4850 + Hr-03 Gt

[Evildead666]

This will be the third time i've created this thread, and I hope it works this time...

Here are some piccies of the 6+ hours of installation (did CPU cooler at the same time).

Will have some benches as soon as Rivatuner works with 4850...
edit : the quality is bit crap because i didn't have a tripod, and artificial low lighting...sorry

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more piccies

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Before and after with F@H:

edit : the fanspeed on the 2nd image is because b4 taking off the stock cooler, I wanted to see what it was like at 95%...and it was 1-2C better than 70%...

Ambient = 25C

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some more piccies.
I'm gonna shutdown and try and get a good "all installed" shot inside the case...

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A nice flash shot of the messy interior.
Cable management is not one of my fortes

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3Dmark06 and 05, still at 700/1000 gpu/mem

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And 3Dmark 03 and a few preliminary Crysis bench's with the SP Demo, since i cant find the DVD atm...

XPmod is a mix of DX10 options under Windows XP.

[Mehen]

Nice! Man that HR03 sure takes up a lot of room.

Only a couple thousand 3d06 away from llc's score, and that was done with SLI.

[lowlifecat]

Nice! Man that HR03 sure takes up a lot of room.

Only a couple thousand 3d06 away from llc's score, and that was done with SLI.

ah, i see why my HelloKitty senses where tingling.

i haven't upgraded drivers in a long time. maybe tonight

[Mehen]

I might be waiting until xmas/boxing day for a new card now. Buying that MSI Wind, my trip to BC, and school coming up is hurting my funding.

[Evildead666]

I'm just waiting for the new rivatuner...

I'm hoping for 900+ with a possible pencil volt mod or two, which can get the voltage from 1.2 to 1.4V, AFAIK its 1.1 something for the 4850 and 1.275 for the 4870 chips.
at 1.4 with the extra cooling it should be good, will be slowing down the OC when I hit 60-70C temps...if I get to those temps before it crashes out

edit : i'm also gonna put some fans back on the nb....2x4cm at 2cm thick they are pretty good at pushing air, especially at 12V.
edit 2 : FaH_Log. I've been folding for a few days non stop. only one failure at 97% ...

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a little try at something higher.
Have to flash the Bios with the new values when i want to OC, so going in jumps of 25-50MHz...
heres a run at 775/1000 at an unknown core voltage...I only have an analogue multimeter, and its lowest setting on DC is 0-10V lol, so the difference between 1.2 and 1.3V is f-ing impossible to see, so i'm popping out for a Digital one lol...

I have also noticed a review of a much better cooler, the T-Rad2 , which has the same number of heatpipes, but takes up a lot less height...

http://en.expreview.com/2008/08/16/showing-off-the-power-of-dual-fan-thermalright-t-rad2-gpu-cooler-review/1/

For me page 7 onwards was not the review...might have not been fully posted yet...

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hmm, i royally screwed up the pencil mod.
DMM says i have 1.24V vGPU...and 1.2V of that is what the bios gives you, so i managed a whole .04V with my pencil mod, out of a possible .2V increase...

At least i can now make sure of the voltage being supplied to the gpu...
(also got a 12V -> 240V transformer, feel like mounting a PC in my car...300W max. I happen to have an epia 1000 with 8" touchscreen sitting doing nothing... )

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Oh well.
Just ordered a 'Trace repair' pencil for the mod.
Its a silver based pen, will see when it arrives next week...
Alos went for 4x1Gb of Dominator DDR2 1066MHz RAM (again), tried to OC my CPU a little last night, and I HAVE to OC the RAM as well, and i know full well my current RAM will have errors even at 1MHz past DDR2-800...hoping i'll get 4 sticks roughly around the same revision this time...

I'll try the current GPu setup of 750/1000 on a higher CPU clock, and then with the GPU OC also...just to see what the difference is with the CPU OC...

At least I have the job of building and stability testing of the Epia to keep me occupied

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some of it has arrived, enough tho
Blurr-O-vision is back...
Not the latest revision of the RAM, but at least all 4 the same....