Edit your 6800, NU, GT and Ultra Bios-Voltages and Default Core Speeds

nope just a regular 6800.

EVGA 6800 for $280 from newegg-with free far cry.
the bios is modded, and running 365/750 stock now, but thats honestly low for what the card really can do, just doom3 is extremely picky about this card it seems.

69,500 on aquamark3 I just did tonight as well.
took 3rd place for that card, but then again theres not much competion for this card it seems. I could slap some sub zero on this CPU and take #1 for the 6800 on aquamark with about 20 mhz more on my CPU, cause I am just 1000 points away.
not that much fun there, it's too easy :(

heyas kunaak, i also have a 6800 (but it's a Sparkle, not an evga) for like 3 days now... and am having some trouble overclocking it. chip is watercooled and have some revoltec heatsinks (huge) on the card's ram. still, im just getting to 385/816!! anything above that, when "testing settings" just returns error in the nvidia control panel w/ coolbits. i know its not the heat cause the chip is usually about 42/43ºC idle (far far away from the threshold). maybe the ram??i'd be happy with these results, but i know someone who has another 6800NU (though its a MSI i think) and does 950 on the ram easily!!he even got it to run at 975, but he said that the performance went down from 950 to 975. i have a score of 10212 on 3dmark03. any hints? or just a bad card?

kuunak when did u get the 6800? is it for keeps? or will u be upgrading to 6800gt/u? doing what u did with the 5900 series and keep with the low end, but with your oc'ing skills make them almost as good?? :D (unfortunately impossible just with oc'ing as it only has 12 pipes, tried unlocking?)

K im gonna try and flash again, hopefully it works this time.

Edit: K the flash was just succesfull, all I typed this time around was a:\nvflash 123.rom (took ur advice on the 123.rom lol).

Idle temps stayed the same... now lets see if I can get anymore out of her :)

Edit 2: Well when i set my clocks to default it goes to the 420/560 I set it to, but I still can't get any more mhz out of it. This is using v1.3 and just changed the 3d voltage to 1.4v and 2d to 1.3v.

Edit 3: Ok I just raised the 2d voltage to 1.4v and it seems I can get all the way up to 456 core using coolbits! Before I could only hit 430 and now im hitting 26mhz higher! My temps only raised 1c idle (not sure on load temps yet), so temps don't seem to be an issue as of now. But my memory is still at its same 1160, but I could have sworn someone said that there mem raised (it shouldn't be able to clock any higher, but I no someone said it did).

gafa

I don't have any real advice about the 6800, I had no tricks or anything to it, it was a pretty straight forward day, find one benchmark, push the videocard as far as that benchmark will allow, and thats it.
the heatsink is exactly as it came from EVGA, so if theres a thermal pad under there, thats still there.
I haven't even removed it to put thermal paste on the ram and core yet. so other changing the default clock speeds of the bios, the card is pretty much untouched.

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Originally posted by r3b0rN
kuunak when did u get the 6800? is it for keeps? or will u be upgrading to 6800gt/u? doing what u did with the 5900 series and keep with the low end, but with your oc'ing skills make them almost as good?? :D (unfortunately impossible just with oc'ing as it only has 12 pipes, tried unlocking?)

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I got the 6800 yesterday.
it's not for keeps, just a temporary thing to play with till my 6800 ultra finally ships. I've had a 6800 ultra paid for from best buy for about 3 months now, and I am still waiting for them to fill the order.

while I did love the 5900 NU, cause that card could come within hundreds of points of beating the FX 5900 Ultra at lots of benchmarks, and my 3dmark2001se score of 27,166 was only recently beaten, so that score stood as number 1 FX 5900 NU score for 6 months, I was very proud of that...
I didnt really choose to try and specialize in the low end cards.
I kinda got thrust into it, I kept wanting a 9800XT, and would get one and it would just suck, I had 3 9800 XT's and each one was a very poor overclocker for me, so I kept using 5900's cause they were so damn cheap at $175 for a BFG.
I think it was more a case of me, doing the best with what I had.

as for the 6800 not being as good as a GT or ultra.

I have a interesting arguement that can change your mind about that :D

Asus, has a 6800, called "the gamers edition", it comes with GDDR3 (unlike normal 6800's with GDDR1) and it uses 256 megs of Vmem, unlike other 6800's.
comes clocked at 350/1000, which is alot different then other 6800's at 325/700

if you could get one of these, then use the software mod that rivatuner offers with 16 pipelines, and if it worked...
then you already have a card as powerful as the 6800GT.

the 6800GT in my opinion should be more then enough to get very very close to the top 6800 Ultra scores, once some high end overclockers with some good cooling and such, use them.
the only difference between these two cards is the NS rating of the ram and the clock speeds.
the clock speeds isn't hard to match, and the NS rating will always be a small problem, but not enough to easily hold you back from matching and beating some 6800 ultras.

if you could get this Asus Gamers Edition 6800, to work with the 16 pipeline mod, that Rivatuner will offer soon...
then theres no doubt in my mind what 6800 will be the one breaking everyones 6800 scores.

so I think it's possible to get a 6800, and be able to match and possibly beat, the 6800 GT and Ultra.
with lots of modding of course ;)

I am using Rivatuner to adjust my clock speeds and for some reason it's it won't pass the test at 440core or 1.23memory...but 435 and 1.22 are completely clean in 3dmark01. I upped my core voltage to 1.4 using the bios editor OmniXtreme v1.3, but still no difference, although my core temp i now 61c when it was 56c before at the same clocks. So I know the extra voltage is there, but it still won't pass any higher. Is there a way to enable low-level overclocking on rivatuner or a different oc utility that doesn't have that test thing?

u can disable the testing in rivatuner...

kuunak - whats vmem? sort've like a swap file on the hdd? lol.

videocard memory.

rofl :D sorry never seen it said that way before, damn i feel noob :doh: :am:

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Originally posted by r3b0rN
u can disable the testing in rivatuner...

kuunak - whats vmem? sort've like a swap file on the hdd? lol.

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how do you disable?

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Originally posted by Blind_GI
K im gonna try and flash again, hopefully it works this time.

Edit: K the flash was just succesfull, all I typed this time around was a:\nvflash 123.rom (took ur advice on the 123.rom lol).

Idle temps stayed the same... now lets see if I can get anymore out of her :)

Edit 2: Well when i set my clocks to default it goes to the 420/560 I set it to, but I still can't get any more mhz out of it. This is using v1.3 and just changed the 3d voltage to 1.4v and 2d to 1.3v.

Edit 3: Ok I just raised the 2d voltage to 1.4v and it seems I can get all the way up to 456 core using coolbits! Before I could only hit 430 and now im hitting 26mhz higher! My temps only raised 1c idle (not sure on load temps yet), so temps don't seem to be an issue as of now. But my memory is still at its same 1160, but I could have sworn someone said that there mem raised (it shouldn't be able to clock any higher, but I no someone said it did).

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Your results give me hope! After I get my temps under control, I hope to break 450 core like you did :slobber:

raising my 2d as well didnt help at all... still get this weird freezing randomly which will unfreeze after a few seconds

I get the same thing Disposable hero. I upped both my 3d and 2d voltages, 3d to 1.4 and later 1.5 and 2d to 1.4. Both didn't help on their own or togethor. My card is running a cool 60c under load at 420/1.15. So I know my problem isn't temps, so I think it just needs that extra power connector. I have the right mind to mod the second one on to the card. This card is completely clean at 1.2ghz mem and the core is clean at 435mhz. But then suddenly at 440mhz it just freezes and then if I leave it 3dmrking long enough, it'll even blue screen. Voltage just did not do a thing. So I think it just needs more power.

Does anyone know if it is safe to add the extra power connector? Will I overload my caps or anything like that? I don't want to kill my nice card but I'd like to get out of it what I can. Thanks.

to disable clock testing -

. open rivatuner
. select power user tab
. expand "overclocking \ global"
. change disableclocktest to 1

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Originally posted by EnJoY
I get the same thing Disposable hero. I upped both my 3d and 2d voltages, 3d to 1.4 and later 1.5 and 2d to 1.4. Both didn't help on their own or togethor. My card is running a cool 60c under load at 420/1.15. So I know my problem isn't temps, so I think it just needs that extra power connector. I have the right mind to mod the second one on to the card. This card is completely clean at 1.2ghz mem and the core is clean at 435mhz. But then suddenly at 440mhz it just freezes and then if I leave it 3dmrking long enough, it'll even blue screen. Voltage just did not do a thing. So I think it just needs more power.

Does anyone know if it is safe to add the extra power connector? Will I overload my caps or anything like that? I don't want to kill my nice card but I'd like to get out of it what I can. Thanks.

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dude you are lucky you're even getting that far... my bfg GT OC can do 226/1.13 coolbits "approved" but does the freeze then unfreeze thing till comp freezes thing

this is probably going back to bestbuy... and 1.4 didnt help any but have coolbits approve it a little farther

I don't want to return my card, I think it's just craving more power. Does anyone know if I can solder on an extra power connector without damaging the card?

why are you folks messing around with 2d vgpu? Its best left at default/stock....

We messed with it because we hoped it would help. It seemed to help that one dude above me, he got to 450mhz core. I still can't get past 420 and have my mem overclocked at the same time. The card runs really cool at 57c load with default volts at 400/1.1, so I know it isn't a heat issue. But upping the volts in the bios doesn't help either, and as I said before, I think it's because it needs that extra power connector. Or maybe there's a chance my psu isn't giving it the voltage it needs, although I doubt that....

It looks like heat has become an issue for me, seeing as I passed coolbits test at 456/1.16 with 1.4v 3D/2D (need the 1.4v on 2D to get any more out of her) but BF:V just doesn't like to run at any speed with those volts. I didn't do to much testing (was on my way out when I did it), but I will test it a little more today, to see if I can see if it really is a heat issue.

And the reason why upping the 2D voltage helps is because when overclocking u are in 2D mode, not 3D. So just adding extra volts to 3D won't help the overclock in 2D mode (regular windows). Well that is my theory at least, don't know how true it is but its my idea none the less.

My is still caput....I'm so pissed off. If I weren't leaving this here and going to college in a few weeks, I wouldn't care, but I don't have time to deal with this and send it back, I just want to be able to enjoy it.

I gained 20mhz alone on the core by supplying my 'GT with a psu cable free from any other devices running off of it(hdd, cdrom,etc...). Used to only do 400mhz till i noticed that my hdd and a few other things were sucking juice off the same line as my 'GT.

Really... I gotta try that then (wait I don't have any free lines lol).

I'm gonna try that too. At the moment I have a vantec spectrum fan card and two 80mm fans hooked up to the second molex and on the cable and the first molex has my GT. Maybe with nothing on the second it'll do better. Hmmm...

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Originally posted by Kunaak
while I did love the 5900 NU, cause that card could come within hundreds of points of beating the FX 5900 Ultra at lots of benchmarks, and my 3dmark2001se score of 27,166 was only recently beaten, so that score stood as number 1 FX 5900 NU score for 6 months, I was very proud of that...

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That was one hell of a score Kunaak, couldn't come close to that even though i took spot#2 with 25201, all aircooled. :thumbsup:

Shame this Bigsam feels the need to have several scores submitted instead of just one, he took the no1 spot after all so why did he leave all these score's up?

Sorry for this offtopic talk. ;)

Version 1.4 of Omni Xtreme's Bios Tool is out: http://www.mvktech.net/request.php?558