Mounting the Zalman won't do that, unless he damamged something.Quote:
Originally Posted by cantankerous
There are so many ppl mounting Zalmans on this forum, all without incident except for those who have a slip of ther screw driver :eek:
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Mounting the Zalman won't do that, unless he damamged something.Quote:
Originally Posted by cantankerous
There are so many ppl mounting Zalmans on this forum, all without incident except for those who have a slip of ther screw driver :eek:
No, they was before mounting a zalman. Interesting is, that if i set GPU voltage to 1.25V, all artifacts gone in FEAR, and most of them in Canyon Flight, but not in Single Texturing tests in 3D Mark 03 and 05. If i underclock gpu to 350Mhz, everything is fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by cantankerous
So i will have money back and Gainward took someone else, so not sure what to take, only HIS is available, but for 500$. {XL}
Why is Return to Proxycon and Firefly forest, without any artefacts and in canyon flight it makes a gfx errors? too bad, i tried also OC and 640/1500 worked fine, without artifacts, in selected tests (8710Marks in 3D Mark 05)
You said only the water was buggy on the Canyon flight right? It might have to do with billiniar texture filtering maybe. The rest of the scene should be trilliniar if not mistaken.
I know they where talking about this with the interview about the next 3D mark, and it sounded like that they used billiniar and trilliniar at least in 05. And they where saying the next one the water was using billiniar because there wasn't much difference in looks but there was a preformance hit, for the water.
Unlucky man. I hope its a driver issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by spajdr
The official Cats should be out soon.
mR Yellow : well, it wasnt driver issue, it was card, friend got same pc specs as me and got no problems. I will have overpriced HIS X1800XL tomorrow (could have 7800GT, but boy i hate Nvidia!) goodbye money! :D i can eat my boots until next salary :D i hope it have 1.4ns :D
hehe it will have 1.4ns. They all do. Too bad on the card. If they happened on stock everything then the card is definately not what it should be. An RMA was a good choice though sad.
Yup 1.4ns is standard on these cards, according to reference design that is. I'm sure some time some company will skimp on the chips because they could use lower rated chips since its default speed is well below what the chips could do.
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4711/fearbug6gu.jpg
That how it looks, few seconds or even minute its ok, then all that black garbage on screen.
Besides, friend got Connect3D X1800XL and it got 1.6ns rams
That right there is poor voltage on the core.
As for the 1.6ns ram, could totally see it, keeping costs down on there end for ram thats not even used close to its spec.
Yeah increasing voltage helps, but it didnt help entirely on some tests in 3D Mark 03/05, if it did, i would keep this baby. I hope someone will not have same problem. It heavy fight situations (meeting with smoke grenade :D) its really black box extravaganza :D
that is too bad spajdr. I feel really bad for you. I hope it all gets sorted in the end. BTW 1.6ns ram is a crock. I would die if my card had that.
Guys you think 1.6ns is bad? look at MSI X1800XL they got 2ns chips, just like MSI 7800GT!
THEY DO?! I have heard nothing of this. I thought it was standard that all X1800 have 1.2-1.4ns. Man am I glad I checked what ram is on my card or I would have freaked in wonder what mine had!
*shivers* Im curious to what mine have now. Probley in one of the many pictures I've posted :)
mine were actually very hard to read. The stock pads took the writing right off, i had to read the slight etching that was left behind from the writing from a certain angle to see that I had 1.2ns ram.
Thats very interesting. The BBATI XL that i had had 1.4ns ram.Quote:
Originally Posted by cantankerous
Ok who has a sapphire that can read the numbers off there ram?
Whoa, so that's why they're so inexpensive compared to other x1800xls (and even 7800gts). There had to be a catch to the low price.Quote:
Originally Posted by spajdr
But how much will the low ram clock hold the card back compared to 1,4ns cards that do around 1500ddr? The core should still do around 600mhz, right? I was contemplating bying the MSI card, but not if it's held back considerably by the ram. The price is great, and I want an x1800xl over a 7800gt.
New to the board.. but anyway.
I'm thinking of getting a X1800XL for christmas but I'm wondering what brand I'm gonna choose. It seems like most of you people here has the Saphire tho. Why is that? Cous it OC better than others? Which brand are the "best"? Or are they all almost the same?
I got sapphire because it ended up being 1 of the 2 cards in the store. It was cheaper then the ATI branded card of course so I took it :)
Then again I've always liked sapphire cards too. All seem pretty much the same except there is a few running around with different ram ratings so be warned.
BTW Welcome :)
Ok, sounds alright then. Think it's gonna be a Saphire OC christmas for me then :P
Thanks :D
vassmar : welcome a board :-)
If you found HIS X1800XL, you can take it too, its basically sapphire, but sold under HIS name and have better bundle (but full version of Dungeon Siege 1 is kinda weirdo and demo of Half life 2, why not coupon?). Problem with HIS is, that in some countries is more expensive (like 50$), but for me it was only choice.
Frodin : yeah and Connect3D is cheaper too due to worse RAMs.
Ok, thanks for the tip spajdr :) Looked at the swedish prices and it's about 30-40$ more than the Sapphire. I may get that on instead then. Or do you think it's worth it? 30-40$ isn't really that much when the card is about 10x that...
Does anyone know any good reviews/threads of the HIS and the Sapphire?
EDIT: When is there going to be Artic Cooling coolers out for the X1800? Tho I think I'll ghetto mod this one at first anyway :p:
Hey guys quick Q? Wheres the number located to identifiy it as 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6 or 2.0ns ram? Trying to read it off the card without ripping it out of the computer again.
nm found it... 1.4ns dang i want 1.2