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G92. Scales nice with cold and volts, not too hot, -60 is the sweetspot for most of them. Low-end Fermi is fun if you can get 1.3v into them (the 1.15 or 1.21v limits of nVInspector are no good) ATI.... 58, 78 and 79 series are ok, but not all cores scale that well

32C. Sorry, nope, pointless.

That sentence could have finished ten words earlier I was going to mention the anonymity of internet shopping.... but those straighteners (and other RANDOM things) are still paired with an address label that says Kenny. Meh. I'm a good boyfriend. Or something. I'm sure all people who straighten their hair would be as happy with a £4 set of straighteners as they would be with this seasons must-have GHD's....

Once you get really anal about benching, different pastes work better with different architectures I use cheap hair straighteners with the PCB in-between the plates Worth it for the looks from onlookers alone

You're taking something beyond factory settings,on a board that has "challenges," there's no guarantee of anything You re-cap GPUs.... some voltmods on that board should be too easy for you I find it harder to hit pure MHz. I have not tried SPi32M stability or anything. Age + voltage.... not a great mix for electronics parts.

My approach: LET around the PCB, including around the GDDR and at least two inches around the core. I usually stop at the line of caps from the PWM If i'm expecting to go below -60 and/or it's a humid environment, I use a little vaseline for the PCI-E slot. I apply it to the card, not the board. If you're going below -100, I would suggest a heating element mounted around the monitor ports. I use a neoprene gasket that's PCB specific to surround the pot's contact area. The card has toilet paper on both sides, between the LET and the neoprene. I find this massively helpful. I also use a neoprene pad on the back of the PCB, usually held in place with a rubber band. SO..... pot- neop gasket-toilet paper-LET-GPU-LET-toilet paper-neop. Also..... take the temperature down SLOWLY! I "run up" in steps.... H20 MHz + 10% at -20c, +20% at -40c etc etc. The first run is always wildly unstable in terms of temperature, because the pot is still to build up it's thermal inertia. A 480 Lightning? I'd recommend building up more experience before benching a rare PCB with a mentally hot core. The GTX480 is a workout.

Don't worry about the timings. Micron & Crucial didn't/don't care about adventurous bins, they want yield. Same ICs under all the sets My RAM is partially degraded from running up to 2.5v I think I got to ~450MHz at 3-3-3 on P35, but I don't think I got SPi32M stable at that.

D9GMH and D9GKX are the ones to go for. Nothing else will do it AFAIK. Ballistix 5300 dual-sided should be a fairly good bet. Most 6400 and 8500 dual-sided also. I probably have a few sticks here, but if I do, they'll be partially degraded.

Close enough Take the C10 kit price and add a bit because your timings are tighter

Bump!

What's the current Ebay price? Doesn't matter if you price it too high. At least then you can drop the price until someone buys. Better than low-balling yourself

Ummmm....you're zombie modding WITHOUT them?

HWBot

Hi. How are the OC-sports participations/points displayed on a users page? It's clearly not by value, date or Alphabet Shouldn't they ideally be ranked by value, within the 365 day "active" period, then the "out of date" scores listed below that, by date? I'm having a LOT of trouble "seeing" where a users points come from, now that the userpage displays the TOTAL, not the total that contributes to ranking (ie..... WR + best 20 HW + 15 OC-sports + Best 15 Global) The info that informs viewers of how a ranking is made up STILL needs to be made more prominent. When did Elite members start to have hardware points contribute to their ranking?

So.... GTS PCB + RAM, GT core? ( silicon batch difference, -400 Vs -300 IIRC?) GLH Edition, or just GS? I think I had one, about a million years ago. Died in a few days

There's a LOT of factors....which start to overlap with each other. A digital clock rate is (simple terms) split into three... the rising edge, the time it spends in its "on" state (stable state) and the falling edge. A "movement" has to be stable for a system-specific amount of time on either side of a pulse (called set-up time and hold time) and nothing happens instantly, everything takes time.... just not much of it. it might take....e.g. 1ns to go from off to on. Or, if the pulse is being measured as a function of time, the rising edge is not vertical, it is very steep. A "1" begins at e.g. 0.7 of the stable value (the threshold value.) The stable value contains excess, to make sure the signal cannot be misinterpreted. So, if a pulse is going from 0 to 5V (off to on) then the signal can be considered on from 0.7 of 5v, or when the signal gets to 3.5v The rest is "guarantee." One effect of cold is that the thermal noise is reduced. That interferes with the quality of the clock pulse and how the "0" and "1" is interpreted. Reducing temperatures literally cleans up the signal. When the signal has "space to breathe" there is no problem, but as the pulses get closer together (frequency increasing) the "natural" noise that each one produces starts to overlap. Increasing voltage (amongst other things) increase how sharply the rising edge of a clock pulse rises, so it takes less time to get to the minimum amount necessary to be seen as "on" I bet someone just links to a webguide that is better written and more complete

Surprisingly little swearing got me here Next major things..... sorting out the split between upper-and-lower colours and finish off the undercarriage.

Is that Qimonda 1.2 running at 1250MHz? Whoa! OR.... is it a rebadged 8600GTS, with 1ns? I know some GTS were sold as GT. Cherry card!

That's not a direct comparison, but I think you are moving the goalposts accidentally News pictures show the winners, but in this example, all the runners are the same "person" HWB doesn't differentiate ref from custom-design, they are all the same GPU core. HWB only advertises the brand if the user fills in the brand field. How do you decide which benchmark is the most relevant? All 3D benchmarks with global points have the same number. Plus.... on release day, reference card is the fastest. Are you going to ask HWB staff to change the picture every time the #1 spot changes?

Because that's bias-free. Also, ref design is how the product is originally designed and released. That's what the model IS in its purest form, even if it's also probably the crappiest. nVidia don't market the Lightning/Strix/HOF For whichever one vendor "is special enough" to have their product on a hardware page, the others would "have every right" to complain about it not being their product. ...and it turns into subtle product-specific advertising, which I don't think would be healthy for HWB.

http://www.tickld.com/pic/t/1224100

I think all VGA pictures should be reference model if possible. Ideally, before vendor stickers are added.

TOp-bin of E8400 all sold. Will sell lower bins individually instead of only in multiples.

Maybe the species is getting rare for the extra reason that they feel "shut out" by the guys who DO bend rules/ethics and get nice and close to vendors. The (ethical) cost of "competing" is too high....

By how much?