Desperado1987

DANG YOU!....How come you get ALMOST 12k with your system, while I get 12031 with my rig!?

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hifisoftware

I can't overclock it much more. 3dMark06 froze when I tried 880 core somewhere in the second test, and I did not wanted to go in increments smaller then 5. Memory could still be pushed further but at 975 I started seeing artifacts in the last two scenes (Canyon Flight and something about Arctic), few but still.

binormalkilla

He probably OCed it higher than you. What did you OC your card to for 3dmark? I was able to make a run at 870 (or maybe 860...dunno), but it wasn't stable for 24/7 gaming, which is all I care about. I started with 3dmark, but once I find out it's not stable in gaming I abandon that OC. I don't care about 3dmark other than finding the baseline performance.

xiongboi_91

My next card!

Desperado1987

If I go higher than this memory speed, I get lower frames, really weird.
If I higher the core speed, it freezes. So that sucks. But I can run the mem speed over 1020...only the problem is I get lower FPS.

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hifisoftware

Yes I have not tried playing and I must go to sleep now. Hopefully games will be stable as well. But in any case, even if I'll have to scale back (which I hope I will not have to), this is more then I was hoping for.

hifisoftware

Thanks for the info. I think it might get lower because timings get auto adjusted by the video card. I read it somewhere. I also copied (probably from extreme systems) some text that when going over 999 memory, performance might drop (again next range of timings kicks in).

I will try lower memory speed to see if it will make the system even faster.

The_Rocker

Although i have an 8800GTX and i like Nvidia more. I have to hand it to ATI with their 2900 series.

They have produced a card which falls just short of a GTX but performs better than a GTS 640 but they crush nvidia with their pricing!

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Intel Core i7 950 D0 (Deal in progress)
6GB Kingston 2000Mhz HyperX (Deal in progress)
ASUS Rampage II Extreme X58 (Ordered)
Thermalright LGA1366 Bolt-Thru-Kit (Ordered)

Different GFX set up (Possibly 5870's)

Desperado1987

Yea, watch the speed and especially temps, what is your temps btw?

I can't go over 963 mem speed, otherwise I get lower FPS. I don't now how far you can go tho. Just try I used AtiTool to measure FPS.

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hifisoftware

Hmm.. Interesting

I did not adjust my driver at all (I only changed the resolution after I installed it). I'll try to change it tomorrow. Maybe I'll just hit 12k