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Have your "penciled in" voltmods changed at all yet? Just curious if it's a better solution than VR for me.HousERaT said:I finally got the heatsink mounted on the good card....... all the voltmods have been penciled in. Will continue to benchmark tonight and will post some 3DMark scores.
HousERaT said:You might want to change the TIM on the card if you're going to stick with stock cooling for awhile. Should be more life in the card.
I read that too and it surprised me...obviously I'm not one to pansy around with voltage, but that value seems big even to me. Past 2.5v, you have a very large risk of popping caps and other circuitry. I notice that most of the pros don't go far beyond 2.4v..there's usually no benefit. I stayed put at 2.35v even with my memory at around 0C. You could try going above 2.4v, but use caution if you get gains.HousERaT said:yeah..... the techpowerup article says up to 2.45v passive on the memory. I have superior case cooling so I could probably go a little higher for a short time. Now I'm in the market for the best 60mm fan for the heatsink. I need something fairly quiet and also moves good air. After I get through testing I'm going to rewrite all my personal benchmark records.
Does it give an example of timings to try? That's what I'm trying to ask. Could you put that in the first post perhaps? I've read that thing a buncha times, and just didn't wanna fish around again. It's okay if you don't want to...HousERaT said:lower timings will drop the overall Mhz a tad but the gains will probably outgain the lower mhz. Go to my link from the frontpage about voltmods...... techpowerup explains all that stuff pretty well.
I personally prefer putting TRCDWR at 4 and TRP at 6. In the long run, it's gotten me higher scores on every X8XX I've owned. Other than that I use Eshbach's timings. What drivers are those btw, I think you should be around the 7.7k range with those clocks.HousERaT said:Here is the thread for the best timings for X8X0 cards.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=55485
TRCDRD: 7
TRCDWR: 3
TRP: 5
TRAS: 13
TRRD: 4
TWR: 6
TR2W: CL+2
TW2R: 4
TR2R: USE TWR RULE
TR2R: 2
WR_LATENCY: 1.5
CAS_LATENCY: 7
CMD_LATENCY: 0
STR_LATENCY: WR LATENCY
REFRESH_RATE: 0x75
TRFC: 23