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

[Pedro Rocha]

Pedro, how high was the PCI-e clock ?

Thank you.

No more than 107Mhz, in the 790i above that speed the GX2 start to freeze when overlocked..

An important tip for Nvidia 790i Chipset: try to maintain the HT Mutiplier at 4x / 4x and the SPP <-> MCP Ref clock at least at 230Mhz, that will give a big boost on system tests, much higher than PCie speed in fact ..

[Micutzu]

I think it's a GX2 problem, i can bench 118-120Mhz on Asus Commando but i get random crashes, 95% of the time when switching between 2D and 3D. Best Nature so far was 1377 at the same clocks as you, NV chipsets are much faster in 3D it seems; here's a full run for compare.

[Pedro Rocha]

I think it's a GX2 problem, i can bench 118-120Mhz on Asus Commando but i get random crashes, 95% of the time when switching between 2D and 3D. Best Nature so far was 1377 at the same clocks as you, NV chipsets are much faster in 3D it seems; here's a full run for compare.

Yes, already did some 9800GX2 tests with the P35 and diference is quite huge, only in Nature there is a diference of more than 100fps.. dunno what can explain this ..

PCie 2.0 is not for sure, since even with X38 - Maxmius Extreme (that also have 16x PCie) system tests (lobies for example) and Nature are also lower than the scores of the Nvidia 790i chipset..

[mike]

No more than 107Mhz, in the 790i above that speed the GX2 start to freeze when overlocked..

An important tip for Nvidia 790i Chipset: try to maintain the HT Mutiplier at 4x / 4x and the SPP <-> MCP Ref clock at least at 230Mhz, that will give a big boost on system tests, much higher than PCie speed in fact ..

Wow you just took away a hug advantage there my friend! I am gonna get you now!

Yes, already did some 9800GX2 tests with the P35 and diference is quite huge, only in Nature there is a diference of more than 100fps.. dunno what can explain this ..

PCie 2.0 is not for sure, since even with X38 - Maxmius Extreme (that also have 16x PCie) system tests (lobies for example) and Nature are also lower than the scores of the Nvidia 790i chipset..

Nature lower on X38 - yes - but Lobbies???? Nah - don't think you're right.

Mipmap - maybe good idea to discuss this some more in the other thread! These results are waaay to sweet to draw any attention away!

[George_o/c]

Nature lower on X38 - yes - but Lobbies???? Nah - don't think you're right.

Mipmap - maybe good idea to discuss this some more in the other thread! These results are waaay to sweet to draw any attention away!

So, you imply that Pedro used Mipmap ?