Eh what the hell...UPDATED WITH CARD IN COMPUTER

[johnannie]

I am VERY new to Riva tuner. What do you mean "use the driver level."
Thanks

 

[johnannie]

I just checked my power supply, I have 550 watt. Will this be sufficient to OC the LE? I have read all of the chat about not upping to 1.5 volts as it shortens the life of the card. Do you think that there is a significant difference between 1.4 and 1.5 given the high wattage? Thank you so much.

 

[Rhagz]

Well, i finally broke down and flashed mine (after like 5 hours.. gee long wait ) I used the LE-GT 1.4 Bios, and it set my clocks to 350/1100.. it would not let me OC it all, it failed every test.. then I decided to underclock the memory, and it would let me oc the GPU.. i set it to 425/1085 and it accepted, ran 3dmark05 artifact free, got 5073.. temp was 62 after test which is ok i think. I just don't understand why I can't clock the memory over 1084. even at stock 325 it wont take the 1100.. i am thinking my power is low, since i have el cheapo generic 400W psu with both molexes shared.. 1 line to 6800/hdd, 1 line to 6800/cd/case fan.. i am going to try 1.5v and see if it gives me the power boost i need to up the ram clock.

Using the 1.5v bios i got 425/1098.. it would let me send the gpu clock higher, but I didn't want to risk it just yet.. but it seems there is a power issue here.. the ram takes more juice to overclock.. but for now i am happy with 425/1.1
Using a socket A soyo dragon plus mobo, it has crap for setting in the bios, not an OCing bord at all.. so when my MSI Neo2 comes in next week, i am hoping i can tweak a bit more out of it. If not, then looks like im getting a new psu

 

[Rhagz]

OK got 5099 3dmark05 at 425/1.1 with the GT1.5 bios.. it isnt too bad, temp maxes around 62C

not sure how people are getting 5300-5500 though .. does CPU/RAM have any affect at all on 3dmark05?

 

[THUGSROOK]

yes, the higher gpu voltage also helps the memory OC.

the reason for the 350mhz initial clock is so thermal throttling will work (and to fix the idle temp bug that accurs @ 325mhz).
if you raise 2d speed to match 3d speed youll effectively be disabling thermal throttling.
which is ok, as long as you know that

 

[Rhagz]

well I had that problem at first, then using coolbits i set 2d to 350/1.1 and then set 3d to 425/1.1
I can hear the fan changing speeds, so that works great.. running 3d stuff i get to low 60s temps, and surfing/2d crap i am in mid-high 50s.. those don't seem to high to me.. considering the threshold is 115!

so about 3d'05, does cpu/ram have any effect on scores? or is 5099 the best i can hope for on any platform?

 

[Elfear]

My 3DMark05 score is kind of maxed out too at 4831 running 400/1.1. The card will OC to 442/1.15 on the LE-GT1.4V bios but my 05 score seems to go down for some reason. I can run 3DMark03 at that speed and I get 12336.

I'm going to do some FarCry benching tomorrow and do a direct comparison to my 6800GT. I'll post my results tomorrow for anyone that is trying to decide between the 6800GT and the 6800 L.E.

I'm so stoked that the card decided to oc. After I flashed it to the new bios, Coolbits wouldn't let me oc at all. But after I downloaded Powerstrip it works great. Thanks again for all the help guys.

 

[Rhagz]

powerstrip let you oc when coolbits/RT wont? wonder what the difference in the tests are.. ill go search for it and see what i get i guess

ok found powerstrip, it is very nice.. lets you set those odd frequencies that the others wont test.. i pumped min to 430/1114 (the highest *green* values) and only got a 4938 32'05.. about 200 less than 425/1100.. so tomorrow i think ill reflash to 1.4volt for the cards health, and just stick with 425/1100.. seems to be the best performing there

oh and aonic, i see you got 5500 with a very similar system to me.. we both have 512 ram (but your timings own mine) and i have a barton 2800 with 166fsb and yours is 200.. those have an effect on it or not? can't seem to narrow down an answer

 

[aonic]

ya the timings and the fsb have the biggest effect in my opinion

 

[supernac]

Obviously evga found a memory problem on some of these cards. Somebody had to set the bios to 700; I find it hard to believe that they did it on accident.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: johnannie
I am VERY new to Riva tuner. What do you mean "use the driver level."
Thanks

quote ^

 

[Viper87227]

got my card yesturday. Oddly, 3DM03 was fine, but I got artifacting in BFV. So, within ten minutes of javing it, I used that CD to flash it to an ultra. I would have done a GT for the timings, but my games are all ready all running amazing, I dont need more FPS when I get 80 now, and I think its cooler seeing 6800 Ultra in the nvidia control panel. I also tore all the stickers off my box, a litter rubbing alchahol removed the residue, took the LE stickers off the card. As far as anyone is concerned, this is and has always been an ultra, which = bragging rights

 

[skene]

for riva tuner, there are two places you can see the overclocking options. One where it says you've got 16 pipes, 6vertex shaders, which has the option greyed out. The other is the one below it where it says you've got a forceware driver. That's the one where you can turn on overclocking.

 

[Rhagz]

If you are comfortable in setting something that many not pass a test, id reccomend powerstrip.. it gives you a colored scale, green, yellow, red.. it lets you set whatever you want without failing a test. I pushed mine to the max green and it ran 3d'05 with no artifacts, may be different for others, but that worked for me.

Obviously evga found a memory problem on some of these cards. Somebody had to set the bios to 700; I find it hard to believe that they did it on accident.

325/700 is the clock settings of a vanilla 6800.. i don't think it was a memory problem, i think it was just a case of the wrong bios getting put on it

 

[booloobunny]

Question for you guys... The clock speeds are only affecting a game's framerates right? I mean right now the set speeds are good enough for me. Would OC'ing really do anything for image quality? I wouldn't think so right?

 

[Rhagz]

no, stock speeds will show images the same, play movies the same.. ocing is just for higher benchmarks and more fps in games.

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK

Originally posted by: Killrose
I'm having a minor pixel problem with the last 3dmark01 test. With either AA of AF enabled, I get 4-7 little square pixels of varying colors that revolve in fixed position as the horse turns. If I dissable AA or AF they are not there.

this is with the stock bios and the LE-GT1.4 bios, and I have tried the 61.34 and the latest Win98/me driver posted on the website. I have not verified the problem with any other apps.

that is a driver error.

to resolve it....
texture quality = quality
trilinear optimization = on
aniso mm optimization = on
aniso sample optimization = on

:beer:

OK, I tried the settings, but with the 61.34's it does not work. I will try the latest set available from the NV website, which I think I had loaded at the time I posted and see if they work. I am having other issues though. If I re-boot the machine, it will come up in 640x480 and not recognise the drivers and re-find my monitor.

I am using the center DVI, but have never selected it in a driver control panel if I am supposed to? Also sometimes the screen comes up blank, and I have to power off and try it again. I think what I will do is downclock my CPU because some of this seems power related (lack of maybe.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

To the gentleman that recommended Powerstrip, thank you so much.

Coolbits, for me, its absolutely useless. It claimed my memory wouldn't check out past 800mhz. I used powerstrip and was able to attain 420/1200 with ease and no artifacts. Seriously people, consider using Powerstrip instead.

I found after many hours of tweaking the best way to OC this card is using the following:

Power Strip
rthdribl

 

[Warzero]

Dont think overclocking it will improve the quality of an image that much considering the card is already good enought for almost any game out there. But its mainly for bragging rights, wish I could have neought money to do it too but I dont so im gonna stick with stock core.

 

[thecat13]

that's what i think, 350/1100 is good enough for my game. farcry and doom3. farcry1.3 is great.
maybe i'll OC after a year if it can't handle game anymore

 

[Rhagz]

Its just nice to say you have a 430/1120 Ultra that you got for under 350 bucks heh.. 5376 3d'05 score is nice, that was at 450/1150 or so, but i backed it down some to put less stress on the card. rock solid stable, temps around 60 under load.. seems good to me

 

[Elfear]

Does anyone else here get artifacting in FarCry using 66.81 drivers and 1.3 patch? When I set my card at 425/1.1 I get some artifacting in FarCry but everything looks great in 3DMark03. At 442/1.1 I get some strange rendering anomolies in Troll's Lair but everything else looks great. I can take the card to 450/1.1 before it locks up and I have to reboot. Do you think I have some software issues, do I need more volts (LE-GT1.5V bios), or is my card just failing in more intense 3D apps (FarCry vs 3DMark03)?

At 425/1.1 I only get about 3-4 frames better than my 6800GT at 400/1.1 when I bench FarCry. Settings were 1280x1024 4AA 8AF. At 1600x1200 FarCry locks up and I have to reboot. Any thoughts?

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Did anyone flash to the vanilla 6800U eVGA bios in here? I did and the core defaults to 425 and I have absolutely no idea why. I need my core at 420 and below otherwise i get artifacts. This is so maddening!

How could i edit the eVGA stock bios to default to its actual 400mhz speed, or maybe even 415/420? Could someone point me in the right direction?

 

[aonic]

download nibitior from mvktech.net

 

[Killrose]

Anyone know if I have to select which DVI I am using for my CRT monitor in the Nv control panel? because it evidently never remembers it and I am constantly having to re-load my video drivers. I am using the "center" DVI port with the VGA adaptor.