tastyweat

Well... it was quite cold here over the weekend (~10C ambient temp), I had a new cooler and I had taken the bits out of my old case to put in my new case - so I thought what the heck - trying some overclocking

Updated to a lapped Tuniq Tower with AS5, had 3 noctua fans running accross/through the tower + a nice 30cm desk fan directing air straight from the open window onto the components.

So... bit of messing around... 3.8GHz easy at 1.55V,

Then up to 3.9 GHz with a small bump up to 1.5625V


That's where the jump occured, took 1.75V to break the 4GHz barrier, but managed to get 4.1GHz!!! Which in this configuration ran @ 45C idle and shot up to 60C after a single run of Super Pi, wouldn't like to see the temps it would get up to with extensive load!!!

Booted into windows & ran super pi (12.6s) but a few seconds after it had finished, hard reboot. So throttled back to 3.9GHz @ 1.5625V, ran nice and stable

at 3.9GHz, I managed a nice score of 12.8XXs Super Pi

Did at bench at these speeds in 3d mark 01 with a single 8800gtx:

64639 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9123637

Which was a very nice bump from my previous max stable OC of 3.750GHz:

62200 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9128528


Good couple of benches


Right now it's all in my new Silverstone TJ09, running at 3.75GHz @ 1.4625V, idling at 39-41C Idle (haven't measured load temps properly, but have never seen it breach 60C after hours of gaming).

Setup looked like this:







And not to mention:


(thx to Zaim for resize)

Good day

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zaim

wow dude...... such huge photos.

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tastyweat

lol... maybe I should resize

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wiskerbizkit

nice OC bro, even better scores. I have an off topic question. With the dual monitors like that did you need and adaptor like the matrox one or is it running straight out of the card? I've been thinking of picking up a second widescreen is the only reason i ask.

ChaosMinionX

Nice tasty, wheres the G15 lovin? Anyways lookin good now lets see some higher scores in futuremark . I have my Intel D975XBX2, with Corsair Dominator 6400C3D up and running. It runs 3.6ghz on 1.375v and DDR2 1000 4:5 at 3-4-3-9 timings on 2.4v I will be benching all weekend

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tastyweat

Hey,

While I was doing this & had a single card setup, both monitors ran off one card.


Now because these are two 3007WFPs, both ports had to be Dual-DVI, only a few cards have two dual-dvi ports.

When I'm running SLI, I can't power two monitors. That should change in the future when something comes out for this third PCI-Ex slot i've got on the motherboard.

The matrox thingies will only work off of a VGA/D-SUB port I believe and only connect to a monitor with a d-sub connection, and the 3007s don't support d-sub, dual dvi is the only connection method.

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tastyweat

G15? Urg! That thing looks horibble, I'm sticking with my Saitek Eclipse

When my XXX editions arrive (one's coming Monday), I'll go back up to 3.9GHz and bump my scores up a plenty

My new Crucial ram (10th anniversary), so far I've got it to 3-3-3-12 1T @ 425 (850) @ 2.3V, it's warrantied up to 2.4V, so I'm going to use that as my cap.

I've only played with the ram for 5 minutes so far, have more of a play this weekend - see what I can get out of it, I've seen some amazing clocks/timings from this stuff on the OCuk forum.

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zaim

omg these pics still are not resized!!!!!!!!

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Judas

Damn slick there tasty.

You SHOULD be able to retain excellent frame rates while maintaining dual widescreen support by setting the cards to span both horizontally (i'd suspect that's obvious as your already doing that with 3dmark)

but have you tried running anything @ 5120x1600 yet? My gaud 8mil Pixel of pure pleasure. If the 8800 will keep the frame rate above 30fps

I know running my x1900xtx, i couldn't get the sucker to properly initialize any 3D app running anything more then 2560x1600. Just wouldn't do it. Perhaps with the R600, it won't be an issue.

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tastyweat

What can I say, I'm lazy.

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tastyweat

I don't know anything that will run @ 5120x1600

Also - 3d mark running on both screens... that just kinda happened lol - I didn't set anything to enable it - nothing else runs like that - just 3dmark06

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Judas

odd.... very very odd..

In the nvidia Control panel, thier should be a option to "span horizontally" across both displays to get the entire screen to be recognized as either a single display (abite HUGE). and allow games to run fullscreen across both. (you could possibly manage this by manually modifieing some of the games config files, namely Unreal Tournament lineup are quite easy by opening for example, the UT2004.ini file in the system folder and then scrolling down the the FULLVIEWXVIEWY resolutions (typically the = sign is followed by values you'd see for normal desktop resolutions)

manually changing these to 2560x1600 is required for our dells in this game, but other formats that UT2004 just refuses to allow us to select ingame, have to be manually punched in (i'd even suggest an FOV of 95 or 100 if you can find the option for that somewhere as well)

Reguardless, if you can get the nvidia control panel to configure the displays to be seen as a single display, then manually set a resolution that matches that of the 2 displays to ratio, such as ut2004, and setting 5120x1600, you should be able to get the full high detail and even PRINTSCREEN the sucker.

Would be steller to see a 5120x1600 screenshot of UT2004, with full high quality settings maxed in every aspect just to see how it looks, not to mention other games that you could get to launch and work correctly. (plus you'd see where your 8800 would be the bottleneck easily )

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ChaosMinionX

all your fps are belong to r600... nuff said

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Judas

lol..we'll see

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zaim

well there goes 1 minute of my time..

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tastyweat

Eh, I would - but I sold the second screen on sunday lol

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tastyweat

Thanks bud

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Docmhz

Nice monopoly box.

Awesome rig...

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zaim

not a prob mate =)

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tastyweat

Hehe, was the nearest thing to leverage the bits off the desk

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Mousey

improvisation is what dudes do best after all ;p

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H3X4D3C1M4L

I'm totally jealous of that monitor setup.

Mousey

rofl who isn't, i'd kill for a second monitor but i need a bigger desk first XD

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H3X4D3C1M4L

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