Alcpone's Official 3DMark '06 Compilation

[trt740]

Thanks, which mounting would you suggest for the 8800? Ohhhh and did you use the provided Thermal Paste or AS5?

like mine so it cools you ram directly

 

[Tatty_Two]

I have heard that some put a 120mm fan on with a makeshift bracket which of course overlaps the heatsink and therefore adds some active cooling to the heatsinks etc, the review of the cooler thats in TPU showed an extra 5C reduction using the 1200mm.

 

[trt740]

Na you will see almosr zero difference

I have heard that some put a 120mm fan on with a makeshift bracket which of course overlaps the heatsink and therefore adds some active cooling to the heatsinks etc, the review of the cooler thats in TPU showed an extra 5C reduction using the 1200mm.

I put a A/C 12 120mm fan on mine with zip ties as thermalrights instruction show and I saw almost zero improvement use a nice AC 92 mm silent fan or a Zalman fan . This heasink needs very very little CF to cool these heatpipes. I bought one for on the egg for a few dollars and it worked just as good as the 120 mm really it does.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Right, I have a spare 90mm Frezzer 7 pro fan which is near silent.

 

[trt740]

Right, I have a spare 90mm Frezzer 7 pro fan which is near silent.

not sure it will work it needs holes for the wires to go in

 

[Tatty_Two]

not sure it will work it needs holes for the wires to go in

It has, where the rubber anti vibration thingies are.

 

[Mediocre]

The HR-03 defaults to a 92mm fan (it fits in the fins). Not sure if the cheezy metal clips can be bent the extra 2mm for a 90mm fan....

Try it out and let us know

 

[Tatty_Two]

The HR-03 defaults to a 92mm fan (it fits in the fins). Not sure if the cheezy metal clips can be bent the extra 2mm for a 90mm fan....

Try it out and let us know

If not, I'll bin the clips and apply da superglue!!

 

[Mediocre]

is right....

I bet a few zip-ties would do the trick

Love mine, except you can't x-fire, and you loose 3 1/2 pci slots....had to ditch the x-fi.....yeah I LOVE IT...

 

[Tatty_Two]

is right....

I bet a few zip-ties would do the trick

Love mine, except you can't x-fire, and you loose 3 1/2 pci slots....had to ditch the x-fi.....yeah I LOVE IT...

Are we really talking serious cooling here? I only ask because with my light voltmod at the moment on 1.33V I am idleing at 46C on stock and around 65C full load, I wanna up the volts to at least 1.4V, perhaps 1.425V and am wondering if she will take it.

 

[Mediocre]

You obviously have superior airflow (over me) with those temps...I'm usually of the opinion if it ain't hot don't worry.....but.....

With all the talk of high voltage/current (not heat) burning out the transistors in the chip....

What are the cores, 90nm? 80nm? I might try to take an educated guess on the MAX safe voltage (that DOESN'T cause transistor damage). I'd base the guess on max voltage for comparable processors (of the same nm)...

I dunno, my card isn't stable above like 805 on the core, haven't played with the memory.....

Are you trying for 14K in 06, or just a really high core speed? I'm just thinking my card works pretty darn well for what I throw at it, wouldn't want to push it too far...I'm thinking next year when it becomes a 'slower' card, I might crank it up....but burning up new hardware is frustrating (Wile and Damulta )

Good luck, and post the updated scores.....g'dam I gotta get my 06 score up in here...

 

[trt740]

Are we really talking serious cooling here? I only ask because with my light voltmod at the moment on 1.33V I am idleing at 46C on stock and around 65C full load, I wanna up the volts to at least 1.4V, perhaps 1.425V and am wondering if she will take it.

My old gtx ran at 89c under ATI artifacting test with the stock cooler, in a very well cooled case and after putting a thermalright on the 8800 gtx it never went past 58c and thats overclocked to ultra speeds. It idled at 35c i believe and it idled in the 60c range prior to the Thermalright being put on it.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Thanks, you both make sense, the cooler is excellent and I will be reasonably sensible I have oly 2 resistors left, one for 560 ohm and one for 470, it was decidi9ng between the 2, 560 will give me anout 1.38V and 470 about 1.41V, as this is just air nonetheless I will probably go to the 560 Ohm and hope that I can get enuff juice for 13000, then again I might just say fu*k it and go for it, if the card burns I'll buy a 8800GT (damn in fact thats a really good excuse! )

 

[Tatty_Two]

Damn I have just opened the box, this things a work of art! Did I ask before, did you use the supplied paste? Some reveiws have said it's better than AS5? This things gonna look pretty Why is it that whenever I get the soldering iron out my hand start shaking?

 

[Mediocre]

Damn I have just opened the box, this things a work of art! Did I ask before, did you use the supplied paste? Some reveiws have said it's better than AS5? This things gonna look pretty Why is it that whenever I get the soldering iron out my hand start shaking?

I DID use the paste that came with mine. Not because I wanted too (because I don't have any ceramic and I'm paranoid to put conductive paste on the die)

But my paste came all separated. It was very watery and crappy. I squeezed out half the tube until I got some decent paste to work with :shadedshu

 

[trt740]

Damn I have just opened the box, this things a work of art! Did I ask before, did you use the supplied paste? Some reveiws have said it's better than AS5? This things gonna look pretty Why is it that whenever I get the soldering iron out my hand start shaking?

It is good but not better than AS5, it did get great reviews.

 

[trt740]

Man just read the reviews on the 8800 gt I cannot figure out with less shader processors and 200 plus MB of less ram how the 8800 gt can beat a 8800 gtx in alot of benches and at default it really beats the dog crap out of the 8800 gts 640 , 2900 pro and 2900 xt 512mb. It has to be just it's new GPU I cannot imagine how powerful a 8800 gtx would be with that GPU and DDR4. I would say that the 2900 pro and 8800gt price to performance have to be the best cards I have ever seen. I would also say the 8800 gt is better because it doesn't need a bios flash to perform like it's older brother and is still faster out of the box than a 2900 xt 512mb.

 

[DOM]

Man just read the reviews on the 8800 gt I cannot figure out with less shader processors and 200 plus MB of less ram how the 8800 gt can beat a 8800 gtx in alot of benches and at default it really beats the dog crap out of the 8800 gts 640 , 2900 pro and 2900 xt 512mb. It has to be just it's new GPU I cannot imagin how powerful a 8800 gtx would be with that GPU and DDR4,

did you think about the pci-e 2.0

 

[trt740]

did you think about the pci-e 2.0

no but still it's fast as hell but I can see that might be it. Imagine what prices will fall to for the 8800 gts 320 and 640 also the 2900 pro I bet they hit as low as 150.00 in a month. Those well be fantasic buys. They are all still very good cards. I bet in a month you could buy 2 8600 gts 512 mb for 100.00 dollars and thats a great buy aswell this is going to be a hell of a consumers GPU war.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Man just read the reviews on the 8800 gt I cannot figure out with less shader processors and 200 plus MB of less ram how the 8800 gt can beat a 8800 gtx in alot of benches and at default it really beats the dog crap out of the 8800 gts 640 , 2900 pro and 2900 xt 512mb. It has to be just it's new GPU I cannot imagine how powerful a 8800 gtx would be with that GPU and DDR4. I would say that the 2900 pro and 8800gt price to performance have to be the best cards I have ever seen. I would also say the 8800 gt is better because it doesn't need a bios flash to perform like it's older brother and is still faster out of the box than a 2900 xt 512mb.

Shader clocks M8, the architecture is such that the SP's/ROP's etc etc are a lot more efficient and the stock shader clock starts at 1550Mhz I beleive before you even start overclocking, the current GTX starts at 1300 or 1350 I think, that makes one real difference, I think PCI-E 2 on an enabled board does not account for more than about 4-5% of the overall performance increase.

But in High res it will not match the 8800GTX across the board but just watch out for when its BIG brothers, the 9800GTX and GTS arrive in a few weeks, like twice the performance of the 8800Ultra for less money!

 

[Tatty_Two]

no but still it's fast as hell but I can see that might be it. Imagine what prices will fall to for the 8800 gts 320 and 640 also the 2900 pro I bet they hit as low as 150.00 in a month. Those well be fantasic buys. They are all still very good cards. I bet in a month you could buy 2 8600 gts 512 mb for 100.00 dollars and thats a great buy aswell this is going to be a hell of a consumers GPU war.

320MB is end of line (EOL), the 640MB is getting extra SP's running faster so the 640MB will perform better than the 8800GT.

 

[DOM]

no but still it's fast as hell but I can see that might be it. Imagine what prices will fall to for the 8800 gts 320 and 640 also the 2900 pro I bet they hit as low as 150.00 in a month.

lol I bet that NVIDIA's going to drop the older ver. and like how there going to update the 8800 GTS same going to happen with the GTX cuz the GT is beating the GTX so why make them if there already getting beat by the lower end but newer card I think thats whats going to happen cuz the GT is probably cheaper to make then the GTX so there going to get updated

 

[trt740]

lol I bet that NVIDIA's going to drop the older ver. and like how there going to update the 8800 GTS same going to happen with the GTX cuz the GT is beating the GTX so why make them if there already getting beat by the lower end but newer card I think thats whats going to happen cuz the GT is probably cheaper to make then the GTX so there going to get updated

also saw the reviews on the new intel quads 4.3ghz prime stable on air and low voltage, unreal, totally unreal. i'm the upgrade king and cannot keep up with this shit WOW!!!!!! just when you think it cannot get any better and bam here it comes again. I have never seen anything like this ever. That means those chips will bench near 5.0ghz on air I bet unfXXCking real. I love AMD but if you have stock in there stuff you better sell it soon. They cannot keep up with that. Thats it I bet for them. The new 2950 might save them but the CPU sector is done. How the heck is intel leaping like this, unreal.

 

[Tatty_Two]

lol I bet that NVIDIA's going to drop the older ver. and like how there going to update the 8800 GTS same going to happen with the GTX cuz the GT is beating the GTX so why make them if there already getting beat by the lower end but newer card I think thats whats going to happen cuz the GT is probably cheaper to make then the GTX so there going to get updated

Yes, they say the Ultra and GTX will be dropped in the spring once the 8900GTX and GTS are established......if that is the case, top-mid ranged would look like:

9800GTX
9800GTS
8800GTS 640 with 128 SP's
8800GT 512
8800GT 256
then the 8600 series is being totally replaced
the 8500 series will remain as the lowest end for the time being

I think thats how it runs.

 

[trt740]

Yes, they say the Ultra and GTX will be dropped in the spring once the 8900GTX and GTS are established......if that is the case, top-mid ranged would look like:

9800GTX
9800GTS
8800GTS 640 with 128 SP's
8800GT 512
8800GT 256
then the 8600 series is being totally replaced
the 8500 series will remain as the lowest end for the time being

I think thats how it runs.

I bet you gpu is running cool as heck am I right.