i86 Heat Mod Complete :) Bench - Page 5

Duh (to me). Thanks for that noids. Show me everything now. Fantastic! I can now tell how fast my CPU is going to. Yay!

u can use fangui and choose ask bios or if u use speedswitch and choose real time

the niTz

I completely agree. It is great program! I now know how fast me CPU is going too. Sometimes I wasn't sure if it was going at 600mhz when I wanted it at the full 1500Mhz. Thanks again noids!

any luck with the pics nexor

the niTz

my 3dmark with 9600 Pro Trubo

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/6290/3dmarks03_9600Pro.jpg

378/ 263.25 core/mem

love my 9600 pro already!

GMCloud!

I forgot to say thanks to you! If it wasn't for heat mod, I wouldn't even be able to use this card, so thanks for all your work with the Mod tutorials, very helpful and great mods!

I like your avatar, cloud. My dad invested in 3dFX

I love that LED mod, both on the back and front of the computer. Don't think I am game enough to try it just yet (my i8600 is only 2.5 weeks old, maybe in a few months to get it back in interest!).

Sorry for the wait Nitz. I was doing a 72 hour burn in test with Doom 3 and … well … ended up doing a 10 day burn in if you know what I mean.

I had to lower my clock -15MHZ from the speed I previously posted as it started getting up into the 90C range, which I don’t like. The -15 MHz on the core ended up making my Geforce FX5650 run at 88C tops. I also clocked the memory -11MHz lower due to long term stability issues. All of my tests and over clocking are done with both fans on HIGH (CPU and GPU) and a laptop cooling stand I bought from newegg.com. In the Doom 3 time demo (MED Quality sort of ... alot of customization via the console) I was able to average about 41FPS at 1024 x 768 (I also heavily tweaked out the Doom3 engine. (Here is a guide with a slew of great console tweaks… but there are many many more if you search for them http://www.tweakguides.com/Doom3_8.html ).

As you requested here are some 3DMark scores.

Geforce FX5650 @ 370 Core / 691 Mem:
3DMark 2001: 10,112
3DMark 2003: 2,993 (I will find away to pass 3000! )


Geforce FX5650 @ Default Core / Mem:
3DMark 2001: 9,597
3DMark 2003: 2,542

Once I’m 100% positive that my V.RAM cooling mod works and was beneficial I will post the procedures. For now, here is a brief overview of what I did.



1.Cut the GPU Heat sink / Heat pipe from V.RAM Section as state in my previous posts.

2.Used GM’s copper V.RAM plate and Artic Silver 5 in place of Dell’s blue thermal pad. (This caused the thin aluminum assembly to act as a big heat spreader. GM’s copper plate helped to provide a better medium for the heat to be transferred from the V.RAM to the aluminum assembly directly above it.)

3.Did the GPU heat mod (with the copper plate & lapping & AS5).

4.My solution to help prevent the GPU heat from traveling to the MB chipset was to remove Dell’s blue thermal pad entirely and leave an air gap between GPU heat sink/pipe assembly. I may figure out a mod for this if the MB chipset temperature proves to be a limiting factor.

5.Used a soldering gun (an iron would have taken way to long) to fill in the where the heat pipe had been pressed or wielded on. (My original Geforce 4 4200 came with this already done, but not my New Geforce FX 5650.)

6.Made the GPU fan hole bigger for better air flow. (I used a dremel and got it to come out extremely well, especially when accented with 2 blue LEDs.)

7.** Added some thermal probes to make help make sure I wasn’t frying anything. I placed probes on my Motherboard chipset diode & heat sink, V.RAM (There were two sets of V.RAM) diodes and heat spreader.


Again, I’ll post more information when I am certain that everything works as expected.

Oh, and Doom 3 is a GREAT game! Don’t waste your time playing it during the day though. You have to play the game in the dark with some bomb headphones. I use Sony DJ V700’s. . . . Wow

pretty sweet scores u got there and thanks for posting, it seems the wait was well worth it, cant wait for confirmation on ur desgin specs and also can u upload or copy ur settings for doom3 engine file,

the niTz

hey nexor one q what drivers did u use? and u have the highest scores on laptopvideo2go.com but its odd u have dx9c loaded dont u? they seem to lower 01 scores from what it looks like, oh well better IQ

the niTz

Thanks.

I did not post pictures yet because I’m waiting on my new Sony P73 Digital Cam. I gave up trying to use Photoshop and this sad D-Link web cam. They should be up by the 30th.

I will post my D3 config within the week. I need to pull it off my backup DVD because I am in the process of doing a fresh format and re-tweaking Windows. I think a fresh registry, etc. will bump me up to 3k. Hopefully.

Also keep in mind I not using the default Dell drivers. I should have mentioned this before. I am currently using the 62.20 (with 30.25 inf) modified Forceware/Detonators from www.laptopvideo2go.com.

Ya, I am using DX9b
I haven't posted my scores on laptopvideo2go yet because I think I can push my machine some more.

ahh ok i was looking for ur name in lights, i use the same drivers and my 01 score is always 1k less if u look at the performance page and its kinda weird i think its dx9c but idunno, i know what might help u get a 3k score right now a 2.6 cpu, maybe.

also did u put some silvers arcylite on the cpu, that lowered my temp abit and i cleaned the "black stuff" off with alcohol or thinner, ull notice that dell has "foil" on the copper and the tech that replaced my mobo said i was allowed to put silver so i did and my cpu is way cooler.

gd lck with the 3k score
the niTz
o and i noticed u wrote u had the dj 700's i have the mdr-v900's they kick ass as well

Yes I already am using Artic Silver 5 on my CPU.

Thanks though.

I was also able to lap the copper part of the CPU heat sink by taking off the E-clips to remove the screws and wrapping 400,600,800,1000,1500,2000 grit sandpaper around a wooden ruler (acted as a sanding block). Though it did decrease my temperature greatly it had little effect on performance due to the bottle neck at the bios (no FSB/Multiplier over clocking . . . yet).

As for your low benchmarks, the vast majority of my high scores are due to software tweaking. Windows XP pro is sooooo un-optimized it's disgusting. I jumped from 8626 3DMark 01 to the low 9000 just from tweaking XP Pro properly. Just to give you some insight into the way my Windows XP is configured… the maximum number of processes I have running at any given time is 22. My average physical memory consumption at startup is 83 MB.

If you want, once I get my laptop back up I will provide you with some information the XP tweaks you can do.

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The E-Clips hold the spring tension screws in place. These are the 4 screws that mount the heat sink/pipe to the CPU & MB. If you use a ruler to lap it you may not need to remove these screws. I needed to in order to file the 4 posts down a bit... I'll tell you more once I can get the pictures taken. I trying to tie my main CPU heat pipe in with my GPU heat pipe. I was thinking of ways to try and explain this in previous post, but it would just cause mass confusion with out any pictures.

o ok i get ya, wow thats a good idea connect gpu heatsink to cpu nvr would of thought about it

i would very much appreciate it, i used to use tweak xp but it kinda slowed someother stuff down i also tried xq xsetup it was pretty helpful.

thanks the niTz