asus x1950 pro in the house

[Kunaak]

also lacks the crossfire connector... atleast thats what I remember from newegg...

[trans am]

Question.

Why is the Asus x1950pro less expensive then the ati original x1950pro?
Is it because the x1950pro has a copper heatsink, is single slot
while in comparison, asus board has the arctic silencer on it instead?

Is there anything to do with performance / overclockability, etc.?

I have myself a ATi original x1950pro in front of me, and I'm just wondering
why it was more expensive then the asus one (I paid more for it becuz
I like the look of the single slot HSF design, and becuz its single slot )

Great! Let's see how it overclocks!

[olammam]

hi all
what software did you used to overclock the card?
do i need to disable services or something?

[trans am]

hi all
what software did you used to overclock the card?
do i need to disable services or something?

I'm using ati tool 0.25 beta 16

[TEDY]

why i can't see tempetaure with 0.25 beta 14 ?

[trans am]

why i can't see tempetaure with 0.25 beta 14 ?

use beta 16

[TEDY]

thanks buddie

why on earth CCC doesnt work for me? any ideas

[trans am]

thanks buddie

why on earth CCC doesnt work for me? any ideas

It should work. THe only thing in CCC I could get to work and doesn't even show as an option is the "overdrive" function.

What version of ccc do you have installed? I have catalyst 6.11 beta installed. look for the link and then use 7zip to unpack it. Look for a folder called "ACE" this has the 6.11 beta ccc. Run the exe in the folder called "Driver" to install the drivers.

[TEDY]

i installed package 6.10 for x1950pro

[Pyr0]

? overdrive works fine for me
i installed the 6.9 cat drivers for the x1950pro from ATi (didn't get any cd's or cables with my cards, just the crossfire bridges)

[trans am]

? overdrive works fine for me
i installed the 6.9 cat drivers for the x1950pro from ATi (didn't get any cd's or cables with my cards, just the crossfire bridges)

I think overdrive works for ati and saphire. Mine is Asus and uses a different bios. I think Asus made "special BONUS drivers" so you use their overclocking software with the card. This is not a really big deal to me because I would never use "Overdrive" I wonder if I could flash my asus to ati. could someone save their stock ati bios? Would this even work?

heres a 2005 bench with some higher memory clocks using beta 6.11

[trans am]

I had to reduce the image quality a bit with photoshop. Sorry.

[TEDY]

Since I have 1950 PRO when i try to CCE a DDV it rebotes, PSU?

[wittekakker]

Trans am,
You can find BIOS files on mvktech.net. Here is a direct link to the ATI BIOS file section: http://www.mvktech.net/component/opt...tfolder/cat,1/

MVKtech is very resourcefull site, one should atleast have it in its favorites

[wittekakker]

On both HIS and Powercolor cards you can find Samsung 1,4ns RAM. Both cards overclock very familiar, stuck around 650MHz. While I higher PCI-E bus speed I see that I'm able to set higher GPU clock speeds, where at lower PCI-E bus speed the system would just hang when I set a too high GPU clock.
I think the problem is to low voltage on those cards, as both Powercolor and HIS are equiped with good heatsinks.
Let my clear my though why:

PCI-E bus speed (MHz): 105
Maximum GPU clock I could set (MHz): 648
Maximum bech GPU clock (MHz): 648

PCI-E bus speed (MHz): 120
Maximum GPU clock I could set (MHz): +690
Maximum bech GPU clock (MHz): 661

[trans am]

Trans am,
You can find BIOS files on mvktech.net. Here is a direct link to the ATI BIOS file section: http://www.mvktech.net/component/opt...tfolder/cat,1/

MVKtech is very resourcefull site, one should atleast have it in its favorites

Yeah I tried mvk right away but they dont have it. I'm gonna leave it alone for now. this card is doing fine now. Im using sata so im keeping pcie around 115mhz I'm playing all my games fine for hours at
648/823. has anyone found any way to unlock voltage on these cards without hard vmod?

[Shark-357]

I also got two of these for a review on our site all i need is a CF bridge to do some crossfire

this is a single card test run @660/702




Oh and a question for everybody with 1950pro when u OC ur ram does the screen go blank/black? or is it just me....

[TEDY]

lol i'm getting 5500 in 3dmark 2005....somethinig is fishy :P

[Pyr0]

when u OC ur ram does the screen go blank/black? or is it just me....

that happens when i use ati tool
overdrive seems to work, but the cards i have don't seem to like being overclocked at all
the highest i've managed to get stable without any vpu recovers so far is 601/736
i think i must be doing something wrong

[skandal]

I'm going to buy this card, but i have a question.

The GeCube version has analogic PWM, instead of the digital PWM of the refernece board.

What card should i choose? the digital PWM one or the analogic?

[trans am]

I would think the analog would overclock higher with voltage increases.

[generics_user]

I'm going to buy this card, but i have a question.

The GeCube version has analogic PWM, instead of the digital PWM of the refernece board.

What card should i choose? the digital PWM one or the analogic?

i asked the same thing in my own thread, but the gecube also is 2-phase +1-phase for memory, think the cards are really held back by the pwm

[topaimz]

Question.

Why is the Original ATi x1950 PRO like $50~100 more expensive than the
other ones, like Asus, or Sapphire?

Need to know, cuz I'm one of the impulsive buyers who bought the
ATi x1950PRO when it first came out at over $300 :p

BTW, wasn't it in some review that using any of the provided official
OC tools, like ATi tools buggered up this card?

[nicepun]

Hi! I just bought two Shappire X1950 Pro to run in CF, do you mind if I post my results on here? I will get tomorrow. Thanks.

Edit: For people that don't the Internal CF Bridge, you buy it HERE.

[DAK1640]

Absolutely post results here. My 2nd card comes tomorrow. Can't wait