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Page Created 20. Mars 2002. Updated 4. April 2002
Leadtek GF3 Ti200TDH Tweaking
After frying a couple of Ti200 cards in our attempt to voltmod
these, we found out that maybe we should leave this to the professionals.
Instead we bought a Leadtek
GF3 Ti200TDH simply to see how much we could make out of it
without voltmodding!! (wonder why?) The card is well known for
it's overclocking features and we were pretty excited when the
card arrived by mail.
The first thing that cought our attention was the heatsink,
a job well done from the Leadtek engineers (really). Even before
we started the real job we decided to make it a "return
to sender" if we couldn't make it stable at 230/530 with
it's original features.
Well that test went on pretty good, and we managed to get it
rock stable at 235/540 resulting in a score of 7283in the 3DMark2001se
with it's original heatsink. No other tweaking/overclocking
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Well we went on with our job, we dismantled
the heatsink, and found out that the contact between the heatsink
and the core could have been better. The thermo sensor was
cought in the middle of them and made a good contact impossible.
If the sensor would have been 1mm shorter this wouldn't have
been a problem. Then it would have stayed inside the milling
of the heatsink. After removing the heatsink we mounted a
couple of Thermaltake heatsinks on the memory modules (of
course we grinded the surface first). These were attached
with Arctic Silver 3 and a drop of super glue in two of the
corners. The modifications you see on the heatsinks are made
due to the Koolance gpu mounting kit. We were ready to put
on the gpu cooling from Koolance, added some AS3 in between
them and put the card back into the agp slot.
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Well, what about active cooling for the memory
heatsinks then? First of all, find an old isa card, grind
the contactor cubicles (make sure you remove them all so you
don't short circuit your mainboard), make a few cuts at the
bottom so it would fit into a pci slot. Drill a hole for a
80mm fan, (it wouldn't hurt to drill some pilot holes first)
make sure the hole comes directly above the memory heatsinks.
When you have done all this make sure the surface of the card
are free of any residues
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Mount a 80mm fan, and make sure it's blowing
towards the heatsinks. To reduce any vibration that could
occure put some rubber gaskets in between the card and the
cards standard fastening arrangement. Put it in the closest
pci slot and we should be ready for testing.
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| Mother board |
Abit KR7A-Raid |
| CPU |
AMD XP1800@1751
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| Cooling |
Watercooled with Koolance |
| Memory |
256MB Twinmos PC2100 |
| Hard Drive |
IBM 80GB 120GXP |
| PSU |
Enermax 550W |
| Graphics Card |
Leadtek GF3 Ti200 TDH Overclocked |
| Drivers |
Nvidia 27.42
Via 4in1 4.37
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| Programs |
WCPUID version 3.0d
Sisoft sandra v. 2002.1.8.59 |
| OS |
Windows XP Pro. 5.01.2600 |
To make a long story short we were able to tweak the card
up to an 265/583 (rock stable) when running defaults on
the 3DMark 2001se. It resulted in a score of 9710
This score where achieved with cpu at 1751MHz, FSB at 184
and the memory set at: cas 2, bank.int.leave4, 3, 5, 3,
1T. We ran the tests with the 27.42 driver from Nvidia (We
also tested out the27.50 and 23.12 drivers but the scores
were pretty much the same)
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Just for the fun of it we made a few adjustments
and ran a test in the 3DMark2001 with the resolution set at
640*480*16, the graphics card was then set at 275/615!!
That resulted in a score of 11035
At these settings and compared with similar systems (cpu 1751,Ti200,Winxp)
we were able to get the score into 1. place!! |
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