Visiontech GF2 GTS-V input needed...to mod or not to mod?

digitalwanderer

Almost all of the parts I need to repair the son's computer came today 'cept the mobo which is due on Friday...so I have until then to decide between my current Silura GF2 MX400 and this new Visiontech GF2 GTS-V. The MX400 is modded-out ugly but runs at a fairly respectable 240/420 and benches about 3050 in 3dm2k1se. I just threw the GTS-V in "as-is" to test it and it came at 175/286.4 and scored 3013 in 3dm2k1se. I overclocked her to 200/300, got 3149; 210/343, got 3349; 219/357, got 3408 but also had some artifacting (mostly snow in "Lobby", but some flashes too.) so I backed her down to 200/300 and she made it thru 10 loops no sweat.

With no modding. No fins on the memory and just this cheasy fan/sink combo on the GPU.

Now my question is this...

I got all my OC numbers from RivaTuner 2.0 rc10. With my MX400 it says that the maximum clock on the chip is 240 & memory it's 420...on the GTS-V it says the chip is 220 and the memory only went up to around 360 and, well, frankly...

I don't get it. How come the MX400 can clock it's CPU higher? Memory I could understand, but I thought all GF2's used the same CPU?!?

Could someone help out a born again newbie who's confused? I'm trying to decide if adding some monster cooling to this new card is going to make a whole lot of difference or not...it already seems to OC pretty good with nothing, can I go beyond RivaTuners recomendations with additional cooling or will I just be wasting my time?

Thanks in advance!

mixxx

Probably the bios in the other card has different memory timings. Thats the difference.

I would stick with the mx400 since it runs easily without the stressful overclock that the visiontek is going thru. Peace.

digitalwanderer

I think the mx400 came at a stock 200/340 or something silly like that before I modded it and started working her a bit harder at 240/420. But I kept it and modded the GTS-V anyways. I overclocked her a little....(210/340)...but I ain't gonna push her 'til my son needs it.

I like the mx400 where it's at, I don't want to rip apart Blue just to gain 400 points in 3dm2k1se cause then I'd want to swap soundcards around too and end up tearing down Bubbles and then be staring at 3 computers in pieces and decide to just rearrange everything and rebuild 'em all....

I get like that, I gotta just stop at a certain point. All my boxes are together, all are working well; I'm a happy guy.