good idea. Do you think removing the pci bracket with the zalman will aid in cooler temps?
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good idea. Do you think removing the pci bracket with the zalman will aid in cooler temps?
it might, but i dont think it will be as beneficial as with the stock cooler. the zalman will still be better though even without leaving the slot open. Based on what people here have said about 5-10'C temp drops.
/start rant
Alright - I f'n hate UPS. Ordered the X1800XL on 10/30/05, shipped at 9am 10/31/05 - now in transit 4 days, paid for 3 day select. Tracking says out for delivery all day - now all the sudden rescheduled delivery and not till 11/4/05. Wow - 5 day service at the 3 day rate... what a bunch of morons.
What can BROWN do you for you...? ...Well you could start by giving the FEDEX guy my package so that I get it on time!!!
Sorry for OT /end rant
man I know how you feel. Mine hasnt even shipped yet. I am anxious just as you are. I am anxious to hear your results on the card too.
GREAT NEWS!!
UPS is really screwed up - since the card was delivered today anyways!!
Ok so far I tried 600 / 700 got some artifacting but I havent stepped up voltage. What happened with too low voltage, was there artifacting ir just unstability?
I played some FEAR and really sorry to say I can run 6x Adaptive AA and its soo much smoother than my 7800 GTX. I was afraid of this - the GTX tears so much I need vsync. The X1800 is just like butter without the need to cap my fps with vsync. I really want to either OC this or pickup the X1800XT, I love the quality.
Have to spend some time with the family so I'll get back to it later. Just wondering about the artifacting so low, you guys get this too with too little voltage?
Thanks, I'll post more later!!
wicked news dnottis! Sounds like you got up and running fairly quick! Were your tests on stock cooling? What exact drivers were using and yes please, do get back to us when you up the voltage and let us know your findings. I hope its good news. Glad to hear Fear runs great with 6X AAA, looking forward to seeing that myself on my own system. You have a much faster running cpu than myself though.
Ok tried the GTX fan mod. Didn't work very well, temps were hotter at idle than the stock cooler by a few degrees. Unplugged the stock fan and zip tied the 80mm on. The stock heatsink uses some sort of piping to route the air through it. Check the next pic to see what I mean.
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/X1800XL/IMG_2271.jpg
Shot of the core - reseating everything and applying some arctic ceramique to the core.
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/X1800XL/IMG_2275.jpg
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/X1800XL/IMG_2273.jpg
All zipped back up and ready to run, removed the stock TIM and put some Arctic Ceramique - temps are already down a few degrees... still testing....
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/X1800XL/IMG_2277.jpg
so you are saying the 80mm fan worsene temps?
thats pretty crazy.
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Originally Posted by Revv23
Well the stock cooler pushes air through a system within the heatsink. So blowing air on top is not giving the same result as the GTX mod did which was just a heatsink.
is the stock fan a push or a pull design?
I believe it pushes, if it were pulling there is no evidence it would exhaust out the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vapor
I hosed my OS installation, so I'm in the process of reinstalling XP lol
The card gets warm to the touch, my X850XT PE and GTX get hotter.
So far...this was only possible after applying arctic ceramique on the core, with the stock TIM I was having issues...
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/X1800XL/600-700.jpg
edit read it wrong, nice oc though.
Nice score :toast: :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
These babies rock!
Dnottis, do u recommend changing thermal compound then?
I have Arctic Silver 5. Will this be much better than stock thermal compound?
Okay. I just ordered the saphire x1800 xl from ZZF $389. THis is going on phase as soon as it gets here. Let's all hope I don't end up like FUGGER. (fingers crossed)
:eek: TransAm back in the game !!!! Do let us know the records you're breaking mean...best of luck :up:Quote:
Okay. I just ordered the saphire x1800 xl from ZZF $389. THis is going on phase as soon as it gets here. Let's all hope I don't end up like FUGGER. (fingers crossed)
Perkam
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Originally Posted by mR Yellow
Yes I wouls say to do that...
this ran 3dmark 2005 but then had issues minutes later..
http://www.3dxtreme.net/other/X1800XL/625-700.jpg
I'd say the issue is ur mem. Up the mem voltage to 2v. That should work.Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
My mem caused problems at that speed with stock cooling (im still using stock atm).
Another thing, what did u do with memory chips? Did u keep the pads? And did u out some ceramique on them or leave them as is?
Pads are as is - the Zalman will be here mon or tues.Quote:
Originally Posted by mR Yellow
Which Zalman are u getting?Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
nice resulds.
XT cards have other PCB's the XL is lacking one power chip u can see it next to the red heatsink. U see one is missing. XT cards have a chip there. So they will be able to get higer voltages on the board. Macci's XT has all chips i a row.
I would get the VF700 CU i think the fatality version is ALU.
yea, vf700
dunno if I'll have much luck though, it starts artifacting even at 600 / 700 now. just takes awhile.
Its definitly heat thats causing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
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Originally Posted by mR Yellow
Yea, unless the cooler isn't making good contact with the memory or the core... I dunno. Kind of annoying now, anytime I start to change the volts it starts to artifact. Some of these guys arent even using ram sinks, so I cant imagine its the memory...
where are the first getting them under DI + FX@3.5GHZ (and more)???
great results so far but your CPUs aren't clocked that high that the card could show their true powers I think.
lend it to me I will check this :>