Originally posted by: Zardnok
Originally posted by: Furbag
pny 6800 new style with the gold bar and white molex
66.93 drivers
15.3 rivatuner
16 pipes 6vp
havn't tried any games or done any bench marking but it looks great so far
sticks on reboot
Mine stuck on reboot as well and finished up 3dmark03 with a considerable increase in score, but there were slight artifacts during 2 of the tests. I thought long and hard about whether or not the artifacts would bother me that much, but when I fired up AAO and there were minor artifacts in it as well, so I decided to close the pipelines back off. It was also strange that I could no longer OC my card any while the pipelines were open. Probably the additional pipes not passing the OC stability test and it defaulting back to stock settings.
What sort of numbers are you getting on 3dmark03 and 3dmark05 Furball? Seems we have the same card.
Installed 3dmark, and tried it out, got a score of 9396
did not see any artifacts in any of the tests.
sys is a 2500+ @3200
512 mb corsair value ram
nf7/s v2
I'm sure more memory would help.
A new PS might help, running the 300w that came with the case.
Haven't tried to oc it.
I have read a few posts on other boards about the not being able to oc after opening the pipes, there is a "disable clocktest" setting that if disabled allows over clocking. The rivatuner FAQ advises against it though.
Might try a minor oc later wouldn't mind seeing a score of 10k, it may requre more than just moving some sliders though.
Tried to oc it and got the "driver failed clock test" message.
Did the, not recomended , setting of disable clock test value to 1.
Overclocked the core to 335 and the mem to 725 and ran 3dmark again.
This time the score was 9456, did not see any artifacts or notice any differances from the previous test.
Reset disable clock test, and reset to default settings for now.
The FAQ and some of the posts on 3d guru seem to indicate that the error message can be caused by newly opened unstable pipes, that can cause artifacts the driver can detect, even if you can't see them. In some cases the instability can be resolved by bumping up the power to the card. Increasing the power can also toast the card. I guess that decision depends on how good your cash flow is.
Right now I'm running the bare minimum PS for this card, when upgrade the power supply, put in another 120mm fan to feed it more fresh air, and add another 512 mb ram, I think it shoud hit that 10k mark.
For now, The games run smooth, the graphics are sweet, and I'm pretty pleased with my $200 card.
oh well im CPU bottlenecked right now for most games (athlon xp 2500+ at 3200+) anyways
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