:ohcrap: so I was the lucky one to get a open-box fubar board from the store (although I bought a new one) :thumbdown:


Well I guess RMA is on the way.

Good news = this thread needs more of it lol

LOL, well when your GT gets here fill this baby up. :thumbsup: I hope you get a killer chip.

Gettin ready to see what she will do!

^ Looking good!

was it easy to take the mem sink?

wish you luck like splave said we need good news in this thread.

You're not gonna get any from me. So far its a POS!!! I cant even get close to 1000 on air. My vanilla one did 1k on air without breaking a sweat.

No ram sink, that ram next to the pot is gonna be so freakin cold anyway lol

Crossing my fingers, gonna fire it up after I eat a bite. Hope I have enough ln2 left to go for a decent time :S

No Bud I'm talking about this big fat aluminum one that's stock with the card:

http://www.overclockaholics.com/foru...1&d=1268627886

Was it easy to remove?

Every Driver i try to install fails. Whats up with that? ATI

I'm with Jor. It dosnt seem like its taking the voltage. Unfortunately my mm needs batts. So i can't check it atm. Using the OSD in the bench shows that the voltage is stock. Which i believe. I lock right up in 06 at 1000mhz on 1.35. I tried going up as far as 1.45. Nothing. The temps are in range as far as i can see but it could be spiking so quick that the software dosn't have time to read and display it before it freezes up. But honestly i doubt that. Pretty sure we need a hard mod. OC? Is it in the same spot?

1300 so far is ok, cross your fingers!

Yeah something fishy I guess 1400/1400 only with all the hard mods on and with the voltage cranked.

Problem is hardmod for this card = void warranty or any online sale for that matter, card will die with ya (will be a good paper weight though). It's very extensive and needs removal of several smds etc...

15635 2nd run 1300/1250

I take it your voltage is changing with AB?

Running great, but my driver god borked in vista and I cant get back IN LOL

I dont have enough ln2 to fuck with it so imma just run 06 05 and 03

NO VOLTAGE CONTROL ON THE FERMI CARDS :ohcrap: :keeporder: :thumbdown:

Say it ain't so Joe, say it ain't so :wtf2:

Well Im out of ln2, that started out great and ended up fail

Ran @ 1300/1250 no sweat, but wouldnt go faster with any volts, all the way to 1.6v

All I got was a few hundred point bump in vantage and 03

bwahaha loved the pic dent :) made my shitty night better

atleast you got 1300 out of it rofl, How much voltage did it want for that?
Could it be that the drivers/afterburner or some shit likes vista over 7?
I guess we got pwnd just like the 7.1ghz 670s


"Massman"
~ vgpu = 1.55V; temp = -100°C

I was running 1475MHz GPU untill halfway GT2 when either OCP or OVP was kicking in. With a bit more time (and ln2), I'm sure 1475 will be Vantage stable ... and then it's only 25MHz away from 1500 .

Also did 105k 03 with safety clocks (1400/1250) ... ran GT4 without any LN2 left ... card warmed up to -80°C


Maybe we are running them too cold?

I was kinda thinking that myself, the colder I got it, the more problems I seemed to have. It ran best right at the first when I was cooling it down still. Once everything got nice and frozen, it became almost impossible to run.

intersting,

Our very own steponz came through with some great intel, he spoke to MSI and they said you need 1.5.1 afterburner which is unavailable at the moments. Its a known bios issue with the current one lol they didnt put that on the box did they ;)

Dent you sure you are getting the voltages to change, or maybe you just have a great clocker. Would you mind dumping your card bios and I can compare it to mine?

woot i love this thread :D

oca's best :D

sorry i can't shut my pie hole...

I am very sure, had the dmm hooked up to vgpu measure the entire time, dmm reflected exactly what I set in AB every time (with slight overvoltage as mentioned earlier)

I cant dump the bios right now, the card is swimming in melt-off lol

Yeah I sent a gpu-z Ss to compare BIOSes, maybe you got one with new bios already...

Last I read, vcore control was a given on the 470 and 480.

Source Rom?

Not this Rom, not sure bout fermi. I am sure that the lightning sucks with this AB and its current bios. Prepped it properly, got ABE installed and no voltage control.
Still pushed thru a vantage at 1250 on the core with 1.14v so if I ever get votage control, this card looks promising. Pics are the only thing I got out of the mini-session, que sera.
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you didn't get the ramsink? or u just decided to use your own kit? nice pixies

Here is my bios version according to gpu-z
http://overclockaholics.com/forums/a...1&d=1268882133


Any chance it would be ok to fire it up with an empty pot long enough to save the bios??

honda
I use my own sync's, they allow me to insulate better. Thanks.

Very nice pics RomDom! Man that is a lot of eraser, how many per card?

So far the results are only with the card scaling with cold. Can't wait to see it scaling with cold & Voltages.

Me too! and thanks Jor. I used three blocks of eraser per side. I don't usually insulate all the way out, but I figured this card would be very cold for longer than usual bench times, so wth. Good news is no cb at -150, so with some V she should perform well. btw did you get my response that I was in Tucson?

OMG 3 blocks perside?

I used 2 blocks on my mobo... damn I gotta learn how to insulate i guess :ohcrap:

Then again my pot don even get frosty... you are in a desert arent you? Why the hell you frosting at all? Its 30% humidity here I got no frost with DIce.....

last time i insulated my board i used like 12 erasers ..the big ones...LOL

Holy crap!! what you do the entire thing both sides? Or did you not knead the eraser and just push the blocks on?

I must misunderstand what the eraser is doing if I used so little (then again.. after seeing the exorbitant lengths some of these guys go to with paper towels and all that) well I ain't been to -170C yet so cant compare... but with DIce.. it just dont get that frosty...and minimal insulation is needed. I had to expose a metal object cooled to a DIce temps to see any frost at all.. hell even my styrofoam cup siting on the desk full of DIce powder got only a catina of frost on it and I could still grab it with my barehand.. not a white styrofoam either.. a thin one...

i fear water....LOL

i had problems before...it won't happen again :D

i make sure i compress the eraser onto the board...but really its not needed but...heck if it can be done...8hrs is nothing...i' just double everything :)

Yeah, I use a shit-ton of eraser as well. Better safe than sorry, even under dice.

I had never used ln2 on a card before yesterday and holy CRAP the whole thing was solid ice when I was done :laughing:

I will definitely add some more eraser before next time, high humidity here is a killer.

BTW I have the bios from my card saved, if anyone wants to check it out pm me.

yeah in NY was epic frost too, had about 1/2 inch of ice on the backside in half an hour at -160 lol

rom thats probably the cleanest mount job I have ever seen, kudos.

Imma fill up the dewar today and try again with the lightning. This time Ill insulate better and keep it around -100c and see if it likes it warmer.

This thing is going back to the egg, fuck this massive POS card in its over-hyped bunghole

Well thats just sucks, has no one had good results with this highly hyped card?

not going to wait for the updated AB? who knows if it will fix anything ya know