Teemto's 7300GT worklog
 

Card has arrived today.
First benchmarks planned for sunday.

What's your "play" system? :)

Intel C2D E6420
ASUS P5N32-E SLI Bios 1103
2x G-Skill PC6400 4-4-4-12 F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ (Micron D9GHM) 1GB
Hiper HPU-4K580 Black Modular 580W
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev. B with Thermaltake 120mm loudy

or else the wife's system :

A64 3700+ (10x290)
DFI LANPARTY UT Ultra-D mod to SLI
2x Gskill F1-3200DSU2-1GBLE PC4400LE 512MB @ 290/3/4/4/8
Hiper HPU-4K580 Blue Modular 580W
Zalman Reserator 1

Lots of toys good luck ;-)

Just did a small test

C2D @2.4 - 3DMark2001SE: 91.1FPS - 3D03: 39.9FPS (stock GPU clocks)
C2D @2.8 - 3DMark2001SE: 91.1FPS - 3D03: 39.9FPS (stock GPU clocks)

:-/

Seems like the card is already to slow for that cpu :)

Troman, can you do the same with that AMD ?

same stuf...

Picture time :
I'm blue....

Yep that's me

Unwrapping

My baby :love:

Wife's machine :naughty:

First tests :
System A64 275x10 MEM at 275 2,5/4/4/8/1T
BTW. Running at 290x10 makes no difference.

Card at 500/750 3D01SE : 139,9fps
Card at 640/770 3D01SE : 161,3fps
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/pr...jectId=9219374

This is the highest I can go using stock cooling 660/770 gives a crash :no:
Realy disappointed by the memory.

Waiting for the new cooler to arrive...:o

project code invalid, you need to set the "publish" mark and then use that link:)

Wow, your memory sucks :s

try only memory overclocking, leave GPU at stock speed, 770 is too low in my humble opinion:)

What exactly happens when overclocking the memory past 770?

It goes faster....

;-)

0.5FPS per 100Mhz:p

I can't OC the mem past 770 as with rivatuner he won't pass the test.
Is there a way to force this, without testing?

Rivatuner's buld in test is not 100% accurate, but does give you an idea of how high it will go; I used Powerstrip and Realtime HDR (for stress test) to push memory higher than Rivatuner allowed

just disable the damn test in power user ;)

http://users.telenet.be/Teemto/OC/Be...2020070627.JPG

Card at 680/820 3D01SE : 172,2fps :)

Higher mem results in artifacts. Still waiting for new cooler to arrive.

For some reason my 3DMark03 results are not visible in the ORB, I get the invalid message :no: Any help?

invalid message you try to link to it? Did you publish the result?

As soon as I wan to go to the online result browser after running the test, I get the message.

post a screenie? what browser is set as default? IE?

lower your PCI-e speed, got the same problem :)

I get this message in the analysis and comparisons tab :

Your 3DMark03 score seems to be invalid, and unfortunately the Result Analyzer cannot be displayed for this result.

Result details tab and configuration tab work however.

PCI-E is running at 100MHz which is default so I don't see why I would need to lower it?

your hitting the "submit online" button and then you get "3DMark03 score invalid" ?

yep

is this only at overclocked speeds? also at default? give as much detail as possible, then we can get in contact with FM:)

I use Win XP MCE with IE6.
It's also at default speeds.

I'm not sure MCE is supported

MCE is apparently supported in 3DMark01SE but not in 3DMark03, I find that hard to believe.

MCE = xp + media center shell. It should be 100% supported

New cooler arrived today (thanks Dave).
Sadly my wife took my digital camera with her on her business trip to Greece and of course according to Murphy my other dig. camera decided to die today :mad: So no pictures (use your imagination instead).

The heatsink is a Thermalright HR-03 rev A. Installation was a breeze. I'm used to the Zalman products but this one is equally well designed.
Only disadvantage is that 2 of the 4 mem chips have smaller RAM sinks due to the fact that the heatpipes pass directly over them.

I did notice - when removing the original cooler - that an excessive amount of thermal paste had been applied:no: . A nice bath of isopropyl alcohol took care of that (while using a different type of alcohol for yours truly|D ).

Cooler installed, card plugged in, it's testing time.
First a test without the recommended 92mm fan.
With passive cooling idle temp at default clock speeds is 53°C. With the original Zotac cooler it was 51°C. Not bad.
When using a 120mm ex-Scythe Ninja fan (49,58CFM) temps dropped back to 38°C.:woot:
If the card survives untill the end of august, it'll become part of my media center PC.

Final fan will be a PAPST 4118N/6XMV 120mm 152,9CFM 60dBA 48V fan or a PAPST 6248N 172mm 241CFM 55dBA 48V fan:ws: .
But I'm still looking for a 48V Power supply. At the moment I've only got one of 22V :no:

After that it'll be volt modding time.
Hopefully some pics on sunday evening. Now it's dodo time ... some of us have a job to go to in the morning...

Thermalright HR-03 rev A on this 7300GT? crazy:)

What about the HR-03 Plus? :)

According to their site it's only compatible with the 8800GTX and GTS models.

I guess someone has some modding to do then

http://www.legionhardware.com/pic.ph...s/Image_03.jpg

I'm not sure it'll fit. As you can see the part which comes in contact with the core is much wider. It could be that it'll block the mounting holes.

if it blocks the mounting holes you could still mount it at an angle (so the sides of the base run parallel to the core's diagonals :) ). Probably needs some bending and twisting so it won't touch the motherboard.

Indeed :(

Core and memory won\'t go above 680/820.
Core seems to automatically scale back when above 680.
Mem gives artifacts when going above 820.

Don\'t know if a V-mod will help if I\'m already having problems at 820Mhz on the mem.