Mav's Weekend Contribution

[maverik-sg1]

Been a bit of a 'Busy Benching Bee' myself this weekend.

Finally got my mitts on one fo these QX9650's.
Cooled by mini rotary cascade

2x 1GB Sticks of Corsair DDR1800 7-6-7-24 (with thanks to Corsair for providing them.)

P5K3 DlX Mobo - Persivore volt modded

Watercooled 8800ultra, no mods (710/1850/1170)

I-Ram

80GB IDE drive

4x 250GB SATA2 Hitachi drives in Raid 0 for PCMark05

Firstly the issue I cam up with:

1) FSB limitation of the board or CPU, max 450mhz with x10 but as multi went higher FSB went lower - best was 433mhz x12.

2) Setting up for 45nm is compeltely different to setting up for 65nm intel cpus - required volts are much lower in every aspect and the higehr the clock went the more 'twitchy' it all feels.

3) Overclocking PCI-E bus in BIOS instead of using SET FSB corrupted windows install.

4) FSB limit proven by switching to E6580 that runs all day at 500mhz x8 on everyday machine at 1.45v - could only muster 460fsb on the P5K.

5) CPUZ does not read the clocks correctly on teh QX with this board.

6) The unbelieveable whining and vibration of the rotary cascade which mande the whole of upstairs vibrate and caused the neighbours to come round and complain last night :no:


Positives:

1) The corsair ram, although I could not get enough cpu FSB to push the 2000mhz barrier, they did exactly what they were supposed to do - rock solid performance set at 7-7-7-24-60 2T all day with out any worries - the supplied triple fan cooler was quiet and effective (24 degree ambient and ram sticks measured at 32degs under load with 2.3v) - this ws one component that I did not have to be concerend with thoughout the trials of the weekend.

2) Up to 5398mhz on the QX9650 - not stable, but what a clock.

3) The ultra unmodded running 3DM06 at 712/1850/1170, modded under normal water, compared to my old unit under stock would easily reach 780mhz.

4) I believe a decent points haul for the team.

5) Regained the No1 spot in CPC :)

So what was finally achieved with all of the above? Here it comes:

1) 286k in AQM3 http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689859

2) 88k in 3DM01 http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689767

3) 55k in 3DM03 http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689768

4) 26k in 3DM05 http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=689783

5) 18k in 3DM06 http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=689765

6) 18s in pifast http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689860

7) 8.6s SuperPi 1m http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689862

8) 4m 25.4s in wprime1024 http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689864

9) 8.22s in wprime 32 http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=689865

All in all not a bad weekends work.

Thanks again to Corsair for the loan of the RAM and apologies from me that I could mot push it as much as I wanted to.

Cheers for K404 superpi 32m tip - gained over 4seconds following those instructions from him using an already well tweaked set-up.

Tnx for 4qman and duallist for helping out with stripping OS's.

Tomorrow - I hook up a 6600GT to the above and try for some HWBOT gold :)

[Dualist]

Lol, I saw you kinda feck off in the rankings.
I just past weescott and you were next on my list then next thing I know you're 5th...!!!!

Awesome going man. :lol::D

[maverik-sg1]

Forgot to say - took some pics which I will post up tomorrow.

WE ARE NOW 12th - thanks to all the contributions this weekend - lets keep going top 10 beckons!!!

[bazx]

wow mav you really have been busy the full set

well done

the team have just tiped 12th place

[Stocky]

Amazing progress there, Mav is back on form! :biggrin:

When did you get a rotary cascade?! :waiting:

[Dualist]

When did you get a rotary cascade?! :waiting:

Isn't that Blind_ripper's old cascade you got hold off.? :D

[sacha35]

Well done mav, some very good results there mate and it nice to see you back on where you should be.

[K404]

:D:D

nice one!

[SoddemFX]

Awesome work Mav :D

Tom

[jabski]

great work mav :)

[maverik-sg1]

When did you get a rotary cascade?! :waiting:

Well it's bruised, it's battered, it's amazing that it actually works :lol:, although I took sachas advice and introduced some additional air cooling to the condensor. Currently I await a new head kit from Duniek in Poland.

I was on the hunt last year for a unit, this one came up for sales at a reasonable price - even though it was built and had been running/used it still took over 3 months to land (prompted by some snotty emails and a post on a Polish forum by a supportive Polish guy from Team Poland) to get it shipped. It's here, it kinda works and it helped me a lot - although I still got ringing in me ears this morning from a full weekend of use - I will certainly use this to set up my machine before any LN2 event in future.

Thanks for nice comments guys, it's all for the team and that effort should keep me going until the GX2 cards land.

[vento1]

Outstanding mav, you had a very good weekend, may i suggest ear plugs for you and your neighbours.:D

[maverik-sg1]

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Just a few pics af the set-up.

Outstanding mav, you had a very good weekend, may i suggest ear plugs for you and your neighbours.:D

I am away for 4 days now at our factory in Wigan, I will be loaning some for future events :)

[4Qman]

I hope that Rad was turned OFF. :D

Well done again and nice results ;)

[Stocky]

What a beast - it has wheels! :biggrin:

I see that the trusty desktop fan has been put to good use there! Are there any other fans on the condenser?

[Mr Dizzy]

well done great work

[maverik-sg1]

What a beast - it has wheels! :biggrin:

I see that the trusty desktop fan has been put to good use there! Are there any other fans on the condenser?

There are 2x 240 volt jobbies at the rear but are temperamental and occasionally need nudging to start up - the deskfan does this with airflow, which is beter than me crawling around to get to them and push starting the blades. also it's easier thanstripping the unit down to replace the fans.

Thanks to Sacha during LN2 day to give it the once over and provide this solution to the fan issue.

[sparkY1000]

Blimey looks like fun!

Congrats on the results! :)

[BigAndy]

I hope that Rad was turned OFF. :D


Exactly my thought after seeing pics, :lol:.


Good work Mav!

[bazx]

mav just been on the bot

you 1m is coming on nicely

[maverik-sg1]

mav just been on the bot

you 1m is coming on nicely

Cheers baz mate - I am sure if I had given myself the time to do the K404 tweaks I could of done much better at that speed. Also I found out today that the RMA replacement of the 8800 ultra I killed at the LN2, which was watercooled, no volt mods, can do 735/1850/1170 benchable - all the benchies i did were running 20mhz lower on the core clocks so could of improved more if I dont mind getting divorced :)

As you can see though it was a weekend with a crammed schedule and I managed to get all of the benchies done and top the CPC leaderboard (sorry Dizzy).

To satisfy the curiosity, the rad was isolated from the central heating ;)

Next big session will be when the dual gpu's are relased and prices stabilised, probably end of feb earliest..... but you never know ;)