I dont get anything like what I should get with the multimeter - ie 0.7V for memory - therefore given it up as a bad job and increasing both voltages blind - ie a quarter turn at a time. Risky!
Done a full turn of each now - anyone be able to guestimate what the voltages would now be and if it is safe to go much further.
The variable resistors used on the cards are 25 turn types. Turning by one turn would have increased the voltage by less than 0.01v when the voltage is low. As the voltage gets higher, the rate of voltage increase increases a lot, so turning by 1 turn might increase the voltage by 0.1v or more. You need to measure the voltages with a multimeter, otherwise you run a very high risk of damaging the card, and possibly other equipment in the computer. Are you sure the multimeter was set to the right range (DC volts), the black lead was connected to ground and the red lead had a good connection to the read point?
The time has come to post my first set of figures. System: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with shipping bios Opteron 146 (stepping CABYE 0543FPMW) GSkill 1GBLE PC3200 RAM JeanTech 550W PSU Pioneer DVD-ROM Generic FDD Maxtor HDD Thermalright SP120 HTPC Tech Station standard size Here is the poor wee card in the system ready to be tortured! The Opteron is overclocked to 2800 at stock voltage 100% stable. Memory is on the 166 divider making it run at 233.3 so that is 100% stable also. Measured voltage using my nice new rapitest RM25 are 1.3V for the graphics card GPU and 2.7V for the graphics card memory. 3DMark01 Stock score = 7562 compare URL = http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8949697 3DMark03 Stock score = 1932 compare URL = http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4736547 AquaMark3 Stock score = GFX 1905, CPU 12409, TOTAL 17684
Cheers mate, added to spreadsheet. As goreblast has noted in his post, system specs would be nice too guys Cheers
Stick the Pi window above the CPU-z window. Shuld still be able to read the clockspeed which is the important bit.
Ok so my stock runs are done but im having trouble getting my compare links as i dont have internet access on my test rig so what i did was save those results using the save function and i got two files for both 01 and 03. either way 01 opens but i dosent desplay my results and when i try and upload the results it says i need a "pro" version. Then when i try and open the 03 file it says "no such file or directory"??? WTF? Im quite stuck/pissed off at the moment...Let me know what we should do about this.
Open 01, and use the "submit saved result" option. In 03, right click and choose "submit saved result" Shouldnt have any issues uploading saved results, even on the non "paid" accounts.
This is my set of results. My system: Spec's: AMD AthlonXP 2600+(TbredB) OC'd @ 2.3Ghz 512Mb Elixir DDR3200 (2x256) ASUS A7n8x-dlx Rev.2 Antec Smartblue 350w Psu Fujitsu 5400rpm HDD Pioneer DVD-RW Coolermaster AERO+ Copper HSF Evesham Stock Case. 3DMark01 Stock Score:7172 Compare Link:http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8953109 3DMark03 Stock Score:1954 Compare Link:http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4743609 AquaMark3 Stock Score:17,931
Its very interesting and somewhat humbling to see how close these two systems are when you are graphics card limited!
well, a minor setback... my hard drive just died and I've used windows install disk as much as possible, so unless I can get to grips with linux and get everythin workin by tomorrow I may be out hope I can get something together, was looking forward to this c.u.later
I've got a 20 gig 5400rpm ide seagate i can lob you for a tenner +postage ~£14 total if it gets you out of a hole, can have it formatted ready to install if you want too. Can have it in the post tomorrow by midday if you want.
