bigdaddy25fb Posted July 22, 2005 Posted July 22, 2005 now on to 7000...now this is all on air...ive been using the stock cooler...any tips or suggestions on which way i should go if i want a good aftermarket cooler...ive thought about water but just for my gfx doesnt seem a good use of my money..id be better off shooting for a better CPU oc with water...any help or suggestions appreciated... 6531 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted July 22, 2005 Posted July 22, 2005 You only got 6,531 @ 575/621? My x800xt-pe at only 555/600 gets 6,788. I guess what I am saying is that is a low score for how high the card is clocked. The best aftermarket air cooling for you card would probably be the ATI Silencer 5. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddy25fb Posted July 22, 2005 Posted July 22, 2005 yeah i havent updated to 5.7 and i didnt mess with rivatuner this time..i know i can get a couple hundred more points if i do but seeing as im lazy and dont really have time to setup a bench rig that wont happen until sunday..basically i just set these clocks clikced set clocks on ati tool and ran 3d mark 2005 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 lol, same thing I did. I was using the cat 5.6 drivers though. When I get back from vacation I am gonna hook the PS back up and see what this system really has in it. All of the scores in my sig were done on only a slightly tweaked OS and all stock cooling so it definatly has some headroom. I don't know what drivers you used for that run, but just upgrading to the cat 5.6's you should see about a 200pt increase. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddy25fb Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 ive got some time today...lets see how far i can push this card with a few simple clicks in the new rivatuner...ahh..i love registry edits and a little LOD mod here and there Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 lol, go for it. I just upped my clocks last night to 567/600 and it raised my score to 6,829. With a card like that you shouldn't have any problem reaching 7k. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddy25fb Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 ok nerm..i need some help here...what windows tweaks were you using to get the scores you did..ive got 3dmark set to run realtime in taskmanager...ive modified my cards memory timings to eshbachs memory timings off of XS and unlike your cards mine actually worked at an OC and gave me a good ~5fps...however...my score is still only 6657...i need to somehow get an xtra 400 points...would upgrading from 5.6 to 5.7 get me that? im not a fan of upgrading cats cuz ive had trouble in the past and have had to full reformats...anyways..any tips and tweaks youre using would be appreciated Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 What are all your settings set to now? card clocks, cpu speed, fsb, etc. EDIT: lol, I upped my clocks to 569/610 and it only raised my score to 6,877. EDIT 2: All the tweaks I have used can be found in the "tips & tweaks" section over at benchaddix.com. The only other thing I did that isn't listed there is I flashed my card to the connect3d xt bios rather than use the sapphire xt-pe bios that comes with the card. the xt bios has way more aggressive timings, but that didn't really up my score much. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty11212 Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 you might wanna try some 3rd party drivers @ www.guru3d.com i used dna cats 5.7 and so far its nice. somehow my omega drivers got corrupted or something and used dna and it worked. ill try to see some other drivers though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyClocker Posted July 24, 2005 Posted July 24, 2005 nice job for air that card should hit 7000 easy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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