It is available @ neweggQuote:
Originally Posted by SaFrOuT
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It is available @ neweggQuote:
Originally Posted by SaFrOuT
Mine x800gt 128MB R423 does 635Mhz on GPU.
Without vmods.
nice work guys dam i wish i had waited this sounds so much more fun than playing with my 6600GT :( lol might have to sell it and but an X800GT
Hi, som people speak about a 0530/0533 for the week of production. Where it is showed in the vga?? i cannot find it. And someone knows what it's for a dual dip switch in the back of the card, near to the pcie connector?? I add a image with the switch marked...
it's on the core 05XXQuote:
Originally Posted by tux0topo
ok, thank you, and about the dip switches??
It's there any chances that those switches could control in some way the hability to mod to 12 pipes?? I was looking, and found that the Powercolor ones, have them close. The old Sapphire have them one open, and one close, or eventually, they hven't the dip switches at all. Mine board, it's a Sapphire, and can't mod. And they are close too. Can someone try it?? I wish to try, but i cannot afford a new vga, if something goes bad. But i should confess that i don't think that changing those switch can dammage the card.
Here it's a image of a Sapphire from newegg, that shows one card with the switches in diferent position to the Powercolor one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowIm...d%20-%20Retail
And here a image of the Sapphire without the dip switches at all:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowIm...Card%20-%20OEM
I checked, and it don't do anything... Thank you anyway....
very true. although the original person who posted said they *THINK* it looks the same, perhaps they didnt look as carefully ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cybercat
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Re: UNLOCKABILITY
The first time I remember it happened was with the Radeon 9500. Before then, ATI/nVidia either sold lower clocked cores, and/or ones with narrow memory bus.
Later 9800se, and then the famous x800pro VIVO and on nVidia side the AGP 6800 (NU). However, please remember that these are relatively rare and isolated incidents in the grand scheme of things. The GTO2 is the first product that I can recall that actually gurantees an unlockable core where it ships with it partly disabled (why do that to a perfect core?)
It is also important to remember that failed unlock attempts are massively UNDER-REPORTED. Why? Simple... nobody wants to show off how they failed spectacularly.. its self-defeating... so few people are assertive enough to acknowledge their failed attempt. So, you should always remember that the cores are very possibly damaged, and that unlocking or overclocking is in no way guaranteed...
Stastically, lets look at simple example to explain this. If there are 10 cards, and 9/10 people all unlock all in a row in forums you either are very likely to get the single failure or very likely to follow trend to get unlock successfull. There is no accurace unlock percentage, and no predisposition to certain steppings or manufacturer.. they all just come out of big multi-thousand bins and you're picking randomly.
Ofcourse its also helpful to remember the conditions of the market to "read" how likely unlocking is possible. Back in 9700pro times, there was no special mid-end core until 9600 was designed and manufactured. Knowing that the PCB/GPU is identical, its sensible to conclude that since ATI wanted mid-end immediately, and assuming that yield rates are good.. a good percentage of 9500's should be modable.
6800 is much harder to read.. perhaps in early days the yields were poor necessating the 6800nu to sell of half-broken cores. Or, simply to fill in mid-end before 6600gt. With time yield and thus unlock should improve, but would nVidia allow that instead of better 6600gt sales (why unnecessarily sell huge costly 6800 die as locked 6800nu when cheaper 6600gt core with similar performance does the trick for much less cost).
So, my personal opinion, since many manufacturers state that X800GT can be either R480 or R423 or even R430, and likewise for X800GTO, is that these rae very likely mostly broken cores.. it makes a lot of sense, since after all these months, ATI must have accumulated quite a few that were sufficient to work in 8pp or 12pp mode (wheras early on, it would be cause of yield problems)
Conlusion:
DONT BUY X800GT expecting it to unlock. If Sapphire guarantees the X800GTO2 is wise to get that instead!
probibly was answered long ago but what the hell :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by Venom21
the gt can't mod to a xl cause none of the gt's can use the xl core (r430) the gt stock core speed is 25mhz past a good overclocking r430 ;)
yes it is possible but it is unlikely thus far i have only seen a few unlock their gt's and those had r423 cores and only unlocked to 12 pipes