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[richardd43]

Useing 329 I stepped up the voltage to 1.7 and could not get it stable, was afraid to go higher. 3D would start and the temps were climbing like crazy. It would not finish the first test so reset everything to the 325 settings.

[Nick N]

OK

so your CPU top end is 3250 @ 1.625v

hey, thats still better than we were running and it opens the window for calc's to apply memory and CPU values that are higher and fall within the limits

I think it may also allow a DDR2 800 setting which should net a better memory speed than you had on the divider... checking numbers now and will post back

[richardd43]

New Nvidia 8800 Ultra to Be Priced Over $800

Nvidia said Tuesday that its partners would ship the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra -- "the world's fastest graphics processing unit" -- by May 15.
Nvidia also announced a price for the new cards: at least $829.

Makes me want to order a couple, maybe 3 so I will have a spare

[Nick N]

OK, one already came up..


This test will tell us if the Vcore increase will stabize the CPU -and- the memory at a higher speed. You just ran a low speed memory and HT test to find the highest CPU. Now we are going to see if the Vcore of 1.625v -and- using the 590 chipset math will run the CPU -and- memory boost together



CPU Voltage to 1.625v

Overclocking

[richardd43]

Nick, it is birdie time so will be away from this computer for an hour.

[Nick N]

New Nvidia 8800 Ultra to Be Priced Over $800

Nvidia said Tuesday that its partners would ship the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra -- "the world's fastest graphics processing unit" -- by May 15.
Nvidia also announced a price for the new cards: at least $829.

Makes me want to order a couple, maybe 3 so I will have a spare

uh huh      

I thought that might be coming... just so you know:

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is an utter waste of money.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2979&p=10

[Nick N]

Nick, it is birdie time so will be away from this computer for an hour.

gotcha...

It gives me time to run numbers

[richardd43]

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is an utter waste of money.

I am in no market for a new GPU this year. I am quite happy with my boards.

The 3D scores between 1 board and 2 is only 400 points so what this does for me is let me upgrade the puter with the 7800 to a 7950 GX2. It is an older Gigabyte SLI Pro board with a 939 4600 in it but is is a work horse.

[Nick N]

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is an utter waste of money.

I am in no market for a new GPU this year. I am quite happy with my boards.

The 3D scores between 1 board and 2 is only 400 points so what this does for me is let me upgrade the puter 2\with the 7800 to a 7950 GX2. It is an older Gigabyte SLI Pro board with a 939 4600 in it but is is a work horse.

hmmmm   Perhaps a single GPU to play with?

it's only 399, or less

RC official drivers used...

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php? ... count=3293

That is real

[Nick N]

Actually, I take that back, my bad... that score was done on the beta driver... the RC official driver tests may not have been leaked yet

sorry

[Nick N]

Here are the 3DMark06 scores...


http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php? ... count=3451

notice the shader score difference

[Nick N]

I think this one was done on the RC Driver...

http://www.generation-3d.com/view_image ... hd2900.jpg

Better shader scores

I know the one above that compared the GTX and the XT was using different CPU speeds which will make a difference however it was my understanding the GTX was the XXX extreme edtion. It was not really fair they posted the E6600 XT score on a O/C processor

[richardd43]

I still think I am going to wait until Christmas to see what hits the shelves and hope the prices are down a little. As much as I love new technology a divorce over a computer part is not real appealing.

I blamed Nick for the 9700 purchase. The hard part was pretending I really did not want it.

[Nick N]

I still think I am going to wait until Christmas to see what hits the shelves and hope the prices are down a little. As much as I love new technology a divorce over a computer part is not real appealing.

I blamed Nick for the 9700 purchase. The hard part was pretending I really did not want it.

spoken like a trooper!


Hey... I will take the rap

You are much better off with that cooler but try and explain that one and it just does not compute


I agree.. this xmas, or around that time, will be the real time to upgrade. By then quite a bit will be revealed and possibly even on the market

[Nick N]

OK, one already came up..  


This test will tell us if the Vcore increase will stabize the CPU -and- the memory at a higher speed. You just ran a low speed memory and HT test to find the highest CPU. Now we are going to see if the Vcore of 1.625v -and- using the 590 chipset math will run the CPU -and- memory boost together



CPU Voltage to 1.625v

Overclocking    
CPU Frequency 232  
CPU Multiplier 14x  
Memory Clock Frequency DDR2 [800]  
CPU<-> NB HT Speed 4xCPU Frequency  

If it is unstable, raise Vcore to 1.65v and retest... no higher. You are correct that 1.7v is over the top

That should net the following numbers:


CPU = 3248
FSB = 232
HT = 928
Mem = 464


If you can not run that, the we have to lower the CPU speed until we find the balance between that speed and the memory stability. I will run different sets of numbers to take that into consideration but lets see if it will run the above. If it makes it into Windows but blows out during 3DMark... then we are close.

I have more numbers to work with if that first run wont lock down. I will post them the order to try. Essentially what we are after now is the highest CPU and MEM we can maintain. Without DDR2 1066 memory  (divorce court) we will be limited to the sticks and speed but its not looking to bad.