7800 GS OC AGP

Noxide · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: 7800 GS OC AGP

I bought this baby today at Fry's like an hour ago and didnt even know that it was just released today! i got it for $379.00 US with tax. Time for some of OCing.
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Have a look at the News page, there's four different reviews posted about that card.

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Noxide · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:20 am Post subject:

Here is the agp beast that blew my 6800U away.

Here it is water cooled.

For those who can not afford to conver over yet or who loves their agp system.....This is a damn good upgrade.The con is that its too pricey.
Stock cooler temp. 46c idle 55c load
Zalman ZM-GWB 1 (with both blocks in + RAM sinks) 34idle 48c load
stock Core: 400 Mem: 1.25
Coolbits Core: 456 Mem: 1.35

Benchies Next.
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

When I saw that they were planning on offering that card, I almost, almost tried to dig another month or so out of my limping 9600 Pro, but I really couldn't justify the cost. You're right, for somebody that has a kick-ass AGP rig, it's worth it, but if you're an AMD guy with a Socket 939 AGP mobo (first gen, of course), it'd only be another $100 to upgrade to a new mobo and a PCIe 7800GS card.

Whartever..........post some benchies!!!
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Noxide · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:50 am Post subject:

Here are some scores
3D Mark05: 6,718

Aquamark: 80,011

Core: 458 MHz Mem: 1.35 GHz
I'll push it some more later.
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Xal · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:01 am Post subject:

Lookin good let us know how she performs in real world tests.
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Noxide · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject:

I notice something odd about this card when its cold. For the past few days in Houston, its been kinda chilly.. And checking the temps right when xp starts it shows 32c-34c. When I pop in a game like BF2 or NFS Most Wanted, fps is very
low. Like 5 or 10 fps. After it warms up a bit (38c-46c), it goes back to 49-58 fps on NFS. Wonder why that is? Any thoughts guys? Think

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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

If I had to guess, the chip is heating up faster than your WC block can dissipate the added heat, so it takes it a sec for the water to cycle...........it could also be a driver issue.
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Noxide · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

As you all see, I changed the HSF to a water block. For the hell of it, I took it back off and cleaned the core with actone. Before hand I notice that on one of the resitors there was a litlle bit of AS5. So thats when I cleand the core and the rest of the chip around the core....Reseated the WB and presto! All is well. I just hope this was the prob all along. Then with installing a new driver, Forceware 83.90, NFS Mostwanted runs really smooth. Hell even the shadows dont look so blocky.
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tabasco · TweakNOOB Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 97

Nice card, nice hardware. My last mobo was an IC7

Does the water cooling scare you at all? It scares the heck out of me. I'd be afraid of springing a leak

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:38 am Post subject:

Xal · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:18 am Post subject:

Good to hear you got it sorted NOX, Give us some benchies again and some real world FPS

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