New FX-55 System - Pics & Benches

[SilverBack]

That's a DangerDen 6800 water block

 

[RealityTime]

Originally posted by: SilverBack

Are you joking?

Take back a 16ms 23" HD Widescreen LCD for a crt? Do you smoke AND eat crack?

I'm with him.
I have a 19" 16 ms LCD for reading but a 22" CRT now for gaming.
You still can't touch a CRT for gaming.
BTW PIC's of my rig


PIC 1
PIC 2
PIC 3
PIC 4

Dual water system, hence the two different colors of tubes.
The 6800 U is on it's own system.
The CPU is on a dual 120mm radiator located in the bottom of the case.

Nice system BTW

whats your ultra overclock ?

 

[SilverBack]

whats your ultra overclock ?

500/1300

 

[SilverBack]

Originally posted by: Stangs55
Wow! How do you get those speeds on your gpu? Artic Cooler? Water cooling? I get some SERIOUS artifacts if I go above where I'm at now. Especially when I use Auto OC, the men in proxycon from 3DMark05 grow into porcupines. But when I get out, my temps aren't too bad--around 65 C.

The card idles at 45C and at load is around 55C

 

[Sniper82]

Looked up FX-55 on newegg and it showing it being $800-$900. Am I reading that right? Killer system but I wouldnt give $800-$900 for just a CPU even if I was rich. It would have to cook,clean and drive me places for that price.

Anyway once again killer system.

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: Stangs55
Sadly, the 1T memory change hasn't seemed to affect my 3DMark05 CPU scores... Oh well.

Any BIOS tweak recomendations?

I take that back....I've rerun my 3dMark05 and my cpu scores skyrocketed from 5416 to 5806!!

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=327451

Wow!!

Thanks again!!

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Stangs55

Originally posted by: Zinn2b
I am sure its nice but my P4 3.2 smokes it in the PC MARK 05 SCORE 5900 4 me, And I completely blows it away in pc mark 04 you got better sissandra scores . wrong speakers i know because i had same set burned the amp out 2 times talked to tech he said they had problems with the amps. if you duoght my p4 blew you away in futurmark scores mine is 3.2 GHz Under RAID COMPUTERS There are quit a few AMD 64 's ahead of me but way way more behind and u thought u had speed

/pats_you_on_the_back

hehe the newbie thinks pcmark is worth a damn

Have fun dominating in pcmark while he dominates in almost anything else

and schweeet rig...I love it!

 

[SilverBack]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=327451

Wow!!

Thanks again!!

With a little tweaking you should be able to get this ....
6155

 

[SilverBack]

Originally posted by: ^Sniper^
Looked up FX-55 on newegg and it showing it being $800-$900. Am I reading that right? Killer system but I wouldnt give $800-$900 for just a CPU even if I was rich. It would have to cook,clean and drive me places for that price.

Anyway once again killer system.

You get what you pay for.....
We had a contest at PCPitStop for the fastest PC, which included it's online scoring and 3DMark 2001 scores.
The FX chips owned, while up against P4's on vapochills at 4.3 GHz.

The Intel P4 extreme edidtion is another $200 ($1000+) and can't touch an FX51, let alone a FX53 like mine or FX55 like Stangs.

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: SilverBack

With a little tweaking you should be able to get this ....
6155

Yea...that'd be quite nice. However, Anytime I approach the 445/1350 I start to see some artifacts. My temp is fine, but there is some artifacting in the first proxycon game test.

Is this normal for an aircooled 6800 Ultra? My 'Detect Optimal Settings' always detects a higher number, but it always gives 3dmark05 artifacts! AND when I turn on 'Auto OC', I get a HUGE distortion where the people grow large spikes from there back....but again, my temp hits the high 60's (which I didn't think was too bad.)

So what 'little tweaking' would you suggest?

Thanks!!!!

btw- at least my cpu score wins

 

[Azsen]

Originally posted by: Stangs55

Benches

PCMark04 - 5146
+ CPU - 4876
+ Mem - 5725
+ HDD - 7329

Those PCMark04 scores seem a bit low. I get a score of 5207 with a (9800pro @ stock), Intel 540, 1mb L2 cache @ 3.443ghz, 215Mhz FSB, Corsair XL 1024mb ddr400 ram cas2.5, 3, 3, 8), WinXP SP2, Catalyst 4.12 betas, DirectX 9.0c, WD Raptor hard drive.

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: Azsen

Originally posted by: Stangs55

Benches

PCMark04 - 5146
+ CPU - 4876
+ Mem - 5725
+ HDD - 7329

Those PCMark04 scores seem a bit low. I get a score of 5207 with a (9800pro @ stock), Intel 540, 1mb L2 cache @ 3.443ghz, 215Mhz FSB, Corsair XL 1024mb ddr400 ram cas2.5, 3, 3, 8), WinXP SP2, Catalyst 4.12 betas, DirectX 9.0c, WD Raptor hard drive.

I agree. However, I am not able to run the gpu part of the PCMark benchmark b/c it crashes evertime. Therefore I just disable that whole suite of tests and just use the rest. This could have something to do with it. What are your individual scores?

Thanks for the input!

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: Stangs55
AND when I turn on 'Auto OC', I get a HUGE distortion where the people grow large spikes from there back....

Okay...scratch this. This had to of been a problem with the 67.02 drivers. I'm running the WHQL 67.20 drivers now and this is completely gone along w/any artifacts @ Auto OC settings. However I'm only getting a score of around 5250. Sadness abounds in my heart.

 

[SilverBack]

Stang does your FX55 report it's using SSE3?

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: SilverBack
Stang does your FX55 report it's using SSE3?

Where would I find that out at?

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: SilverBack
Stang does your FX55 report it's using SSE3?

Nope...

From CPUz
Instructions: MMX+, 3DNow +, SSE, SSE2, x86-64

Am I missing out on something? How do I enable this?

Thanks.

 

[Stangs55]

Doesn't look like the FX-55 supports SSE3...
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Proce...85_9488%5E9536,00.html

 

[Azsen]

Originally posted by: Stangs55

Originally posted by: Azsen

Originally posted by: Stangs55

Benches

PCMark04 - 5146
+ CPU - 4876
+ Mem - 5725
+ HDD - 7329

Those PCMark04 scores seem a bit low. I get a score of 5207 with a (9800pro @ stock), Intel 540, 1mb L2 cache @ 3.443ghz, 215Mhz FSB, Corsair XL 1024mb ddr400 ram cas2.5, 3, 3, 8), WinXP SP2, Catalyst 4.12 betas, DirectX 9.0c, WD Raptor 36Gb hard drive.

I agree. However, I am not able to run the gpu part of the PCMark benchmark b/c it crashes evertime. Therefore I just disable that whole suite of tests and just use the rest. This could have something to do with it. What are your individual scores?

Thanks for the input!

I ran the test again:

Individual scores:
CPU - 5261
Memory - 5455
HDD - 5058

 

[Stangs55]

Thanks for running those again. But that seems about right compared to my rig. Intel is usually ahead in synthetic benchmarks like Sandra. Thanks for sharing!

 

[natedogg44]

top stuff, with the case, how are the noise levels? Its one of my main concerns now coz im goin through the steps of building a new system. Thanks in advance

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: natedogg44
top stuff, with the case, how are the noise levels? Its one of my main concerns now coz im goin through the steps of building a new system. Thanks in advance

Yea, the case isn't the quietest by any mean! Easily, the loudest part of my rig is the blue 120mm fan on the back. It's not terrible, but it's not quiet. I'd love to change it out w/a Vantec Stealth blue led fan, but I don't think that they make them. Other than that, the whole rig runs pretty quiet. Good luck.

 

[Stangs55]

Okay...so sadly it appears that my 1T timings are unstable in anything besides windows and 3DMark05. When I run Doom3, HL2, etc, the computer locks up in the first frame. Any suggestions?

 

[SilverBack]

Your 1 Gb OCZ Plat Rev 2 DDR are rated at 1T timings aren't they?
My Corsair is, I just took it for granted that OCZ was to as it's very good ram.

Try boosting the VDIMM by .1

 

[KBtn]

very nice

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: SilverBack
Your 1 Gb OCZ Plat Rev 2 DDR are rated at 1T timings aren't they?
My Corsair is, I just took it for granted that OCZ was to as it's very good ram.

Try boosting the VDIMM by .1

Worked!...I was running @ 1.5. My ram is rated for 1.75...so now I'm running at 1.8 w/no problems.

Thanks!