FX5900 @ 489\965

[caseman]

I've managed to get my Asus FX5900u up to a decent 489\965 core\memory, using the stock cooling (and a side case fan blowing right onto the card). How does that compare to the rest of the crown here? Do I have room to go, or is it at its limit, which I think it is.

I've run PCmark2003 3 time through in a row to make sure the card wasn't throttling itself down, but all three scores came out almost the same, and a good couple hundred points above what it was, so it seems to be running fine.

Any ideas on if I can take it higher?

 

[scottchen]

get a old athlon or p3 stockcool, chop it up use them as ramsinks, then get a generic socket A copper based cooler, it'll probably get you to 500/1000. By doing this you void your warrenty just to let you know.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[caseman]

Excellent, thanks for the ideas.

I remember seeing a something that looked like a thermal pad or blanket but provided cooling as opposed to heat that was made for Video C.s. Now of course I can't find it anywhere. Maybe it was my imagination

 

[caseman]

Scottchen, have you seen the Asus version of the board? It has a huge copper plate on the back side of the card, as well as another on the front (chip side) with 2 smaller embedded fans. Am I replaceing those, or will they do the trick?

 

[scottchen]

You don't have to replace them, personally i'm crazy, so that's why i mod everything i have. I'm just saying CPU coolers cools much better than any video card coolers. If you epoxy a CPU cooler on your GPU, you'll definently get a few more mhz out of it.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[caseman]

score.. that's the next step then.

 

[scottchen]

Ok, good luck, But try to keep the weight down on the CPU cooler, stay under 300grams as a rule of thumb.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[caseman]

Thanks for the tip. I check out the crappy PC stores here in Miami and see what I can find.

 

[HardWareBoss]

How's Meami?

 

[caseman]

Not too bad, especially now that the weather is getting reasonable (I'm happy with anything under 90). A little weak on the tech side though. My options for parts are either the few stores by our oh so lovely airport, a tad on the sketchy side. Someone is always lucky enough to be magically in the right place at the right time when components just happen to fall off the truck. And they always seem to be the people who are component vendors. Some people get all the luck.

Besides those making a living in the seedy underbelly of PC components, my only other option is CompUSA and BestBuy.

Thank god for Newgg.

 

[scottchen]

anything under 90 ouch. You'd better get watercool.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[caseman]

Oh no, not you too. Why is everyone trying to conver me to watercooling? I'd miss my case fans.

 

[scottchen]

LOL, ok then stay with air-cool.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU