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Damn! I can believe it, I've stared at a few walls close-up myself. Gets frustrating as hell I know. You are going to get there though. Cool your gpu better and get it going! 87 points can be made up with not too big of a v/c bump I'd think.
Did you get the command rate down, different order, Diagnostic Startup (quick 'n' ez way to kill services) and killed explorer, more RAM, RAM flushes, chicken bones? All/none of the above?
all of the above
i'd have it except i can't get through nature
i got 24366 last time before nature
meaning if i got 282fps (which i did before) i'd break 30k
but it won't get through nature without locking :(
have you tried the pencil v-mod?
That's painful. And I'm all out of ideas. I've had the same thing happen with really aggressive, hairy edge RAM settings and an o/c'ed agp bus. Tweaking the RAM a hair or bumping the bus down helped me, but when I was stuck like that DH would crap out as often as Nat did. I know you can't do anything with the bus, but maybe you have some more subtle RAM settings to play with? Something like idle time, refresh rate, spread spectrum?
Can your CPU go any higher? (vcore mod and whatnot)
i haven't done the pencil mod, do you have a link?
i can try relaxing the ram timings just for nature, that might help.
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=817&s=1
here u go
well i'm going to start trying some more radical things to get these last points, so here's my best score so far just incase :)
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7926250
good luck if u do the vmod
g'luck, but if you wind up killing that XT...Ima have to throttle you!
o **** sorry dude i thought u had a pro that vmods for the pro my bad:(
Well said. Keep your meter handy bud, you have no way of knowing how much the pencil marks are going to change the voltage without one. Probably better off just popping VR's on there IMHO.Quote:
Originally posted by Saffire
g'luck, but if you wind up killing that XT...Ima have to throttle you!
it might work with the XT anyway but i haven't even begun to look into it in detail yet so don't worry there. I upped my RAM voltage to my comfortable limit (3.25v) on my A64 but i'm about 6mhz short of having the speed i'd need to make up for running the 9x multi.
Wow you are going through some gyrations to get there. FYI, I'm certain the mod would work the same on an XT. All indications are that the new boards are all based on the 9800XT pcb. It's just that lack of control using a pencil mark I don't like. It's probably safer then soldering if you aren't comfortable, but you would want to check before and after resistance just so you can be sure you didn't provide too good of a current path and over-volt your gpu. There is over current protection, but it wouldn't be instantanious and wouldn't be able to shut down in time to save the gpu if you kicked like 2V it's way on power up.Quote:
Originally posted by eshbach
it might work with the XT anyway but i haven't even begun to look into it in detail yet so don't worry there. I upped my RAM voltage to my comfortable limit (3.25v) on my A64 but i'm about 6mhz short of having the speed i'd need to make up for running the 9x multi.
Good luck again.
Finally got it!
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7928942
CPU: Athlon 64 3200
Stock Speed of CPU: 2000
Overclocked speed of CPU: 2430
MotherBoard: Shuttle AN50R
Ram: Mushkin LII 3500 2-2-2-6
Video Card: ATI X800XT-PE
Stock Core of Video: 520
Actual Core of Video: 555
Stock Mem of Video: 560
Actual Mem of Video: 621
Cooling Used: SLK948U/92mm Tornado, Stock
Your scores with links: 30004 (link above)