Look what showed up at the front door of Castle Sampsa...

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Originally Posted by Sampsa

Card flashed succesfully!

Old BIOS: 05.70.02.11.01
New BIOS: 05.70.02.11.28

The temperature reading is still active in drivers and it definitely didn't change anything with coolbits (I still get the internal test failure).

In my first LN2 tests I faced serious performance drop when overclocking cards beyond 525/1380 with Rivatuner and Coolbits didn't allow more than 525/1380 because of internal test failure.

I'll test the cards under LN2 in Sunday and let you know how it turns out.

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Lets pray that it is gone!

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Originally Posted by Troman

my friend use powerstrip ;)

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Originally Posted by Sampsa

With Powerstrip I faced even worse performance drop at even less clock speeds

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sorry for the off topic but i think this would happen

nvidia will keep the 7800gtx and wont launch an ultra until they change their proces to 90mn then it will have 32 pipes. Now this is why i believe this, nvidia has 2 advantages price and availability (cards and mobo for sli) so they'll stay with the 7800gtx because ati will launch the r520 but mostly a papaer launch then the lack availability would make nvidia a 1st choice for most of the mortals, so nvidia can pretty much stay this way and not force a 7800ultra with higher clock instead they'll launch a new bios that would improove clocks for the 7800gtx so they r520 wont be that better

what do you think?

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Originally Posted by metro_oc.cl

.... because ati will launch the r520 but mostly a papaer launch...

what do you think?

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Why would you say this?

s7e9h3n last time ati did a paper launch and crossfire is MIA

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Originally Posted by leviathan18

s7e9h3n last time ati did a paper launch and crossfire is MIA

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Thanks for clearing that up leviathan :toast: ...I guess I'm outta the loop when it comes to stuff like that :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Sampsa

We have a first attempt to fix the coldbug.. I'll tryto test it later tonight. Also OPPAINTER and Shamino has it so lets see if it works out.

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Hope this fixes it :( These cards would freeking fly at -140c

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Originally Posted by s7e9h3n

Why would you say this?

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crossfire is still unavailable for most people, i still dont know if anyone can buy one

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Originally Posted by metro_oc.cl

crossfire is still unavailable for most people, i still dont know if anyone can buy one

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No one can buy one yet, but there are MANY who want to ;)

Perkam

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Originally Posted by metro_oc.cl

crossfire is still unavailable for most people, i still dont know if anyone can buy one

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Not even the press have received the review samples... so Crossfire won't show up in stores just in "few days".

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Originally Posted by perkam

No one can buy one yet, but there are MANY who want to ;)

Perkam

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Why would you want something that needs a new mobo which is slower than the current nforce4 motherboards (see reviews of xpress motherboard) and not as good oc'able; and a new card which costs more than a normal card.

Combining the cost of the motherboard plus the mastercard gives you the price of a GTX, a chip that supports HDR, SM3 and new AA options which give better IQ.

Tell me why people would want to buy it?

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Originally Posted by HaLDoL

Why would you want something that needs a new mobo which is slower than the current nforce4 motherboards (see reviews of xpress motherboard) and not as good oc'able; and a new card which costs more than a normal card.

Combining the cost of the motherboard plus the mastercard gives you the price of a GTX, a chip that supports HDR, SM3 and new AA options which give better IQ.

Tell me why people would want to buy it?

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It's like buying a SLI capable motherboard.

Want to use SLI ?
Get Nvidia SLI MB and GFX card that supports SLI (you need 2)

Want to use crossfire ?
Get ATI crossfire MB and GFX card that supports crossfire (1 crossfire card needed).

Slower ?
i don't know, maybe immature drivers ?

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Originally Posted by Sampsa

Card flashed succesfully!

Old BIOS: 05.70.02.11.01
New BIOS: 05.70.02.11.28

The temperature reading is still active in drivers and it definitely didn't change anything with coolbits (I still get the internal test failure).

In my first LN2 tests I faced serious performance drop when overclocking cards beyond 525/1380 with Rivatuner and Coolbits didn't allow more than 525/1380 because of internal test failure.

I'll test the cards under LN2 in Sunday and let you know how it turns out.

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I use systool (by w1zzard) to OC gfx cards...no internal test using that program...dunno if it supports SLI though. :)

sampsa.. found a solution to it

try nvflash -4 -5 -6 bios.rom

-4 is a hidden force flash for nvflash and it'll restore everything.. u know before when u've activated riva tuner's "disableinternalclock" thingy.. it actually is not cleared if u don't flash it with -4.. so yea.. give it a go..