More results with ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II

[hipro5]

With my DCU II it wasn't that hard: heat gun on GPU to about 70-80 degrees, Swiss Army knife between PCB and IHS and POP .

Actually the TIM was applied pretty good. LN2 test tommorow so keep you posted !

This is a PERFECT contact M8.....

[matose]

Too late now

[chispy]

This is a PERFECT contact M8.....

[matose]

Tried the board today on LN2 but it seems this particular card isn't that strong: 3DMark2003 at 1330 - 1340MHz @ full pot @ 1.56v
The board is without IHS, perfect contact because even with the pot full the temperature was going up under LOAD.

I don't think the TIM is the problem here, because:

- the card scaled with cold
- the card scaled with voltage
- I got 1250MHz stable in 3DMark2003 with 1.44v and -110 degrees which isn't that great from what I saw here

Tried also with PLL from 1.25v to 1.35v and the memory works good up to 1350MHz, so no problem here. What do you guys think?

P.S: Too bad about the 2500K that was running 5800MHz 4 cores @ 1.625v all the time

[G H Z]

How was it failing at higher clocks? Memory? Core problems? I didn't get any better results on 480 Lightning with IHS off.

[matose]

Usually it was freeze and then continue running after a couple of second with screen corruption (textures missing, crappy FPS). Every time I could get back into Win without restart (the clocks were kept though). I didn't have any CB or CBB...
I tried with -160, -170, -180 and it was perfectly scaling; with some card I experienced problems when they were too cold.

The IHS removal was very good move, I never had so good contact like today

[G H Z]

Yea no doubt contact is much better, seems a little easier to encounter memory issues though, cold gets there easier.

Splave what's up man, hit 1700 yet on that thing?

[G.Foyle]

Tried it yesterday on LN2 with OCP and CBB mods done, core voltage setting via SmartDoctor, IHS still on and Arxtic Cooling MX3 paste. I'm getting instant black screen below -130 - it can boot fine below that temp but once the driver loads it's just black screen until I heat up. Is this the kind of problems I would have without OCZ Freeze?

[matose]

Black screen under load or in 2D?

[G.Foyle]

Both under load and in 2D. When I reboot below -130 I get the windows loading animation, logon screen flashes for a split second, then the screen goes black. Vgpu stays fine, it just displays black.

[matose]

I think the problem is that vGPU is too low in 2D. If you do +0.4v mod everything should be fine. Either that or your card can't handle low temps!

[hipro5]

Tried it yesterday on LN2 with OCP and CBB mods done, core voltage setting via SmartDoctor, IHS still on and Arxtic Cooling MX3 paste. I'm getting instant black screen below -130 - it can boot fine below that temp but once the driver loads it's just black screen until I heat up. Is this the kind of problems I would have without OCZ Freeze?

DON'T use the MX3 under cold....It's really CRAP.....Try the MX2 instead.....

Try lower your memories and retry....

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

this is the 1627 03 GPU, TIM is dry and like powder it actually flaked off in chunks lol 110c on kingpin fattie plus butter knife

wow that does looks super powdery almost like confectioners sugar

[Kal-EL]

Wuts with the tweated usernames? DB got screwedup?

[hipro5]

WOT - WOT??........I'm FUGGER - the BIG admin......

Behave OR I'll ban you all......


EDIT: Oppssss!....... Then who's hipro5?....

[chuchnit]

Hilarious!

[Kal-EL]

WOT - WOT??........I'm FUGGER - the BIG admin......

Behave OR I'll ban you all......


EDIT: Oppssss!....... Then who's hipro5?....

hipro5 has been captured by my people and is on his way to Hawaii for OC4 Japan Fundraiser. He will sing "Never gonna give you up" livestreamed from the beach

[SF3D]

Happy 1st of april!

[K404]

Dunno if I can deal with the "Smithing" of XS admin, it's too weird!

[hipro5]

Happy 1st of april!

EXCUSE me!..........IF I AM FUGGER, then who are you?........

[chispy]

, happy april fools day everyone

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

loving every minute of it, happy april fools day people

[SoF]

haha LMAO

€: how it comes - must be a time machine - I'm an old man now

[Splave]

lets see if this helps with no lid

[SF3D]

EXCUSE me!..........IF I AM FUGGER, then who are you?........

I am THE RealFUGGER! All others are cheating.

lets see if this helps with no lid

Nice Indium!

In theory that would be the best choice, but in my case the contact were never good enough. If you can make good contact with it, it should rock!