Back to School Benchfest (Sept)

[Patch]

August is out and the Dog Days of Summer are gone. :wv:

Everybody get out there and bench!

Kids are back in school and I have a week off with nothing much to do. :laughing:

I'm also excited that I finally figured out why I've had such a craptastic time overclocking GPU's lately. My vaunted Antec 1200W HCP sucks smelly green eggs. I may be a bit dense, but eventually even I figured out that 2 580 Lightnings, a 580 Matrix, and a CUII couldn't ALL have a wall around 1300........ Switched it out for the Corsair 1200 and the un-overclockability magically disappeared. :thumbsup:

My first September submission won't knock any socks off, but it's something to start with.

http://overclockaholics.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=5669&stc=1&d=1315126763

[DrNip]

Nice! So glad the dog days of summer are gone. We had 60 days of 100 degrees or more here!!! Yesterday was the last day.

[Kal-EL]

Aint that just a kick in the pants? PSU poopooz, glad u figured it out :)

[Patch]

Aint that just a kick in the pants? PSU poopooz, glad u figured it out :)

Yeah, not sure what to do with it now....it's now a high end daily rig PSU that's completely worthless for my purposes.

Found the real limit to the first lightning. This one gives a more typical "GPU only" OCP at more than 1.54v (card stuck at 0.3v unless power off cycle). I'll do the OCP mod if one of my other cards doesn't clock better. Not ready to lose a card to true overcurrent until I've had a chance to do a little 4-way action.

5674

[Splave]

holy shit cant buy a break, bought 2 2500ks lol ones a x50 and ones a x48 rofl epic fail

sooo..... ordered 4 more? wtf is my problem

[Patch]

It's called addiction.

[Splave]

tested 4 more 2600ks with dreams of 5.9ghz
so far x51 x52 x52 and the last one..............

x56 at 1.58v on air so far for 1m! picking up dewar on an hour will push further on cold juice. I can die a complete man if x59 is made lol

[Witchdoctor]

That sucks Patch on the PSU and Al on the CPU's.....

Glad the AX is rocking as that is what I have, I am in the same boat Al only I have only funds for one shot and would be happy with a 57 ....

I will be back in action late Octotober early november if all goes according to plan.
I am all set to go cold, is it wother it with sandy on the CPU and being I am mod iliterate is LN2 to cold for 580's with out modification ???

is SS on the CPU and Dice on the GPU better under these circumastances .... Any advise would be appreciated

[Splave]

getting there :)
5876mhz my best chip yet

-38c

poor efficiency due to no display driver and ram not nearly maxed lol

[Patch]

:clapping: Splave!

WD, LN2 is not too cold for an unmodded 580. Just have to have some form of cold slow/bug BIOS - there are many options.

Memory needs tending to deal with lower than -150, but that's a lot of headroom of clocking colder than DICE. :thumbsup:

[Witchdoctor]

Thanks for the tips Patch, much appreciated as I am a cold juice noob

Any insight to what would be a good cold bug BIOS for an eVGA vinnila ?

Next gen I am waiting out for the Lightning version to be released .......... :laughing: