Crossfire running on P5WD2

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10-16-2005, 09:24 AM
mike

Crossfire running on P5WD2

Got X850XT CF + Slave up and running on Asus P5WD2 board.

519 Bios and latest cat driver all that is needed
10-16-2005, 09:28 AM
5-Clicks

this thread is worthless without PICS!!!! :p: :D
10-16-2005, 09:34 AM
afireinside

Pics?

And your sig says you have an x800pro at 760/620? What cooling? 3dmark?
10-16-2005, 09:34 AM
Onepagebook

Don't make him that busy, he probably gonna be excited all day long.:D
10-16-2005, 10:22 AM
mike

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initial run 8888 3DMark05 all stock - in the middle of editiing bios to get clocks up and ready for some serious benching...none of the standard OC tools work right now.

The mastercard did 600/650 stock out of the box and should be eventually be good match for my 760/700 slave card...
10-16-2005, 10:37 AM
Gautam

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Originally Posted by afireinside

Pics?

And your sig says you have an x800pro at 760/620? What cooling? 3dmark?

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=980670

Believe its a 172w pelt w/ water. Them good ol' X800 Pro days...
10-16-2005, 10:37 AM
Onepagebook

Mike, I think you gotta get a good camera.:D
10-16-2005, 10:39 AM
mike

Quote:

Originally Posted by afireinside

Pics?

And your sig says you have an x800pro at 760/620? What cooling? 3dmark?

that was an old sig
the card was able to do 699/677 on air ( good air...) and 760 /685 with 240W pelt and chilled water.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1119634 was the all air benhc, and close to 8k with FX @ 3.7GHZ on the peltier run. Can't find the link right now - have to look for it.

EDI: thanks gautam - you posted while I was looking for links
10-16-2005, 10:47 AM
5-Clicks

dang nice! :slobber: do you have a reference board or something? or is the P5WD2 crossfire ready?
10-16-2005, 10:55 AM
CrimeDog

glad to see you back and doing your thing :)
10-16-2005, 11:04 AM
afireinside

Wow :slobber:

sick card! Mine hardly does 700 at -40C :( You could have broken 41k in 3d01 I bet...
10-16-2005, 12:56 PM
mike

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Originally Posted by CrimeDog

glad to see you back and doing your thing :)

Thanks - been going thru some bad times presonal and business wise - but finally having some fun again!

ANyone has any suggestion editing this bios - tried Radeditor etc. but no dice - says incorrect ATI bios...only want to change clocks....the card did stock 600/655 on core and mem - would be a good start beofre vmods
10-16-2005, 01:01 PM
mike

Quote:

Originally Posted by afireinside

Wow :slobber:

sick card! Mine hardly does 700 at -40C :( You could have broken 41k in 3d01 I bet...

was actually only on 12 pipes PCIE - version - never spent too much time in 01 - not sure. My X850 PE is quite a bit better...especially with 16pipes...
10-16-2005, 01:09 PM
lawrywild

oo xfire :D

i want more scores!
10-16-2005, 02:08 PM
mike

Rabit 1.7 worked for bios :-) - will post scores later tonight

BTW tried Crossfire on a DFI NF4 but was no go - knew it was a long shot - but too bad :rolleyes:
10-16-2005, 07:08 PM
JuanFlaiter

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeguava

Rabit 1.7 worked for bios :-) - will post scores later tonight

BTW tried Crossfire on a DFI NF4 but was no go - knew it was a long shot - but too bad :rolleyes:

Hahaah I´ve tried it too, and also tried SLI in a Crossfire motherboard. You never know when you get a world class surprise :stick:
10-17-2005, 12:31 AM
mike

12k - not too bad considering still running stock voltages without Vmods
Only been able to get the bios clocks up to 600 core / 649 memory and air cooling, and cpu on dice. CF is very promising!
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1330328
10-17-2005, 12:42 AM
babyelf

whoa.. nice scores for cards on air :toast:
10-17-2005, 01:49 AM
GOESA

Thats is actually a really nice score there!

/Grau
10-17-2005, 02:41 AM
althes

glad to see it works
10-17-2005, 02:58 AM
lawrywild

12k damn!!! I want to see 2*X1800XT's now!!! lol :rolleyes:
10-17-2005, 05:09 AM
einCe

*cough* x800gto2
10-17-2005, 05:10 AM
mike

Quote:

Originally Posted by MickeyMouse

yeah but the crossfire x850 cost almost as much as a 7800gtx :(
ATI is 3-5 months too late simple as that.

I agree that they are too late on them - but for anyone who bought one in the last 3-5months the mastercard will only be around $249 ( with the $100 ecoupon from ATI ) so not too too bad.

And impov the PQ on the X850s is a tad bit better than the GTXs.
10-17-2005, 06:54 AM
ahmad

Well this is good news. I just have one question: does the master card have to be in a specific slot for crossfire to work?
10-17-2005, 07:21 AM
nutcase

well, My X850 Crossfire card should be here today...

Mainly posting to follow this thread :toast:
10-17-2005, 02:35 PM
sean478

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeguava

Thanks - been going thru some bad times presonal and business wise - but finally having some fun again!

ANyone has any suggestion editing this bios - tried Radeditor etc. but no dice - says incorrect ATI bios...only want to change clocks....the card did stock 600/655 on core and mem - would be a good start beofre vmods

rabit 1.7 is able to edit the mem timings but other than that i think it's time to bust out the hex editor :-/
10-17-2005, 04:20 PM
JuanFlaiter

Quote:

Originally Posted by ahmad

Well this is good news. I just have one question: does the master card have to be in a specific slot for crossfire to work?

I could only make it run in the Crossfire board with the MC VGA on the lower slot.
10-17-2005, 08:01 PM
mike

I am actually not certain how the P5WD2 handled the PCI-E lanes. From what the bios options are it looks like that the first slot runs 16x and the second slot runs only 4X.
This could potentially been restricting somewhat. I did not look into it yet.
10-18-2005, 05:35 AM
FireDragon

that wont make any diff the 4x i mean...

dragon
10-18-2005, 07:37 AM
lawrywild

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireDragon

that wont make any diff the 4x i mean...

dragon

4x wont make a difference? I reckon it would.. but 8x would be a minimal difference..

hope you can get 16x/16x as I want more scores!! :slobber:
10-18-2005, 09:32 AM
JuanFlaiter

Quote:

Originally Posted by lawrywild

4x wont make a difference? I reckon it would.. but 8x would be a minimal difference..

hope you can get 16x/16x as I want more scores!! :slobber:

16x / 16x ? Would that be possible?

Even Xpress 200 CF won`t do 16/16
10-18-2005, 11:02 AM
perkam

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Even Xpress 200 CF won`t do 16/16

DFI SLI-DR Expert i believe has two pci-e 16x slots

Perkam
10-18-2005, 11:10 AM
JasonDTM

^^^ what he meant was...

2x 16 lanes
10-18-2005, 05:06 PM
sean478

Quote:

Originally Posted by perkam

DFI SLI-DR Expert i believe has two pci-e 16x slots

Perkam

don't think so that still only has one chipset isn't the sli 16x chipset 2?
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_imag.../sliexpert.jpg
10-19-2005, 11:30 AM
Mr.President

sli expert is the normal NF4 chipset so singelcrad = 16lanes and sli=8lans pro card.

ps: expert is the same as the sli-dr only other layout ;)
10-24-2005, 10:31 AM
nutcase

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well, this is my best score yet with My X850XT Crossfire on P5wd2.. and yes, the cpu is still running on AIR..

I am still running stock speeds on the 2 cards..

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1353849
10-24-2005, 10:40 AM
Dynasty

Quote:

Originally Posted by hag6br

well, this is my best score yet with My X850XT Crossfire on P5wd2.. and yes, the cpu is still running on AIR..

I am still running stock speeds on the 2 cards..

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1353849

Is your slave card your x800Pro ?? For this 05 run.
10-24-2005, 10:48 AM
nutcase

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dynasty

Is your slave card your x800Pro ?? For this 05 run.

Here is full system specs:

Asus P5WD2 Premium (0519 Bios)
Intel P4 650 Cpu @ 4513 Mhz
Air cooled with XP-90C and Panaflo 92mm
ATI X850 Crossfire edition (master card)
ATI X850XT 256mb (slave card)
1GB (2x512) PDP PC5600, 1:1 @ 3-2-2-4 timings
OCZ Powerstream 520W Psu
10-24-2005, 02:36 PM
vanovich

nice ,that crossfire is working .but the scores dont seem right . i get over 9000 with just one 7800gtx goldensample standard clocks and cpu 4,7 . so investing in 2 new cards is not really worth it .wouldnt mind seeing to x1800xt though .
10-24-2005, 02:44 PM
nutcase

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanovich

nice ,that crossfire is working .but the scores dont seem right . i get over 9000 with just one 7800gtx goldensample standard clocks and cpu 4,7 . so investing in 2 new cards is not really worth it .wouldnt mind seeing to x1800xt though .

the X850XT crossfires will be about the same as 2 6800 Ultra's in SLI.

But now think of it.. the X850's in Crossfire, you have 32 available pipelines (16 per card)

But your single 7800GTX has 24 pipelines and if you put them into SLI would have 48.
10-24-2005, 02:55 PM
vanovich

yea but nvidia and sli on p5wd2 is a nogo at the moment . :(
10-24-2005, 02:58 PM
nutcase

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanovich

yea but nvidia and sli on p5wd2 is a nogo at the moment . :(

Don't worry, somebody will come along and hack a Bios to make it work :toast: :p:
10-24-2005, 03:25 PM
vanovich

its been a while on the market now ,and nothing yet ,but would be nice
10-24-2005, 05:32 PM
Gnome

Quote:

Originally Posted by hag6br

Don't worry, somebody will come along and hack a Bios to make it work :toast: :p:

how about hacking the nvidia GPU drivers to unlock them ;)
10-25-2005, 07:42 PM
mike

Quote:

Originally Posted by hag6br

Here is full system specs:

Asus P5WD2 Premium (0519 Bios)
Intel P4 650 Cpu @ 4513 Mhz
Air cooled with XP-90C and Panaflo 92mm
ATI X850 Crossfire edition (master card)
ATI X850XT 256mb (slave card)
1GB (2x512) PDP PC5600, 1:1 @ 3-2-2-4 timings
OCZ Powerstream 520W Psu

wow - are you sure you have Crossifre enabled? That is way too low for your system specs
10-25-2005, 07:51 PM
Kanavit

wwhat? ATI crossfire works on intel board? hmm, i think they sign a deal with the devil.
10-25-2005, 10:58 PM
nutcase

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeguava

wow - are you sure you have Crossifre enabled? That is way too low for your system specs

actually, that is about right.. cards were still running stock speeds of 520/540.. only thing overclocked was the cpu.. :cool:
10-26-2005, 06:02 AM
mike

:p:

Quote:

Originally Posted by hag6br

actually, that is about right.. cards were still running stock speeds of 520/540.. only thing overclocked was the cpu.. :cool:

lol - actually 10k is nice - I saw a 6500point run of myself and assumed it was your run :)
10-28-2005, 05:10 PM
harleybro

Quote:

Originally Posted by hag6br

actually, that is about right.. cards were still running stock speeds of 520/540.. only thing overclocked was the cpu.. :cool:

Just got my crossfire mastercard today. The 0519 bios or newer (if there is any) are the only ones to work?
10-28-2005, 05:46 PM
mike

HOnestly never checked - only tried 519
10-28-2005, 05:57 PM
nutcase

Quote:

Originally Posted by harleybro

Just got my crossfire mastercard today. The 0519 bios or newer (if there is any) are the only ones to work?

the 0519 bios is the first one you can set the Bios adjustments for the 2nd port...

I know the 0304 bios did not work..
10-28-2005, 06:05 PM
harleybro

Thanks nutcase ;) and mikeguava. :toast:
11-15-2005, 12:22 AM
webwilli

official crossfire support with the newest bios:

P5WD2 Premium BIOS 0606
Fix CrashFree fail issue with ECC DRAM
Fix WinXP can't be installed from a PX-716SA SATA DVD-RW drive in AHCI mode.
Fix ECC initial incorrect
Adjust low threshold of CPU fan.
Support ATI CrossFire technology.
12-12-2005, 10:36 PM
webwilli

nothing new here?
want more crossfire user ;)

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