18,643 in 3DMark06 w/ 1 8800GTS-512 (New personal best)

[jason4207]

I got a new cooler last week (Xigmatek Battle-Axe VD964 Twin VGA Cooler (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=579849)) for $9 shipped AR, and seeing as how my HR03GT is on my 4850 I decided to put the new cooler on my 8800GTS-512 that's sitting in the closet w/o a HS on it. My 8800 has always been better than my 4850 at 3DMark06, so I decided to take advantage of the cooler weather, and see what she could do!

The first thing I did was mount the cooler. At first I bent the heatpipes up a little to fit some slightly larger RAMsinks on those 2 RAM chips. Then I decided to bend them some more to fit some sinks that would match the rest. :screwy:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1554/pa190167gq6.jpg

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7963/pa190168ka8.jpg

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7097/pa190171oq1.jpg

I opened the windows, turned on the ceiling fan, and put my jacket on. After a few hours I realized this cooler wasn't as good as my HR03GT (duh!) as I wasn't able to get the same clocks I was getting w/ the HR03GT, and adding more voltage only seemed to make things worse. I settled at 1.36v-idle (load was going up to 1.43v).

Still, I was able to pull some respectable numbers, and I'm sure having a better/faster CPU helped a little as well.

My new high score! 18,643

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3839/18643wk8.jpg

I might try to switch coolers again at some point and shoot for 19k, but that seems like a lot of work for a few hundred points. Not bad for a $9 cooler!

:beer:

[Badbonji]

Increasing the oc on the cpu would get over 19k, more voltage just for benching should be fine as it will only be for a short period of time :P

Good score, more than mine with two 8800gts 512mb, but my quad was only at 3.6Ghz.
Also what was the oc on the 8800gts?

[jason4207]

I can't get any higher on the FSB. My CPU has more in it, but the FSB wall has been hit on this P35. I can't get 1MHz higher to pass benchmarks.

8800GTS OC is in the pic, but it might be hard to read: 821/2214/1274(GDDR3-2548).

I was able to run 846/2268/1274 in warmer ambients w/ my HR03GT. Here's a ss of my last high score.

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn31/jason4207/18300.jpg




If I ever get the P45 I want then I'll be shooting for 20k+!