The GX2 is hard to ignore...

[TouGe]

Hi TouGe, your sig says bios mod for your 9800GX2. What exactly did you do? Last I heard there was no way to flash a bios to TWO/BOTH parts of the card, but only one. With the card containing two PCB's they both need a bios flash and NVflash as far as I know was unable to do this.

Already answered and very easy to do.

If you have found a way, or know something I do not, please do share! As well, did you lock in your desired clocks AND mod the fan speed by any chance? I loved this about my Ultra card. Have clocks exactly how I want them and fan speed at 100% at all times. I never need software installed anymore. My card just runs as I like right from the get go. This is what I would like to see happen with the GX2. As soon as they get dual display support while running SLI I will be grabbing this card and hope to tune the bios exactly to my liking.

As of NiBitor v4.0 the area where you would change fan speed is grayed out, so I don't see how we could change fan speeds right now.


Maybe with the next version of NiBitor we will be able to change this setting. Just use RivaTuner for now.

BTW, your new clocks in sig, is that your absolute max to sustain 100% stability and a clean image? What are your load temps in a worse case scenario with those clocks. Do you have a before and after temp for idle/load before you applied MX2?

As for my clocks, 702/1782/1080, these were the most stable for me. I could have set them at 720/1836/1062 but I would get infrequent glitches in 3DMark06 and errors in ATi Tool. When I am able to bump the voltages @ the BIOS level I'll probably revisit my current clocks but as they sit now I am able to score over 20,000 in 3Dmark06, so I am happy.
My Idle temps right now are 54/49 w/ fan @ 75%. When running ATi Tool I believe they were ~61/58. For some reason one card isdles hotter than the other. I noticed this when I first installed the card as well. I might try to re-apply MX-2 again next week to see if this changes anything.
My before temps were in the mid to upper 50's on both cards @ idle, so I gained 3-4 degrees w/ an additional 100MHz on the core clock.