Sapphire Pure Innovation (PI-A9RX480)

[Afterburner]

Woops abit of typo up there, post edited Seriously mate I havent a clue why your Grouper isnt doing any higher. Jus bear in mind the settings I provided and play around and see if you get anything and don forget to let me know as well if you hit the Jackpot.......heheh

[Afterburner]

Folks out there do take note that as with all Sapphire graphic solutions, this badboy is made in China and not Taiwan so dont be taken aback. Build quality and finish still amazes me till today......

[G-Man]

Done a little more testing and I have def hit a rock solid wall on the motherboard at 270. even tried dropping the multiplier right down on the CPU. Tried increasing CPU volts further with no luck.

Wondering if my board is faulty or something. If I was stuck at 320 - 340, then fair enough, might be as high as the board can go, but 270? Just wish I knew WTF the problem is. Where are the ATI reps when you need them?

[G-Man]

Anyone had any floppy disk troubles? It always says "floppy disk fail 40" at boot despite me using a floppy drive that I KNOW works fine. So i can't even update the bios to see if the new one will make the board work as it's supposed too.

[Revv23]

Done a little more testing and I have def hit a rock solid wall on the motherboard at 270. even tried dropping the multiplier right down on the CPU. Tried increasing CPU volts further with no luck.

Wondering if my board is faulty or something. If I was stuck at 320 - 340, then fair enough, might be as high as the board can go, but 270? Just wish I knew WTF the problem is. Where are the ATI reps when you need them?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...94#post1116994

[G-Man]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...94#post1116994

Yes, I know about that setting. Its set to high speed as it should be.

Just did a bit more testing after my computer locked up (Did'nt bother stability testing, as I assumed it would at least be stable at such a low speed) and it appears im in exactly the same situation as Smokeythebandit, I had to drop the HTT to 250 to get a successful 32M SuperPI run. I can't believe it! What on earth is wrong with these boards! I could of got better overclocking performance for 1/3rd of the price on a cheapy Asrock ULI board.

[Afterburner]

Patience buddy......allow Tony to receive his board and giude us

[G-Man]

Yeah, i just hope its not long before someone can shed some light on this problem. I've spent a whole lot of cash on a new system and its not really any faster than my XP-M at the clocks i can get. Would'nt be so bothered if I was stuck at 300, at least that would give 2.7 on the opteron.

Found a working floppy drive in an old computer. Flashed the new bios and still have the exact same limit.

[Bar81]

Folks out there do take note that as with all Sapphire graphic solutions, this badboy is made in China and not Taiwan so dont be taken aback. Build quality and finish still amazes me till today......

What most people don't understand about Chinese production is that it's not all crap. Sure, the stuff you see in stores is Chinese produced crap but that's because you want it cheap. Chinese manufacturing spans the range from high quality high priced goods to throw away junk, it's the customer that determines what he wants and all too often they want cheap junk. Given the price of the board, the capacitors, and the build quality seen it's obvious Sapphire has gone the high quality and high price (obviously) route with their Chinese production facilities.