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Tonester0011 said:
I'm in the same boat, got everything sitting waiting to delid my chip...only thing stopping me is there's a chance i'm going to mess it up. Wish i had bigger balls, alas i dont.
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Rusty0611 said:
Come and do mine if you're successful but you'll have to hand over your de-lidded chip as down payment. If you're successful I'll buy you a beer :).

Deal? :(
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He who dares Rodders, He who dares :p

Nuclear Fusion said:
I can see myself being knocked out of the top 50 at this rate, might have to do a bit more overclocking...
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All cool bud and it is just a bench and not representative of games. If you are happy in games, then all good :)
 
Rusty0611 said:
Not possible without reapplying the TIM. Golden chip or not :). Water or gigantic heatsink it makes next to no difference as the contact isn't there from the chip and the heat spreader.

There'll be no improvement in performance in games so it's up to you if you wanna upgrade or not. With the price of 2133 RAM now there's no real reason to buy into 1600 unless it's cheaper but if you've already got some 1600 I wouldn't bother.

I got mine cheapish off the MM. :D
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Well i guess he got a nicely TIM'd chip as he works for them :cool:

I got a lot of posting to do to get into the MM.. heck i aint even got enough for free delivery yet :)

I have this RAM > http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-295-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

I wonder if i sold my RAM for enough to cover the price of some 2133 sticks. I was looking at the Samsung as my Vengeance heatsinks wont let me use slot 1 under the CPU cooler.. i have to put the 2 sticks into slot 2 and 4 whereas the Samsung will fit under my CPU heatsink into slot 1. I think its a good idea as i do feel some perf increase when i overclock my 1600 to 1866 and it gives me an extra 400-500 points in 3DMark11 Physics score. I suppose i'll see after i pick up a water cooler for the CPU which will probably the Zalman CNPS20LQ Ultimate if i can find some decent reviews of it :)
 
It's the GPU scores which you should be comparing though if you're looking at fastest 7950 - so 9596 vs 9102 :)

What does interest me regarding the 7950 is that everyone bangs on about it being within 5% of a 7970 (including me but I'm just listening to people who have the cards!) but if you look at these results and assume the same differences apply in games.... It ain't close to 5%! It's nearer to 10+%.
 
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MyBrains said:
Bring it on son! :p U have to beat my 9858 score but just remember i'm still gunning for a 10K target :D

Actually i cant believe im still the fastest 7950 here considering im not exactly hot on overclocking. :)
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Well I think the overall score is probably out of my reach as you have a 2700k vs my 3570k (hyperthreading seems to help with the Physics score quite a lot) so I think you are safe in terms of P score overall :)
However, the GPU score only is a more reasonable target (9596 vs 9102). I'll have to do that thing where you change afterburner limits, because for my score I just whacked afterburner to the max limits and bumped voltage up to 1093mv (1100/1575).
 
Tried for 2000mhz (8ghz effective) on the memory, I stopped half way through as something was struggling, no artefacting or anything of that nature, just at certain points the FPS would drop by 20 or so giving a small slide show effect for a split second before it fired back up, either the core isn't fast enough to keep up with the memory (1340) or the raised memory speed has crippled its own timings.
 
Rusty0611 said:
It's the GPU scores which you should be comparing though if you're looking at fastest 7950 - so 9596 vs 9102 :)

What does interest me regarding the 7950 is that everyone bangs on about it being within 5% of a 7970 (including me but I'm just listening to people who have the cards!) but if you look at these results and assume the same differences apply in games.... It ain't close to 5%!
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Though I imagine that the most pro overclockers tend to have 7970's rather than 7950's, I imagine that if 8 Pack, Pgi, Stoner etc. got their hands on a 7950 they would get much higher scores than the highest 7950 here (Mybrains- who even admits to not being much of an overclocker, much like myself)
 
pgi947 said:
Tried for 2000mhz (8ghz effective) on the memory, I stopped half way through as something was struggling, no artefacting or anything of that nature, just at certain points the FPS would drop by 20 or so giving a small slide show effect for a split second before it fired back up, either the core isn't fast enough to keep up with the memory (1340) or the raised memory speed has crippled its own timings.
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Peach of a card though. It is a shame you are 1.3V limited :( Maybe 8 Pack can give some advice as he knows his overclocking stuff.
 
Rusty0611 said:
We need some more 7950 results then! :)

I was just taking Mybrains score vs a midpoint 7970 rather than the highest.
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Ahh I see, I checked Phage's score (the lowest 7970) which was running at 1100/1400- mine was running at 1100/1575. It is 7.3% faster than mine (9767 vs my 9102) so perhaps we could suppose that it would be around 8-9% faster if Phage was also running at 1575 mem. So more than 5% clock for clock, but still not masses different.
 
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