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extreme dumpage yesterday and today. Nice one!Still got to watercool the blighters and then I can add the 4th card.
Go the shaders/mem at 1440/1675 at the moment, to get the same as a stock 480 I'd need to push the shaders up to 1580, not sure if I'd need to do the memory too, 1675 mem is stock for the GTX470, the 1440 on the shaders is a 200Mhz overclock that gave nearly a 3K boost in PPD.
Will be interesting balancing power/cooling/output with these, but I think that single rig with the 4 cards and A3-SMP will push around 70K on Folding.
Be interesting to see what it does on BOINC
Go the shaders/mem at 1440/1675 at the moment, to get the same as a stock 480 I'd need to push the shaders up to 1580, not sure if I'd need to do the memory too, 1675 mem is stock for the GTX470, the 1440 on the shaders is a 200Mhz overclock that gave nearly a 3K boost in PPD.
Will be interesting balancing power/cooling/output with these, but I think that single rig with the 4 cards and A3-SMP will push around 70K on Folding.
Be interesting to see what it does on BOINC
I did mention it a few times in the Seti Thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=16706887&highlight=aquagrafx#post16706887
Boxes!
GTX470 vs GTX480
3 x GTX470 in situ:
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4 x 295's for 4 x 470's almost penny for penny.
Now I just have to offload the water blocks for the 295's.. thats proving try my patience a bit.
In the mean time I have a GTX 260 going into MM and ecstasy bay with the water block.
Now I just have to offload the water blocks for the 295's.. thats proving try my patience a bit.
In the mean time I have a GTX 260 going into MM and ecstasy bay with the water block.
Have to RMA one of the blocks though, one of the metal standoffs was broken off inside the bubble wrap.
Must say of all the block manufacturers, these guys make some of the nicest Gfx blocks but their packaging could do with a bit of improvement.
Must say of all the block manufacturers, these guys make some of the nicest Gfx blocks but their packaging could do with a bit of improvement.
As some of you know weebeastie hasn't been well lately This is why:
To test a mobo that was giving me trouble from another rig, I thought I'd use weebeasties PSU to see if the other machines PSU was faulty.
When I tried to unplug the 24pin cable from weebeasties mobo it was a mite difficult to do so and required a bit of judicious wriggling and carefull prising to get it off, and then when it did come off I noticed this:
Looks like the motherboard was drawing too much down one or both of the 12V wires and the powersupply didn't have enough features to prevent that sort of surge or whatever, the jury is out on it right now.
The PSU has been RMA'ed the motherboard is still working as far as I can tell, there is no scorching other than the pins, the board itself is ok or so it looks, but I'll know more when I get it back together. But its crunching a bigadv as a test and seems ok so far.
Now I'm not sure when this happened, whether it was during normal folding/crunching duties or when I was testing tri-sli or when I was benchmarking furmark or what, no idea, I do know that the machine started to shut down on its own a few times but put that down to just normal clocking instability.
Anway, I'm moving the GTX480 to my regular rig and bringing the GTX470 from that to put into weebeastie, that should lower the power draw hopefully enough to keep the plugs from melting.
For reference incase you didn't know the PSU was a Xigmatek which is a Thermaltake rebadge 1500W PSU and its been sent back to be tested but I've got a replacement already
I'll put some pics of weebeastie in its prime before
This is why:To test a mobo that was giving me trouble from another rig, I thought I'd use weebeasties PSU to see if the other machines PSU was faulty.
When I tried to unplug the 24pin cable from weebeasties mobo it was a mite difficult to do so and required a bit of judicious wriggling and carefull prising to get it off, and then when it did come off I noticed this:
Looks like the motherboard was drawing too much down one or both of the 12V wires and the powersupply didn't have enough features to prevent that sort of surge or whatever, the jury is out on it right now.The PSU has been RMA'ed the motherboard is still working as far as I can tell, there is no scorching other than the pins, the board itself is ok or so it looks, but I'll know more when I get it back together. But its crunching a bigadv as a test and seems ok so far.
Now I'm not sure when this happened, whether it was during normal folding/crunching duties or when I was testing tri-sli or when I was benchmarking furmark or what, no idea, I do know that the machine started to shut down on its own a few times but put that down to just normal clocking instability.
Anway, I'm moving the GTX480 to my regular rig and bringing the GTX470 from that to put into weebeastie, that should lower the power draw hopefully enough to keep the plugs from melting.
For reference incase you didn't know the PSU was a Xigmatek which is a Thermaltake rebadge 1500W PSU and its been sent back to be tested but I've got a replacement already
I'll put some pics of weebeastie in its prime before
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Who knows when it happened, its been ages since I had the 24pin connector off the mobo.
Point is that it shouldn't happen, regardless of the reason really.
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I've already got a new PSU, I ordered it same time as RMA'ing the original.
But Scam have refused to replace or refund me the duff one under warranty even though the unit is less than a year old. They are returning it to the manufacturer as its no longer in stock and end of life.
Bit miffed at the mo really.
New one is a SST-ST1500 - 1500W Silverstone Strider Silent Modular PSU, 135mm Fan, 88% Max. Efficiency, Six +12V Rails 80+
But Scam have refused to replace or refund me the duff one under warranty even though the unit is less than a year old. They are returning it to the manufacturer as its no longer in stock and end of life.
Bit miffed at the mo really.
New one is a SST-ST1500 - 1500W Silverstone Strider Silent Modular PSU, 135mm Fan, 88% Max. Efficiency, Six +12V Rails 80+