OCAU HWBOT TEAM THREAD Ver2

[gazza30]

Originally Posted by Yamunsa

yep, p1 of this thread and the last one. just need ando and gaz to get off their backsides and tidy it up

Done a lil tidy up for ya princess

[fatguy1992]

Originally Posted by aussie-revhead

Nah it wouldnt be either of those, it did it with a dual fan heatpipe air cooler and now with a water block fitted too, plus the psu is 850w that runs my 2600K and GTx580 without issue .... so its something else ... I got a little score jump out of it but there is no linear scaling at all, fps on all tests are erratic with small freezing occuring, thats probably whats destroying my clocking attempts .... very weird.

Fresh driver or OS install maybe?

[Yamunsa]

Originally Posted by gazza30

Done a lil tidy up for ya princess

rough as my scrotum. i give you a D- for effort

[snappy1]

Aussie... what os? what drivers? how does it behave under furmark? does it throttle?

What software are u using to clock the card?

I'd suggest EVGA Precision, great software for basic core/shader/mem.... and unlinking shaders.


I am going to have a guess that it has weak shaders, they are pushed very high out of the box on a 285, unlink the shaders, leave them at stock and push the core, pretty sure you'll see an improvement

[Marksman X]

Looks like I'm gonna be able to get my ASRock replaced under warranty :yay:

I am going to get of my arse once I get it back and submit scores off the following:

CPU's

• i5 750
  i5 2500K
  E6400
  E8500

Motherboards

• EP45 Extreme
  P7P55 Supercomputer
  ASRock Extreme4 Gen3

GPU's

• 2x XFX AlphaDog 8800GT's
  1x ASUS 8800GT TOP
  1x Sparkling 8800GT (the good one)
  2x nVidia 8800GTX's
  1x GTX275
  1x Gainward GTS450
  1x Sapphire 4870x2
  Probably some other cheap cards I've forgotten about

Not alot compared to what I see some of you guys have, but my PC/benching budget is whatever change I find laying around - so I think I'm doing alright.

Also looking at buying a 6870x2 too, anyone had/used one? And another GDDR5 GTS450....


/wall of text.

[aussie-revhead]

Originally Posted by snappy1

Aussie... what os? what drivers? how does it behave under furmark? does it throttle?

What software are u using to clock the card?

I'd suggest EVGA Precision, great software for basic core/shader/mem.... and unlinking shaders.


I am going to have a guess that it has weak shaders, they are pushed very high out of the box on a 285, unlink the shaders, leave them at stock and push the core, pretty sure you'll see an improvement

hey, bad comments put me off furmark so I dont use it. Its XP and Im using rivatuner so I will try the shader trick, but on that note dont maxed shaders cause dramatic issues? Im up to 750/1700 linked shaders now and its only picked up 1100 points from stock, but not linear as I was saying, I will bump the core another 10mhz and lose 400 points then bump another 10 and get the 400 points back, its weird.

Spoiler below, highlight to read:
I did the pencil vmod to see if I can drag a bit better performance out of it ... no luck yet...

[gazza30]

Originally Posted by Yamunsa

rough as my scrotum. i give you a D- for effort

Surely can't be that rough ahahahahahahaha

[snappy1]

The v mod should kill any droop, or boost voltage slightly, shame you cannot just directly adjust volts on a 285, other than a Classified, thats why I bought 280's... and they are cheeep

[aussie-revhead]

Can you software adjust vgpu on a 280? Damn I will sell this thing and get one ...

[snappy1]

Originally Posted by aussie-revhead

Can you software adjust vgpu on a 280? Damn I will sell this thing and get one ...

Yeah you can, think I used afterburner... how did the testing go?

Btw Marksman X, that is a nice hardware collection, should pull heaps of boints...... rule no 1 for a good hardware library, if it clocks well,is rare or just scores lots of boints.... never sell it

[mcleotg]

Originally Posted by aussie-revhead

Can you software adjust vgpu on a 280? Damn I will sell this thing and get one ...

I was able to push the voltage up in my 275's bios
Try that before you sell it

[Liighthead]

:/ carnt work out how to setup my benching area haha.. everythings like ontop of everything



next couple of days = tubing for wcing loop then have gpu and/or cpu under water if i can find room for everything :/

plusss hopfully a amd cpu to play with.. something cheap though xD gotta look around

[snappy1]

Originally Posted by Liighthead

:/ carnt work out how to setup my benching area haha.. everythings like ontop of everything



next couple of days = tubing for wcing loop then have gpu and/or cpu under water if i can find room for everything :/

plusss hopfully a amd cpu to play with.. something cheap though xD gotta look around

Pics please.... saw an international bench team testing X79 , from England iirc, they had a home made rad stand, held two rads upright and away from the test rig, saved a lot of room and made things less messy.

GTX 285 cannot be voltage adjusted, modded yes, but nothing with software or bios iirc.

[Marksman X]

Originally Posted by Liighthead

:/ carnt work out how to setup my benching area haha.. everythings like ontop of everything



next couple of days = tubing for wcing loop then have gpu and/or cpu under water if i can find room for everything :/

plusss hopfully a amd cpu to play with.. something cheap though xD gotta look around

Yeah I reckon I might get something AMD as well. X6 is discontinued - heres hoping for a few bargins

[snappy1]

Originally Posted by aussie-revhead

hey, bad comments put me off furmark so I dont use it. Its XP and Im using rivatuner so I will try the shader trick, but on that note dont maxed shaders cause dramatic issues? Im up to 750/1700 linked shaders now and its only picked up 1100 points from stock, but not linear as I was saying, I will bump the core another 10mhz and lose 400 points then bump another 10 and get the 400 points back, its weird.

Spoiler below, highlight to read:
I did the pencil vmod to see if I can drag a bit better performance out of it ... no luck yet...

I understand what you mean about furmark, but your under water and I was reffering to using it as a diagnostic tool for short blasts at stock to see if the card has hardware issues....and I meant to leave the shaders at stock, they do cause very strange issues, thats what I thought it may be suffering from.