Oh that sux indeed... well you shouldn't have any problem RMA'ing it :)
Good luck with the next one :thumbsup:
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Oh that sux indeed... well you shouldn't have any problem RMA'ing it :)
Good luck with the next one :thumbsup:
Does it do the same when running at stock speeds ?
Yes it's pretty much as audible (maybe SLIGHTLY less) even if I underclock it, got extra cooling over the card too but it doesn't appear to be a heat issue. It's just the typical noise of faulty caps when enough power running tru them, in some games and types of renderings the certain caps become more stressed so I'm sure it's just a faulty cap(s) on the card and been there from start. Wouldn't wanna replace it just cuz of that tho but yea I dunno what else to do that could garantuee I'd get that noise away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandrus
I have no trouble standing the constant noise of blowing fans but high pitched noise like this is a no no.
I bought this card as a quick replacement for my rocksolid 6800GT since I needed something faster quickly since I'm going to the army in january so I want to use this new card as long as possible b4 but of course I always have this bad luck, now I just hope that next 100 card shipment arrives very soon to the site where I bought this one from or I could try and demand the money back and buy elsewhere in that case it takes more than a few days...
Sorry to hear that.
If you knew where the sound is coming from you could change the caps, but it's very hard to determine unfortunately.
I have a msi 7900GTO in order.. will it work @ 100% with a amd 3000+ clocked @ 2.7ghz and Gskill pc4400le @ 300mhz? i,m affraid if the cpu will bottleneck the videocard...
Subscribed :)
Subscribed.
I've tried penciling that left resistor (1k ohm standard)
Brought it down to 849 ohm and got 1.95vdimm instead of my default 1.81v
So YES people you can pencil the mem voltage :thumbsup:
I'm not going higher than 2.00v because I'm afraid the mem may be 'second rated' or behave 'strange' when you feed it "GTX voltage"... as in 2.12v... ;)
Thanks Garrett for the clear pics and results. :clap:
Don't you have 1.1ns on your GTO? Isn't the stock 2.0v and max 2.1v?
Are you going to change the mem timings too to match the tighter timings on the GTX?
The GTX does not have tighter timmings, it's the opposite, the GTO has the tighter setting for the RAM but the lower frequency.
Doh! :brick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexandrus
So do we need to loosen timings when we up the voltage and clock?
Hahahahaaaa.... YES! 12k single card... DONE!
With the core unmodded (1.4v) @ 715 and the memory @ 1.95v @ 1810Mhz :eek:
And by the way, I saw NO artifacts :) :thumbsup:
I haven't changed the timings of the memory :)
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2273065
No it's not an approved driver, but I don't care much for that
What was mem OC before pencil actios (artefact free) ??Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett
That's something I don't know precisely...
I run it @ 1600 for 24/7 use, haven't really tried higher, however Atitool started artifacting with little yellow dots at around 1700... now it starts that around 1800.
However in 3dmark I have yet to see 1 artifact :)
Mine start artefacting @ 840 (837 exactly)Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett
Pencil it and try 2.00v or so... you'll definitely see improvement
My 1.1ns runs quite nice apparently, definitely NOT disappointed with this card... I don't know if 'real' GTX mem runs that much better ;) :)
Apparently OC works quite well with standard GTO BIOS and timmings.
In some cases, GTX clock are achieved with no modding at all, no extra voltage, nothing. Maybe if you're aiming for over 850MHz on the RAM, timmings could use a little adjustment.
Good going Garrett, really nice OC from a 250$ card ;)
What did you use for the pencil mod by the way ?
I assume you mean what pencil, right? It's the 8B versionQuote:
Originally Posted by Alexandrus
I thought I had a 2B lying around her somewhere, but it looks exactly like the 8B, except for the indication on the back, but this 8B works too, apparently :D
Yeah I really dig the price of this card, 242 euros :)
I remember last year November when a 7800GTX 512 was still 749 euros :eek:
Look what you get for 1/3 of that price now :D
Garret, I have exactly the same issue - running the artifact scan in ati tool shows a few little yellow dots (3 or 4). However, they are not detected as artifacts and i've not had any problems in any other benchmarks. If I drop my core clock down to sub 350mhz they don't appear, the higher over 350 I go the sooner they appear (it takes an hour at 600mhz for the dots to appear). Then again my GTO has a very poor core - I can only do 665mhz without it eventually overheating and artifacting / crashing. Messed about with the delta in bios and its not that - infact i've changed my delta to 75 for 650/650/725. Core temp gets to 67c after 30 mins and stays there. I think Im getting poor core contact, but can't risk taking the heatsink off incase I rip those memory pads..have nothing to replace them with. Memory is happy at 851mhz, so I've lucked out there though. From what I saw of the core oc increase in scores though I'd much rather have the ram clock well than the core. Course, both would be nice :).
Matt.
johnnyliu3377, have you benched the gtx vs the gto @ same clocks?
Would be interesting.
I don't understand why nvidia has released a 240€ card that is so similar to a +-450€ card. I can only think that it is to make way for their dx10 flagship 8800GTX?
Anyone gone from a 7900GT 700/900ish to 7900GTO?
must I pencil both resistors or just one of them???Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett
My evga 7900GTO does that.. but only one way. In some program called "Stability tester" in games i dont hear anything. Maybe i should RMA just to be certainQuote:
Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD
#120 I will bet you it is driver related.
I have had the same issue....
Remove and install again. Use 92.91 And not the 92.4 that is WHQL.. I had problems when tabbing in and out of source :)
7900GTO Vmem mod "guide":
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=120029
Well, instead of loosening the timings via BIOS edit or flashing the card with the GTX timings which are too loose, I took a different tact and tightened the timings. It did not affect the memory clocks and improved in game performance as well as benchmark tests.
Timings:
timing-----------GTX-------GTO---------BJ11 ------ BC14-------Mod
tRAS------------24-----------22----------25---------22---------19
tRC-------------34-----------31----------35----------31--------27
tRFC------------43-----------39----------45----------39--------34
tRCDR-----------12-----------10----------12----------10--------9
tRCDW----------8------------6------------8-----------6---------6
tRP-------------10------------9-----------10----------9---------8
tRRD------------8------------10-----------8-----------8---------9
So, single 7900GTO @ 710/825, 3DMark05 - 12201 with an AMD dual core at 2.8 GHz.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2265796
3DMark06, 6801, @ 710/825
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=553054
COH, 1280x1024, 4xAA, 8xAF
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7443/coh4x8xro9.jpg
I penciled ONLY the left one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hot_fifty
Not both :)
I'm actually surprised to reach 905 with tighter (1.4ns) timings at 'only' 1.95v... but hey I won't complain :thumbsup:
@ PiLsY:
You won't rip the white memory pads just like that, just be careful :)
When you remove the cooler they're 100% intact, tried it on my 6800GT back in the days, and with this card, no problem :)
Just be very gentle when lifting the pads off the cooler or the card's memory, sometimes they stick on the cooler, sometimes on the memory.
If you're careful it should be ok, then put them on the cooler, put the cooler upside down in a safe place and apply alternative cooling ;)
HeavyH20 <--
What did you get before you tightend up the timings? in 3dmark and such I mean...
/Grau
I've tried some resistances and voltages:
792 ohm gives 1.98v and 748 ohm gives 2.02v for the memory :)
Hope this helps some people :)
So ~770 should give 2.00v I guess...
Pencil mod ftw!
Pencilled the resistor to 0.759 which gave me 2.03v vmem.
I can't break 12k tho :mad: , and this is really pushing my ram @ 938 :eek:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/6966/rivart2.png
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2479/fmwe4.png
Seems very stable to me. No artifacts on futuremark or Ati tool.
400 points in 3Dmark05, 250 in 06 and 25 fps peak (4 fps average) in COH.Quote:
Originally Posted by GOESA
Tbh I'm not too concerned about a few yellow dots in ATI tool - I don't spend much time using it :). All my games run perfectly as does 3dmark etc. Incidentally, I'm using the 91.47 dets off the nvidia page.
At the moment I'm so cpu limited (3700+ SD @ 2.75ish) there really wouldn't be much improvement in getting the clocks up any more. Cheap ram too (233@3/3/3/9) and the board doesn't seem the best at cpu clocking as well (A8R32-MVP) as going from 1.45v to 1.55v gets me a whole 10mhz. I'll have a go at the mem mod this weekend and see what it does for me though. Having said that while the cards out I'll probably end up checking the heatsink contact anyway. If I do rip those pads what can be used as an alternative? The shin etsu pads I can get round here doesn't look thick enough?
3dmark 06 is getting me 4750, 05 I get about 11500, 03 I get 23500 and 01 I get 36000. Any "tweaks" I do now really aren't going to give me much of an improvement until that cpu gets replaced. Leaning towards an opteron 165...
Matt.
@HeavyH20: where or how are you getting those timings for your card? When I bring up my timings in Nibitor, this is what I see: :confused:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1...titled2lz1.jpg
It's your cpu, vyper... I had my X2 3800+ @ 2816mhz during my 12k run... X2 seems to score just a tad higher with 05 ;)
-edit-... proof of voltages :p:
Vyper : You need to set the memory timings set to 3 in the pull down box - either that or click auto select.
HeavyH2O : I tried your timings. I've got a bit of a boost in 3dmark 06 (about 350 points I think), but I'm getting artifacts now (a couple in the first test, lots in deep freeze). Will leave the modded timings on for now and try the pencil mod to stabilise it. If I can get the ram to 900mhz at these timings it should be good for 5500 in 06. I think its the TRRD setting though - I tried playing with that when I was messing with the bioses and it always gave me artifacts at anything below 10. We'll see how it responds to voltage thought before i change it back. Incidentally, TRRD from 10 to 8 alone gives you about 265 points IF you can stabilise it.
06 score is now at 5286, managed to tweak over 500 points out of it last night :). I'm quite proud of that score for a single core on air with an unmodded gfx card. My whole pc cost me less than a 7950GX2 :D.
Still a little more to come after the vmem mod, hopefully some more core if I find its got poor contact. Probably just a crap GPU though. My maximum artifact frree core clock is 662mhz (24hrs of ati tool artifact scan). 666mhz artifacted a few times and 675 artifacts every 10 mins or so. Nothing noticeable as graphics corruption, but ati tool beeps at me. 685mhz I get artifacts in 3dmark.
Matt.
HeavyH20:
wanna share your bios? might come in handy, because I don't know how to change the timings hehe..
/Grau
Yeh, I´m interested about that bios also :)
Is there any windows flasher for nVidia cards??
No, no Windows flash for nVIDIA cards, you need good old DOS mode, I see this questions asked like at least 2 times per each topic.
You can edit the timmings with BIOS Editor 3.3.
So I´ll need to use USB stick or burn CD...
Well, whatever works for you, I preffer Windows 98SE installed on my primary partition, FAT32, works great, not to mention that when I need to reinstall Windows XP I can just boot Win98, delete WinXP and start from 0, much cleaner aproach.
Id like something to flash using a usb stick, that would be nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by BulldogPO
Why flash the entire bios when he's just changing the memory timings? Just use Nibitor.
You can't change timings on-the-fly... you need to open up a bios file (can be a backup of your current bios) and flash that bios WITH those adjusted timings :fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by vyper
What driver are you guys using with this card?
91.47 Forceware.Quote:
Originally Posted by vyper
92.91 Here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nazu
Roger that ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nosfer@tu
Anyone know of any pencil mods for the gpu?
Probably not huh :stick:
Prolly same as GTX mods.
Quote:
Originally Posted by vyper
That is the first timing table (set 0). The one you want to look at is the third. Here are the timings I use.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/638/timingsoe5.jpg
I have attached the BIOS I use. It is a 650/750 clocked BIOS with the tighter memory timings. The ZIP file is clean of any and all viruses.
Flash command:
nvflash -j -4 -5 -6 gto-tm.rom
The higher default memory clock will also allow Coolbits to clock your memory well above 800, assuming it can handle that.
Thnx.
The tighter timings have lost me about 20mhz on the mem clock artifact free, overall the score is still up a bit though. Not messed with changing trrd back to 10 or trp back to 9 yet to see which (got a feeling its those) is causing the artifacting and what performance drop that would cause. The fact that I can bench to 866mhz with artifacts would suggest that a vmem mod would clear it up.
That 866 is with default volts? like 1.82 or so?Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
Garret - Yup...the memory on this card is awesome, just the core seems rubbish. I've got no working voltmeter, so I can't check the vmem, but theres no reason why it would be higher than any others as its just an off the shelf MSI. Regarding the vmem mod...seeing as i've got no voltmeter can someone give me an idea of how pencilled in the resistor should be? Im guessing 4 or 5 strokes with a 2B should be enough. Hope I've got a pencil - lol.
Been doing more testing with the modded memory timings bios. It appears I was hasty before when I claimed it gave me 350 points... I've been testing all morning to find which timing was giving me artifacts, so I've been changing every timing back to default and testing with the others tightened. It turns out its TRCDRD 9 thats causing my issue - set it to 10 and the artifacts vanished. However, during the course of the testing I came to realise that this bios is doing absolutely nothing for my scores. With default GTO bios I now get 5512 3dmarks. With the modified bios I got 5524. With modded bios and TRCDRD 10 I got 5529. With the GTO bios with TRP 8 and TRRD 9 I got 5521. The performance gain here really is negligible. However, tightening the timings can massively reduce your memory overclock, so overall its best to stick with the standard GTO bios. Its even got me wondering whether loosening timings may be a good idea. Mind you I saw no perfromance boost when I tried samsungs BJ11 settings which were conciderably looser than the GTX settings. I'll test tonight with a couple of runs on 01 and 03 using the GTO standard vs the modified bios (but trcdrd 10 so no artifacts) and post my results. I'm guessing 01 and 03 may show more of a difference due to the higher points scale, but even so, I'll be surprised if I get more than 100marks extra in 01 and 50 extra in 03.
Matt.
What CPU are you using? Looks like your 06 score is down in the mild clocked single core territory. And, more memory clocks <> more performance. You need to balance the two.
The tRRD at 10 is 2 LOOSER than stock 1.4 ns spec. I set it to 9 to increase the clocks a tad.
I have pushed my card to 710/825 with stock voltage to score 6800 in 3DMark06.
As a tip, once you find your memory peak, roll back 10 Mhz on the memory. Scores usually improve. Even with 2.1V into the RAM, most GTX cards barely get to 850. So, just keep it balanced.
Pilsy, I did this last nigh with a sharpened pencil and it seems that it is .01 volts a stroke.
Cheers Robbie - 1 stroke at a time it is then :). Which resistor did you do, the left or the right?
HeavyH20 - I'm on a 3700+ San Diego @ 2.75ghz. Also I tried TRP 8 and TRRD 9 earlier this afternoon, did absolutely nothing for my score.
Just had the heatsink off, core contact is perfect - damn. Guess I've just got a rubbish GPU. The PWM regulators underneath the little black heatsink didn't have very good contact though. The three closest to the back edge of the card weren't touchng at all - now sorted it, may help. Will post up later.
From my pic, it's the left resistor...Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
May I sincerely suggest you do NOT pencil without a Multimeter!!!!!! :nono: :nono: :fact:
Heh - dont worry I didn't go overboard.
Since reseating the heatsink my core will now clock to 680 - bonus!
However, since reseating the heatsink and doing the vmem mod my memory clock has dropped significantly - b@lls!
I've wiped the pencil mod off, but still isn't clocking like it did. Im getting artifacts at anything over 825mhz now. Before I was artifact free at 851. I can still run at 851, its just that within a minute of starting ati tool is spewing errors and trying its best to paint the furry box yellow one dot at a time...
In all honesty I may just need better cooling. My motherboard is red hot around the northbridge. The entire 7900GTO is too hot to touch after an hours gaming (I have a heatpipe burn to proove it!), and my room turns into a sweatshop if I don't have the window open - lol. GPU temp is currently @ 65c after 5 mins of ati tool.
Matt.
Some results without mods. These were so easy .....boring :rolleyes:
06:
Attachment 52193
05:
Attachment 52194
Maybe more results with mods later.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=120029
Seems to be settling down again now. Now @ 680/840 for 30 mins no artifacts. Guess it must just be the thermal pads bedding in again. Looks like I'm 5mhz up on the core. Should be able to bench at 690/866 with severe artifacting. The vmem not helping the mem oc has me confused though. As I said before though, I'm starting to suspect temperature is to blame. GPU is now @ approx. 70c.
Matt.
Those are lower than the others, be careful not to ruin the balance. The heatsink touches the first two columns closest to the GPU, the others...not.Quote:
Originally Posted by PiLsY
As for better cooling, we all want it, but it's not available to buy, so you'll need to make one yourself somehow. I wanted to make my own cooling but realized the stock is very good except it does not cool the RAM as it should.
I mean better cooling in general. I need to get my case temps down so the gfx heatsink is sitting in cooler air. At the mo my case temp is approaching 40c. Ive got 2 x 120mm fans, both at about 7v and my psu, thats it. And one of the 120mm fans is in front of 4 hdds which won't be helping airflow. I think really i need to watercool it if im gonna go further (have had several wc rigs in the past). Need to get the cpu heat and northbridge heat out of the case.
I am having some trouble with mine being stable now. I flashed it back to stock from 650/800, and I penciled the ram to 1.92v. I have 2 120's blowing on it, but it won't last 10 min in css without crashing. Any ideas? I have a maze4 and I will put that on it when I get my water cooling setup put together later this week. I hope this card isn't dying on me.
-rob
Robbie - have you removed the pencil mod? Also was CSS stable before the pencil mod? Other than that, try reseating the card. If neither of those work then clock down the core to say 275mhz (2d speed) for 3d and see if it still crashes. If so clock down the ram to 500. If it still crashes...errr. Not sure... :). Good luck.
Mines fine now. I think the initial problems were down to the thermal compound and pads bedding in again. Now at 680 / 850 stable and artifact free, so ive gained 5mhz core :D.
Matt.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SF3D
Yup, the power of Conroe. Looks like you gained on the CPU score of 3K. Same video performance, however, but mine was OC'd over 700. Those are killer scores for a spec run! I for one, am still stuck with a dual core Opteron for now.
Sell opteron ASAP :p:
HeavyH20
I remember using your 7800gtx bios that gained 200-300 points in 05 mark at the same clocks and it clocked almost the same with tighter timings. Anything similar with GTOs for a huge score jump? :)
It was decent until the Conroes appeared. Waiting on Kentsfield. I figure a Kentfield/G80 combo should be a decent setup for a bit. The Opteron is not worth selling. I will push it down the line to one of the other three PC's.
As for the BIOS. it was posted earlier. Using the same premise as the 7800 GTX.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=149
And, PiLsY, the VREG cooler needs to contact all the surfaces evenly. The other flaw on the older cards was the mixing of vreg components so they were not the same height. I saw a few cards, and most of the problem cards were uneven. So, I pull the TIM off the higher ones, use a thin layer of Ceramique and use better TIM on the lower row. Keeps the pressure even.
Well guys my card is dying as we speak, I took off the hs and as5'd it, and it dropped 3c idle, not bad. Then I ran 3d mark 06 and it crashed during it. So I rebooted and to my horror the tell tale signs of my card dying where there. Now I am running in safe mode, and I just requested a rma from evga. Hope it turns out well.
Best of luck to the rest of you,
-Rob
That's exactly what my card does if I have PEG link mode on any setting except disabled in bios. Identical screen. Does make me wonder (given the poor core oc and the yellow dots in ati tool at defaults speeds and below) whether my card is slightly faulty. It reminds me a lot of my 9800se which I couldn't use the disabled pipes on. You could run ati tool for hours on that and it wouldn't detect any errors, even though you couldn't actually see what it was rendering. Same issue here, the yellow dots don't apparently count as artifacts. Time will tell whether it needs an RMA.
Sorry about your card robbie, but check your motherboard bios settings before you send it back, even try a "load setup defaults". You've nothing to lose at this point :).
Matt.
HeavyH2O - Since I sorted the vreg heatsink it gets RED hot now - before it ran cool. It was only contacting the 2 banks of chips nearset the gpu, the outermost row was basically untouched. I used white gloop on the 2 rows nearest the gpu and built up the pads on the outside row using the pads removed from the others. They're a full 2mm lower, so each one basically has 3 of those pads on so I could get some decent contact/pressure. The temp of that black heatsink during 3dmark though is over 80c....
Matt.
Well, atleast they are no longer broiling without a heatsink. I had a couple of cards that started showing the issues, then did the VREG heatsink fix and the problems went away. The chips are good to 150C, but, if the heatsink is at 80C you can only imagine what those components would hit without it.
I don't really like the idea of anything in my case being 80c or over ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by HeavyH20
Couldn't you just stick a thin piece of copper between the sink and those 3 chips?
They lie lower as people say... that would make up for the height difference.
Hey guys,
Now I have played with the card. and the performance is stunning for such a cheap card, my scores are in sig.
Anyone got any ideas for some improved scores? Use HeavyH20's bios + remove bios delta.?
/Grau
Anyone can tell me a good way to monitor your gpu temperature while running 3dmarks ? ... the best solution I founded is to open the nvidia temperature tab and between each 3dmark test I can see the temps 3-4 seconds ...
Last this I want to ask you guys is how high the temperature can go on a 7900 GTO ? ...
Thanks and sorry for the newbs questions I didn't OCed a video card since 6 years :)
I got myself a GTO also and pushed from 650/660 to 705/770 with stock cooling and no MODS what are the settings that they can go to?
You could use rivatuner to monitor temps in the background.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacKaquE
I use MBM5 which monitors my DFI mobo's temperatures as well as the GPU's :thumbsup:
Although MBM5 may not pick up all videocard's temps, I think Rivatuner will...
Garrett, do you have something like tutorial to guide us ''GTO noob pencil-modders'' to success? Things like what to measure/calculate and such would be great.
:toast:
-Xavior-
Check this:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=120029
Heyz what exactly do you need to change the bios from the GTO to the GTX? my card is the MSI 7900GTO 1.1ns and what do i gain from this?
Hi to everyone...
It's a matter of hours before I get my 7900GTO, I feel very lucky because there is a very short stock of them, as you know...I'm planning to do a pencil mod if it won't reach high frequencies out of the box. I would like to know how can I check the voltage of the card to see whether it really increases and to control it doesn't go 2.1v or beyond...Thank you!
Is it possible to pencil-mod the vcore? I've seen Danny post but I couldn't understand how he did it...
-deck-
Welcome :toast:
Check the link above :rolleyes:
Xavior, check my post :)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=108
Then for the measuring points check this:
http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=3330&s=3
This has been posted before though :fact:
Ah dang. I've seen those links before, but I simply forgot about them.:rolleyes:
Thanks though.
Does your mbm pick up the gpu ambient temp? With my 6800gs it did, but with the gto it only picks up the core not the ambient temp? Do I have to change any of the plug-ins or settings to get it to do this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett
I don't get the ambient temp, but I don't really care about it either :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
I got fans blowing all over the place and with both side panels off I can't imagine anything overheating in there :)
my card doesnt seem to want stop clocking heh..
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/9...5886oh1.th.jpg
725/886 stock cooling no mods
SF3D is that volt mod for the core that you posted in the xtreme vmods sec confirmed? Would like to see where that would lead. :)
Nice, you must have some nice voltages to core and mem, or some really good GPU and RAM if it can OC that high with no mods.
I believe that none of the 7-series cards have ambient temp sensors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbie
Heyz what exactly do you need to change the bios from the GTO to the GTX? my card is the MSI 7900GTO 1.1ns and what do i gain from this?
You need the flash utility, nvflash that is, and the GTX bios file.Quote:
Originally Posted by Godmyster
Furthermore, you need to be sure that your card can handle the GTX memory speed, if it can't you can modify the GTX bios to lower memory frequencies.
You don't really gain anything from it, that card will not suddenly overclock better.
It's useful if you already had 1 GTX and want to run SLI :)
Humm i see thanks :)
I'd rather flash the GTX down to a GTO though. May as well use the faster bios on both.
Matt.
Hello guys... also I bought a MSI NX7900GTO T2D512E shortly after it was released. And it sames that my card is hardly overclockable, going on 700 core and 800 memory (1600) is totaly impossible . There are alot of artifacts in AtiTools as well in game, and it dosn't matter if im running it on the orginal bios or the GTX one.. I was testing a hour or two and the final results are crap, can't even go 670 / 700 artifact free!
So I did just down clock it to the standart clocking, and still I noticed artifacts in the newest FEAR +slowdowns after a longer gaming session... (However AtiTool dosn't dedect any after 15 minutes of testing, oh and it goes 77C!)
The most important question is, also I flashed it to GTX and then back to the orginal BIOS... can I still give the card back on warrenty? Or will they notice it? How does it work?
err...Quote:
Originally Posted by sesion
maybe its called ATiTools for a reason?
Software DescriptionQuote:
Originally Posted by bluep3ace
As the name implies ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.
Main Features
* No limits overclocking.
* Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts.
* Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards)
* Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series.
* Artifact scanning mode for non-ATI cards - use together with a 3rd party overclocking utility.
* Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup.
* Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile.
* 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required.
* Gamma control
I can see artifacts in games anyways... and when im giving lets say 680 core and 750 memory it dosn't even pass the initial test :>Quote:
Originally Posted by bluep3ace
Darn it.. I exchanged my GTO because my secondary screen in dualview flickers.. It did like 830MHz on stock volts.
Now I got my new one.. And it barely does 740 with 2v. And stupid thing is, it flickers too.:( *sigh* Wasted my time..
I just tested what my mem can do with voltage mod.
Results so far in 05 and 06 @ 710/1940MHz with default cooler
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:D Nice 1.1ns modules. What will they do with 2.15V< ?
How many volts are you running through the memory?
I penciled the resistor, but couldn't get it below 820 Ohms.
Edit: Hmmz.. Did some more careful penciling.. Got it to 600 Ohms, lets see what happens.
Be carefull, 600ohm it's going to be kinda low and the RAM will be overvolted.
2.00V is max voltage according to Samsung, and 1.90V is default.