[AM2 finally over 4ghz]

-257 is 0*c it could be modifyed, but it was too easy to corupt the display trying to add negative numbers to it.

[XFX's 680i boards, what's the difference?]

the more expencive one has better / more voltage options and a third pic-e slot. and 2 lan ports.

[Lod Or No Lod]

christ, you can edit that buy the bios on some boards.

[Lod Or No Lod]

Lod48 in NVHardpage = lod3 in riva, if I'm not mistaken. You can set lods to 15 in rivatuner with a small tweak in the power users' tab.

 

 

there is a lot of diffrence, i have both installed. lod 3 is the same on both programs.

[Lod Or No Lod]

The reason i started this thread was because ive been doing some testing.

 

i use NVhardpage for the testing. it allows a lod of 48. but does it make a diffrence on high end hardware, no. nothing at all any more. it may bive you 1k in 01, but nowhere else. infact, AQM3 gains from oposite LOD. making it sharper improves the score over poor quality.

 

i still use it, as it allows slightly higher clocks, due to being less demanding on the cpu, but otherwise, your not gaining anything. its just like reducing the quality settings in the drivers another notch.

 

it never use to be possible to turn AA and AF off on ATI cards, yet i never had it on. ATItool used to have a nice setting that turned it completally off. now was that a cheat? another driver to be tweeked.

 

 

if you check the nvidia drivers, LOD is allready in there, same for ATI, they just set it slightly diffrently, better performance or better IQ. either way, its in there and the manufactureres use it to sell there cards.

 

ok, i went off at a bit of a tangent.

[Lod Or No Lod]

do you use lod tweeks while benching or not?

and which benches?

[such a shame.....]

loss should have been less.

[such a shame.....]

if the best position could be showen that would be great.

im hoping to get back within the top 100 some time soon. i probably could do that if i get my 7950gx2 out and mod it lol.

but i need money before i can do that. perhaps more points should be given for efecency of overclocks, ie scoreing 200k on aqm3 at 4.4ghz would get loss points compaired to 4.3 or 4.2ghz.

[such a shame.....]

this was from 3rd of november 06. its amasing how quick overclocking changes...

 

time i last properly overclocked.

to today...

 

 

hopefully i can regain some of that ground soon.

[Vince (Kingpin) takes 100K in 3D01]

ill give him that, he knows how to do it.

and i know how he feels to run out whe your soo close.