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Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)
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kardson
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16. October 2007 @ 13:30 |
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She's a pretty smart chick.
A motherboard swap-out she'll notice.
but she can't bitch to much about a $60 part.
Memory? think not.
CPU.. Gonna use the same heat sink. so im safe there.
Video card.. well, that one I'll have to get "permission" for :)
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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16. October 2007 @ 13:38 |
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Lol fair enough.
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harvrdguy
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16. October 2007 @ 18:46 |
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MaccerM Mike
Kardson Travis
Abuzar1 Abuzar
Sammorris Sam
Waymon3x6 Ray
Harvrdguy Rich
Sam....................6755..........................E4300-3ghz...........2gig..............x1900xt 512mb
Mike....................5982......(5600)...........E6320 2.11ghz......2gig...............gecube
Abuzar................5562 .........................E6400-3.44ghz.....1gigDDR2........x1900gt 256mb
Ray....................4758...........................P4 3.2 oc'd 3.75....3gigDDR400....gecube
Travis.................4499 ..........................P4 3.0..................2gigDDR400....gecube
Rich...................2260...........................P4 3.2..................1gigDDR400....x850xtpe 256mb
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16. October 2007 @ 19:21 |
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Hehe yep. Don't make me up my CPU overclock to try and break 7000!
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harvrdguy
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16. October 2007 @ 19:49 |
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Well, I think you should try to break 7000 - you're so friggin close!!
Guess what guys, sparkle (unlike gecube) was able to take one of the MACS tec coolers, and make it work - they're venting out the back of the case!! Quote:
There is a slight risk that a bit of hot air that is pumped from the heatsink by the fans actually will go back into the case instead of going out of the case.
Here's the bjorn review: Sparkle Calibre 8800GTX
Bjorn qualifies his enthusiasm slightly. This card beats to hell the 8800gtx from asus, but sparkle's regular 8800gtx is a high performer as it is. So Bjorn adds that he's not sure that the extra $100 for the calibre (sparkle's top of the line brand) version (with the tec) gives that much extra performance over the regular sparkle 8800gtx. He shows better 3dmark6 scores but the review is a little weak in that he doesn't provide a direct fps comparison.
He does say, however, that the tec is shown to keep the gpu cooler (67 C) than the standard sparkle card and with the tec, sparkle overclocks the card about 10% as it is. Anyway, my main point was, here is a tec cooler, apparently professionally mounted on sparkles top end brand called caliber, blowing out the back of the case.
way to screw things up, Gecube!! :)
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16. October 2007 @ 19:53 |
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We all knew it could be done. But now realise that the 8800 card, whilst being cooled effectively, is still using a good 200W of power. Thermalright make a 6 pipe version of the HR-03, the HR-03 Plus, for the 8800 series, and it still kicks just as much ass.
As for me breaking 7000, I might try it, but my PC's running so well I'm loathed to touch it. My board doesn't take well to changing my overclocks, and often doesn't let me back!
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harvrdguy
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16. October 2007 @ 20:05 |
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Sam,
I have to correct you. Yes, I have read that the agp interface limits vram on the card, but both diamond and sapphire make a x1950pro with 512 mb of vram. You might argue that the extra ram is for marketing only and that the agp interface doesn't allow effective utilization of that vram, and I couldn't argue that with you without digging into it a little more, but my point was that, for sure, 512 mb agp cards are out there. :)
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16. October 2007 @ 20:08 |
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Fair enough, given the recent light about Sparkle's successful use of a TEC, there's a lot of things we can't explain about the Gecube...
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harvrdguy
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16. October 2007 @ 20:42 |
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Yes, the engineering department at Gecube needs some new faces.
Here's another interesting thing about the sparkle tec implementation from this review which notes the following:
The tec does not make direct contact with the gpu, unlike with the gecube. There is a base, directly contacting the gpu, with two heat pipes leading to a sink and fan, then the tec, then another plate with two more pipes leading to sink and fan.
I wonder if this approach had the advantage of allowing them to lock up the tec between the two plates and guarantee the tec/plate pressure that I have read is important for optimal tec performance. Instead of going directly for tec/gpu contact, they sandwiched the tec between the plates. (Or am I just confused and is this how gecube also did it?) -Rich
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16. October 2007 @ 22:01 |
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Damn it Sam, why do you have so much of a higher score than me! How much better is your card? I do have a better motherboard and CPU lol.
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kardson
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16. October 2007 @ 22:35 |
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harvrdguy,
The Gecube's Tech cooler is sandwiched between 2 plates as well.
Each plate has 2 heatpipes going to seperate heatsinks, using seperate cooling fans.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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harvrdguy
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16. October 2007 @ 23:32 |
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Kardson
Thanks. Yeah that makes sense. They're using the standard MACS cooler. More or less. I wonder why the Ati version of the cooler doesn't exhaust out the back like the nvidia version does.
Hey Travis, by the way, is your gecube still working good?
(And btw again, since as of this weekend I now have a close relative with a broken leg, how is your little girl doing?)
And yes, abuzar, why is Sam beating you on 3dmark6 when you have a better cpu? (And, what is your score, by the way?)
From Sam's profile:
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Sapphire ATi Radeon X1900XT 512MB with Thermalright HR-03 Fanless cooler
And you, abuzar, have the x1900GT. (with how much memory, probably 512 also) So what kind of 3dmark6 scores are you getting, and how do we beat Sam?
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16. October 2007 @ 23:43 |
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Naw I only have 256 which probably effects it a lot. I'll post my updated score in a bit, when I finish doing my physics work. I need a PC for that so I can't run 3Dmark right now.
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17. October 2007 @ 00:22 |
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Alright so here is what I got.
Main Test Results
3DMark Score 5448 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 1979 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2180 Marks
CPU Score 2993 Marks
EDIT: Also I would like to mention that I'm at 3.2 Ghz on stock volts and 3.44 ghz at the voltage Sam is at, except he is only at a piddling 3 Ghz! lolerz! I hate it when people write that BTW, when they write lollerz or some stupid crap like that.
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17. October 2007 @ 03:21 |
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So what about this then?
Hehe.
As for the 3dmark, the GT isn't quite the same standard as my card, and neither is the X1950XT for AGP it seems. (Hoho!)
Edit: I think I may have figured out why my card outperforms you guys.
When the X1900GT was released, it was always meant to play second fiddle to the 'bigger' cards in the range, the XT and the XT-X. When these two were released at the beginning of 2006 they were pretty much the fastest cards you could buy (they were when i bought one anyway, at the princely sum of £327). As far as I know the X1950XT AGP was released when the X1950XT sat 'high midrange' in the list, a place that my card now occupies.
But hey, 2560x1600 gaming for pretty much everything, I'm not complaining! Be a bit sneaky with the dynamic lighting, and even FEAR runs at that res.
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17. October 2007 @ 06:04 |
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Once I unlock my pipelines it gonna be the same card just with half the ram. You just wait...
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17. October 2007 @ 06:14 |
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and with lower clock speeds. I'm ready and waiting...
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17. October 2007 @ 10:57 |
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Haha well my memory is clocked higher at 840 Mhz.
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17. October 2007 @ 13:26 |
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Funny that, I always thought 873 was a higher number than 840...
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17. October 2007 @ 13:43 |
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I hate you... lol
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17. October 2007 @ 13:46 |
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Now now, there's no need for that! A fair few people I know have 8800GTXs, and I don't hate any of them. Well, not for that reason alone, anyway! :D
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17. October 2007 @ 13:47 |
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Yeah well... yeah.
I need to get more ram.
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harvrdguy
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17. October 2007 @ 16:51 |
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Sam, that copter is amazing!! Good show chap! How do you get the blinking? The forum won't support html - so what's your trick?
Abuzar, I updated the 3dmark6 scores with your numbers, thanks.
Yeah I think the way ati names their cards, the xt version of something is always hotter than the gt version of the same card, and the xtx is the fastest still, Right? Plus you guys, Abuzar and Sam, are running PCI-E cards, which gives you a heads up over the gecube, isn't that so. Anyway, Abuzar, you seem to be running more or less the same as Mike with a gecube.
I added abuzar's, ray's, and my processor to the chart.
Hey Sam, what is your cpu and main ram?
Everybody else, Mike and Travis, how about letting us know what your processor and main system ram is, and I'll add that to the chart.
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17. October 2007 @ 16:56 |
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I didn't make it, I nicked it from google, it's a gif.
Harvrdguy: a 3Ghz E4300 and 2x1GB Corsair XMS2 PC6400 CAS4
See my profile page!
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kardson
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17. October 2007 @ 17:59 |
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Posted before.
P4 630 (3ghz)
2gig DDR400 OCZ ram
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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