say shock...xeons and extremes seem to carry low points...how come?

reggiesanchez

running single card

Single SSC or SC?

johnksss

say shock...xeons and extremes seem to carry low points...how come?

Extremes are much easier to clock due to the ability to increase multi without affecting or stressing the rest of the system. Xeons pull lower probably due to the percentage of users.

Again you need to remeber that you have a 400mhz Ramdac as well as a gpu/shader/mem that are only rated at a certain max speed. The ramdac clock will allow you to go only so high with your gpu/shader/mem clocks. When you start to exceed 1 or more of these clocks then ramdac timings in a way go out of synch. Depending on what clock is driven to high determines what problems you will incur. If the gpu is to high then you encounter artifacts, dropped textures and such. If the shader is to high then you can encounter problems with lighting in sceans or distortions of 3d object renderings. If the memory is to high then you can encounter problems such as tearing, pixlating, color spotting, or lockups.
 
So as you can see, it's much like a balancing act with the clocks to achieve the best results.
 
When you said you lost 6000 points at what clocks were you using? Are you using Precision or RivaTuner or MSI to clock with? Are your shaders linked or unlinked with your gpu clock?

For benching 3DMark 06, 05, 03, and 01, do i need to buy the pro version to use to submit to the Bot?

I use trial for 06 but I reccomend buying the pro pack because you can only keep 5 scores on your orbit profile with the trial and once you delete one the link for hwbot is no good, not sure if they even check those I think it might just be for top 20. I was wondering the same thing if someone could chime in

I am!....got some P46's, but haven't topped my other score yet.  Funny, I'm on the internet with pcie @114!  New retail version of Win 7 may allow that now?  That's never happened before...always lost the LAN/ethernet port.

Yea, I don't know how it got cold all of a sudden...I was about to settle down and read up on new laptops, then I saw the temps and fired 'er up!

This is what I can get up to tonight...a few hundred short lol.  Anyway, I told myself I'm going to get some sleep tonight..I keep breaking that promise...I don't feel like benching Vantage anymore tonight.

Tonight my Daughter said to me "Don't Freeze, Don't Freeze".  I'm like, what are you doing?  She said "that's you overclocking".  I was most impressed she knows it's called overclocking.

Q56_Monster

This is what I can get up to tonight...a few hundred short lol.  Anyway, I told myself I'm going to get some sleep tonight..I keep breaking that promise...I don't feel like benching Vantage anymore tonight.

Tonight my Daughter said to me "Don't Freeze, Don't Freeze".  I'm like, what are you doing?  She said "that's you overclocking".  I was most impressed she knows it's called overclocking.

46.4K is no slouch.  That still beats my top score.  Whats your GPU voltages?  (pm if too high)

Hey guys, Im wondering if you can give me a little guidance on my dual PCB 295

right now my clocks are:
core- 799
shader- 1743
memory- 1188

That is about as high as i can go with 1.2v as set by MSI Afterburner.  How much more voltage can i pump through this thing with relative safety?

temps haven't gone past 50c even while running furmark, they are a lot lower when running vantage

thats for sure!

i cant...my cpu is working right for a change on these older test...so im getting them in now.

ummm....ok 007/james bond/ chuck bartoski/

lol

later sniper...im about to turn in for a few hours myself.