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whyscotty · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:26

gregster said:
1.2120V. I don't want to put higher volts through untill I can keep it cool, as temps at these volts rise to mid 70's.

Some of those guys on the Lightning owners are banging
1.35v through there cards on air :eek:

Had mine to 1.3v on stock bios and heat is the problem,
tempted to put modded bios back on for the extra fan speed
and go for it.
Also they seem to be power ltd- ie when TDP hit 130%
they throttle right down.

Gregster · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:28

whyscotty said:
Some of those guys on the Lightning owners are banging
1.35v through there cards on air

Had mine to 1.3v on stock bios and heat is the problem,
tempted to put modded bios back on for the extra fan speed
and go for it.
Also they seem to be power ltd- ie when TDP hit 130%
they throttle right down.

I have good clocking cards and don't want to send them back for RMA if you know what I mean. I would rather get them running colder and then up the volts. The LTG LN2 bios does not throttle back at 70C+ unlike the normal 680s

whyscotty · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:34

gregster said:
I have good clocking cards and don't want to send them back for RMA if you know what I mean. I would rather get them running colder and then up the volts. The LTG LN2 bios does not throttle back at 70C+ unlike the normal 680s

I can't understand why Evga limited the fan speed on these
as they are not loud.

Same on my LN2 heat doesn't cause them to throttle down,
the TDP does.

If your getting 1350 off 1.212v god knows what they'll do
when you put them underwater.

Trying to convince our lass to let me import my blocks
as it doesn't look like they are out over here for a while.

Gregster · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:39

It doesn't look like I will be getting my AquaGFX blocks now. Why send me an email 10 days ago saying the blocks would be ready in 7-10 days and then send me one today saying they will be ready in 10-14 days....I hate that and would at least respect honesty. I guess the next email would have said 14-21 days.... :mad:

Rant over and now going to order the EK ones

whyscotty · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:40

gregster said:
It doesn't look like I will be getting my AquaGFX blocks now. Why send me an email 10 days ago saying the blocks would be ready in 7-10 days and then send me one today saying they will be ready in 10-14 days....I hate that and would at least respect honesty. I guess the next email would have said 14-21 days....

Rant over and now going to order the EK ones

Have you not had a look at the Koolance ones?

pgi947 · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:41

TDP will drop a good 20% under water too

whyscotty · 22 Oct 2012 at 16:44

pgi947 said:
TDP will drop a good 20% under water too

Thats good to know, :cool:

excuse ignorance but why/how ?

Gregster · 22 Oct 2012 at 17:00

whyscotty said:
Have you not had a look at the Koolance ones?

I would but can't find any for the Lightning.

pgi947 · 22 Oct 2012 at 17:49

whyscotty said:
Thats good to know,

excuse ignorance but why/how ?

From what I understand, cooler VRM's are more efficient which in turn reduces power draw. When I had a 670, max OC on air drew around 90%, under water it sat around 70% :cool:

Gregster, you ordering direct from EK or via OcUK?

Gregster · 22 Oct 2012 at 18:08

pgi947 said:
From what I understand, cooler VRM's are more efficient which in turn reduces power draw. When I had a 670, max OC on air drew around 90%, under water it sat around 70%

Gregster, you ordering direct from EK or via OcUK?

I will probably order direct from EK (no where has any in stock

)

whyscotty · 22 Oct 2012 at 19:35

pgi947 said:
From what I understand, cooler VRM's are more efficient which in turn reduces power draw. When I had a 670, max OC on air drew around 90%, under water it sat around 70%

Gregster, you ordering direct from EK or via OcUK?

Thanks for the info,
Still learning

MyBrainz · 23 Oct 2012 at 20:22

Sapphire 7950 @ 1100/1625 on Cat 12.11 & i7 2700K @ 4.6GHz.

High

Extreme

Seem to have gained a couple of fps from last run on Cat 12.9 but i didnt do 1125 on the core this time and still have an improvement

Tonester0011 · 23 Oct 2012 at 20:40

We need some BF3 runs using the new 12.11s.
I would get onto it now, only i really do need sleep

Gregster · 23 Oct 2012 at 20:43

Tonester0011 said:
We need some BF3 runs using the new 12.11s.
I would get onto it now, only i really do need sleep

This I want to see. I know Matt has done a test (well done) but I want to see more

After all, benchmarks are pointless, it is games that count.

pgi947 · 23 Oct 2012 at 21:00

I'll try sneak one in tomorrow with 12.11.

Though I must confess I'm sick to death of operation swordbreaker.

Gregster · 23 Oct 2012 at 21:29

pgi947 said:
I'll try sneak one in tomorrow with 12.11.

Though I must confess I'm sick to death of operation swordbreaker.

lol I nail it now without taking a single shot

and I was doing 4 runs at a time, that was driving me nuts. Ohh to be a game tester must be so much fun.....

LtMatt · 23 Oct 2012 at 21:41

I'll get some more done once i get my issues sorted dont worry.

MyBrainz · 24 Oct 2012 at 14:02

Quick BF3 multiplayer on a 64 player server at Op Firestorm but just a 20 minute run..

Max settings on Cat 12.11 with my 7950 @ 1100/1600 & 2700K @ 4.5GHz (1080p)

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
73553, 1222896, 55, 64, 60.147

My dumbass forgot to turn off vsync

Nice min fps tho.

And again on Caspian Border still forgetting to turn off vsync :rolleyes:

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
33281, 553293, 56, 63, 60.151

Will try to remember to turn off vsync this time and do a longer run

LtMatt · 24 Oct 2012 at 14:19

MyBrains said:
Quick BF3 multiplayer on a 64 player server at Op Firestorm but just a 20 minute run..

Max settings on Cat 12.11 with my 7950 @ 1100/1600 & 2700K @ 4.5GHz (1080p)

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
73553, 1222896, 55, 64, 60.147

My dumbass forgot to turn off vsync Nice min fps tho.

And again on Caspian Border still forgetting to turn off vsync

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
33281, 553293, 56, 63, 60.151

Will try to remember to turn off vsync this time and do a longer run

The improvements are such that you can afford to pretty much leave core with a light overclock and focus on the memory overclock to help with the deferred AA.

MyBrainz · 24 Oct 2012 at 14:34

LtMatt said:
The improvements are such that you can afford to pretty much leave core with a light overclock and focus on the memory overclock to help with the deferred AA.

I dont think 1100 is a big overclock tbh.. i only need 1.075v for this with highest temps of 64c. Im well impressed with these latest drivers. I remembered to turn off vsync for this 15 minute run on Caspian (damn game ended too soon for me :rolleyes:

) but heres the results..

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
66026, 808584, 56, 177, 81.656

I was getting min fps of around 40 on 12.8 & 12.9 so to see around a 15 fps boost on min fps is amazing

Edit.. I'll do a longer run another time as i'm really wanting to test Future Soldier and F1 2011

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