Gigabyte HD 6870 vmodded - running 1200 Mhz GPU aircooled

**Monstru** · 10-22-2010, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by ElSel10

Oh I know that! But I mean for an average user, this won't be a realistic expectation on air.

Yes, you are right, this is not a realistic expectation for an average user, but most of the things presented here are like that. It is fun to push the limits, in this case the air-cooling limits

**Sn0wm@n** · 10-22-2010, 11:51 AM

if a user can use winters cold air to reach those temps i say its attainable by anyone smart enough to know how .... vmods arent that easy but its doable

**Johnny87au** · 10-22-2010, 06:57 PM

Nice results mate!! Cant wait to see what they can do Crossfire on water!

**Leeghoofd** · 10-23-2010, 01:07 AM

Nice work lads !! looking forward to these cards next week !

**ColonelCain** · 10-23-2010, 01:19 AM

At least change the title to "running 1200mhz sub-ambient aircooled."

**xellsyuh** · 10-23-2010, 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by ColonelCain

At least change the title to "running 1200mhz sub-ambient aircooled."

air cooled | DI | Phase | LN2

it is air cooled, what's all the fuzz about it

? It just shows the gpu potential

**Leeghoofd** · 10-23-2010, 02:06 AM

yep, ambient doesn't mean +20°C...

If you have to adress all the newspapers and gossip mags that stick slightly deceiving eyecatching headliners above their articles, then you are up for a massive job...

They just want to adress that it will scale well with volts and added cooling... if they said 6870 does 1025Mhz on ambient boxed stock air cooling would it get so many hits ? dunno...

**poparamiro** · 10-23-2010, 02:43 AM

At least change the title to "running 1200mhz sub-ambient aircooled."

Setting are clearly marked on every category (ambient, cooling....). For 1200mhz ambient was 1 to 5 degrees celsius

At -30c ambient for sure i can do better

1115mhz possible at 20+c ambient

**Lightman** · 10-23-2010, 04:26 AM

Very good job Lab501

1115MHz on AIR at 20C amb. is very good! My HD5870 'high-leakage' edition could do 1100MHz under same condition with stock cooler @80% as well

**cowie** · 10-23-2010, 04:54 AM

Another great job

I think extreme air tests kick ass!!
it seems to have good scaling per o/c to game fps but not "great" scaling,none the less thanks for the vmod cant wait to try myself.
screw the huge heatsink i'll just put a piece of dice on the cards stock one

**Jamesrt2004** · 10-23-2010, 06:15 AM

whats with people winging about it not being practical? its for an OC....

nothing wrong with thread title... is it oc'd to 1200mhz? yes.. is it air cooled? yes... does it say it's practical in the title? no...

there.

congrats on the OC awesome effort

and people complaining the ambient is 1-5? ... my room was only 11 degrees last night.. 5 is very believable especially as most of europe got a massive arctic wind coming down over it.

**Johnny87au** · 10-24-2010, 02:08 AM

is it just me or the msi hawx 460s are yielding better bench results????

**SAE** · 10-24-2010, 02:11 AM

Great job!

Let's hope Cayman can cope with those results.

**kuroikenshi** · 10-24-2010, 04:32 AM

Originally Posted by Johnny87au

is it just me or the msi hawx 460s are yielding better bench results????

yeah its just you

**Lanek** · 10-24-2010, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by clo007

Well some of us like to be xtreme on processors and not gpus. Also alot of us try to make real-world xtreme set ups by maintaining functional cases.

Are you sure we are on the same forum?

Originally Posted by ElSel10

Oh I know that! But I mean for an average user, this won't be a realistic expectation on air.

Is this thread is a review about the 6870 showing how well it's overclock on air and what can expect peoples with the 6870 ? no ..... does they claim they do it in "normal situation" no .... all was said till the start .....

Anyway is it the fist 1200mhz on air cooling we have seen ?

GG guys anyway ...

**Barr3l Rid3r** · 10-24-2010, 07:41 AM

Not nice to see that the 5850 still much better than the 6870... not even 200mhz more and i7 processor were able to beat the older beast.

Vantage Solo

**stangracin3** · 10-24-2010, 09:53 AM

its bad that it cant even beat the 5850

**Manicdan** · 10-24-2010, 10:22 AM

Vantage is like a rare exception for these cards. games however are showing a 6870 winning by about 5-10%. i guess raw shader power really helped that benchmark

**Tomasis** · 10-24-2010, 11:53 AM

yeah just try CF .. it becomes good as 5870cf

at most benchs

**Barr3l Rid3r** · 10-24-2010, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Tomasis

yeah just try CF .. it becomes good as 5870cf

at most benchs

I does have higher clocks, but I doubt it will perform better than a oced 5850.

**tbone8ty** · 10-25-2010, 05:20 PM

what tool r u using to pass CCC limits of 1000/1250? is there a bios flash? RBE or a program like msi afterburner to tweak voltages

edit: ah i see he used msi afterburner i guess it recognizes the 6800 series and u can tweak fan profiles an voltage, but how did he go past 1000mhz CCC limit?

**tajoh111** · 10-25-2010, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004

whats with people winging about it not being practical? its for an OC....

nothing wrong with thread title... is it oc'd to 1200mhz? yes.. is it air cooled? yes... does it say it's practical in the title? no...

there.

congrats on the OC awesome effort

and people complaining the ambient is 1-5? ... my room was only 11 degrees last night.. 5 is very believable especially as most of europe got a massive arctic wind coming down over it.

Isn't that a little too cold? I tolerate cold weather better than most(Saskatchewan winters are colder than most, certainly colder than england) and I find 19 degree just about right. 11C(51.8F) degree's would make me sick after a while. 5 C constant, unless your a fatty or constantly wearing winter clothes, you would probably get hypothermia after being exposed to such conditions constantly(you would be living in temperatures colder than most fridges[not freezers]) .

You should turn up the heat or perhaps even buy a warmer video card lol.

**spursindonesia** · 10-25-2010, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by tajoh111

Isn't that a little too cold? I tolerate cold weather better than most(Saskatchewan winters are colder than most, certainly colder than england) and I find 19 degree just about right. 11C(51.8F) degree's would make me sick after a while. 5 C constant, unless your a fatty or constantly wearing winter clothes, you would probably get hypothermia after being exposed to such conditions constantly(you would be living in temperatures colder than most fridges[not freezers]) .

You should turn up the heat or perhaps even buy a warmer video card lol.

Hehe, you should come down under here mate, there's plenty of sunshine here, 30 c ambient, but quite damp & humid nowadays with moonsoon season coming.

So far, GTX 470 seems still the card to go if you're into OCing, but HD 6870 seems to have more OC potential than what was previously suggested.

**NovoRei** · 10-25-2010, 06:41 PM

I think when we read aircooled we expect normal temperatures, in other words something like NTP or 20C .

**Solus Corvus** · 10-25-2010, 06:56 PM

So everyone complaining expects to be able to glean all the information they need about an overclock from a one line title in a forum post? Get real.

Is the card voltmodded? Yes. Is the card running at 1200 Mhz? Yes. Is the cooling medium air? Yes.

The title is fine, if you want to know more you simply have to read a whole 4 run-on sentences contained within the very first post. That's hard, I know.

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