Hicookie and T_M - 3DMark'06 WR in Taiwan - Gigabyte X48T

[T_M]

This weekend I travelled to Taiwan, where Gigabyte helped arrange some pre-release GA-X48T-DQ6 motherboard testing.

Teaming up with local overclocking master and good friend Hicookie (Team XtremeFastest), and with Gigabyte's newest flagship motherboards on hand, I was really excited to see what results we could achieve.

After a day of sight seeing/drinking, we set to task on Saturday afternoon in a hotel room putting together the system we hoped would take down the 3DMark'06 Single Card WR:

-Intel QX9650 Yorkield (Retail '39)
-Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 Rev 1.1 unmodded - thanks Gigabyte Taiwan
-Patriot DDR3 PC3-15000 (1866MHz) rated @ 8-8-8-24 - thanks Patriot Taiwan
-XFX nVidia 8800GTS 512Mb G92 vGPU/vMem modded
-Gigabyte 'Odin' 1200W Quad SLI Ready PSU
-Western Digital 500Gb SATAII running XP SP2

Cooling for the system above was based on:
-Kayl Rev2 CPU pot
-MickeyMouse GPU MousePot Rev?
-100L LN2

Some photos of the system for Saturday:









After a few hours of set-up, we had prepared a totally unmodified GA-X48T-DQ6 with vaseline coating all surfaces/contacts of components around the socket and NB, and insulated in the usual manner using foam sheet and then tube.
The video card came pre-prepared with a coating of enamel paint on entire rear surface and some front surface with clear nail polish. This card is a real animal as proven already on air and DICE, so i expected nothing less on LN2 than what we saw

So anyway, here you have it - new WR for single card in 3DMark 2006:.
Check out that shader clock

22,586
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4326503
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXP4qtquw04


We really pushed the system as hard as we could to obtain this result, with voltage on the GPU maxed before OVP/OCP kicked in (1.505V idle) and the CPU at 1.9V in BIOS (~1.85V after drop/droop). LOD was 15.
The vCPU was kept reasonably "low" because we wanted to avoid any problems with blowing mosfets which had plagued the X38/T-DQ6 series.

The following day (Sunday) we were focussed on the other 3D benchmarks, with #1 hwbot for GTS in all our target.
Again we prepped a very similar system, however this time we traded the Patriot DDR3 for Hicookies "magic" ADATA GTR stompers.
We also revised the insulation on video card pot a little, but generally the system was still the same.
Today we would end with pushing up the vCPU to really test the motherboard under extreme conditions.





And now for the results - #1 in all for 8800GTS 512Mb!
Unfortunately, FM havent approved 169.21 drivers for 3DMark'03, so we cant publish that result. All other results were fine though

'05 - 30,985
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=3821158


'03 - 60,259
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/T_M/03ORB.jpg


'01 - 95,862
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9306874


AM3 - 307,997


And now some action shots from the 5 days I spent in Taiwan, with my friends having a great time.
Really huge thanks to Tim from arranging all of this, and to Jensen for being involved.

Hicookie - you are truly an overclocking master in my eyes and really much of the success of the weekend can be attributed to your fine knowledge of troubleshooting crashes and tweaking performance

Thanks also to my GF who accompanied me for the full 5 days, living in a hotel room doing "extreme TV" as hicookie says.

[dpa]

the new GTS 512 is a monster! Good clocking there hicookie and T_M!!

1130Mhz... lol...

[LowRun]

Good job guys, seems like you enjoyed your time there, would have liked to see the face of the members of the hotel crew when LN2 got there

[ZoLKoRn]

Nice T_M look like very fun, if i to be free maybe i'll probably lived that too hehehe...

Miss you two guy my good friend

Merry Christmas and Happy new year

[Gautam]

Excellent clockin guys.

[Droperidolum]

OMG! shader @ 2.86+ GHz !!!
Whats vGPU, vMem?

[Pedro Rocha]

[Harshal]

Super clocking!!
And Congrats on Records!!
I see Tim [GB] also joined you guys for fun

[eva2000]

wow congrats Tim & Hicookie - overclocking to that great scenic window view with 100L LN2 on hand!

Wonder what hotel patrons thought of that massive 100L LN2 tank That 1200W psu looks like it means business too

22.5k single card 3dmark06 and 95k 3dmark2001

Just bloody amazing

[massman]

Ah, really awesome Tim . You teaming up with HiCookie was a very clever idea.

Thumbs up for You, HC and Gigabyte

[G H Z]

Very good results guys, love that view while OC'ing

[hey]

Mission completed

[qballe]

amazing bench and very nice bench-room

[Lightman]

Congratz guys!

Great scores! That is way of progress, one card and scores like from SLI setups couple of months ago !

[mascaras]

congrats guys!!

no doubt this new 8800GTS are realy good cards for benching

btw: T_M , did you test Max FSB of Gigabyte X48 ??

regards

[blind_ripper]

nice team up guys , congrats on the great score

[SIOUX]

Great clocking guys

[eva2000]

Great clocking guys

but i can help noticing the Car low in 3d01 is TOO high for the clocks. I have a 100mhz more on CPU, and 200fps lower.....something is wrong there

its also 20fps faster than Hipro5 WR at 5766mhz.....so thats bugged more than usual

Run into car low low scoring bug ??? You using X38 or P35 chipset ?

[artkobe]

hahah,guy,congratulations
and when will you come to china ag?
ps:i see cookie's TOUGH

[T_M]

@ SIOUX - sorry mate i cant help you much there.
We ran 3DMark'01 and scored about the same 5+ times.
Maybe you should revisit your tweaks Or run an exact same setup then compare.

@ Droperidolum - vGPU = 1.505V idle / vMem = almost stock (we didnt spend any time on mem)

@ mascaras - no sorry we didnt test max FSB for the board, we only tried 2 different QX9650's and both dont go above ~460-470.

The view was a pleasant backdrop compared to the blanks walls im used to.

[eva2000]

congrats Tim for entering top 20 on hwbot.org HOF too

[Charles Wirth]

Taiwan is nice place to visit for sure and will be back for Computex in the new building next year.

Nice view for overclocking, looks a bit wet out as always.

Is there a shot of the mobo from above to see the power and layout? '

Grats on the single card record push.

[T_M]

Thanks Charles / George
I didnt take any mobo photos as we pretty much tore into things straight away.
Although i can take a couple shots for you of the ones in my living room tonight

Think X38 with a couple minor mods like extra mosfets on backside

I forgot to mention that the board is looking good for retail in week 1/2 '08
Aint no backlog of old chipsets holding this company back heh

The PSU was great until we tried running really high vCPU.
Unfortunately with a quad 12V rail design, and only 20A available to the motherboard it was giving weird reliability running the QX9650 at anything above 1.9V.
As Hicookie rightly said, this PSU is geared towards running tri/quad SLI in normal systems.

[runmc]

You guys did a great job congrats on your overclocks and cooling success.

[T_M]

Speaking of cooling success, i'm in love with Kayl's hold-down plate for teh CPU pot.
I have NFI what material it is made from, but i've never ever seen before a plate that doesnt even get cold/wet/iced when under DICE or LN2.
This thing literally stays room temperature, meaning we didnt even have to mop up any condensation from the CPU pot for the 2 x 8hr benching sessions we ran!