X800Pro VIVO To X800XT Bios Flash Poll

[WildKard]

Found a modified version of Flashrom to enable the pipes, works great 16 pipes in one flash...guess gigabytes flash utility just hates me

card is fast as hell

Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO
Sapphire X800XT PE bios 525/560
Successful

[slavik]

wild, where did you get it?

where do I get the sapphire BIOS also? at mvktech.net site?

[WildKard]

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/100

the 2nd half of the article deals with the bios flash

I got the bios and flasher from there, they also have a Pro bios which detects your card as an X800 Pro with Pro speeds but 16 pipes if your card cant quite make the XT speeds

BTW, awesome pic in your sig :P

[slavik]

thanks for the BIOS stuff

lilgator made the pic

[Minnyboy]

Add another one to the mix here.

Sapphire X800Pro VIVO I got for my boss & flashed to X800XT.

Successful.

Used both Gigabyte & ATI bios.

Runs smoothly.

So... Whatever the results are, add 1 for "successful" & 1 for "unsuccessful" flashes.

In other words, I've had 3 in my possession that 2 have been successful & one was a P.O.S PowerColor w/ 2ns ram on opne side & 1.6ns ram on the other.

Selling that one ASAP to get myself a real X800XT... Hoping that since it'll be a "real" X800XT, it'll OC a bit higher than my last 3-4 cards...

Cheers,
Minnyboy

[r3b0rN]

lol wanting a promotion?

[GaNgY]

Ok guys im planning on getting a X800 Pro ViVo soon which 1 should i get? A lot of guys succeeding with the powercolors and the saphires and also the gigabytes.
From my local store ill be buying from i got a choice between these 2 :

SAPPHIRE AGP RADEON X800PRO 256M VIVO BX - $639.00 CDN

or

POWERCOLOR AGP RADEON X800PRO 256M VIVO - $675.00 CDN

wat do u guys think?
And also could anybody send me a pm or something explaining to me how to do a pencil mod? that would really help thnx

[=STE=BloodAngel]

Sapphire, not just because its cheaper but because unmoddable Sapphires haven't showed up yet.

[WildKard]

Where are you getting your prices?

SAPPHIRE X800 Pro 256M GDDR3 VIVO (box) !!!New!!! 599.00

That is the full retail box, the OEM card is like $560


You should shop around a bit more

I have the sapphire, does XT clocks AFTER the mod easily! + it Ocs pretty damn good, 550/580 after mod did 572/590 before

[GaNgY]

The reason is, i cant buy off the net, i go to a store its really close and its less hassel i dont care about the extra 30-50 dollars.

Ok, i guess ill get the Saphire just gotta call up and see if they got any in stock n stuff, thx for your help guys i cant wait to get it, will it be a big improvment over my 9800 PRo?

[WildKard]

I had a 9800 pro 256mb that dodmt PC at all and this is just a HUGE improvement

I went from 19500 2k1 to 24k!

and 6200 2k3 to 12200

how does doom3 @ 1024 HQ 6xAA/16AF sound sooooo fast

so umm yup huge improvement

oh yeah thats iwth a barton @ ONLY 2.5ghz in a shuttle SFF!!!

[GaNgY]

Ok sounds pretty good, I can get my 9800 Pro 128 mb to run at 500/387 on air lol i love the card its gonna be hard to give it to my sister :P atleast ill be able to finally pass my 22k barriar i couldnt get past 21834 lol

Gonna call up the store 2morrow and ask them if they have any in stock, and ill pick it up on monday CANT WAIT!!!

[LardArse]

So has anyone tried flashing the different bioses and comparing o/cs? Is there a best o/cing bios?

[GaNgY]

which method of flashing should i go with?

The Gigabyte bios and flash tool

or

The Modified flash tool, and if i should use the modified 1 which bios should i use???


thnx

[TyphooN]

Is there any way to vote again? I just successfully flashed 2 cards, so it could help the accuracy of the poll.

Sapphire X800 Pro ViVo -> XT
Powercolor X800 Pro ViVo -> XT

Bios: Gigabyte

[WildKard]

Originally posted by LardArse
So has anyone tried flashing the different bioses and comparing o/cs? Is there a best o/cing bios?

I started a seperate thread here
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...threadid=41091

about overclocking after the successful flash, but nobody seems to want to join in

[ROACH]

The modded flashrom from techpowerup seem to work the better then the Gigabyte one IMO because it let me flash to 16 pipes on a ATI brand x800pro vivo.

Thanks WildKard for directing me to them. All I needed was the modded flashrom so it wouldn't store info about the old bios.

[slavik]

well, 700 point boost in 3dmark2003 at x800pro speeds (not a very good install either)

[GaNgY]

Sapphire X800 Pro VIVO
Sapphire X800XT PE bios 525/560
Successful


w00t just got it in, did a 3dmark 03 run at x800 pro and then at X800 XT PE and gained 900 points

[spaceman]

Originally posted by Shroomalistic
X800 Pro w/ VIVO bios thanks to GazC.

Umm, can you elaborate a bit? Thanx.

[subcelsius]

i flased a vivo with the gigabyte bios but i cant figure out how to flash it to a regular x800xt can someone please help. i keep geeting errors when i try to flash to a differnt bios.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by subcelsius
i flased a vivo with the gigabyte bios but i cant figure out how to flash it to a regular x800xt can someone please help. i keep geeting errors when i try to flash to a differnt bios.

http://paddy007uk.freeservers.com/VG...SH%20GUIDE.htm

[ThommY]

I'm getting a Sapphire ViVo next week Hope it's worth it! I'll let ya know how the flashing goes.

[LunaSpice]

How about the new lasercut VIVO´s that rumours say are unmoddable? Are they out on the market yet?

[phobos]

Just got a brandnew Club3d x800 pro vivo and successfully enabled the remaining 4 pipelines but the card is not able to handle the XT speeds
I can only get the core to about 530MHz with 1.4V and the RAM starts cause artifacts at something around 500MHz.
I will order another one and sell the worst one.