nVidia owners club house!!

[tkpenalty]

I just picked up an eVga 8800gts 320mb. Where is a good place to start with fan control and overclocking?

:shadedshu

and who was the one who told me not to go nvidia?

I'm saving up for a 320... must get one.

 

[15th Warlock]

Is this thread even updated anymore? It's been almost 6 months since the last update, I think the OP doesn't care anymore

 

[cdawall]

no the updater no longer visits

 

[Artic Foxin Dell]

i have a Retired Nvidia GeForce 6200A and i have an Active Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS

 

[wolf]

well in case this thread gets updated i have a retired but still working BFG 6800 Ultra AGP

ive also owned and gamed on 3 mx440's (1 was pci), a Ti4400, a fx5600xt, and 3 6600gt's (one with a socket A cooler for intense o/c)
also a bunch of ati cards but who wants to hear that in a nvidia thread

i just havent had the heart to sell 6800, i paid 850 AUD for it (approx 500 USD at the time) and its just not worth selling, id rather keep it as a spare.

For anyone who's owned one, i'd just like to make a tribute to the ex-king of AGP.

The 6800U.
you've served me well these last 2 years.
You were our savior from the FX.
May you keep me gaming for years to come.
never say die 6800.

 

[erocker]

:shadedshu

and who was the one who told me not to go nvidia?

I'm saving up for a 320... must get one.

I got a deal on a nice sli mobo that also accepted my memory and Opteron.
Tk, ask yourself... Was this a helpful post pertaining to my question? ... Just kidding man, I have everything worked out anyways (10135 3dmark06) I'm still going back to ATi when their cards don't suck up so much damn power. Btw, I just bought a second 8800! I always wanted to try SLI...
Oh, and I'm still rockin' my x1950Pro as a HTPC on my 37" LCD tv.

 

[Zachus]

Hey, everyone - according to what I've heard from a couple of people in Alcopone's 3DMark06 thread, my CPU score, and my total score in 3dmark06 are not nearly as high as they should be, and I'm a little puzzled by this.

3DMark06 Results: 10145

SM2.0: 4783
SM3.0: 4959
CPU: 2086

I've been told I should be nearing 11000, and the CPU score should be a little less than 3000. I recently overclocked the CPU from the stock 2.4GHz to ~3.1GHz (1.4v) - I raised the score from ~8300 to the scores you see there. Any ideas on why my CPU is underperforming?

Also, there's a ~12 degree (C) temperature disparity between the NVIDIA Monitor's temps and the BIOS temps. For example, I'm running at ~48 degrees celsius according to the monitor (I booted my PC about 5 mins ago after leaving it off for 3+ hours), but after restartring it and going into the BIOS I see ~35 give or take a few. This is always the case, and I don't understand why.

I have thermaltake watercooling just for the CPU - I plan on getting a waterblock for my 8800 GTX soon.

I would really appreciate any help you guys could offer

 

[erocker]

Try using core temp or speed fan for the temps on your cpu. What kind of memory speeds and timings are you using and have you tried to oc your video card?

 

[Zachus]

I overclocked my card to 600 core/1000 memory a few days ago. When I began overclocking the CPU FSB, there was an option to link the frequency changes with the memory; I turned this on and have left it on ever since. I believe I found the memory timings: 5-5-5-15 is stock, but I'll check the BIOS right now.

This is the memory I have: http://www.pcprogress.com/product.asp?m1=pw&pid=CMTWIN2X2048-8500C5D

Whoa - my memory is running quite slow. 5-6-6-19 timings running at 825MHz. Strange - how should I go about this?

 

[erocker]

just set the timings manually to where they should be.

 

[Zachus]

That's safe? Alright - thank you. What about the speed? Supposedly the memory should be running at 1066MHz; or it has been "tested" to run at that speed without difficulty. It's currently at 825MHz. Please pardon my ignorance; I hope I'm not being too much of a hassle.

 

[cdawall]

That's safe? Alright - thank you. What about the speed? Supposedly the memory should be running at 1066MHz; or it has been "tested" to run at that speed without difficulty. It's currently at 825MHz. Please pardon my ignorance; I hope I'm not being too much of a hassle.

your not being a hassel dont worry

RAM
either change your DRAM:FSB ratio or keep you current and try lower timings 4-4-4-12 1T should work try it at 2.0v first if it locks try bumping it till it does (2.3v is MAX for most ram) if that wont work try 4-5-5-15 2T same thing with volts

if you bump your FSBRAM ratio try timings 5-5-5-15 1T 2.1v or so those timings should work up to 1200mhz or so

 

[Zachus]

Thank you - how do you increase the memory speed? The timings? DRAM:FSB ratio? And I'm curious as to whether or not I should leave the CPU FSB/Memory linked as I increase the speed of the CPU FSB.

Also, in the NVIDIA Monitor, the bar next to HT(SPP-MCP has always been red at 1.45V; I've never touched it. Is this normal? PCI-E has also been yellow at 1.25V since I built it.

Thanks again for the help.

EDIT: I just went to the BIOS and set the CPU clocks to default on the pages that pertained to it, and noticed that the default HT setting was 9x, while mine had always been at 7x. I don't recall ever changing these settings, so I'm wondering if the lower HT setting would have impacted the CPU speed in 3DMark06 in particular. With default settings, the timings are now 5-5-5-18 (2T), still lower than the ones I had before I overclocked the machine. The memory clock is now 800MHz, the CPU FSB 1066MHz.

Whoa - just noticed that with default settings the PCI-E voltage increased to 1.5V in the NVIDIA Monitor; it was already yellow at 1.25V. Should I change this?

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

i have a 7900 gs oc foxconn ... id like to join ... can a nv silvencer 6 fit my card?

 

[vega22]

can i play please?

iv got a 76gt 610 core 800 mem in a nf650 sli mobo.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

well my 7900 gs is running now, sans capacitor .. my clocks are 560 1400 ..

hoiw do i control the fan speed?

 

[Ravenas]

Card in the specs...

Benchmark in the sig.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Hey, everyone - according to what I've heard from a couple of people in Alcopone's 3DMark06 thread, my CPU score, and my total score in 3dmark06 are not nearly as high as they should be, and I'm a little puzzled by this.

3DMark06 Results: 10145

SM2.0: 4783
SM3.0: 4959
CPU: 2086

I've been told I should be nearing 11000, and the CPU score should be a little less than 3000. I recently overclocked the CPU from the stock 2.4GHz to ~3.1GHz (1.4v) - I raised the score from ~8300 to the scores you see there. Any ideas on why my CPU is underperforming?

Also, there's a ~12 degree (C) temperature disparity between the NVIDIA Monitor's temps and the BIOS temps. For example, I'm running at ~48 degrees celsius according to the monitor (I booted my PC about 5 mins ago after leaving it off for 3+ hours), but after restartring it and going into the BIOS I see ~35 give or take a few. This is always the case, and I don't understand why.

I have thermaltake watercooling just for the CPU - I plan on getting a waterblock for my 8800 GTX soon.

I would really appreciate any help you guys could offer

Not sure if you made any real gains yet with your setup but it strikes me that you Gfx card is being bottlenecked by your processor if it's still only running at 3.1Gig.....you are probably only getting 75% of your cards potential so the equivilent to an overclocked 8800GTS! If you check the rankings in 2006 you will see there are loads of GTS's above you, all mainly because of faster CPU's, therefore there is sense in the theory that if you have a CPU that at it's max running speed is going to bottleneck then dont get the GTX get the GTS cause at least you will be getting 100% performance/value.....if that makes sense?

 

[cdawall]

well my 7900 gs is running now, sans capacitor .. my clocks are 560 1400 ..

hoiw do i control the fan speed?

riva tuner

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

im running 600 / 1800 now

 

[Gallatin]

(in use)
EVGA GeForce 7950GX2

(in vault)
MSI GeForce 7600GT
ALBATRON GeForce 6600GT
PIXELVIEW GeForce 6600LE
XFX GeForce FX5200
POV GeForce4 440MX

M/B
ASUS NForce 4 SLIx16 INTEL

 

[JC316]

Add me yet again. Geforce 8600GTS

 

[vega22]

not touched the clocks yet but i dont realy need to yet.


bring on crysis

 

[malware]

Can I join the club? I have an Albatron GeForce 8800GTS 320MB video card, here're some photos I took:

 

[cdawall]

nice little card you got there mal

i would tell you to oc the thing but doubt a 430watt psu can take it :/