New bios (S21Z) in the eVGA Classified 760 got me booting from bios at 230+ bclock. This W3540 is a very strong chip, loving the cold. The board would cbb at around -90° to -92°, but the chip wasn’t cold bugging even at -130°! With the Kingpin F1EE cpu pot I was able to maintain steady temps even under extremely heavy loads like wPrime 1024. So 3D benching wasnt a problem since the most cpu demanding bench I was running was 3dmark 2006. On to the results!

One unfortunate happening during this session was when I was benching 2D first. I killed 2 out of 3 of my Kingston Elpida Hyper sticks during 32M runs. All these benches were thus done in single channel mode which hurt things some (especially in aquamark3)

3DMark 2001 Gold (now silver)

3DMark2005 Silver (now 7th)

3DMark2006 Gold (now silver)

Aquamark3 Gold (now 6th) – Could had about 390k if I had triple channel working.

I currently have no 5870′s (this one was for a customers gaming computer) but will revisit this again for sure.  I got some new non-explosive hypers in from Kingston.   Now with CCC limits of 1200+ on core, adjustable voltages from software, people are pushing these cards to 1050ish core on air, 1125ish on water, and 1200-1300 on LN2.  Quite impressive!