Saphhire X800Pro turns up with XT core and 1.6ns RAM

[Shroomalistic]

Original X800 Pro w/ VIVO bios thanks to Cactus Jack
For those of you who didnt back-up there original bios like me.

[morbidj]

It seems from what I have gathered skimming over these post that the Gecubes are clocking really nicely, PwrClr is meadiocore, and that the Saphires are not all that great clockers? If I am wrong please let me know as Im going to purchase really soon!

Would you take the powercolor over a saphire vivo?

[GazC]

Originally posted by Shroomalistic
Original X800 Pro w/ VIVO bios thanks to GazC@Amdforums.com

For those of you who didnt back-up there original bios like me.

Shroom,

I don't have an e-mail account at Amdmb

GazC.

[Shroomalistic]

http://forums.pcper.com/member.php?userid=60006

Well someone does, and they sent me the bios. Are you sure its not you? Nevermind, it is you.

[GazC]

Originally posted by Shroomalistic
http://forums.pcper.com/member.php?userid=60006

Well someone does, and they sent me the bios. Are you sure its not you? Nevermind, it is you.

Hmm, When I look at my profile i see my real E-mail address.

Btw, I sent you a PM at Amdmb, but for the benefit of everyone, did you see an overclocking improvement by going back to the Pro bios? I'm still using the Ati XT-PE bios right now.

[Mariachi]

PC ICE, Which card is it?

Another question - I wanna get GigaByte's X800P VIVO, is it moddable to XT? how it clocks? Thanks for the answers.

[biohead]

btw is there a utility to backup the original bios file ?

[Shroomalistic]

atitool will back-up your original bios. Under settings, misc, there is an option to dump bios. That will give you a back-up of whatever bios your on.

[morbidj]

Hey all just got it a blue pcb Sapphire vivo for a customer build. I checked it out with atitool and stock it came 16 piplines but with pro clocks.

[biohead]

ive got a spahhire x800pro vivo too w/ blue pcb and just 12 pipes... so I flashed the gigabyte bios; now its showing X800XT PLATINUM EDITION but ATiTool is still showing 12 pipes... :x and directly after I flashed it (not knowing it still had 12 pipes), I tried flashrom w/ the x800provivo bios... but its just giving me this "help" screen with all the commands no matter what I typ..

help?

[biohead]

NEVERMIND now 5 mins later it shows 16 active pipelines Ole!!

[athlonpowered]

If I get a Sapphire x800 pro vivo as of 8/6/04, what are my chances that it will work? A lot less than a month ago? Two?

[biohead]

I dunno, but it's worth the try... the card is darn fast anyway: I got 10k with 3dm03pro right after I installed it, everything stock. Now Im getting around 12k I ordered the 3200xlpro memory so when I finally can get rid of this 333 sh*t, Ill get even higher, especially 3dm01.

cheers,

[r3b0rN]

lol have u got ur 333 to run at 400? and if so, what timings.

[biohead]

no its running 333mhz so it isnt even sync.. I put them on autotimings 2.5-3-3-7.. I dont really care tho.. new ram will arrive anytime now..

[Gogeta]

As of right now, it looks like the Gigabyte x800Pros w/ViVo are turning out to have the highest success rate. It also seems to me after reading through several threads that a lot of the Gigabyte x800Pro cards arrive with 16 pipes enabled out of the box.

[GT ULTIMA MAKER]

I was just reading all this, MY HEAD HURTS!!!

OK as far as I know. VIVO cards can be modded. the reason that card is unstable is that a diode IS locking out the voltages that are needed.
Some people say hard mod is not needed (which its not if your limiting the speeds) Guess no one wants that! so two mods are required.
1> Bios
2> Pins in upper right side (left side contact)
3> voltage modulator.
well make it 3 then..

The voltage modulator isnt so clear on the images i have seen, so it a "AYOR"
try looking here http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...800-3.html#p10 sorry about the mid dump I just kept that page for reference.

I just got the connected 3D card, It seams clear now when reading the GPU's numbers. the re are 410, 410,410,413 chips that seam to be clockable. I have a 424, so we will see if that ring true there is no laser cut on this card. Card failed to open the 16 pipe but shows as a X800 XT PE, the clock speeds are set as such, but I cannot unlock the 4 pipe,
I could see if there was a laser cut, but it didnt look like it. unless its hidden?? anyone!