hey mike I see you got the itch for a new card huh lol. with water and a unlocked bios you will be hitting 950-1000 and 30000k j gpu side np good luck with it
Yep I did. Had the 5870's over a year, and I havnt had an nvidia card since my 8800's so I facied a change. I actually got a v.good deal in the end on my 5870's - made about £150 after buying the 580. Still debating if/when to get a second to SLI. How are yours treating you?
Really nice Mike, i wait to see more result of those puppy with higher OC .. If you need a waterblock, EK have allready release some for the GTX580... http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/shop/blocks/vga-blocks/fc-geforce/5x0-gtx-series.html The acetal+Nickel are not yet in stock, but if you have time, those are better of acrylic or simple copper.
Nice... im prob gonna get a nikel clear top. Im hoping they do a nikel backplate too, because they look sweet
Huum when it come to the top, i like most the Acetal version... I got 2 EK Full nickel + Acetal top for my 5870 .. solid waterblock... 5°C Delta idle/full temp ... ( overclocked, CFX + CPU in the loop ) .. the screenshot on EK don't see it, but the nickel parts are pure mirrors ( never see better ). Will see how they goes with my new Koolance 450x2 dual res bay + D5 (MCP655 ) next week when i got it.. ( my EK pump is a bit low with 3 waterblock )
yeah, I always used to go for the acetal tops until I got my UD7 mobo block which i could only get hold of as a nikel clear top. But with my blue fluid going through it, OMG it looks incredible! that converted me to clear tops LOL! Ive actually toyed with the idea of replacing my swiftech GTZ with a nikel EK Supreme HF just to match it all out. I also heard they perform v. nicely
Started o/cing the 580. This is at 850mhz core, which I think is the highest I will go on air as temps were touching 90 degrees. Still, not a bad run for single GPU. Im gonna clock this 980x back up to 4.6ghz for a run too
it is cold outside (-5°C) and my 'weather computer' gives some great new scores - wish I had a 6 core for benches .. HWBOT conform (no PhysX) Incl. PhysX
Sorry .. Cannot test Extreme preset .. My screen is maxed at 1920x1080 and x-preset needs x1200 .. But i just checked on HWBOT: I would be #4 for i7 950 and far No1 for i7 950 under H2O !! Epic score !
This is a great achievement, not everyone can do such things, congratulations :banana::banana::banana:
Man !! You make my rig rock !! HWBOT PhysX So far for today :tomcat: edit: Now it is official and I rank as #3 for Core i7 950 Overall in Vantage! Funny as it is, Team Finnland had now to move to rank #4 even they have benched this CPU with LN2 @5.185MHz and have used the same graphic cards. I did use watercooling only @ 4.542MHz and scored 220 points higher. You can check here And yeah: by far highest E-Score (E91504) and P-Score (P52634) both incl. PhysX for i7 950 on 3DMark-website Great stuff and good fun :bounce:!
