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David M · 11-05-2011, 11:41 AM

Thanks, I will give it a try.

It looks like you did well with a 6870. How did you rank with those with near equivalent hardware? My ranking was right in the middle of the curve. I would like to be able to break 50,000 but I have no idea what else I can try other than liquid nitrogen and liquid cooled cards. My CPU air cooler seems to rank better than most liquid coolers.

Graphics card scaling is not proportional to cost. It is nowhere near. My guess is my scores are being held back by the number of graphics lanes. The Revolution board does not have 2 x 16 true graphics lanes. No board does until PCIe3 is available with Ivy Bridge. I guess they will become available at the same time?...Q2 of 2012 is what I read somewhere. It will be interesting to see how many true graphics lanes are available then.

11-05-2011, 11:41 AM	#253
David M Techphile. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: San Francisco Bay Posts: 6,546	Thanks, I will give it a try. It looks like you did well with a 6870. How did you rank with those with near equivalent hardware? My ranking was right in the middle of the curve. I would like to be able to break 50,000 but I have no idea what else I can try other than liquid nitrogen and liquid cooled cards. My CPU air cooler seems to rank better than most liquid coolers. Graphics card scaling is not proportional to cost. It is nowhere near. My guess is my scores are being held back by the number of graphics lanes. The Revolution board does not have 2 x 16 true graphics lanes. No board does until PCIe3 is available with Ivy Bridge. I guess they will become available at the same time?...Q2 of 2012 is what I read somewhere. It will be interesting to see how many true graphics lanes are available then. __________________ Asus P8P67 WS Revolution \| Intel 2600K @ 4.7 GHz \| Win 7 Pro 64 \|8 gigs Corsair 1600 \| Two Diamond 6990's in Crossfire\| Corsair AX1200 \| Thermalright Silver Arrow \| Western Digital Black 2TB 64 meg cache \| Lian-Li PC-A71B \| Logitec Z-5500 \| Three Asus 26" VW266H monitors running under Eyefinity \| Last edited by David M; 11-05-2011 at 12:00 PM.