visiontek 3870 x2 958/1143 stock cooler

[trans am]

big thanks to ZoLKoRn, Sampsa and T_M for helping me with the quirky o/cing for this card.

right now 1st in 2006 orb with 3870x2 c2d and vista os
gonna get xp installed my spare raptor next and see what i'm up against.
I'll be back with the Ln2 on cpu results later this week.

specs:
e8400 485*9 4365mhz watercooled
asus p5k3 dlx
visiontek hd 3870 x2 (stock cooler) 19c idle **case is in the window**
2c ambient temp
default bios
gpu0 958/1145
gpu1 945/1145
pcie frequency 120mhz
mushkin ddr3 2x2gb @ 966mhz 8-8-8-25
mushkin xp-800 watt psu

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5331853

[T_M]

whoa nice card clocks, especially on RAM! any photos of the PCB?

[ZoLKoRn]

Your's card is greats clocks congratz

[trans am]

Thanks guys! It getting really cold in New York today. I got XP all the drivers and bench programs on the raptor ready to go. I'll do one more cpu water / gpu/cold air bench in xp then its ln2 time.

[safan80]

can you play games at this speed?

[MTP04]

Very nice clocks there trans am

Looking forward to more results.

[trans am]

For some reason my xp overclock is not as stable as my vista overclock
I was only able to get my video ram clocks up to 1107mhz. in xp.
any clock higher and I would get about halfway through proxycon and it would freeze. no artifacts just freeze. Any ideas? The ambient temps were even cooler this time. all settings in bios remained the same.

gpu0 958.5/1107
gpu1 945/1107

485*9

20,158 3dmarks

Look at T_M up at the top!

[T_M]

lol, ive a much higher score than that now

[trans am]

lol, ive a much higher score than that now

I got the Ln2 friday and got home and started prepping the boards.
I used nail polish around the socket area and back of the board and made foam insulation gaskets and spent 3 hours of motherboard prep and installed my thermal probe in the container. once set up I poured a little ln2 and no post. I tried rebooting a few times and clearing cmos..different ram slots..etc.
swapped boards and still no post. no scorch marks on the cpu and unit was making good cpu contact. I have no idea. I tried 2 boards. maybe nail polish messed up the boards? T_M??

no condensation, psu is perfect. I removed the container and put the stock fan on and still no post. Ive tried 2 cpu, different vga, swapped ram and still no post.
any ideas? Maybe use conformal spray next time.
what a disappointment.

heres a before and morning after pic from my curve.

[jimmyz]

sad to hear man, you made sure the polish was dry of course, and did you use dielectic grease in the socket? take precautions for static? got any pics of the insulation job.

[trans am]

I never use dielectric grease. with a good insulation job you don't need it.
I don't have any pics of the insulation job but I ordered another p5k3 last night and I have a p5b dlx still. I rma'd the DFI 965s. I'll try again as soon as I get some more boards.

[hzrcn]

nearly 10k sm3, 9k sm2 score.. congratz