Summer 2008 XS Cheapazchips 3D Challenge

[dinos22]

LOD is for handicapped people!

it's not LOD
it's the driver

I used LOD in my runs too hehehe

[Johnny Bravo]

This is about the last week guys, very quiet in here

[G H Z]

When I'm back from Taipei I'll see what I can do with my crap card :p

[Johnny Bravo]

well I've finally got my mounting sorted for the pot to fit onto the 8600GT so hopefully I'll get it insulated and ready to party by Wednesday. Of course knowing my luck it'll cold bug immediately and bust up my rig at the same time!

[G.Foyle]

It seems like I'll have to pass too much work at the university. Shame, because i got a very nice card, Galaxy 8600GE (GT on GTS PCB).

[[XC] gomeler]

I'm still waiting on LN2, ordering it in about 30 minutes though

[SpikeP]

Well im out before i have even begun. I sat with it, and getting results like 775core @ 1.83v is just not right. The card was making electrical noise on stock @ 30fps in games. Again, i find that abnormal.

I got a RMA number for it, but by the time it gets there, tested, and a new one back out, this contest will be over. Very dissapointed with the way this contest has gone from myself.

Well, always the next one!

I wish everyone in the contest the very best of luck. May the best person win!

- Paul

[loonym]

hmmm... Here's a stock clock evga SCC card, no tweaks. I will install xp later to try it oc. Not sure what safe voltages are, I haven't touched the cooling.

[dinos22]

common fellas rip it up

compulsory pics of your rigs please

[loonym]

44k 01 at stock. I need to swap cpus for the 8400 and get xp on the array. The x48t in my sig...

[STEvil]

Sorry, work has kept me from doing much else than keeping up to date with whats going on..

[JamesBong420]

what about extending it to the middle or end of next month?... seems like everyone has been a little to busy...

[Johnny Bravo]

I'm thinking this could be needed as well or there is gonna be about 4 of us actually benching here

[loonym]

ehhh... pretty weak, I don't care how long you run it. I need to work on this, lol...

and this too

[[XC] gomeler]

I agree on lengthening the competition. The competition will run an additional 2 weeks to give those busy benchers 2 additional weekends to cram in some benching. Get on it guys Updated the 1st post with the new results and updated date. October 15th, 2008 is the final date

[JamesBong420]

wow am i having trouble or what.... needing a format asap....

im at
972mhz/1998mhz/771mhz... Air
e8600 @ 523x9=4.7ghz... Water

03 = 20,2xx..
01 = 50,8xx........ zero tweaks just 2.0 lod and stock sequence.

so i have ALOT of tweaking to do... unless the memory is just bottlenecking that much.. any ideas?

[dinos22]

common guys

there is no way you will allow my house scores to be on top will ya

[Johnny Bravo]

common guys

there is no way you will allow my house scores to be on top will ya

Ha yeah right - you wish!

Just you go back to playing with your secret Gigabyte x58 board and leave the real benching to us men

[dinos22]

hmmmm yeah last chipzilla i was benching on then secret 790i chipset

actually i do have a nice little board coming here which will raise some eyebrows when it's released heheheh

[Johnny Bravo]

I Knew It!!!!!

[JamesBong420]

doing a little better.. the memory is just starving my card....

3d03-21338
3d01-53700

972/1998/783
e8600 @ 9x522 4.7ghz Water

Edit: ok here is a little update with my 3d01. i am digging the 007.
clocks
972/2052/783 Air

[Johnny Bravo]

well that was single handedly the worst nite of benching ever

Started off promising running 3DMark01 with 980MHz on the core and 1100MHz on the memory - until both Dragon Low and High decided that they wouldn't run - until I lowered the gpu clock to 900MHz and the memory to 1000MHz -> just scraped 70K and then the save corrupted wahhhey!

Thought I'd give 3DMark03 a try instead - GT1 has become a total pain in the ass! keeps crashing in exactly the same point then the Lancaster bombers colloid and the shot changes to seeing them head on - instant crash. This occurs even when I turn the core down to about 920Mhz and the mem alll the way back to 1000MHz yet the rest of the tests run fine at 950MHz/1100MHz!!!

Cold bug seems to be around -80oC and I've managed to get a OVP problem too - can't go over 1.70v on the core or the card shuts down. Memory being Qimonda means that upping the voltage on them means sweet FA in the way of improved clocks and they have already begun to degrade at stock voltage - 3D03 no longer runs 1.1GHz happy

All round failure this end

[JamesBong420]

now that is sad.... johnny

well so i thought to myself why not lower the voltage of the memory and test her out... i gained a little bit more stability but i gained nothing as of mhz... stock mem volts are 2.06v i went to 2.4v to 1.87v.

1.96v seemed to be the sweet spot for them. but still not a single mhz gain..

now i need to actually do an order and set lods for 01 and figure out why my 03 is so weak...

come on guys post up some cards on fire!!!

[[XC] gomeler]

Hope you can recover Johnny, perhaps an insulation leak?

come on guys post up some cards on fire!!!

Had a small fight with AirGas but that's solved, they promised a 180L delivery on Monday. -80C is a great thing to hear Will franken-mod my card this weekend in preparation.

[loonym]

I still wish it was a 9500gt. These are tough cards and I've only got air and it's even tougher when gomeler gets my score wrong No worries, I'm going to try and better those a little, especially that 01... I dunno what I'm doing wrong. Maybe the 790i will oc my e8400 a little better than the x48t? It's starting to get very frosty here at night so I think I can probably squeeze a little more out of some of this stuff. I still haven't taken the stock cooling off the card yet either and I have a duo orb on the shelf and some copper ram sinks. When I was first doing my vmod I busted a tiny resistor off where the mem read point is. I know absolutely nothing about any of this stuff so I'm like ok, no big deal, it'll probably run anyway... wrong answer Now my eyes aren't what they used to be and I shake like a ring of fire aftershock, but I managed to get it reconnected.