Massman

Almost forgot to post this screenie here

What Vgpu? Any sign of coldbug?

Coldbug mod confirmed working. Previously: -95°C CBB, -110°C CB Now: -160°C CBB, -175°C CB Hey MSI, this is awesome!

What about that ... coldbug has indeed been lowered.

You could boycot us even more by not posting anymore. On topic. Nice to see Steponz join you guys. It looks like he has quite a lot of gear over there ... have you been into overclocking for a long time?

(http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=4209697#post4209697) SO nice to see MSI pick up on request so fast. I hear they are also working on the vcore issue. Great, awesome, Super-dooper!!

Hm, seems like photobucket is resizing too much ... here's the link to the score: http://hwbot.org/community/submission/947139_massman_3dmark_2003_radeon_hd_5870_102674_marks As far as I can see, the coldbug is still present on all mainboards apart from the Evga. I've tested several boards with the same CPU and coldbug/coldbootbug are all within 5°C range.

For those who do not know, I was at the MSI Elite OC Summit in Taipei this week to test and provide feedback to the MSI team. The actual overclocking was on the first day of the summit (on monday) from 11AM to 18PM. I was mostly testing out the Clarkdale overclockability on the Trinergy and then switched to LN2-ing the 5870 with 1h30 left to go. Anyway, here are the results ... sorry, no system pictures. I'm sure that many people will post a lot of pictures in the next couple of days. I was amazed that it was actually possible to run Wprime so close to 6G with this chip as initial LN2 tests lead to believe me that this chip was hardly capable of 6G. With only 1.7V and ~105°C this should actually be a pretty decent chip. I was always booting in windows at this frequency ... ran the 1024M just to complete the benchmark list. Had about 1h30 minutes when starting to prepare the system. Card went really high without doing any effort ... no tweaks, didn't check any scaling. The ref design suffers from serious OCP, tho, which kinda sucks. This was ran at 1.47V and ~ -100°C. Conclusive thoughts: I ran this exact combination at home a couple of weeks ago. Due to serious vcore/memory issues, that session lasted exactly 10 minutes, so I'm sure you're not surprised when I say that I was a bit skeptical when booting up the first time. Messing around in the bios a bit seemed to show the real power of the Trinergy and I'm liking it more and more. For reference, here are the three main issues when dealing with this mainboard: 1) You will have coldbug and coldbootbug! I had them at -90°C and -110°C. Clarkdale is scaling insanely with temperature, so MSI will have to figure this one out if it wants to see high frequencies on a lot of chips. 2) The memory dividers are, not surprisingly, a drama. On air cooling, the BCLK oc difference between 2:6 and 2:8 was 30MHz(!): with 2:6 I could boot into windows at 220MHz no problem, with 2:8 only at 190MHz. Maybe consult Gigabyte to fix this one? 3) For this specific bios, the upper vcore limitation was 1.7V. Above 1.7V, it looked like there were no actual bios settings (although bios said there was) and setting a higher vcore resulted in a non-bootable system. FYI: I was running bios 1.2B3. Also tested bios 1.2B4, but this one was worse, so quickly returned to the B3.

english please

Sure. The key idea of this rule is that people should not be receiving points because they are able to use hardware that is not available to everyone yet and is giving them a clear advantage. I'm aware of the fact that there's some kind of grey area, which exists in all discussions, so this rule could be seen as a guideline which can be applied in very specific situations.

Yeah, the trinergy was surprisingly good. If MSI is capable of fixing the two/three issues with clarkdale, they'll have a killer board in their hands.

Of course there can be made an exception for exotic hardware, like the Dreadnought

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It seems that not all x4 scores have been moved from x3 to x4 which is causing not awarding the x3 points. I tried to force the recalculation, but haven't fixed the issue just yet. Working on it.

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it means all technology that has not been released yet. products do fall under the term of technology when there's an NDA on it or have not been released for the big public.

I've fixed this for you, now it's correct

Added the manufacturer + basic info. Will add logo and icon later on.

The score is already quite old, but it seems that this user already has a better score in the 4x CPU category.

Please listen to what Thor says: it's a bug. Points will not be awarded to anyone, but taken away from everyone.

Please, don't follow guides blindly ... sometimes the design differs and if you apply the modification without thinking, you might end up killing the vga just by powering on.

Nothing. We are not going to block 3y old scores because they don't have the verification requires as today.

So only LN2 material?

Can someone give me a summation of the performance of this card? All I want to know if it's worth to bother with this card apart from the hwbot-benching

Can you please post high-res front and back pictures of your graphics cards?