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**Official 3D Mark 11 scores**
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Well I didn't know that
Need to get the cards under water soon, haven't benched in over a month, really hot runners too so can't really test on air either.
What kind of clocks do you think you might get? Once you get the temps under control i mean.
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Randomly thought I'd post my GTX 460 score as well:
Stock (675/1800) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228295?key=30ryFzxruPkfZVKdpIl5DQ
Overclocked (800/2000) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228355?key=WDp07QKuBy13LPxjlPouYg
Overclocked (900/2000) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228459?key=Oe6_96KCDNT4Zvr1TVPQ0Q
My memory limit seems to be somewhere between 2000 and 2100 MHz (without voltage adjustment- if that is even possible on this card) as 900/2100 got me a GPU score of only 3217, which shows performance decreasing since the memory has to perform error corrections.
For funsies, here is my GT 440
Stock (810/1600) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228645?key=lfS0O240OXZKfAktIbyvPA
One thing I realised is that this card (OEM PNY one that was on offer from here a week ago) seems to have a 2 pin fan connected, which means the fan is running at full speed all the time (noisy!). I was thinking about using a fan speed reducer, would this work? Are there any better ideas out there? Because I'll send it back if there isn't a good way to reduce the fan speed as it is far too loud to use as a Physx card.
Stock (675/1800) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228295?key=30ryFzxruPkfZVKdpIl5DQ
Overclocked (800/2000) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228355?key=WDp07QKuBy13LPxjlPouYg
Overclocked (900/2000) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228459?key=Oe6_96KCDNT4Zvr1TVPQ0Q
My memory limit seems to be somewhere between 2000 and 2100 MHz (without voltage adjustment- if that is even possible on this card) as 900/2100 got me a GPU score of only 3217, which shows performance decreasing since the memory has to perform error corrections.
For funsies, here is my GT 440
Stock (810/1600) http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5228645?key=lfS0O240OXZKfAktIbyvPA
One thing I realised is that this card (OEM PNY one that was on offer from here a week ago) seems to have a 2 pin fan connected, which means the fan is running at full speed all the time (noisy!). I was thinking about using a fan speed reducer, would this work? Are there any better ideas out there? Because I'll send it back if there isn't a good way to reduce the fan speed as it is far too loud to use as a Physx card.
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Hi 
It depends what fan header type is on the card, iirc GPU's tend to use a different flat type of header - this isn't to say your out of luck...
If its 2 wires then its probable that one cable is +12v the other is ground, which then gives you a few options provided its a non standard header:
1. Cut off the fan header, solder the wires to a standard 3 pin header, connect to fan controller.
2. Just snip the 12v line and place a resistor or reducer cable in line to take it down to 7v, though this method would not allow you to ramp the fan speed back up! Tealc might be a better chap to speak to about this method, he has been making all sorts of crazy good power distribution circuits for fans as of late
If its a standard header which if the GTX460 768mb I have sat in front of me tells me its not, then you could just link up an extension.
Pre-made conversion cables would be the least hassle, you'd just have to get googling to see if they exist and if anyone sells them
As for what fan controller? Manual, Lamptron, Automatic, Aquacomputer aquero LT.
It depends what fan header type is on the card, iirc GPU's tend to use a different flat type of header - this isn't to say your out of luck...
If its 2 wires then its probable that one cable is +12v the other is ground, which then gives you a few options provided its a non standard header:
1. Cut off the fan header, solder the wires to a standard 3 pin header, connect to fan controller.
2. Just snip the 12v line and place a resistor or reducer cable in line to take it down to 7v, though this method would not allow you to ramp the fan speed back up! Tealc might be a better chap to speak to about this method, he has been making all sorts of crazy good power distribution circuits for fans as of late
If its a standard header which if the GTX460 768mb I have sat in front of me tells me its not, then you could just link up an extension.
Pre-made conversion cables would be the least hassle, you'd just have to get googling to see if they exist and if anyone sells them
As for what fan controller? Manual, Lamptron, Automatic, Aquacomputer aquero LT.
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Hi
It depends what fan header type is on the card, iirc GPU's tend to use a different flat type of header - this isn't to say your out of luck...
If its 2 wires then its probable that one cable is +12v the other is ground, which then gives you a few options provided its a non standard header:
1. Cut off the fan header, solder the wires to a standard 3 pin header, connect to fan controller.
2. Just snip the 12v line and place a resistor or reducer cable in line to take it down to 7v, though this method would not allow you to ramp the fan speed back up! Tealc might be a better chap to speak to about this method, he has been making all sorts of crazy good power distribution circuits for fans as of late
If its a standard header which if the GTX460 768mb I have sat in front of me tells me its not, then you could just link up an extension.
Pre-made conversion cables would be the least hassle, you'd just have to get googling to see if they exist and if anyone sells them
As for what fan controller? Manual, Lamptron, Automatic, Aquacomputer aquero LT.
Thanks, the 460 has a normal 3 pin fan so that ramps up and down fine. It is the 440 that has the 100% fan speed problem.
After having windows 7 reinstalled along with the new motherboard I noticed W7 Service Pack 1 takes a few points of the 3Dmark11 scores whereas when SP1 wasn't installed (due to windows update) it was a few 100points better - oh well.
Anyway my score is
P18829
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5247804
It seems like the Asus P9X79 Pro board tweaks more than the old Gigabyte X79UD3. I just set it all to "normal" in the BIOS and haven't OC'et anything I just set my ram Mhz/timings to 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 1T (since that's my Ram specs) and it said target speed CPU 3.8GHz !. At 1333MHz ram speed it would say 3.5GHz CPU target speed.
CPUZ/GPUZ
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l131/Gripen90/systemsscreenshot.jpg?t=1355679224
Anyway my score is
P18829
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5247804
It seems like the Asus P9X79 Pro board tweaks more than the old Gigabyte X79UD3. I just set it all to "normal" in the BIOS and haven't OC'et anything I just set my ram Mhz/timings to 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 1T (since that's my Ram specs) and it said target speed CPU 3.8GHz !. At 1333MHz ram speed it would say 3.5GHz CPU target speed.
CPUZ/GPUZ
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l131/Gripen90/systemsscreenshot.jpg?t=1355679224
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Hey Gregster or any one else that can help
My msi 660ti power edition starts to throttle when it hits 100% power target any ideas?
This is a screen shot after running 3d mark and any time I hit 100% power target (like in the first test) my card lowers the voltage and the boost.
Obviously I have tried turning power target up which doesn't make a difference.
Thanks Giny
My msi 660ti power edition starts to throttle when it hits 100% power target any ideas?
This is a screen shot after running 3d mark and any time I hit 100% power target (like in the first test) my card lowers the voltage and the boost.
Obviously I have tried turning power target up which doesn't make a difference.
Thanks Giny
Other tests aren't pulling as much power, clocks stay the same so I wouldn't worry about it
This is just with mild overclock the more I overclock the more it becomes a problem.
No unfortunately not this was just an one example I have run lots of tests and anytime my card gets to 100% it starts to throttle. If you look at core clock during first test you should see it completely drops off the boost for 30 seconds.
The card has always throttled at 100% from the day I got it even though it was set to 117% in msi after burner so I recently updated to the unlocked bios and set it to 150% and card still throttles at 100%.
Any ideas?
As you can see, I get the same also. Nothing to worry about
Hey Gregster,
I know I shouldn't be worried about it as my card is performing really well
I just wish the card would go above 100% tdp
My friends asus 660ti will take 125% tdp and I'm worried that I wont be able to beat him on 3dmark. I get my new cpu/board/ram at christmas and hopefully that will give me enough of a graphics boost to beat him but not sure.
Here is 3dmark11 just core and power usage: Any time power usage gets to 100% it throttles back.
Temps would generaly be the reason it throttles back but I can see that your temps were fine. The power usage will only pull what is needed. I can set 300% on my cards but that does not mean it will use 300% more power. You need to monitor the GPU usage and not the power. If this is dropping down, something isn't correct and this is normaly sorted with different drivers.