ASUS 2900XT Benchin begins

[Titan7171]

I had 10l nitrogen for todays benching and it didn't go well on the graphic cards part. For some reason I cant pass gt3 (cayon flight) in 3dmark 06 anynmore. Not even on stock clocks. I'm pretty sure that one of the cards are damaged in some way. I will test em seperatly tomorrow.

I am damn sure of something though. 2900XT Crossfire will have a 25500+ score in 06 soon. GT2 scales very nie with gpu clock aswell as GT3 and GT4. We are looking at 10k+ SM2.0 and ~12k SM3.0 scores.

CPU wise it looks very good.

yup not completeing canyon flight is a definite sign one of your cards is dieing.....mine also wouldnt finish canyon for a few days, try after try I had to keep lowering clocks till it finally died .....my rma comes tomorrow.

[NH|Delph1]

Next 3DMark 06 test will be on friday or saturday next week at Dreamhack Summer 2007. We will have 4 intense days there with hopefully all the ln2 we need.

Aye, I'm really looking forward to that

//Andreas

[Kinc]

Aye, I'm really looking forward to that

//Andreas

So am I, think we will have some good fun there Cross your fingers for better benchin weather This weather we have now is just crazy.

[ahmad]

Good luck!

[Kinc]

I'm having su much trubble with 2900 CF on subzero that I might go crazy before I get a complete run in 06 with everything under ln2. The first 30 mins on the first try everytihng worke great and I had 1050MHz working. I am sure now that one of the cards is damaged, that is the reason to why it wont overlcok anymore. I will go out and buy a new one tomorrow.

This is a few days old screen showing the potential of 2900XT CF in 06:

[Lane-k]

Nice this SM 3 score.. Share more when you can.... GT1 is allways benefits to Nvidia cards ( it was same with the 7900)...

[macci]

This should give a pretty good idea on what to expect (NOTE: it is by no means a fully optimized score, no PCIe clocking, no OS tweaking etc):

watercooled 2900XT CF w/ 2 CPU cores vs. LN2 cooled 8800GTX SLI (older drivers) w/ 4 CPU cores (and slight CPU clock advantage for the nV rig also - 4876 vs 4804MHz):


Means that 4 cores running at 4.8GHz (CPU Score of 7000+) with watercooled 2900XT CF gives you 24k already

[Titan7171]

This should give a pretty good idea on what to expect (NOTE: it is by no means a fully optimized score, no PCIe clocking, no OS tweaking etc):

watercooled 2900XT CF w/ 2 CPU cores vs. LN2 cooled 8800GTX SLI (older drivers) w/ 4 CPU cores (and slight CPU clock advantage for the nV rig also - 4876 vs 4804MHz):

Means that 4 cores running at 4.8GHz (CPU Score of 7000+) with watercooled 2900XT CF gives you 24k already

I wish people would post this kind of stuff over on the Futuremark graphics card forum.........they will still say that ATI does good in benchmarking but fails to impress in games.

[NH|Delph1]

The 2900 XT benching will continue at DreamHack on Saturday, a new 2900 XT, a motherboard I'm not going to reveal just yet and many, many liters of nitrogen

//Andreas

[Kinc]

The 2900 XT benching will continue at DreamHack on Saturday, a new 2900 XT, a motherboard I'm not going to reveal just yet and many, many liters of nitrogen

//Andreas

Sorry I will ruin the surprise. ASUS Blitz Extreme and 1200 liters of ln2

[Trunks]

ASUS Blitz Extreme and 100 liters of ln2 to be exact

Can't wait to see the results

[macci]

1200l

haha that should give you enough time to really tweak the settings. The results will be amazing for sure.

[blossa]

Sorry I will ruin the surprise. ASUS Blitz Extreme and 1200 liters of ln2

Sound like it is going to be a really nice weekend! I guess crotale will join you? Maybe elmor aswell?

I hope you get atleast 7-8 degrees lower temps this weekend than it is right now.

[Lane-k]

Sorry I will ruin the surprise. ASUS Blitz Extreme and 1200 liters of ln2

Nice, i will be glad got report about this "Blitz" .. it's really a board i m waiting for replace my P5W64..

[GLENBOY]

Nice, i will be glad got report about this "Blitz" .. it's really a board i m waiting for replace my P5W64..

hiya lane wouldn't the x38 board be a better bet as its here shortly

[Kinc]

First decent complete run of 3dmark 06. I was so excited that I took the screenshot wrong

[guess2098]

First decent complete run of 3dmark 06. I was so excited that I took the screenshot wrong
24544

nice nice
i wanna see 05

[Trunks]

Omg isn't that a WR

[blossa]

Hoho!! NICE!

Still some MHz from max on the CPU I guess... How about the GFX, possible to get it higher?

[Kinc]

Omg isn't that a WR

No Vince still has the WR I think these 2900 will give him and Ultra SLI a honest fight though

This is just the begining. System perf. is terrible with this low FSB on 975X. If Blitz with DDR3 works well I think this can be a very deadly combo.

I have 12 liters of ln2 left and I will go for 25k++ with 4950MHz with the same GPU power tomorrow. There is alot left in the 2900's, A LOT. 1050MHz is with -55C and 1.35V.

Compare: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2198693

[NH|Delph1]

*biting nails* I can't wait until we get these babies really going

//Andreas

[Kinc]

*biting nails* I can't wait until we get these babies really going

//Andreas

You make it sound easy I must say this have been the most challenging benching I have ever done. P5W DH and Kentsfield with handicapped overclocking of 2900XT Crossfire is a very very bad combo. Combine that with three pots to run with ln2 (I have two cascades thatdoesnt work). Cross your fingers Blitz Extreme will work like a charm and new 2900XT to replace the bad one that barly works will fix that problem.

12 liters of ln2 brought me a score of 24880 today with 4900MHz Kentsfield. I saved screens and saves to my USB-stick as usuall but for some reason the files didnt "stick". The screen below is the only one I saved to the HDD by mistake.

[blossa]

Too bad about the non-sticking file, but now you have to do it all again and you might as well do it properly, wich means +25k. But I guess that will have to wait a few days...

I did not thought the X2900 would do so well in 06 actually. Great result!!

[Kinc]

Too bad about the non-sticking file, but now you have to do it all again and you might as well do it properly, wich means +25k. But I guess that will have to wait a few days...

I did not thought the X2900 would do so well in 06 actually. Great result!!

Yes crotale and I will be benching on Dreamhack with ASUS in a few days. I think we will have penty fun there as usuall even if it turns out to be a disaster result-wise.

Neither did I, thats why I have been giving it this much time and effort to prove to myself and others that 2900XT Crossfire are truly powerfull even though its flawed in the ability to overclock.

[NH|Delph1]

You make it sound easy I must say this have been the most challenging benching I have ever done. P5W DH and Kentsfield with handicapped overclocking of 2900XT Crossfire is a very very bad combo. Combine that with three pots to run with ln2 (I have two cascades thatdoesnt work). Cross your fingers Blitz Extreme will work like a charm and new 2900XT to replace the bad one that barly works will fix that problem.

12 liters of ln2 brought me a score of 24880 today with 4900MHz Kentsfield. I saved screens and saves to my USB-stick as usuall but for some reason the files didnt "stick". The screen below is the only one I saved to the HDD by mistake.

*screen*

It's going to be tough, but I have no doubt we'll pull through

//Andreas