4- way SLI:


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

Pictures frome weekend:











That's all!

New 4-way SLI scores will come soon from the dynamic duo

[carpo93]

awsome results man

[ViViD]

OMG Nice Pic

Bravo WR That's Amazing Guys

[Oliver]

wicked weekend

strong benching man,

keep pushing it

[redratamd]

OMG It's great. Congratz guys

[George_o/c]

That's what I'm talking about! Outstanding A0 - 6668MHz PiFast Congrats on the WR by the way
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

[Marvin54]

wow men 4-SLI

[Boulard83]

Great great !

[paill]

good job

[hiwa]

Nice job petri

[sofos1990]

Great scores there guys

[karandiru]

How is this chip..

[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,

[MaJ0r]

As always great scores!!! Awesome!

[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:



Us vs GTX 480:



Still had fun

[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

[AndreYang]

Nice clock

[Brian y.]

looks like you guys had a great time.

LOL at the dead 480's

[elmor]

looks like you guys had a great time.

LOL at the dead 480's

Actually one was buried alive, so only one dead (mosfet burned due to condesation).

[SoF]

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

[Gautam]

Love the PiFast- great work guys

[SF3D]

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

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

Love the PiFast- great work guys

Thanks! Pifast is a nice test.. I have learned to like it.

[KonradGT]

nice benching

how many litres of ln2 did You use?

[SF3D]

nice benching

how many litres of ln2 did You use?

I think around 150 liters. Not that much for whole weekend and for 4-way SLI

[Achill3uS]

amazing job guys