Geoffrey's 7300GT worklog

geoffrey · 21st June 2007, 22:41

Someone wasn't home today

Sexy pictures tomorrow, for now I leave you with specs of my test setup:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
TEAMGROUP DDR2 PC6400 Cas4
Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI or ASUS P5B Deluxe
Zotac 7300GT, atleast that's what should be in that package
Silverstone 750W PSU
HD -> I hope I have one left :s

geoffrey · 22nd June 2007, 16:13

Lucky number 13:

Inside the box:

Single slot card, for now...

No extra power connectors, but I can always add one myself

geoffrey · 22nd June 2007, 16:21

Underneath the heatsink we find the GPU where Silver based thermal grease is being applied.

This card is equipped with 4x32Mb memory, brand: Samsung.

The GPU core:

The front cover of the heatsink can be removed with 4 screws, though to a low amount of fins this heatsink will be as good as unusable:

Enjoy the weekend!

RichBa5tard · 22nd June 2007, 17:12

Nice pictures! Which camera did you use?

jmke · 22nd June 2007, 17:15

he has build himself a light box, very cool, cheap and the effect it has on pics is amazing as you can see, camera can be pretty much any half decent digicam

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotofaqlink.php?linkid=3030

RichBa5tard · 22nd June 2007, 17:21

woah, nice

geoffrey · 24th June 2007, 22:28

I tried to build one of those JMke posted above, but it didn't work out as good as it supposed to be. My second build was even more simple, but very effective in the end. In fact, you only need a box and white paper to build it. First you need to remove the top and side panel of the box so that light can fall in on top of your object, and so that you have all the space to point your camera. Then make the box white inside so that you have a clean white background on your pictures. White also reflects light and so shaduws can be made less dark, though I do not think it's that effective in my 'lightbox'.
I decorated my box with white paper but that seem to lose it's color over time and so I moved on to a white bedsheet. In very detailled pictures you can with no doubt still see the uneven surface of the sheet I normally use.
As lightsource, nothing special either, I put my box underneath a simple TL-lamp which we are using in our kitchen.

My camera, a Traveller Slimline X5, is not one of the best camera's out there. Pictures have a high failure rate if taken on 'auto' mode, so every time I turn on the cam I always have to run through the configuration menu in order to get the pictures looking like how I want them to be. Most of the time I take one picture and then I retake it with a different 'light configuration' just so that I have the luxury to choose the best out if both. And even then I the final set is not all that great, most of the time Photoshop is being used to further improve the pictures.

geoffrey · 25th June 2007, 22:23

Voltage read points, seems like people are allready in high need of voltage modifications

More tomorrow

Massman · 25th June 2007, 22:34

The chips near the readout points are probably the voltage regulators for gpu/mem?

So FB to GND ?

Gamer · 25th June 2007, 22:42

Let's hope so, I'm not a soldering wizard, but some SMD grabbers could do the trick for me.

21st June 2007, 22:41	#1
geoffrey [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,127	Geoffrey's 7300GT worklog Someone wasn't home today Sexy pictures tomorrow, for now I leave you with specs of my test setup: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 TEAMGROUP DDR2 PC6400 Cas4 Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI or ASUS P5B Deluxe Zotac 7300GT, atleast that's what should be in that package Silverstone 750W PSU HD -> I hope I have one left :s Attached Thumbnails

22nd June 2007, 16:13	#2
geoffrey [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,127	Lucky number 13: Inside the box: Single slot card, for now... No extra power connectors, but I can always add one myself Attached Thumbnails

22nd June 2007, 16:21	#3
geoffrey [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,127	Underneath the heatsink we find the GPU where Silver based thermal grease is being applied. This card is equipped with 4x32Mb memory, brand: Samsung. The GPU core: The front cover of the heatsink can be removed with 4 screws, though to a low amount of fins this heatsink will be as good as unusable: Enjoy the weekend! Attached Thumbnails

22nd June 2007, 17:12	#4
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	Nice pictures! Which camera did you use? __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

22nd June 2007, 17:15	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	he has build himself a light box, very cool, cheap and the effect it has on pics is amazing as you can see, camera can be pretty much any half decent digicam http://www.madshrimps.be/gotofaqlink.php?linkid=3030 __________________

22nd June 2007, 17:21	#6
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	woah, nice __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

24th June 2007, 22:28	#7
geoffrey [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,127	I tried to build one of those JMke posted above, but it didn't work out as good as it supposed to be. My second build was even more simple, but very effective in the end. In fact, you only need a box and white paper to build it. First you need to remove the top and side panel of the box so that light can fall in on top of your object, and so that you have all the space to point your camera. Then make the box white inside so that you have a clean white background on your pictures. White also reflects light and so shaduws can be made less dark, though I do not think it's that effective in my 'lightbox'. I decorated my box with white paper but that seem to lose it's color over time and so I moved on to a white bedsheet. In very detailled pictures you can with no doubt still see the uneven surface of the sheet I normally use. As lightsource, nothing special either, I put my box underneath a simple TL-lamp which we are using in our kitchen. My camera, a Traveller Slimline X5, is not one of the best camera's out there. Pictures have a high failure rate if taken on 'auto' mode, so every time I turn on the cam I always have to run through the configuration menu in order to get the pictures looking like how I want them to be. Most of the time I take one picture and then I retake it with a different 'light configuration' just so that I have the luxury to choose the best out if both. And even then I the final set is not all that great, most of the time Photoshop is being used to further improve the pictures.

25th June 2007, 22:23	#8
geoffrey [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,127	Voltage read points, seems like people are allready in high need of voltage modifications More tomorrow Attached Thumbnails

25th June 2007, 22:34	#9
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	The chips near the readout points are probably the voltage regulators for gpu/mem? So FB to GND ?

25th June 2007, 22:42	#10
Gamer [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,587	Let's hope so, I'm not a soldering wizard, but some SMD grabbers could do the trick for me. __________________

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