Good night everyone!

I will try to get to the point, I am really worried about my KP card.

Especially reading the results you are posting practically every day.

I still have 14 days to return the card but I hope to don’t have to do it.

I have been trying to get a Vince model for almost a decade now. Nothing would make me sadder than to have to return it or RMA it.

Under the OC BIOS my unit is not able to get anywhere near 15K points in Port Royal, best score so far 14k5XX (ranges from 14k2XX to 14k5XX).

I didn't come here to blame the card I came here for help and to learn about this card, I want to think the best of my unit.

With the fans at 100%, the power/temperature and voltage slider at maximum and a room temperature of about 22-25°C the core is totally unstable as soon as I go over +135MHz on the slider.

And for memory no more than 1350MHz.

Without using dip switches or Classified tools.

Is this normal? Should I be worried?

Here is the best run so far:
https://www.3dmark.com/pr/805171

Please it would be much appreciated if anyone could shed some light on the matter.

Thanks in advance

Best,
Nikos/Miguel

15,667 is probably the best I'll get with the current setup and keeping warranty intact.

• Corsair HX850
• LN2 bios
• +1600 mem clock / +150 GPU clock / 100 voltage / 121% power target
• Stripped the case and put the chassis in a window when it was 3F (-16C) outside
• Placed a box fan in the adjacent window acting as an exhaust for the 10x13 room, toweled the door, and turned the HVAC off

Cold day was key to everything. GPU was idling at 5C most of the time; saw it dip to 2C at one point.
 
My recommendation: visit Wisconsin in January, and bring your rig with you.

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/807116
 
happy with the score considering the relatively low memory offset of +900.
not sure what was up with the memory as i can usually run +1,100 at ambient. will try again another day and shoot for the 16k club

i have 2 large windows in my room and it was very cold last night! :)
i wish i had better memory on my card
 
I'm reading that the 500w bios has higher tdp for memory overclock so i may switch to that instead and try again

fragility_V1

emmett
Brohemia, and Dark.
 
   Great scores! and Dark, 11C average temp, WOW! wish I had a garage, or even a window in my lair..

There's always a big honkin' portable AC unit...

Yep! I can duct the Condenser air into adjacent room, but then AC unit shuts off cause room temp is satisfied (lowest it will go is 62F)
So to keep it running I have to remove COND duct and let warm air dump right at unit. I guess I need to open it up and cover temp sensor.
Do not want to mess with it too much so I can use it in the summer.1
( I have made a sort of 3 sided semi-box around PC to shield it from warm air as much as possible.) 

I am able to get on standard bios (no changes to dip switches) 15110 and 15k consistently with 133 on core and 1350 on memory. This is with the radiator hanging outside the case. In the case it drops to about 14800.
Now I have to rma it because the bios switch broke. As i went to change the bios switch for the first time, the tab on the switch sheered off. Poor design in my opinion

degenerate
 

Looks like I was a bit off about the 4930K setup...
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/57362538

moonlight123

telehog
New score : SLI Kingpin & Ultra  29631 http://www.3dmark.com/pr/778825

Amesome score! The temperature is too low. 

If I had a waterblock for the Kingpin I could get them a lot lower.

The quest for 15k on a 9900K @ 5GHz is getting real:
 

 
Very minimal changes but that score is still WITH Afterburner & GPUz running in the background, going to push clocks up slowly until it starts crashing again the back it off & see what score I get.
 
Having to let it cool down between each runs is making this a longer process, but still fun.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/57381052
 

 
Don't think it can go any higher on the 520W regular LN2 BIOS (without messing with the Classified Tool), saw as high as 513W on the LCD readout for power during the test, all background processes were closed so that's the only power draw indication I had... it seems to be more accurate that most software though, it's reporting slightly higher numbers than HWInfo or GPUz is capturing.
 
I can't get a tick higher on either GPU core or vRAM to pass because of the occasional peaks the test has going too high I'm guessing - would have to increase voltages through the Classified Software to go higher I think.

 
Without background stuff closed.  15k here I come. :-D

crowie03
I am able to get 15110 and 15k consistently in standard bios with no dip switch chnages. 133 core and 1350 memory. Just curious what was your average core frequency on that run?

+133 is an odd number.  As was pointed out to me it's 15mhz between core clock changes. 
 
Something like: 
105, 120, 135, 150, 165, 180, 195, 210, 225 ...

So +133 would be +120.  So you probably crash out at 135, but are stable between +120 and +134ish? (133)

You don't need a 10900K or an 11900K to get 15K. I just showed it being done with a 4930K and we all know how old that cpu is. And that's running at 4.5ghz.
 
Just saying is all. I don't want you to get your hopes up and if it doesn't happen then start blaming the cpu or you have a crappy card.

Dabadger84
Yeah well I didn't hit 15k til then, dunno why, it's not something I can change because I've tried everything & nothing I can do will make my CPU perform like others seemingly do all the time.  Fact is it is the CPU that's the problem, because people with the same or slightly higher clocks on the same CPU or newer ones are scoring much better than I do.
 
Just updated drivers to the new ones, apparently they're sporting some score increases, ran 3DMark at bone-stock on the GPU & got 13933, previous runs at all stock with the last driver only got 13.7-13.8k - and that 13933 was with stuff running in the background etc.
Gonna repop my OCs on & see if it gives me a bump in score there too.

Unfortunately that is more than likely not true.... Port Royal has quite a bit to do with the gpu temps/os/driver/settings/to much voltage or not enough voltage or maxing of watts to soon. Are just to name a few things it can be. None of that having to do with your cpu.....IMPO
 
Edit:
Also my personal experience. I too thought the cpu was an issue as to why it could not break 15K with a 4930K, but after further investigations found that was indeed not the case.

Then what is it?  I can show you countless cores from this system on various recent GPUs showing performance that is either acceptable, or not acceptable, in Port Royal, for the speeds I'm running, only thing that changes regularly is drivers.
 
Saying "that score is low" and not providing any further details or suggestions is just annoying & not at all helpful.  That's like people telling someone to increase their CPU overclock - some people can't do that or don't have a CPU that can run any faster due to either cooling/temperatures or other reasons, mine in particular will not run any faster, I've tried 5.1 & 5.2 at pretty high voltages & nothing will make it pass even a single run of benchmarks at those speeds that I have tried.  Either way it was a massive improvement going from a 3930K X79 setup I had previously to this.  
While Port Royal is about 90% GPU, there is some score & headway that can be had from CPU/system RAM changes, that I know for a fact.