Quote Originally Posted by cantankerous
Hey Deathman20, thanks for posting your finds and welcome to the forum friend.
Thanks Now more fourms to keep busy on when I'm at work hehe

Finally someone else who is using the FS-V7. That is what I ordered with my card as well. Is it loud at full speed? Do you run it at full speed? What thermal compound did you use on the card?
Full speed na its not loud imo. Then again the rest of my system doesn't have the quietest fans in the world but they run at 7V also Some 120mm Thermaltake Light ones, anlong with 1 120mm Antec light extra for the video card. I used AS5 on this, and I get mixed results with temps. Since I don't use CCC right now I use a thermal probe. Its off by about 10C on temps but the max I got it to was around 56C one time, that was before I added the extra 120mm fan.

Is your settings of 641.25/801 (1.25/1.95V) completely stable? Artifact and crash free? Just trying to get an idea of what to shoot for with my card. Some peoples are doing very well but a few odd people here are having a real hard time clocking this thing. I think your clocks are the best we have seen in these X1800XL forums from air, especially if it is 100% stable and artifact free.
Well thought it was, did 05 and 03 bench, did some playing on Fear and HL2 Lost Coast but 01 crashes. Then after further tests it crashes a bit more. Truely there has to be some sort of bios bug. I can hit 575/700 rock solid but if I want 600 I got to bump the voltage up quiet a bit. Ram seems to do well it scales very well with the core voltage, so you really don't have to touch the mem voltage at all, in my case it caused artifacts more times if I increased the voltage more then .05V.


I'm doing a little bit of other testing currently also and marking down what works and where it crashes a little better this time. But might have to wait a day or two, putting up dry wall at the same time so I'm doing this inbetween sheets.

BTW does anyone have a different bios for the Sapphires yet? Curious to what a different bios will handle, expecially if its an XT bios.