Andre's Z77 Personal Rig

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wow like 1100 + oc on the vram O.o DAMNNNNN hehe and all that laggin was you had it running in 3D mode that is strange lol i so wont a 120 hertz 3D moniter xD and thanks bud dont use um no more tho lol
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No No, the lagging problem is still unknown... But after overclocking higher than 860MHz on the core, I would get freezes and display driver crashes when alt+tabbing mostly... and I noticed that when i alt+tab out of a game to the desktop or another app the gaming high powered mode of the graphics card jumps back to the low powered mode 825MHz 3D mode to 300MHZ 2D mode.. and that's when the freezes and driver crashes happen.
 
andrevautour said:
how loud does the card get when it's overclocked?
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Not loud at all because I stopped changing the fan speeds, it's stock so the temps stay somewhere around 82C sometime reaching 85-88C depending on the game/benchmark. From what I know, these are normal temps for a 3870 x2.
Maybe if I'd raise the voltage I'd also increase the fan speed in the bios as well.
 
dragoonk said:
Not loud at all because I stopped changing the fan speeds, it's stock so the temps stay somewhere around 82C sometime reaching 85-88C depending on the game/benchmark. From what I know, these are normal temps for a 3870 x2.
Maybe if I'd raise the voltage I'd also increase the fan speed in the bios as well.
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well you generally have to increase the voltage to get substantial stable overclocks. sometimes you can get a decent overclock without changing the voltage but usually to get the higher clocks you need to increase the voltage too.
 
Ofcourse, but raising the voltage for these cards is done by entering some values into the voltage controller chip. It's not easy, the increments go from 1.3V to 1.33V to 1.34V to 1.35V v etc, Afterburner does not unlock the voltage control on this card so it's a bit messy but for now I want to make sure that the actual overclock is stable and the freezing problem is fixed and then try with the volts... I don't like the 1.33V jump though... but it doesn't get much hotter.
 
dragoonk said:
Ofcourse, but raising the voltage for these cards is done by entering some values into the voltage controller chip. It's not easy, the increments go from 1.3V to 1.33V to 1.34V to 1.35V v etc, Afterburner does not unlock the voltage control on this card so it's a bit messy but for now I want to make sure that the actual overclock is stable and the freezing problem is fixed and then try with the volts... I don't like the 1.33V jump though... but it doesn't get much hotter.
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yeah even the 6950 didn't have an unlocked voltage in afterburner so it was limited to whatever you could get on stock volts. i generally don't bother with overclocking the card though because the coil whine and fan noise gets really bad when you do with these cards
 
i think that can be fixed with RBE BIOS editor. You extract the bios using it with winflash and then open it in RBE. There should be a "GPU Registers" button and you can use the last value (it's usually the highest) to change the voltage... hopefully it can be done.

Coil wine... hmm mine makes this high pitch noise when it's working hard on benchmarks but I can barely hear it. The only problem I'd be concerned about would be the huge cooler... but it doesn't make the most disturbing noise... just the noise of the air passing trough thin things very quickly... not an annoying type of noise.

So you haven't tried overclocking your card even a little bit?
 
dragoonk said:
i think that can be fixed with RBE BIOS editor. You extract the bios using it with winflash and then open it in RBE. There should be a "GPU Registers" button and you can use the last value (it's usually the highest) to change the voltage... hopefully it can be done.

Coil wine... hmm mine makes this high pitch noise when it's working hard on benchmarks but I can barely hear it. The only problem I'd be concerned about would be the huge cooler... but it doesn't make the most disturbing noise... just the noise of the air passing trough thin things very quickly... not an annoying type of noise.

So you haven't tried overclocking your card even a little bit?
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the 6950 came with a decent oc on it stock (about 100mhz on the core) so im not worried about it. my sister is using it now and she's is happy with it so im not going to be playing with rbe to get a bit more out of it.

all the 7900 cards have pretty bad coil whine, but so do lots of other cards.


i always play around with oc right when i first get something like a gpu but then i generally just run it stock with the fan at a fixed 40% so it never gets loud because silence is more important to me the entire system has to be just as silent when it's idle as when it's under load.

same goes with the cooler fans and case fans everything is fixed speed so it is always silent and nothing ever spins up and makes any noise no matter how much load it's under.

the 7900's overclock loads but you have to push the volts alot and the coil whine and heat is outrageous. the fans get to about 90% when you have it clocked this high--completely unusable on a daily basis .

this is what it can do though

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Hi brother!

Well I didn't actually mean "go do a RBE edit to your sister's graphics card BIOS to get more out of it" . :)

Your card is very overclockable.. wow. Right now I am testing a 918/1053 OC on mine, bumped the volts from 1.30V to 1.33V, hoping it's gonna be a stable OC this one. This card doesn't oc nowhere near as well as the new cards do. Wish it did though.
 
dragoonk said:
Hi brother!

Well I didn't actually mean "go do a RBE edit to your sister's graphics card BIOS to get more out of it" . :)

Your card is very overclockable.. wow. Right now I am testing a 918/1053 OC on mine, bumped the volts from 1.30V to 1.33V, hoping it's gonna be a stable OC this one. This card doesn't oc nowhere near as well as the new cards do. Wish it did though.
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hey man, hope you're having a nice day!

good luck with your overclock!

the 7900s can overclock a lot but unless they are underwater you can't really use them like that.

i was thinking of adding a second 7950 to my own build, but they are sold out now. epeets has 2 of them underwater in his rig andthey are really nice. waterblocks are always a love/hate thing for me because i always pick graphics cards based on how much i like the look of the cooler and so removing the cooler to put a block is always kind of sad when i see it.

you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06I5lfaKy8A
 
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Thanks man, so far it is stable, I will have to see about that alt+tab freeze again. Adding another 7950 to your rig will be awesome. That thing's not cheap though.
 
dragoonk said:
Thanks man, so far it is stable, I will have to see about that alt+tab freeze again. Adding another 7950 to your rig will be awesome. That thing's not cheap though.
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Unfortunately the twin frozr 7950's are sold out now so I will just keep the one for awhile and see how things go with the 8900's and nvidia's 770/780's when those are released. i really hope nvidia doesn't do another short pcb like they did with the 670's, i refused to even consider a 670 because of the pcb on the reference version.

Content wise I have some new stuff lined up which includes a couple new videos and some new pictures so stay tuned :)

looking forward to seeing pictures from you as well when you have them
 
So far it's stable.. I tried to go to 945MHz with stock memory clock of 900MHz earlier with 1.35V but it's unstable. And the higher the clock goes, the lower the mmemory will have to be to be stable.. I dunno why it works like that, but this is the best combination I could get and the best scores too.


Here are the pics I promised of my old Amplifier! Looks a little dusty inside but it has been years since I opened it.

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In the above pic you can see the actual Amplifiers that da built when he was in college, way before I was born.

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It's an old piece of amplifier technology but it still sounds really nice. The big green thing is the PSU's transformer. I have this one for many many years and it has served me well. I am running 4 speakers on this baby... 2 8VA Radio speakers and 2 x 2 way 40VA Speakers that I kinda made myself. I am using two old 35VA romanian woofers on them and two old Tesla twitters... and a subwoofer I built on another amplifier that my dad made (low power 2X22W). You would be surprised how loud the subwoofer on that am sounds like... more on that later.

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We didn't paint it after we put those holes trough the lid because it wasn't really worth it. It was something we did fast, just to move those components from that big magnetophone.

Looking forward for your updates too.
 
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Ok... OC update! Seems to be pretty stable, runs BF3 without any freezes, crashes... and every time 3dmark vantage failed to show me an unstable OC BF3 didn't, so it's my benchmark. When everything else hasn't failed , BF3 will if the OC is unstable. Works for me.
 
I wouldn't say it looks good, the circuit boards and components are older than me, and the when we moved the amps in this box we didn't care about looks at all.

Your 2011 rig is nice. I'm not a big fan of that cse either, but I just can't believe that tha H100 pump was sooo loud, I mean I could hear that thing as soon as I started plsaying the video. And you got 2 580's in there. I bet one of those still scores nicely, and those UV type of lights that can be seen in the front... but that rattle spoils everything. And look at all that RAM!!

I have managed to get my OC stable but I am afraid I've reached the limit. last thing I want to try is increase te volts past 1.35 and go for 932 on the core. If it fails, then that's the limit. You're lucky your card overclocks that high, but it also gets very hot. Yesterday I modified my fan speed in the cards bios and now it starts spinning at 60C and doesn't go above 80C and it's quiet too.
 
dragoonk said:
I wouldn't say it looks good, the circuit boards and components are older than me, and the when we moved the amps in this box we didn't care about looks at all.

Your 2011 rig is nice. I'm not a big fan of that cse either, but I just can't believe that tha H100 pump was sooo loud, I mean I could hear that thing as soon as I started plsaying the video. And you got 2 580's in there. I bet one of those still scores nicely, and those UV type of lights that can be seen in the front... but that rattle spoils everything. And look at all that RAM!!

I have managed to get my OC stable but I am afraid I've reached the limit. last thing I want to try is increase te volts past 1.35 and go for 932 on the core. If it fails, then that's the limit. You're lucky your card overclocks that high, but it also gets very hot. Yesterday I modified my fan speed in the cards bios and now it starts spinning at 60C and doesn't go above 80C and it's quiet too.
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thanks man,

the case is alright but i don't like the plastic. it is my father's computer though and he picked it. he also doesn't seem to mind the h100 that much either once the door is on and he's playing etc, but i know if it was my system the h100 would be out of there in a second. something like that new h220 from swifttech would be perfect for a system like that in my opinion.

one 580 is pretty good for most stuff but he plays all his games in 3d so one isn't really good enough for everything in 3d.

if it was mine i would just have the one luminescent wire along the edge because that is my favorite looking thing in person. the thing he made for the front is interesting too with the defused light behind the plastic but i don't really like the fan wrapped in the light, but that's just nit picking it doesn't really matter.


what kind of 3d mark vantage scores are you getting with your OC?
 
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