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Breaking news that isnt that important!
And now for the explanation... I was able to Volt mod my 8800GT with a 1Kohm Pot. I adjusted my idle desktop voltage to 1.26V. Under load it went between 1.29~1.3V( I used ATItool artifact scan, worst case scenerio type deal). This enabled me to increase my core to 770, shader to 1925, and my memory at 1000.
This gave me a whopping and I mean WHOPPING 124 points over my previous 700/1000 OC in 3DMark06. THATS IT ALL THAT STRESS, and constant image of my $240 card turning into a brick for a crappy 124 points. This volt mod is total buppkis,crap,waste of time. Not only that even with my Accelero S2 and turbo module when I scanned for artifacts my temp rose over 90C! When running 3DMark06 it barely hit 80C for a second. Absolutely not worth anything, not even the $2 and change I spent on the pot. Yet when I run it at normal voltage 700/1000 temps barely touch 50C during the run. +30C for not even 150 points? Not worth it.
Not only that, this website:
http://iax-tech.com/video/8800gt/8800gt01.htm
Is where I followed step by step. The mod does actually work. Before I would artifact anything over 720+ @ core. With the mod I was able to push the core up to 770 and the shader up to 1925. So it does in fact work, but the performance increase is NOT, at least in my case, as dramatic as the one posted on the site. After their OC/volt mod they were able to get well over 1000+ points in 3dmark06. At thier 'stock' speed they have a much higher SM2 score than me. Mine was about 49xxish, while their's was just about 55xx. Our SM3 scores were abaout the same. After their OC they achieved everything in the 6xxx area. Now I know their cpu is a HELL of a lot faster than mine, on average I get about 2500 cpu points compared to their near 6400 cpu points. I'm not sure if this effects their SM2/3 scores...but after EXACTLY doing EVERYTHING they mentioned I only achieved some points in SM2 and almost none in SM3. And I know the mod is working because the heat was a LOT hotter when overvolted, and I was able to run the artifact scan without errors at the 770/1925/1000 speeds(previously anything over 720 core would cause driver to stop responding). I verified speed with GPU-Z as well.
I cant explain why I saw almost nill improvement compared to theirs. It's not that but these are synthetic tests, which are usually more dramatic than what would be achieved during a real game. So I really dont think I would even see a noticable improvement with this OC.
In other words, if you are able to achieve 700 core 1000 mem just stick with that, it "ain't" gonna get much better. I actually desoldered the wires and removed them, leaving the pot sticked on for a little memento(not to mention the 3M sticky pad is sticky as hell) I'll post pics of the actually mod on the card in my system later on. It was fun and it 'worked' but not as well as I thought it would.
And now for the explanation... I was able to Volt mod my 8800GT with a 1Kohm Pot. I adjusted my idle desktop voltage to 1.26V. Under load it went between 1.29~1.3V( I used ATItool artifact scan, worst case scenerio type deal). This enabled me to increase my core to 770, shader to 1925, and my memory at 1000.
This gave me a whopping and I mean WHOPPING 124 points over my previous 700/1000 OC in 3DMark06. THATS IT ALL THAT STRESS, and constant image of my $240 card turning into a brick for a crappy 124 points. This volt mod is total buppkis,crap,waste of time. Not only that even with my Accelero S2 and turbo module when I scanned for artifacts my temp rose over 90C! When running 3DMark06 it barely hit 80C for a second. Absolutely not worth anything, not even the $2 and change I spent on the pot. Yet when I run it at normal voltage 700/1000 temps barely touch 50C during the run. +30C for not even 150 points? Not worth it.
Not only that, this website:
http://iax-tech.com/video/8800gt/8800gt01.htm
Is where I followed step by step. The mod does actually work. Before I would artifact anything over 720+ @ core. With the mod I was able to push the core up to 770 and the shader up to 1925. So it does in fact work, but the performance increase is NOT, at least in my case, as dramatic as the one posted on the site. After their OC/volt mod they were able to get well over 1000+ points in 3dmark06. At thier 'stock' speed they have a much higher SM2 score than me. Mine was about 49xxish, while their's was just about 55xx. Our SM3 scores were abaout the same. After their OC they achieved everything in the 6xxx area. Now I know their cpu is a HELL of a lot faster than mine, on average I get about 2500 cpu points compared to their near 6400 cpu points. I'm not sure if this effects their SM2/3 scores...but after EXACTLY doing EVERYTHING they mentioned I only achieved some points in SM2 and almost none in SM3. And I know the mod is working because the heat was a LOT hotter when overvolted, and I was able to run the artifact scan without errors at the 770/1925/1000 speeds(previously anything over 720 core would cause driver to stop responding). I verified speed with GPU-Z as well.
I cant explain why I saw almost nill improvement compared to theirs. It's not that but these are synthetic tests, which are usually more dramatic than what would be achieved during a real game. So I really dont think I would even see a noticable improvement with this OC.
In other words, if you are able to achieve 700 core 1000 mem just stick with that, it "ain't" gonna get much better. I actually desoldered the wires and removed them, leaving the pot sticked on for a little memento(not to mention the 3M sticky pad is sticky as hell) I'll post pics of the actually mod on the card in my system later on. It was fun and it 'worked' but not as well as I thought it would.
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