The official MSI's hunt for 450 & 460 - OC Challenger thread.

[|ron]

Mhhh I'm sorry, I don't know what to suggest to solve that silly problem

[sember]

Looks like rickss69 submission have some artifacts on kombustor, is that alloved too?

Just my luck again, ordered some parts for this 4days ago and now they still havent send it to me and times running off -.- Good luck others who have parts

[ryba AICooling]

I think his last submision is not valid - we can't see everything right on screen...

[rickss69]

Artifacted - Yes it was...we are pushing these things to the limit. It did however finish the benchmark. As for the validity, someone else will have to make that call. One thing for certain is it didnt artifact because it was running in 2D lol. I did finally discover what it was that made the earlier submissions show a whacked core clock in Kombustor...as soon as I opened Afterburner is when the clocks would skew.

 

Edit: Added another photo so maybe it can be better read.

Edited September 30, 2010 by rickss69

[Guest cowgut]

Dont you want me to least post the 5 minutes of moitoring in the screen shot?

plus non fullscreen and no minimum resolution ok too?

[|ron]

Guys, if no rules are better specified, I agree with rickss.

Have you ever benched in the old days of the radeon 9000 series? when you were at the limit, everything was screwed up, you couldn't even understand what image was on the screen, given the number of huge and colored artifacts.

In this competition the rule is: 5minutes of kombuster, temp above 25°c, afterburner opened, gpuz and background image.

So if the limit is 1005mhz with the msi logo screwed up but charging the gpu at 100%, I don't see any difference in the old days of radeons and geffo 1/2/3/4/5

Last word to the mods, of course, just my way of thinking.

Edited September 30, 2010 by |ron

[Massman]

Card has to be >25°C at all times, not just at the end of the benchmark.

 

Screenshot, OBVIOUSLY, has to be clear. No downcutting/resizing so people cannot see the details of the score properly. I thought that was selbverstandlich.

[rickss69]

Re-ran the bench using Afterburner only and got a proper sceen this time. You will not see much more out of these cards using Afterburner only to clock with. It does not play well when you try to introduce other overclocking methods and have Afterburner running at the same time.

[|ron]

Wow, I saw that MeanMachine used the same "technique" I used, gpu pot and LN2, to constantly remain@25/27°c.

I arrived at 1000mhz gpu, stable... the problem is the ram... can't do more than 1100mhz, so I didn't even post the result, it's too bad.

Congrats to you guys, impressive clocks, maybe you all have some room for improvements before the comp. ends

[rickss69]

Yes, it seems the memory is the largest sticking point for me as well.

[Massman]

PEOPLE, don't forget that you have to show BOTH GPU and MEM running in the Afterburner logs!!

 

Not just the GPU core frequency ...

[Mean Machine]

Me though, I'm too dumb to figure out how to OC the RAM to 1200MHz. Other than that, 1020MHz is working, sort of.

[Mean Machine]

The score in the Kombustor competition = GPU clock

 

The engine will take the gpu/mem clock from the score details.

 

So, mem clock irrelevant for the competition, but it still looks as if it matters in the ranking?

[Lucky_n00b]

The score in the Kombustor competition = GPU clock

 

The engine will take the gpu/mem clock from the score details.

 

Ah, yes. I guess I overlooked this one * thanks for pointing that out Jonas () *

 

So can anyone confirm of this rule? Is the GPU Clock is all that matters in the non-extreme category? or the memory clock is counted also?

 

Thanks,

[Massman]

It's the combination of GPU OC % and MEM OC %

[Lucky_n00b]

It's the combination of GPU OC % and MEM OC %

 

OK Thanks for the clarification PJ ()b

[Mean Machine]

"MSI's hunt for 450 & 460 - OC Challenger is open for submissions until 5 oct. This competition is between members. You can submit benchmark results before 5 oct."

 

Is it just me, or does that contradict itself? Can you submit any results on the 5th, or do you have to do it before the 5th of october, i.e. the 4th?

[rickss69]

Sounds like someone is holding one in the bag lol....Just a hint at what would be possible if I didnt have to open Afterburner. (gpu on water)

 

 

Edited October 4, 2010 by rickss69

[Mean Machine]

My goal is actually the Extreme part, but I'd need to figure out how to get the memory to 1200MHz+ first.

[Massman]

Don't forget the background in the verification screenshots. It would be sad if scores are pulled because of some verification rules.

[rickss69]

My goal is actually the Extreme part, but I'd need to figure out how to get the memory to 1200MHz+ first.

 

Memory will be the least of your problems. Unless your card is modded to the gills you won't reach the clocks of the top spot regardless of how cold you get it.

[Massman]

Oh? 1140Mhz doesn't seem to be THAT much on liquid nitrogen?

[rickss69]

Oh? 1140Mhz doesn't seem to be THAT much on liquid nitrogen?

 

Try it on a stock card...

[|ron]

You guys have raised the voltage limit to 1,272v without vmodding?

Try it with Nibitor 5.7... also, if you need frequencies past 1ghz, flash the bios with higher default freqs, then flash it back to the vga.

I did it this thing but giving more than 1,25v at 25+°c resulted in an instant crash at 1000mhz on the gpu.

You guys competing in the extreme stage, could give a try to what I'm reporting, if you didn't already know, of course

I won't partecipate in the extreme area because I don't have a 980x, so I'll remain watching you

[rickss69]

Once again screwed by Afterburner. I never did figure out a workaround and tbh shouldnt have to. All this effort and foiled by a failed utility lol...

 

 

Edited October 4, 2010 by rickss69