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i7 930@ 3.8 w/3600Mhz Uncore
SLI GTX 460 @ 820Mhz core
EVGA X58 FTW3 w/ Hyper 212+ Cooler
Corsair TX650
Crucial C300 64GB boot, Spinpoint 500GB storage.
6GB OCZ Reapers @ CL6 1600Mhz
All packed into a Lanboy Air.
I do exactly that. It's fun, for me. Unfortunately, I think I've hit the wall on squeezing performance out of it. The CPU, RAM, and Uncore are pretty much balanced at the limit I can hit without dangerous VTT's.
So why exactly am I talking about that, when my title had to do with VRAM? Just a refresher. The annoying part is, I'm not sure I'm getting the most out of my GPU clock, because I seem to never come near full load on my GPU's. I think my VRAM is holding me back. Well, here's the problem. The EVGA OC scanner doesn't seem to find a problem at higher VRAM clocks, FurMark's unrealistic power draw would cause dangerous overheating. That leaves me with nothing but 3DMark11's slow ass to test for artifacting with each attempted change to my VRAM clocks...
And meantime, that 820Mhz core is so high, I'm really going to have to lower it to have a chance of getting anything out of the VRAM. That balancing act is going to take all damn day. It's fun, but it's slow, difficult, and not even guaranteed to work. Plus, I have to make sure I'm getting consistent bench runs, so I can't even have say... TL open to browse while it runs through the 3dMark suite over and over again...
So, here's to insanity.
I was looking forward to maybe squeezing a better score out.
