Wow Splave sorry to hear, I was ready for some WR shit with that cpu of yours!!

Did I just get insanely lucky with this Galaxy card or what is going on here??

Fingers crossed that you get it flying!

Hey Splave, just for poops and squirts you should try not only stock coolers, but a stock os as well.... ;) gotta find the missing link...

thanks guys

Yeah first thing going to reinstall XP clean, single card 197.41's and see what gives and what it will hit. Then I will try the other card in single. Im thinking the one is no good at all, IE a bit of artifacts at stock. Maybe poor vrm contact? temps are great though.

I noticed the GPU load during 3d benching is really sporadic and jutting like 80s-90%

Reinstalled win7 x32
Using 06 for stability checking
1st card does 835core 1040mem at stock .98v
850core passes sm2 stuff but fails in canyon Im just happy it isnt stuttering like it was

2nd card testing, more volts and sli results tomorrow. No ln2 till monday waaaaahhh~

Galaxy 480 arrived today and I'm hoping it's Dent's card's twin sister. Think I'll just skip the whole air crap and slap a MCW60 on it right off the bat...

Won't be able to play much this weekend as it's full of non-overclocking activities.....and no LN2 until next week. :ohcrap:

here is to 950 on water patch :) best of luck

Yeah way to go! :Dizzy:

Certainly not 950 on H2O.

Couldn't finish test 2 in Vantage @ 890.
Got through everything except the deep freeze fadout in 06 @ 900.

Stepped back to 875 and that completes Vantage. Arbitrarily set mem @ 1000 and didn't touch shaders. I'll play with them later.

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were you monitoring gpu core voltage?

you can read the rear of the card, or in msi afterburner they have voltage monitoring.