Another 8800GTS....Installed

[gurusan]

BFG 8800GTS 640mb OC arrived today to upgrade my 7900GT.

3dmark06 run @ stock...I'm assuming this is a great score as it's about 3000 points more than my overclocked 7900GT


Idle temp is around 50-52 degrees...and it's a very quiet card! I'll try out some more games and post back later...but so far I'm very pleased.

 

[gurusan]

What kinds of clocks are most people getting to on the stock cooling?

I just put a side fan on my antec 900 and now idle temps are around 46-48 now with the fan at 100%....and during a 3dmark06 run it doesn't go over 58c..... so i think it can probably clock decently

 

[gurusan]

This is interesting....I assume this shows that WIC is quite CPU dependent?

The settings below are identical (1280x1024, preset "very high" settings)

7900GT @ 675/910

8800GTS @ stock 550/792

 

[gurusan]

Both are run under identical settings in Win XP x64...so DX9

 

[gurusan]

I run mine at 680/2000, stock cooling fan running at 100%, not loud at all.

I can get through a bit of 3dmark06 at 700/2100 but it always crashes at some point.

Edit, mine is an A3 core.

Seems as if the max of mine is 648/1512/2052 (core/shader/mem)...temps are really amazing...I dunno if it's my case or what...but this thing runs about as cool as my 7900GT with the VF-900. Load temps never go above about 64-65c with rthdribl running. I assume temps are accurate as everest, rivatuner, and nvmonitor all report the same.

How do you know which core you have?

 

[gurusan]

Never overclocked a graphics card before but when people are saying 680/2000 what is that in referance to as my 8800GTS atm is running at 660/950(core/memory), nowhere near 2000?

2000mhz effective...it's DDR memory (double data rate)...so you multiply by two.

Same as standard DDR and DDR2 ram...PC6400 = 400fsb = DDR 800

 

[gurusan]

I have been using rivatuner to set the clocks, and I've found nvidia's geoforms demo to be the best for stability testing.

 

[gurusan]

So you set the clock speed and then click apply, how do you if its ok or not? Have to go through a test in a seperate program to check for artifacting ?

Yes. I use geoforms and 3dmark06

 

[gurusan]

Well it looks like my scores are spot on then....

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=10946510