Is this worth posting in the Over-clocking database?

[TheDigitalRealm]

So, the first of my 290X lightning's arrived a few days ago, and while waiting for the second and the waterblocks, I thought I'd see what I could get on air. Here are all the overclocked system stats:

 

i7 3770K @ 4.8GHz

16GB Dominator Platinum C10 @ 2200MHz 

MSI R9 290X Lightning - 1250MHz core, 1600MHz memory. (On air) 

 

Here's the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme result: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2226291

and a screenshot: 

 

[Levent]

anything counts yeah.

[FloRolf]

You wanna do the performance Fire strike? ^^ I can compare it to my results better this way

[harrynowl]

Glad you can afford Lightnings and waterblocks

 

Care to send me some?

 

I'd wait for the blocks to arrive before you submit

[Jumper118]

So, the first of my 290X lightning's arrived a few days ago, and while waiting for the second and the waterblocks, I thought I'd see what I could get on air. Here are all the overclocked system stats:

 

i7 3770K @ 4.8GHz

16GB Dominator Platinum C10 @ 2200MHz 

MSI R9 290X Lightning - 1250MHz core, 1600MHz memory. (On air) 

 

Here's the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme result: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2226291

and a screenshot: 

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submit air and water for us to compare

[TheDigitalRealm]

You wanna do the performance Fire strike? ^^ I can compare it to my results better this way

Performance Fire Strike? Do you mean the regular Fire Strike benchmark? Not the extreme that I did?

 

submit air and water for us to compare

Okay, will do. I'll see if I can get 4.9 GHz to run through Fire Strike Extreme first - even though it's stable in AIDA64, apparently it doesn't like Fire Strike very much. 

[FloRolf]

Performance Fire Strike? Do you mean the regular Fire Strike benchmark? Not the extreme that I did?

yeah. The one you get when not buying 3d Mark ^^

[TheDigitalRealm]

yeah. The one you get when not buying 3d Mark ^^

Okay,  

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Oh wow... I hope I get 12K with mine lol

[TheDigitalRealm]

Oh wow... I hope I get 12K with mine lol

That's what I want to hit once I W/C them both! You'd be in the Hall of Fame then!

[TheNinjaNextDor]

That's what I want to hit once I W/C them both! You'd be in the Hall of Fame then!

You'll get it easily if you have 1 card hitting a little over 6K. I hope to get in there soon A little over 10300 is the minimum to get in.

[TheDigitalRealm]

Glad you can afford Lightnings and waterblocks

 

Care to send me some?

 

I'd wait for the blocks to arrive before you submit

 

You'll get it easily if you have 1 card hitting a little over 6K. I hope to get in there soon A little over 10300 is the minimum to get in.

 

Is this what you were looking for? http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2228632 I managed to get it to pass with a 1250MHz Core clock and 1650MHz memory clock. Insane.

 

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Is this what you were looking for? http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2228632 I managed to get it to pass with a 1250MHz Core clock and 1650MHz memory clock. Insane.

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WOW that's insane.

[TheDigitalRealm]

WOW that's insane.

I really want to get it past 12K to get on the wall of fame, but my CPU just crashes past 4.8 which is weird because it passes AIDA64 at 5GHz.. Maybe it's a problem with my motherboard or something. I'll have to see if I can tweak my GPU overclock a little.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

I really want to get it past 12K to get on the wall of fame, but my CPU just crashes past 4.8 which is weird because it passes AIDA64 at 5GHz.. Maybe it's a problem with my motherboard or something. I'll have to see if I can tweak my GPU overclock a little.

Yeah, 3D Mark sometimes crashes with completely stable OCs. My drivers stay fine, but 3D mark gets some kind of error. It happens a lot. How much does OCing your CPU help you?

[TheDigitalRealm]

Yeah, 3D Mark sometimes crashes with completely stable OCs. My drivers stay fine, but 3D mark gets some kind of error. It happens a lot. How much does OCing your CPU help you?

Considering 3dmark considers my CPU the limiting factor in my score, I'd say a hell of a lot. I won an award called 'Brawn' that said my GPU is awesome but that my CPU 'doesn't want to play'.

I overclocked my memory too, from 1866MHz CL9 to 2200MHz CL10

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Considering 3dmark considers my CPU the limiting factor in my score, I'd say a hell of a lot. I won an award called 'Brawn' that said my GPU is awesome but that my CPU 'doesn't want to play'.

Wow, a 3770K at over 4GHz 'doesn't want to play' lol

[TheDigitalRealm]

Wow, a 3770K at over 4GHz 'doesn't want to play' lol

Yeah lol! It's the first time my CPU has been considered inadequate for the job... I thought it was odd, but when I looked at the hall of fame results that start at about 12000, most of them are Ivy-E or Sandy-E 6 core i7 extreme editions.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Yeah lol! It's the first time my CPU has been considered inadequate for the job... I thought it was odd, but when I looked at the hall of fame results that start at about 12000, most of them are Ivy-E or Sandy-E 6 core i7 extreme editions.

Yeah You should still be able to do it

[TheDigitalRealm]

Yeah You should still be able to do it

Yeah, just a bit more tweaking needed. Another thing is that pretty much every result in the hall of fame is from either water cooling or LN2.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Yeah, just a bit more tweaking needed. Another thing is that pretty much every result in the hall of fame is from either water cooling or LN2.

Yeah, it'll be a lot easier on water.

[TheDigitalRealm]

Yeah, it'll be a lot easier on water.

 

Almost got it! http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2230273 That was as far as I could push it on air, I think I'll wait until I water cool to push the clocks any further. 

[VSG]

Good job, what volts was the core on? Each card under load ramps up differently.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Almost got it! http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2230273 That was as far as I could push it on air, I think I'll wait until I water cool to push the clocks any further.

So close! You should only need ~15 or 20MHz more to get it.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Almost got it! http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2230273 That was as far as I could push it on air, I think I'll wait until I water cool to push the clocks any further.

Any reason to use 14.1 over a newer driver version?