TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[lexluthermiester]

Contact's been fine, runs hot with both Corsair H70 and Arctic Freezer 50, I know that Ivy runs way hotter than Sandy but damn.

Ok. Maybe the thermal load being output by the CPU is more than that cooler can handle. Perhaps a better cooler is in order? Maybe a faster fan(even if noisier)? I want to be helpful, kinda spit-balling though..

 

[Ruru]

Picked up a couple of fun cards in the last few weeks for the collection, and something special on the way too!

Nvidia GeForce 6800GT 256M - luckily rev 1.02 as 1.00 and 1.01 apparently had terrible VRAM heatsinks that were prone to falling off! I wonder if she oc's to 6800U levels.

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NVidia Quadro 6000 6G - seems to be a spec mixture of the GTX470 and GTX480, 448 cores but the full 384-bit bus and large VRAM buffer, will be interesting to see if the VRAM helps it hold up against newer titles.

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I've never seen a 6800 GT which doesn't OC to Ultra clocks interesting to see how a "GTX 470 6GB" would perform.

Ok. Maybe the thermal load being output by the CPU is more than that cooler can handle. Perhaps a better cooler is in order? Maybe a faster fan(even if noisier)? I want to be helpful, kinda spit-balling though..

I may test later today as still having problems with the Z170 board, luckily I have four working 1155 boards (Asrock P67, Asus Z68, 2x Asus Z77) so at least I have boards for that 3770K.

 

[wolf]

I've never seen a 6800 GT which doesn't OC to Ultra clocks interesting to see how a "GTX 470 6GB" would perform.

Good news for the 6800GT then! and unfortunately I don't have a GTX470 to compare against, but I do have a 570 and 580 that may prove worthwhile to test it against. My GTX570 back in the day was a champ of an overclocker, so there is some hope for the Q6000, but the 570 is also based on the more refined and less power hungry GF110.

 

[Ruru]

Lost the silicon lottery, my GTX 560 Ti isn't stable at 1GHz even with the max 1150mV

Put together a Win7 rig with i5-3470 @ 4GHz & 16GB RAM.

 

[basco]

with geforce 4\500 series i had better luck going really small steps in voltage because there is a heat to oc ceiling arriving very quick .
5 degrees less and 1020mhz is stable but 5 more and 990mhz

 

[lexluthermiester]

Lost the silicon lottery, my GTX 560 Ti isn't stable at 1GHz even with the max 1150mV

Seriously? 1ghz is a bit pushing it for that GPU. If you're getting 960mhz you're lucky! The most I ever got from my 560 was 890mhz IIRC. The VRAM did better at 1120mhz(again IIRC).

 

[3x0]

Got my original S939 Venice 3000+ up and running. Luckily, both the Geil RAM and CPU survived when the PSU exploded, only the motherboard died. Running it on GA K8NF-9, will see how it overclocks. Have two E6 stepping CPUs, from what I've seen E3 are generally better, but alas...

 

[Ruru]

Seriously? 1ghz is a bit pushing it for that GPU. If you're getting 960mhz you're lucky! The most I ever got from my 560 was 890mhz IIRC. The VRAM did better at 1120mhz(again IIRC).

There were even some models which came out with 1GHz factory OC out of the box, that's why I don't feel lucky with my card.

But yeah, 950MHz is fine. At least it's stable

Got my original S939 Venice 3000+ up and running. Luckily, both the Geil RAM and CPU survived when the PSU exploded, only the motherboard died. Running it on GA K8NF-9, will see how it overclocks. Have two E6 stepping CPUs, from what I've seen E3 are generally better, but alas...

Mine ran nicely at 2.7GHz (50%) OC with the stock cooler back in the day

 

[wolf]

But yeah, 950MHz is fine. At least it's stable

Beats what I was able to get on my two Fermi cards in the day, a GTX460 and GTX570, 900mhz and 925mhz respectively. Although it makes sense GF114 could clock higher than GF104 and GF110. Remember when a x60 series card had a 256 bit bus?

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GTX460 vs GTX570 mini review

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Oh the days where overclocking gains from current hardware were awesome.

 

[Ruru]

Beats what I was able to get on my two Fermi cards in the day, a GTX460 and GTX570, 900mhz and 925mhz respectively. Although it makes sense GF114 could clock higher than GF104 and GF110. Remember when a x60 series card had a 256 bit bus?

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GTX460 vs GTX570 mini review

GTX460 1024mb vs GTX570 1280mb Is it worth the upgrade if SLi is not an option for you? Hey guys, recently upgraded from a 460 to 570 so I've run them both through some paces and knocked up some graphs to show how they compare against eachother :) Tests were done with both cards at stock...

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Oh the days where overclocking gains from current hardware were awesome.

I had a Gigabyte GTX 470 SOC which OC'd to 830MHz after modifying its bios for higher voltages, if you don't count the power draw/temp, Fermi wasn't that bad after all.

Edit: I remember also 260 with its 448bit bus

 

[basco]

i had good luck with asus 560ti dcu and msi twinfrozr

giga soc and zotac gtx480 with zalman cooler was best with fermi

 

[3x0]

Mine ran nicely at 2.7GHz (50%) OC with the stock cooler back in the day

So far that seems to be the case for me as well (300FSB, x3 HTT, RAM at 400MHz). 2700MHz failed prime95 @1.5V vCore, but so far it's stable @1.525V (~1.55V in Windows). Temps seems to be just a bit above what's recommended, 57°C max (55°C is TJMAx from what I've read). Added +0.1V to chipset voltage. Might play around with RAM OCing later, after core stabilizes.

I'm interested how Burnout Paradise fares with the new OC. I remember playing it at 25 FPS on a 6600GT back in the day

 

[Ruru]

So far that seems to be the case for me as well (300FSB, x3 HTT, RAM at 400MHz). 2700MHz failed prime95 @1.5V vCore, but so far it's stable @1.525V (~1.55V in Windows). Temps seems to be just a bit above what's recommended, 57°C max (55°C is TJMAx from what I've read). Added +0.1V to chipset voltage. Might play around with RAM OCing later, after core stabilizes.

I'm interested how Burnout Paradise fares with the new OC. I remember playing it at 25 FPS on a 6600GT back in the day

I went close to 1.7V if my memory serves me correctly

 

[3x0]

I went close to 1.7V if my memory serves me correctly

I'm not that brave hahaha

 

[Ruru]

i had good luck with asus 560ti dcu and msi twinfrozr

giga soc and zotac gtx480 with zalman cooler was best with fermi

My 560 Ti is also an Asus DCUII. A good card in overall what it comes to 560 series cards.

 

[basco]

the old chips could take the volt´s back then.

 

[Ruru]

the old chips could take the volt´s back then.

Yup. When overclocking Athlon Thunderbird, I see nothing special going over 2V

 

[lexluthermiester]

There were even some models which came out with 1GHz factory OC out of the box, that's why I don't feel lucky with my card.

Really? Fair enough.

 

[Ruru]

Really? Fair enough.

GIGABYTE GTX 560 Ti SOC Specs

NVIDIA GF114, 1000 MHz, 384 Cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 1024 MB GDDR5, 1145 MHz, 256 bit

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Though I remember that some samples were unstable

 

[basco]

after that they released a soc version with 950mhz rev1.0 + 2.0

 

[QuietBob]

I'm interested how Burnout Paradise fares with the new OC. I remember playing it at 25 FPS on a 6600GT back in the day

Burnout Paradise takes advantage of four threads. It ran perfectly well on my oc'd Phenom II X4. You'll be CPU bottlenecked with that Athlon 64, I'm afraid. On the GPU front, an HD7970 was able to max it out in 1920x1200 with 60+ fps.

 

[3x0]

Burnout Paradise takes advantage of four threads. It ran perfectly well on my oc'd Phenom II X4. You'll be CPU bottlenecked with that Athlon 64, I'm afraid. On the GPU front, an HD7970 was able to max it out in 1920x1200 with 60+ fps.

Yeah, plus I'm hitting the 1GB RAM and 128MB VRAM limits as well. (720p Medium)

So far that seems to be the case for me as well (300FSB, x3 HTT, RAM at 400MHz). 2700MHz failed prime95 @1.5V vCore, but so far it's stable @1.525V (~1.55V in Windows). Temps seems to be just a bit above what's recommended, 57°C max (55°C is TJMAx from what I've read). Added +0.1V to chipset voltage. Might play around with RAM OCing later, after core stabilizes.

Final settings 2666MHz @1.55v (~1.58v in Windows). RAM wasn't cooperative when OCing, so I kept it as 190MHz instead of 200MHz default, with 1T command rate enabled. Passed Prime95 overnight, temps were around 55-58°C most of the time with max being 60°C.

Next week I'll probably test the other Venice sample, it's rev E6 as well

 

[basco]

fun and cheap nostalgic card to play around with good oc is ati 4770
this is on air fun fact i used vista64 lol

 

[Apocalypsee]

My favorite Youtuber released new video

I got some ingredients to build my own Windows 7 rig from spare parts; i5 4670k, Z87 mobo, HD6950 (that flashed to HD6970) but I don't have time to build it, too much work irl I barely play any games or do anything other than watch Youtube

 

[GreiverBlade]

ohhhh another one i did not have ... a Manchester Athlon 64 X2 3800+


ok so, the Socket A mobo with the AMP 1600+ was an Asus A7N8X-X Nvidia nForce2 400 (i wrote nForce4 previously, i blame the low light in my garage and the 400 after the nForce2 )


the S939 mobo is an Asus A8N-VM CSM Nvidia GeForce6150 Northbridge Nvidia nForce 430 MCP Southbridge


the AMP 1600+ was cooled by a slab of aluminium with an Arctic Cooling Super Silent 2000 on a reducter,
the A64 X2 by a Thermaltake full copper 4 heatpipes and also an Arctic cooling Arctic Fan Pro TC
dusty ... ewwww (not worse than my XFX 8800 GTX with her hamster torturing crime scene of an axial fan ... )

can't find any other pics of that one ... it look like a Tt Polo 735 but with 4 heatpipes