Strong Island

amazing job

Thanks a lot man, your really helpful, ya I like hard mods whenever possible, it's more fun and helps me get better.

ya was just reading data sheet, probably will try vid mod to try and avoid ocp/ovp. I want to max out classy but that memory can really hold you back, so frustrating sometimes. Still fun though trying all these older cards, learning a lot.

is the up6208 a pain to mod? Would be fun to try matrix.

funny too because classy comes with extra 6 pin that is supposed to be dedicated just to memory. I think you can even leave it un-plugged.

whats happening, you cant overclock memory at all?

thanks man, definitely a fun card to bench. I think the first session I was having trouble with the x-cool switch, now I changed the position and the blue screens seemed to stop, I also havent found a cold bug and I only went to about 1.6v so I am excited to push again. Only problem is memory is like 100mhz off top scores so that will be a problem.

had a great time with the card last night, 1188 core, new first place. going to wait for kaby for rest of benches. i think 1200 is possible, 1188 passed on first try and at the very end i ran out of ln2 thanks a lot nachtfalke

This is interesting, thanks a lot for posting

Tried on cold last night but couldnt break 1152 core 2600 shader. It was weird about in the middle of the bench session whenever I crashed in Vantage, I got a black screen like power off and then like 30 seconds I get a bsod and then a reset. Is that a sign of something other than instability? Wish I would have taken screenshot of 23478 score but I thought for sure I was going to get higher. It didnt seem like the gpu liked much over 1.55v and -130c

amazing score

ya even on air it wasn't scaling past 1.225v, 1450 passes perfectly and 1476 passes sometimes but has artifacts and also crashes, nothing above 2.225v helps You were spot on.

awesome

nice first try, thanks for help with my 285

ok cool man thanks so much, excited to try it out tonight, never tried 200 series gpu. I also figured out a pll mod last night. To the right of the bottom dvi connector on inside. The up6161 ic, pin 4. I measured around 750 ohm and used 20K pot but the voltage was instantly 1.2v, so just the 20k raised it around 30mv Not sure why that would happen, trying to learn. Even 25 times resistance 20k should be good

wow really sick stuff

nice job

When I was turning the vddq trim pot I didnt see any movement in voltage, but when I turned vddr trim pot both voltages moved. So it's ok to just use the vddr pot for both? Or does the vddq have to be moved also? I havent really benched a ton of cards that have both rails so I guess that's why I am a little confused. On 9800 it was easy, they each had separate pots and measurement points and I just turned them the same amount.

hey thanks so much for this. GPU pot works great. Vddr pot works good also. Thanks for tip, even with 20 turn trim pot the volts move the second you move pot. Do you know how to measure vddq? For some reason I get same voltage reading at vddr and vddq measurement points. I tried poking around but cant find any measurement points. On 9800 it was easy, there was separate caps for vddr and vddq but I cant find anything similar. So when I turn the pot for vddr both vddr and vddq measurement points move, so I am just assuming the measurement points are the problem? All resistors I find seem to be vddr and nothing different for vddq

hopefully if we get unlocked dual core this bench will be more fun for 2 core.

awesome efficiency

hey is this still available, $75 shipped to usa? did you bench/mod it at all. Looking for a decent one to mod and run cold.

I used pretty solid copper for epower and was in a rush to remove and did a bad job. Should have been more careful. Might still work but it's a mess.

nice job

amazing frequency and shader. Man I really wish I didnt destroy my card removing epower.