E8500 at Mini-Cascade - EVGA 790i & 9800GX2 Stock : 110K on my fav game :-)

[Pedro Rocha]

I've been quite busy in my work, with no time at all to play my favorite game..

Bought a E8500 Q746A that seems to have some potential and specially don't have cold boot like the other I tested...

This quick run have been done in my good old Mini-Cascade for very pratical reason: the rotary cascade makes to much noise to bench a night and wake my wife and neighbours

Setup :
- E8500 Q746A cooled by the Mini-Cascade (-90ºC evap)
- EVGA 790i Ultra SLI stock
- EVGA 9800GX2 Stock
- Cellshock Blue "Pedro Rocha Edition" - thanks Saaya
- Silverstone 1200W
- Some old school tweaking


Here is a photo:



First let's how far it goes in SuperPI 1M at -90ºC



5.500Mhz - not bad, this CPU seems to have potential


Now the first run in My Favorite Game - with very low OC on the 9800GX2: only 750MHz GPU's - 1140MHz Memory ..

Here is the result:



Compare link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9359419

Near 109K for start ..not bad


Hope I can find some time tomorrow to put on the big rotary cascade to see how far it can go in 2001 and 2005 ..

[Gunslinger]

Very nice scores, and nice cascade.

How much voltage to RAM?

[Zannema]

Congratz Pedro

Edit: freq of PCI-EX???

[serialkilla277]

very impressive hope to see more in time

[DStealth]

Nice scores Pedro

EVGA 790i - 9850GX2 Stock : 1st numbers on my fav game

But, when i saw the title , it was like shocking

You bench with SATA drive, strange - my findings with GX2 is that, they benefits heavily from pci-e clocks
1410 NT with only 750 core is great achievement, nice old school tweaking
Good luck with 110k+ in fav game

[BenchZowner]

Nice scores Pedro.
Ha! Your E8500 beats the cr* ( insert bad word here ) out of my QX9650 C0...
Heck, you're on -90C evap, while my QX was at -110C and 1.968V

Are you planning to use LN2/DI on the card/s ?

[Kispo]

uoh, great results! keep pushing it

[Pedro Rocha]

Nice scores Pedro


But, when i saw the title , it was like shocking

You bench with SATA drive, strange - my findings with GX2 is that, they benefits heavily from pci-e clocks
1410 NT with only 750 core is great achievement, nice old school tweaking
Good luck with 110k+ in fav game

I was a typo, corrected now - thanks

Regarding PCIe speed, at least in the 790i the 9800GX2 freeze when overclocked at more than 110Mhz PCIe speed ..dunno why

Using 4.9 Lod on Nature, not the minimap tweak/cheat .. no sportsman should use it

[Turrican]

nice scores pedro

[Oliver]

Good work Pedro, good to see the 790i and gx2 arrived...

Looking forward to further orb damage...

Keep pushing it.

[Dualist]

That's some very nice fsb's on that board Pedro

[xwards]

great

[Don_Dan]

Regarding PCIe speed, at least in the 790i the 9800GX2 freeze when overclocked at more than 110Mhz PCIe speed ..dunno why

Maybe that's because the GPU is be clocked too high, I thought the core clock is derived from PCIe bus frequency on the new Geforce 9 cards. I may be mistaken, but maybe you could make a little test:
1. run all test with standard clocks and PCIe at 110,
2. run test with core clock increased by 10% and PCIe at 100

Just my thoughts.

Nice results by the way, I think I need a new gfx too...

[begrip]

good job! nice rig

[Pedro Rocha]

I did another run, E8500 still on the mini-cascade.

This time also run 3DMark 2005, here is the result:



35K for Nvidia "single card" not bad, considering 2005 is now ATI CrossfireX territory


Much more important, I improved My Favorite Game with a few more MHz and more tweaking.. Here is what I got:



Compare link : http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9359896

In this run, CH was not perfect I saw near 390 CH on other run but crashed on Nature, also only run CL one time..

So 110K may be quite possible with this E8500 on the Mini-Cascade and the Stock 9850GX2

That's why I love this game, everything optimization and tweaking count it's not just a matter of pure CPU and GPU power

[Gautam]

Ahh sooo close to 110.

vcore is rather shocking for a mini-cascade.

[Pedro Rocha]

Ahh sooo close to 110.

vcore is rather shocking for a mini-cascade.

Yes, so so close

CPU-Z is not reading correctly, set 1.975v on bios (reads 1.94v on Bios) and the EVGA 790i have a big vdrop on load

I need to do the VDrop Mod on this 790i, anyone found it ??

Anyway the E8500 produce much less heat than the QX9650, is almost impossible to run the QuadCore at 1.9v in the Mini-Cascade ..so this small cascade is good for dual cores and its so silent compared to the rotary cascade.. In terms of noise the Mini-Cascade produce a simiar noise of a Prometeia MachII, in fact have 2 Danfoss NL11F taken from old Promies

[Speederlander]

In terms of noise the Mini-Cascade produce a simiar noise of a Prometeia MachII, in fact have 2 Danfoss NL11F taken from old Promies

Who did the minicascade for you? Is there a build thread?

Also, would you say 8500 clocks up better on 790i, X48, or P35 at this point?

[fubarswe]

very impressive.., both results and rig! :-)

[noobzed]

Off subject; Do you read your PM Mr Pedro Rocha ? ..

[Oliver]

Just impressive update...

I am sure we will see 110k with stock gx2 from you Pedro...

Keep creating ORB damage...

Sincerly regards.

[runmc]

Pedro - Very nice work !! You must be my "Portugeese 3DMark 2001 Mentor". 100K is in my mind.

[harleybro]

Very nice!! I think I need to move to 790i to gain extra fsb on my 8500. The vdroop mod is HERE. Looking forward to the 110K.

[tiborrr]

Amazing work, Pedro. Looking forward to see 110k soon

Greets,
N.

[DFI pit bull]

Nice to see you are getting great scores Pedro on 2K1 (my favourite game too) with the same stepping as me.