XS HWBot Team

[BeepBeep2]

@Movieman - Nobody cares about class anymore in this world, everyone is fueled by emotion, not logic and the game is every man for himself.

Looking down in my dewar, seems I have 3-4L LN2 left. Like 2 inches on the bottom.
Didn't want to bother with 5L the other day on the 955...but might as well not let this go to waste.

But my HD3450 is sitting here and I think can easily take #1 for all HD3450 benches on LN2. All I need is the CPU on the stock cooler, don't really need to push it any.

Pretty soon here I'm gonna prep the card and re prep the motherboard to see what I can get here. I just now ordered some liquid electrical tape, but I think I can spread eraser pretty thin on the card for now to where it shouldn't be an issue.

[Don_Dan]

Good idea, let's get back on topic!

Guys, show some scores please!

[ZenEffect]

http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2326...0_462926_marks ?

easy 1st run on 7. xp was 10k LESS... stupid wrapper.

this weekend was a disaster of 55! stupid eraser getting in the way. next time george, we will be more prepared.

[BeepBeep2]

Quick question:
Does the 4800 series just not scale well with LN2 or something?

It's hard to look at air results at 1000-1100 MHz and LN2 results at like 1100-1200.
I've got a 4890 too; for future benching I was just wondering.

That run is really impressive

[Mafio]

to unleash the full potential of HD4890 you need this: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads...4890refpll.bin
back in the days I had two cards both capable of 1250+ at LN2 using this bios.

[G.Foyle]

I did 1200/1200 without SF3D's BIOS, but my card wasn't 100% retail. IMO 4890 could benefit from a better PCB/power circuitry.

[Splave]

nice aq3 zen

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

nice aq3 zen

Indeed, the 7970 Lightning we were benching was all problems, but that first try on 7 for his card was smooth sailing, 465k should be doable.

Had a great time benching even with the 55 woes lol

[Don_Dan]

Is that Aquamark run the only score from your session? That must've been a lot of "55"...

[chew*]

Quick question:
Does the 4800 series just not scale well with LN2 or something?

It's hard to look at air results at 1000-1100 MHz and LN2 results at like 1100-1200.
I've got a 4890 too; for future benching I was just wondering.

That run is really impressive

Some cards cold bug, some are mod challenged (ref), some are pwm challenged(ref).....combine digital pwm challenged(ref) with really no incredibly successfull or proven mods(ref) and a possible cold bug at a given temp and your limited to the quality of the card (core/mem).....and or how much ln2 you want to waste to get one run to pass at slightly higher clocks......

Not many ref 4890's topped 1250 core....many were plagued with a funky screen over 1200 core with or without a certain bios.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Is that Aquamark run the only score from your session? That must've been a lot of "55"...

Well. . . . yes haha

We were testing my 7970 Lightning on the UD7, but the card was not cooperating at all, constant artifacts crashes and random black screens.

Not sure if the card needs any mods or just doing it wrong.

Oh well I will be tackling it once I fill up again on Thursday.

[ZenEffect]

ALOT of 55. we only benched about 6 hours total.... the rest was fighting a stupid mount and dealing with motherboard issues. next time... im not even going to bother. just run on what i know works 100% of the time and go with that (like i do normally.)

fyi... 4890 was completely unmodded. its being prepped right now (conformal drying, hard mods done) for another stab. the last weekend was just too frustrating and my head wasnt "in it"

[Don_Dan]

Well. . . . yes haha

We were testing my 7970 Lightning on the UD7, but the card was not cooperating at all, constant artifacts crashes and random black screens.

Not sure if the card needs any mods or just doing it wrong.

Oh well I will be tackling it once I fill up again on Thursday.

I thought the 7970 didn't need mods, maybe ask someone who has mastered the card what they did and if they encountered those problems as well. Might just be a bad card, who knows.

ALOT of 55. we only benched about 6 hours total.... the rest was fighting a stupid mount and dealing with motherboard issues. next time... im not even going to bother. just run on what i know works 100% of the time and go with that (like i do normally.)

fyi... 4890 was completely unmodded. its being prepped right now (conformal drying, hard mods done) for another stab. the last weekend was just too frustrating and my head wasnt "in it"

If you could improve our scores with the 4890, that would be awesome. A first run for Heaven would nice as well! Good luck!

[Don_Dan]

Let's hear it for Marcolecorse! Nice benching with SB-E and two 7970 Lightning!

[marcolecorse]

hello

[Don_Dan]

I see you were able to improve your 2x VGA Vantage result by almost 500 points! Nice work!

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

awesome work Marco

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Some BBSE cold

[Don_Dan]

Crazy picture, I already replied in the 32M thread!

Either you were benching for days or the humidity in your area is very very high...

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Crazy picture, I already replied in the 32M thread!

Either you were benching for days or the humidity in your area is very very high...

ps no vaseline was used

[BeepBeep2]

Hey guys.
Finally got all my life sorted out, and for this moment, life is sublime. Finally shipping things out that have needed to be for a long time too. I'm glad I have resolved so many of my personal problems.

I never got to benching anything I said I would, but that's okay. I did prep my HD 3450 for LN2 yesterday morning. I'm going to install the OS and set up everything tonight with an identical HD 3450, but dewar needs a refill. This card I have has the best clocking ram of all cards on HWBOT and I think it can take 1st on all benches for HD 3450 on LN2.

I am using liquid electrical tape to seal the cards/motherboards - anyone using silicone conformal from MG Chem? How easy is it to take off? The LET can be hard to remove, especially in areas where it's thin.

I should have started sealing boards a long time ago since maybe I would still have a working intel setup.

Regardless-
I've gotten a lot of things sorted and organized lately, I'm making sure I'm not procrastinating about anything that needs to be done. I've gotta starting enjoying doing things again too. I think it's been tough for me to make decisions about anything since I've got 50 things I can bench but haven't, and lots of schoolwork/housework otherwise I didn't do when I should have. Life just overwhelms me, I think too much, and I can't let it be that way.

Thanks to the guys that reached out to me and gave me some advice too, that made me realize my life is what I make of it.

[SteveRo]

Hey guys.

I am using liquid electrical tape to seal the cards/motherboards - anyone using silicone conformal from MG Chem? How easy is it to take off? The LET can be hard to remove, especially in areas where it's thin.

Good morning Beep,

I have used both liquid tape and MG chem conformal.
MG chem conformal seem to work great (never in or too close to the socket though).
I think the MG should be a little better than the liquid tape but both work.
MG was always through the mail, liquid tape is at walmart - 5 minutes away.
I used multiple coats of both when I used them.
Actually even used tape over conformal when I thought the conformal coat was weak.
Never tried to take any of the stuff off - always fearful of damaging the board.
Hope this helps

Steve.

[BeepBeep2]

Thanks SteveRo

The liquid tape comes off the PCB fine if it's super thick...it sticks to itself well and doesn't adhere to the board after you begin pulling it up. Seems it just shrinks tight as it dries.

It's just, it is a pain to take off unless I do like 3 thick and even coats over the whole area...I'm wasting a lot of it I don't need.

Is the conformal a bit softer?

[Don_Dan]

Hey guys.
Finally got all my life sorted out, and for this moment, life is sublime. Finally shipping things out that have needed to be for a long time too. I'm glad I have resolved so many of my personal problems.

Thanks to the guys that reached out to me and gave me some advice too, that made me realize my life is what I make of it.

I'm glad you got it sorted!

[chew*]

Conform is pretty permanent on motherboards, vgas can be submerged in an acetone bath to clean them. Motherboards not so lucky, crap will get in cpu sockets, dimm slots and pci slots.