I like using a combo of smart doctor and ccc smart doctor lets you set higer voltage and ccc is easier to adjust the clocks after burners clocks stop at 1090/1300 at least for my 5850 they do,



I was thinking of going to pax but its just out of reach Boston is about a 12 hour drive for me

They scale ok you just need to get it colder since the weather changed I have my card on regular water not chilled. Idle temps rose from 14 to 25 no biggier right, load temps rose from around 25 to 45 still seems like it should be ok. I can run the same clocks but my vantage score went down 2000 points and thats with a slightley better cpu score.

reggiesanchez

They scale ok you just need to get it colder since the weather changed I have my card on regular water not chilled. Idle temps rose from 14 to 25 no biggier right, load temps rose from around 25 to 45 still seems like it should be ok. I can run the same clocks but my vantage score went down 2000 points and thats with a slightley better cpu score.

Wow, 2000 points with just temps??!! Probably was something else helping lower\higher that score, but STILL......

Soon as I can afford a block on this think ill be running "chilled water", it will have to be from a slush box though. I guess one of these days after I pickup a waterblock, ill have to run down to a grocery store, pickup a couple of bags of ICE and DICE and try to make a man out of this card

Right now im trying to get a run off at 1050\1300 and 4.5ghz on the CPU.

no really its all temps they are unbeleavably important the theory has been tested all winter its not magic its heat

nateman_doo

hey Q, you going to PAX?  (since your east coast & all)

What's PAX?  I'll google.

Temps are very important, even just 10 to 15 degrees c makes a huge difference in my cpu overclock.

Naa...Boston too far.

awalleyeguy

Temps are very important, even just 10 to 15 degrees c makes a huge difference in my cpu overclock.

exactly, I shaved like 8 degrees off my load temps that grabs me a solid 300 points cpu score for vantage. Just cant cool my video card enough

Ugh.........I hate this. I can do 4.5ghz at the settings below all day, just so long as it doesnt precede the two GPU tests. Anytime I try to do all 4 in one run, I always freeze during the CPU tests

http://i175.photobucket.c...rudster816/4500cpu.png




Ill be doing my DICE benchmarks outside in the cold, that way my GPU will run quite a beet colder aswell, hopefully that will help too. My room is a damn inferno

This is what I mean when I say my GPU performance isnt up to par.......

This was my second vantage run on this card, did it at 1050\1311

http://i175.photobucket.c...0/rudster816/21467.png


Now with my CPU at 4.4ghz just now, my GPU score is a full 1000 points lower, and my temps definitely went more than a couple degrees higher (im going to say lower, my window is fully open right now).

http://i175.photobucket.c...0/rudster816/21062.png