Nope I didn't...you can get better ram clocks by loosening timings? any link to say what you can make them?
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Nope I didn't...you can get better ram clocks by loosening timings? any link to say what you can make them?
Temps calmed down a bit, but it's up to 42c idle...dunno whats up with that. Guess I should save up some money and get a new gpu sink. Wish I had water cooling =\
looser timing will let you get higher than normal clocks, but since they are loose it wont have as much effect. get the tighter timing in the 3d forum for x850's im running 600 mem with them on
Guys just and FYI. When i flashed my bios, flashmod (or w/e the name of the software was) also said my core was R423 didn't stop me ;)
I'll be picking up a VNF-700 here asap, althou my late night spending spree has left my bank account pretty dry lol.
Nice scores DamienKC!! :toast:
Looks like my rig is getting raped because im using a P4. My card is on 16 pipelines at 579/615 MHz, and im getting 13941 in 3dm03 and 6669 in 3dm05. Its the P4 right? Cant wait for yonah to come out... :hehe:
Well I was hitting 6336 with old install of windows, old ATI drivers and A64 winny @ 2.3ghz. VC was at 540/590.
I havn't touched a P4 in ages, but I wouldn't say your doing horrable. ;)
(beats the 6600GT any day.. hands down. Thats all I was after)
Everyone should be sure and check out the newest catalyst drivers too (5.10). They are susposed to provide a decent boost in x800 series performance. Doubt it will do anything for 3DM01, but 05 may see a boost.
yep. Same here. i dont upgrade to bench - just when i need to. The 6600GT was showing its age. No doubt it was a great card, but having it over a year, I can tell it was starting to struggle. In NFS-U2 for example after a burnout when theres a lot of particle rendering, you can tell your FPS is very low, then it shoots up all of a sudden after the smokes dissapeared. None of that with this card :D TBH, games LOOK slightly better and run mcuh smother on this at the same settings (1280x1024, 4xaa, 8xaf)
Still not reinstalled doom 3 (for about 8 months now :D) so will run a timedemo later when i get back from school. Its 6 AM and i need to do my homework :stick:
Guys I decided to take the risk and flashed my 256mb Sapphire X800GTO Fireblade Edition video card with the modded X800GTO2 bios supplied in the techpowerup site. I flashed it with the atiflash in the dos screen. After booting windows recognized the card as x800/850 series and I reinstalled the drivers. Everything worked OK till there. However after I checked the card with rivatuner and ati tool, I saw that it's still at 12 pipes and I was really disappointed to see this result. So is this a laser cut gpu? Should it be hardmodded to activate the last quad of pipes? Or should I use flashrom instead of atiflash for this bios? Do you have any opinions about this matter?
yea techpowerup only got 12869 in 03 with a 3.0 p4 f , look at how much damien got with a slow clocked a64 and generic ram , shame i dont have any seal string to remount my mach 2 gt to my x2 and run some benches @ 3.1 when my x800 gets here. damn postman better hurry up , im getting impatientQuote:
Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
I'm using them now, and I still cant get any higher. It artifact's all yellow & blotchy on the Cube in the artifact tester. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by einCe
got my x800gto2 now , currently artifact scanning at 540/590 xtpe clocks. got a zalman vf700 copeer fan/heatsink on there temps are 55c loaded and 30c idle. gonna try for max core speed now
Pancake,
Excellant let us know how you get on as am thinking of fitting the zalman to mine this weekend.
regards,
Matt
did the max core check with ati tool , when i came back pc had froze , restarted and it said last good frequency 590 core , so i set it to that and scanned for artifacts which ran for 10 minutes ok so i moved to mem that settled at around 630 , will run some 3d mark later see what i get , not expecting much as i only have my x2 @ 2.5 on air at the moment
did a quick 01 @ 580/615 to compare with K.I.T.T 's run and got around 29K didnt want to try at max clocks incase it crashes as im downloading something i need quickly. will get 03 after my dl is done and try that. that beats my x800xl and winnie @ 2.7 by about 400 points
the timings arent supposed to allow you to get higher memory, the timings make the ememory more efficient, using the timings lower your mem till it dont artifact then do a 3dmark run, then after that apply stock timings and do another and see how much you gained from themQuote:
Originally Posted by NickS
using the autodetect feature in f.e.a.r multi player demo it sets my settings to medium everything with gt02 @ 580/615, on my x800xl it set it all to high.. weird
pancake,
I played Fear SP demo last night with everything set to maximum. I don't know the exact framerates, but it wasn't "unplayable".
i set all high except textures which are set to medium 2180x1024 2xaa and it runs around 50 fps :F
Nice temps man! 30c idle is REALLY nice, as I'm getting 42c idle now. I still have stock heatsink, but just getting a zalman wont bring my idle down 12c. I'm jealous :P. My card hit 82c randomly yesterday and froze my pc. I should really save for a zalman.Quote:
Originally Posted by pancake
so more and more suggestions goes to Zalman VF700 CU :)
Hmmm, I have a choice. I can get an opty 146 or another C3D X800GTO and go crossfire with 'x800xt's when i get my board. hmmm...
both :D
or get me opty 146 and you take C3D X800GTO.
I'am a lucky guy! :)
Connect3D X800GTO modded to 16 pipes.
And here som nice scores: 7106
NICE core clock man! Cooling/modding info? If thats all stock I envy you. =)
edit : just got to thinking...do you think using the 6-prong power adapter built into the PSU gives less power then the molex adapter the video card comes with? Like, what if I plugged in both molexs and used the adapter, would it get mroe power, thus a better overclock?