E8500 at Mini-Cascade - EVGA 790i & 9800GX2 Stock : 110K on my fav game :-)

[Ming@s]

Pedro which is the cascade with the rotary engine?

[Pedro Rocha]

Another weekend, another run on my favorite game - dont have time to bench during the week

This time I naked my EVGA 9800GX2 and now can run Nature at 775-1950-1145

No Mipmap cheat of course, just Lod tweak

Still on the MiniCascade ..


Here is the photo :




And here is the result :



And the Compare link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9362978


Sorry NightRaven my friend, with stock card I beat your all LN2 GX2 score http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=184044 I have no doubt you can do better..


I think this, by far, the best stock video card 2001 score but I dont stop to play my favorite game - next target 111K

Because this is

[techno_17]

Amazing Run, Pedro,

Congratulations!

btw: nice cpu voltage

Regards,

[dinos22]

heheh taking a dig at NR
certainly very nice efficiency but he will easily beat you once he gets his order and lod right

he had very little LN2 for the amount of benchmarks he had to do hehehe

you are certainly a great tweaker no doubt about it..this is crazy good efficiency

[Pedro Rocha]

Amazing Run, Pedro,

Congratulations!

btw: nice cpu voltage

Regards,

Thanks

The vcore is not real, I measured 1.96v idle and the board sure drops a bit the vcore in load

Maybe with vdrop mod I can get 5.510Mhz (580FSB) benchable.. when I have some time need to buy a VR for that ..

Anyway the mini-cascade is ideal for this dual core E8500, coold boot probs start to apear at around -105ºC

For those who ask (again) in PM's here is the runnig order: LH -> LL -> CH -> DL -> DH -> CL -> Nature..

Used Lod 4.9 and have to drop the OC on the card a bit in Nature, it is full stock EVGA 9800GX2, no mods at all, so 775-1145 is not to bad for a full retail card

[dinos22]

don't you think you will improve more if you use lower LOD for all other tests than Nature

just asking as i see others including KP using smaller values for other tests (think he mentioned it somewhere on forum)