Btw John, just for you I'm gonna break down my rig and run ice water this weekend, and load up my XP drive for some oldschool benching. 

How the freak do you get a futuremark link anymore!  They re-did the orb I guess for the 3dm11 release, but now I can't find anything.  There's no place to click on anything!!

Wow this sucks how am I supposed to take the #5 spot on mods rigs without a compare link for my 29.5k....
 
Edit: Yup I can't get a link either.

Looks like you were back up and running Q glad to hear it. I see you got some globals!
For the 580 did you use the GPU-z 580 OCP test build for higher Vcore and clocks?

threedhero

Looks like you were back up and running Q glad to hear it. I see you got some globals!
For the 580 did you use the GPU-z 580 OCP test build for higher Vcore and clocks?

 
No, I did not.  To my knowledge, that version of gpu-z only corrects the card's automatic down throttle when using graphically intense applications, such as furmark & occt.  I don't think it allows vcore to be raised more than the internal limit of the card, which is 1.213v.  For that I believe a hard mod is necessary.  Am I wrong?

Q56_Monster

threedhero

Looks like you were back up and running Q glad to hear it. I see you got some globals!
For the 580 did you use the GPU-z 580 OCP test build for higher Vcore and clocks?

No, I did not.  To my knowledge, that version of gpu-z only corrects the card's automatic down throttle when using graphically intense applications, such as furmark & occt.  I don't think it allows vcore to be raised more than the internal limit of the card, which is 1.213v.  For that I believe a hard mod is necessary.  Am I wrong?

Probably not since even Kingpin's 580s were all hard modded.

Hay Q clean up your PM's............PM sent

@ Q I thought the OCP mod for GPU-z was like a softmod for the OCP on the card. Could be wrong since I'm don't have a 580 and unable to try it myself.
 
So how was the first time using Ln2 with your Tek-9 and F1? Bet it seemed like you had 10 pots going lol
 
 
@ Halo Kingpin did the Vmod, Vmem, and Vpll mod his record breaking vantage run. All 4 cards are modded. In this thread you'll see blue boxes "Voltage Regulators" which are used to do Vmods.
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=697172
You can't get world records without Volt mods.
 
 

Haven't posted in here in quite some time but I am in the process of acquiring a Phase cooler finally.  Tuned for 300w and made by RunMC of http://www.under-the-ice.com/ 
  
Lots benchmarks and pictures to follow once it is in my hands :) 

 

that's where i got my replacement suction line from.