Summer 2008 XS Cheapazchips 3D Challenge

[dinos22]

i got no chance with you

[dinos22]

i just spent a few hours on this damn card
i'm sick of it and wont bench the bastard any more

[Johnny Bravo]

Dinos you try the 169.09 drivers?

[dinos22]

i was thinking about them seeing some big numbers on HWBOT but i am tired of that asswipe card to be honest

[Johnny Bravo]

Get a chance to play 3DMark03 - I blew at it, GT1 culled my core clocks no end and GT2 was pretty picky about the memory speed

[G H Z]

Nice one dinos

I tried some Cas 4 1:1 on RE, not working. EP45T looks pretty good for that

[dinos22]

your file host isnt working

you really should use imageshack and ff3
no popups and images never go down even after years of hosting

[G H Z]

Uploaded to wrong album

Imageshack...you've got to be kidding lol.

[dinos22]

ive seen your remarks about it in the past but seriously that host you use sucks

have a look at threads 2 years ago with ppl using that host and imageshack and see what the ratio is of working pics

[dinos22]

your card is a dog too
ram wise i mean

[G H Z]

Ram sucks but I can run 1000 core on air

[dinos22]

Ram sucks but I can run 1000 core on air

my last score from yesterday was also on air

i slapped the TTBT on the core but your cards needs less voltage

also i benched core past 1GHz but for some reason Lobbies crash in one particular spot at LH

[[XC] gomeler]

180L delivered.. insulating up a board and trying to figure out how to clamp a GPU tube to this little card

[Johnny Bravo]

I may have some pics that will help you out here Gomeler - watch this space....

[loonym]

hmmm... still pretty weak but a definite improvement...

[G H Z]

You need LOD

[dinos22]

damn
that driver is pretty good...or is it his RAM running at such speed...i think it might be dragons liking RAM actually

[Johnny Bravo]

Stretch my legs

[Johnny Bravo]

First Attempt



Running 1.68 on the core 2.2 volts on the memory - gpu is cooled to -75oC with LN2 as the cold bug seems to be vaguely about -80oC.

Everything runs fine at the clocks reported except Dragothic low and high - with cut out at random stages of the bench. Only way to get around it is to reduce the clocks heavily on those benches



Clocks in this image are the ones I had to use for Dragothic - how crap is that!

3DMark03 just threw more confusion into the mix - GT1 always crashing at the exact same point but GT2,3 and 4 seem to be able to run the clocks flawlessly

Nuts to it I went to bed by that stage....

First Attempt

Having read what a few of you guys had been doing - and seeing how most of you were hitting in the high/high 900's on the core with air I began to wonder just how effective my more extreme cooling was really being....

...turns out it's not that good at all

running the pot at approximately -20oC instantly solved my dragothic issues?! Plus the same clocks I'd been using for the past week with -80oC could be achieved with about -20/-25oC on the core - what a joke! I soon found out that going lower than -30oC caused all sorts of problems with the memory and the core. I'm wondering if the IMC on the gpu is really cold bugged?

By this stage my memory was starting to give though - 1.2GHz was a flight of fancy and benching at the clocks below wasn't exactly plain sailing - car chase low had started to randomly crash (which is f'ing annoying when it's the last one you run and you know that your other times are good!)

But I managed to pull this out of the bag with one crazy ass running order LH-N-DH-LL-DL-CH-CL



LL is about 20fps off what I've had it at which was annoying - and car chase low is about 10fps off too but then it was playing silly buggers and I didn't want to chance it screwing up the show.

Final voltages had 1.68volts on the core (OVP limited) and 2.16volts on the mem (bigger volts != bigger clocks with Qimonda) nothing exotic was done with the board but I'm pondering trying to find the voltage controller datasheet for the gpu core so I can disable the OVP and drop some real volts on the core.

[Johnny Bravo]

Similar story for 3DMark03 - up the temps and the problems go away. In fact for 3D03 I was mostly running at about -19oC to get GT1 to complete without fail - go figure.

I've come to the conclusion that if you had a good chiller and a decent water block you'd be landed as far as cooling is concerned for these cards - they just get too wired after you pass -30oC

I'm gonna mount my Swiftech shortly and see if I can do better more ambient temperatures

[dinos22]

nice going indeed

[JamesBong420]

holy moly!!!!!!!! i cant compete with that memory even a little bit. great runs mon!!!

[dinos22]

try to use that other driver i used initially for '05

i could not match my '05 runs for some reason even though i was a lot faster on CPU and faster on GFX card

must be the driver or my card was unstable

[Johnny Bravo]

that the 175 one Dinos?

[dinos22]

yeah give them a shot