GTX 280 - Round 1

[BNDMOD]

Pictures of the staff? still not understanding. What is a staff?

Pictures of setup sorry again

pictures of the stuff you used? > setup pics

thanks (y)

[doomwill]

thanks, big review again!!!!

[disruptfam]

a single 280gtx beats out quad sli gx2 games??

[Charles Wirth]

Disrupt, not in sheer fps in everything but to have a unreal strong single gpu solution is the better solution for me. For both noise level and heat generation, my machine sits idle for at least 12 hours a day, idle temps are far lower to the point it is noticible in my computer room.

I am SLI capable and can always upgrade to a second card but my main game is not Crysis, this gpu does great in all current game titles with image quality.

[[XC] Hicks121]

my machine sits idle for at least 12 hours a day

Ummm... WCG

[dinos22]

nice going charles

your card seems more decent than mine in shader clocks ..........as i'm getting artifacts at 1500+ shaders

nice numbers too
i got some better numbers but decided not to record them as they were nothing special considering what a single GX2 does

but going SLI with these with XP will give some great numbers once nvidia fixes this driver for '01 as CH bug is present as you can see in your test there

i was getting around 300FPS at 5.5GHz on CPU with 680MHz core
it should have been in high 300s

on LN2 in SLI and better driver these will allow for some new '01 W.R.s
too bad Vista sucks for 3D benching on old school benchmarks.........

[TheKarmakazi]

nice work FUGGER! You should put the SS on the card and see what it will do!

[Charles Wirth]

nice work FUGGER! You should put the SS on the card and see what it will do!

Way ahead of you, but I will push the card even harder. I know I can break 750 and will end up near 800Mhz on the core (stock heatsink). I do not plan to remove it until I go sub zero.

[Philly_Boy]

Pict staff? whats that?

LOD used for 01 run only.

Running on 790i I can run at a much higher pcie frequency, scores going up.

Thanks guys, more runs inbound. Pedro is confirmed to be here on Thursday.

Lordy I wish I could be there to hang with you guys! I cannot wait for round 2 & 3 results!! What are you going to cool the cards with when you put the cascade on the CPU? Any possibility of some '03 Tri-SLI runs with LN2??

[bmg]

nice going charles your card seems more decent than mine in shader clocks ..........as i'm getting artifacts at 1500+ shaders

That's the same issue I'm having...my evga 280 FTW runs great at the stock 1458mhz shader clock, but has problems when it gets above 1500. I notice that the Zotac 280 amp has a 700mhz core clock, but only 1400mhz (probably 1404 actual) shader clock. Looks like the shader clock might be the weak point, but too small of a sample size to know.

[dinos22]

yeah that doesn't surprise me though because of sooo many processors

but unlinking core doesn't help

Fugger let's see your "new" scores with those new drivers dude hahahahahahahah

[Charles Wirth]

Pedro is in town and we are scheduled to fire up tomorrow. I have an agry bottle of LN2 in my garage.

[DaMulta]

Have you Vmodded it Fugger, or plan too?

[dinos22]

Pedro is in town and we are scheduled to fire up tomorrow. I have an agry bottle of LN2 in my garage.

yay

try to test CH on latest driver
fingers crossed it works (as in that CH is finally fixed and at reasonable FPS)

[ceevee]

Can anyone comment on safe thermals for this card?

At 700Mhz I am getting 85C under full sustained load with stock air cooler, is this too hot?

[DMH]

Can anyone comment on safe thermals for this card?

At 700Mhz I am getting 85C under full sustained load with stock air cooler, is this too hot?

Try to raise the speed of your fan

[BiFfMaN]

Pedro is in town and we are scheduled to fire up tomorrow. I have an agry bottle of LN2 in my garage.

Shoot my garage is a Damn sauna...its hot here in vegas this week

[Charles Wirth]

Unreal hot this week.

85c is a too hot, fan speed or back it off some.

[ExodusC]

Unreal hot this week.

85c is a too hot, fan speed or back it off some.

Can the newer NVIDIA cards not handle high temperatures, or is it just good practice to keep the temperature lower than that? You'll have to excuse me as I've not even touched anything more powerful than a 7900GTX in my system.

I know my 7800GTX could handle temperatures up to about 100C before it began to choke and throttle down, I assume to stop overheating. Don't ask me why it was hitting 100C though, that's a different story...

[Charles Wirth]

The higher the temps the shorter the life span, no guesstimate but 85c will burn you.

[Philly_Boy]

Any results for round 2 or 3 yet Charles? Is Pedro still out there?

The faithful are waiting for the results.....

[gillll]

a quad cpu setup will have any benefits ?