anything colder than the air/water at ambient temps helps. :thumbsup:

I have modded and benched a few 8800gt's, and each of them acted differently. Some jumped .05, others jumped almost .1, and one barely jumped at all. The one that didn't bump up under load clocked the worst, and was sold promptly. A .1 jump shouldn't hurt you too bad until it switches back to 2d idle... that can really throw shit into unstable land. Use Riva to lock the card into 3d perf. mode. :thumbsup:

cuz im at 1.5v or so and it jumps to 1.6v lol

but think im going to need to go to the hardware store to get some tubing so i dong have it all bunched up next to the bench table cuz all my tygon has been used and been cut from other loops i done in the past

I'm a little fuzzy on the exact number, but iirc these stop scaling a little after 1.4v on the core with rare exception. I remember clearly though that after I reached a certain "threshold" I was peaking, and any push in volts past that point really hampered my scores...

Most definitely not a "blast and win" chip... gotta find the sweet spot.

Might want to try this: I got that last score by adjusting the vr (VERY carefully) during the bench to control the voltage swing. I was only on cold air, so when I was at my best voltage for max air clocks the load jump would kill the bench, or if set to hit the peak w/ the load jump My scores would drop too... But, by setting the vr to the "best" voltages, and then tuning (once again VERY carefully) during the bench, I was able to control the swing. It takes a little patience, but pays off when you hit it just right... I have no clue how many times I ran that bench over and over to get that score... should have spent that kind of time on the rest of my gpu's... :blush:

wut i found out when you hit a wall on air the cooler you got the room/gpu the more you could get th core to oc at same volts but i think hats ith any gpu XD

but this i wut im thinking getting a big big cooking pot i already have put the pad in the middle fill it with water let it freeze and run that 50/50 antifreeze cu i was goin to use a bag of ice but its going to melt anyways

also looks like i might also be getting a 4870 :D

awesome work dom!!!

thats alot of hwbot pointage

so is my idea on the loop a good one ? would lik some feed back ;) im going crazy alwas talking to myself lmao wife always looks at me like WTF

oh yeah forgot i also got and ice chest and those igloo jugs but i dont they would fit in the ice box to freeze cuz its not a big ice box but i need to get he gpu colder

whats the temps of your tap water?

room temp and im just running distilled with pt nuke

but the ss warms up the room after a while so looking to get he most on water cooling on the gpu

tap water...from the sink...:D i get 10c water from mine...

oh lmao idk i never checked its already in the high 90F's here and like 70-80F's at night and plus its not close to a sink

so the rad in ice should work good ?