so did i damage the extra pipes/shaders after the first 3dmark run? [Archive]

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d94

12-09-04, 07:30 AM

wierd thing!
i got my card. I unlocked it, ran it at stock speeds. 3dmark03 looked beatiful w/no artifacts and i got a score of 10,713 (STOCK!!! :D)
then, every run after that had little white dots on some parts of the run and i couldnt OC at all! so since it was artificating? i got a rather crappy score...
can anyone shed some light?

CandymanCan

12-09-04, 07:36 AM

If thats happend im guessing youre pipes are dammadged, you didnt hurt them by unlocking them they come like that remember its not a grauntee all 6800NU's will fully unlock..

Did you use Rivatuner to unlock or did you do a bios flash ?

Also the core of 410... Thats really high on a 6800NU, try lowering the core to 380 (just to test it out) and re run the 3dmark.

I bet you it was just ur card overheatng from being oced to far

Re-run the 3dmark @ say 380/800, or re-run the test on stock speeds. If you get no artifacts o nstock and ur pipes are still unlocked then it was ur oc that wasj ust to high thats all

Slimmy

12-09-04, 09:42 AM

Yea just run it at stock speed and see if you still have the little white dots. It might just be overheating from the oc like Candymancan said.

That is a killer score score. The same w/ mine was just a hair under 10000.

d94

12-09-04, 10:16 AM

that score was running 325/700 w/no oc'n
and i'v tried running it like that again, but no go (when this whole thing happened.. a couple weeks ago)

d94

12-09-04, 10:18 AM

btw, i monitored the temps via the nvidia utility on my 2nd monitor and they never aceeded 65C... so it is still possible that it was somehow overheating?

CandymanCan

12-09-04, 10:29 AM

Up top you said you ran it on stock first then a fw more runs it artifacted and you couldnt oc anymore. So were oced from the start or not ??

I would re-lock the pipes back to stock and re-run the tests again oced and stock to see if it is ok or not.

d94

12-09-04, 10:38 AM

okay
ill do that as soon as i get home

jonspd

12-09-04, 10:39 AM

I had to put mine back to normal seeing is the extra pipes caused artifact's no matter what I tried. Funny thing is tho they didnt come till after a couple loop's.

d94

12-09-04, 03:11 PM