I got it yesterday and ran the odd test, to find out what it's max possible clocks would be. I found that I could get to the insane heights of 643 core, stable enough to run the odd 3dmark game test. I had a benching session this afternoon, and wasn't getting quite as good core clocks as I was yesterday, but there's room for improvement, and opening of windows of course My results were annoying to start with, I kept having problems with 3dmark crashing. Dunno why, just was pissing me off a bit I finally got a score of 15892, but then when I came to submit, I got a CPU speed variation error This was due to me changing the fsb from 225 to 226 in windows with clockgen. 3DMark didn't pick this up... Anyway, I rebooted back to my benching drive for another crack, after being rather miffed by the CPU Speed Variation error, I ran it at 225fsb, and got some impressive results. My end result when 3DMark crashed (I was looping single tests to try and get higher scores on individual tests, when I crashed in Lobby Hi, oh well not to worry. I ended 4 points shy of 16,000 pts, bit of a shame, 0.4fps better in one of the Low quality tests or 0.2fps in a Hi quality test would have given me 16k, I'll have to have another crack at 16k some other time once my as5 has bedded in on the core, and I've made my ramsinks. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7509317
i was wondering how you got it up to 648, but then i saw the water block i still need to get a block for mine... i can only get it to about 580 or so ... did you try the memory or anything... i cant seem to get a good result with the memory
Thats awesome i wanted an 9600 XT but im waiting till march/april for the new line of cards,thus these cards would go down in price a tad since i have a bad budget..
it'll get dusty like any case with intakes IMO... nothing different, its also easier to clean Cheers for the replies guys, I got my memory to 340 with no 'sinks or volt mods, so with sinks I reckon 350 is possible, and with volt mods, 360-365 is possible.
