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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #15 - 25.04.07 at 13:56:39

I tried that one as well, but they tend to charge very high prices here in holland.

Will give my XP1800 a try 1st, gonna unlock it, set the fsb to 333Mhz and see how far she can go.

1533Mhz = 11.5 x 133
1900Mhz = 11.5 x 166

Gonna see what she does at that speed, dunno if palomino's can take that speed, or if they quit at 1700 or something.

fastest palomino is 2000 or 2100 I think, 2100 runs at 1.73Ghz, so my guess is it won't take that 1900Mhz.

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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #17 - 02.05.07 at 21:21:38

just received my 5500 pci today, and I ofcourse benchmarked it right away on the XP2400 rig.

Score for 3dmark99 is 7473, almost the same as the agp part, which was to be expected.

It also had 33910 cpu marks. LOL

Strange thing was tho, that I scored 7473 with the PCI card and XP2400, where I scored 7535 with the AGP card and XP1800, so I'm gonna do some more benching.

But as it looks now, I'd have to say that the 5500 PCI is running on max what the pci bus can do.
Gonna do some cross testing to verify this.

XP1800 + 5500 PCI 3dmark99: 7426
XP1800 + 5500 AGP 3dmark99: 7539
XP1800 + 5500 PCI 3dmark2000: 4882
XP1800 + 5500 AGP 3dmark2000: 5597
XP1800 + 5500 PCI 3dmark2001: 2335
XP1800 + 5500 AGP 3dmark2001: 2834

seems pci really is limiting scores. Sad

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« Last Edit: 05.05.07 at 17:44:16 by ultima »

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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #18 - 08.05.07 at 20:49:03

this is strange, I installed the vsa100 clocker, I didn't change a thing at all, except enable overclocking.
Didn't raise it even a single Mhz, but when I ran 3dmark99, I saw the fps go way over 100, instead of max 75 all the time, and the score went up to 12549, is that normal??

is this cause vsync is disabled somehow?? could that be limiting my score before??

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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #19 - 08.05.07 at 21:58:37

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this is strange, I installed the vsa100 clocker, I didn't change a thing at all, except enable overclocking.
Didn't raise it even a single Mhz, but when I ran 3dmark99, I saw the fps go way over 100, instead of max 75 all the time, and the score went up to 12549, is that normal??

is this cause vsync is disabled somehow?? could that be limiting my score before??

Yes, thats definitly what happend to you Wink

If your Monitor syncs to let's say 75Hz and your FPS go over 75, they will be halved. This should have a LITTLE impact on your score Wink

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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx?? Reply #20 - 09.05.07 at 08:03:47 too bad my scores for the other 3dmarks didn't go up as well. Ahh well, gonna give the pci version another run on this rig, see if that scores evenly "high"
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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #21 - 10.05.07 at 11:55:45

yesterday I ordered a few parts for my 5500, being:

Zalman Thermal Adhesive A+B)
Akasa AK-210 Chipset Cooler 40x40mm Blue LED

I ordered 2 of the coolers, gonna take off the original ones, use those for ram cooling on the back probably
and I have some ram sinks for the front ram.

Will post back with pics as soon as it's finished.

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« Last Edit: 10.05.07 at 11:56:07 by ultima »

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx?? Reply #22 - 10.05.07 at 12:59:55 You can fit a Cooler Master SAC-P01 on the back of the VSA-100 chip, should cool a bit better.
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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #23 - 10.05.07 at 13:22:18

well, my current fan placement is as seen in the pic:

what I'm planning to do is put ramsinks on all ram chips and perhaps set the fan in the middle a little bit closer to the voodoo card, so that it'll blow enough air over the back of the card to keep it cool.

but by "the back of the vsa-100, do you mean putting the heatsink to the pcb, with some thermal adhesive between them??

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx?? Reply #24 - 10.05.07 at 13:33:47 Yes on the PCB but SAC-P01 heatsinks have a small patch of adhesive tape which should suffice (so no need for thermal adhesive).
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx?? Reply #25 - 10.05.07 at 13:41:50 well, I have some left over smaller heatsinks, I'll see if I can fit those on there with thermal tape. I'll use the tape from the ordered heatsinks. I'm curious myself now how it will turn out.
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Re: How far does a 5500 scale approx??
Reply #26 - 19.05.07 at 12:12:41

In the other thread you can see pics of my modded 5500 pci.

I've done some overclocking, and results are there, but not all that great a difference.

In 3dmark99 scores are the following:

@ 166Mhz = 10900
@ 180Mhz = 11040
@ 190Mhz = 11182

So it's a steady climb, and I suppose it's ok, still have to get rid of that immense score improvement of the newer cards, this is nice already, right??

btw, I'm using powerstrip for clocking the card, as vsa100 clocker is making my rig reboot for some reason, even if I raise the speed with just 1Mhz.

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« Last Edit: 19.05.07 at 12:14:07 by ultima »

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