Sapphire Pure Innovation (PI-A9RX480)

[Afterburner]

Mine's doin 305 HTT so far with the settings I advised on and will push further when I have my Water Rig up and runnin......

[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.

[SPQQKY]

flip your floppy drive cable around.

[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

[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.

[Revv23]

i think hes saying that as for the fact that in the days of the NF2 infinity a chinese board sucked and a TW one was of very good quality.

[Afterburner]

I am sayin its all good........

[G-Man]

flip your floppy drive cable around.

I managed to stop the floppy disk fail message, but now it won't read or format any disk i put in it. It worked fine on my nforce 2.

[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.

[G-Man]

Notice the review for the RDX 200 on VR zone came up against a similar wall at 270

http://www.vr-zone.com.sg/?i=2893&s=14

Noticed a couple of members mention it in the rdx 200 thread here too. Seems the new bios that just came out fixed it. Hope another bios for this isn't far away with a fix.

[Afterburner]

Looks like the Bios update from Sapphire made my Grouper really Horny
I hadn't given the updated bios a go since I updated it so I thought what da heck

Vcore @ 1.45v
HT @ 1035mhz

[Bar81]

What's the point of running the ridiculous HTT when you're RAM is only doing 230? Is there actually a performance increase in any real world application from jacking up the HTT by an extra 100 versus upping the multiplier and running the HTT and RAM at 230?

[Frodin]

What's the point of running the ridiculous HTT when you're RAM is only doing 230? Is there actually a performance increase in any real world application from jacking up the HTT by an extra 100 versus upping the multiplier and running the HTT and RAM at 230?

I guess the point is showing that the board is capable of high HTT, which is seriously needed by people with low multi cpus (like mye 3000 Venice which reaches 317+ HTT on the 9 (max) multi). And I don't think running insane HTTs with low dividers will show any performance difference vs lower HTTs, as long as the ram and cpu mhz are equal.

[Bar81]

I guess the point is showing that the board is capable of high HTT, which is seriously needed by people with low multi cpus (like mye 3000 Venice which reaches 317+ HTT on the 9 (max) multi). And I don't think running insane HTTs with low dividers will show any performance difference vs lower HTTs, as long as the ram and cpu mhz are equal.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Forgot about that. Low multi needs high HTT for large OC (I haven't bought anything lower than a 10x multi chip so I forgot about that). Thanks for that and the confirmation that if your multi is high enough there's no point in running the HTT at insane speeds otherwise.

[Afterburner]

What's the point of running the ridiculous HTT when you're RAM is only doing 230? Is there actually a performance increase in any real world application from jacking up the HTT by an extra 100 versus upping the multiplier and running the HTT and RAM at 230?

As mentioned I am tryin to show how high the HTT can go jus like how the DFI RDX200 folks are doin..... Like I mentioned earlier on I will need Tony's advice on running the TCCDs any higher but there's a definite improvement with this Bios as I couldnt go above 305 HTT and 200mhz + on the RAMs. As for real world applications......Doom3 is MUCH smoother and I can feel a boost in FPS and overall system response is so damn freakin fast you wouldnt believe it ! Furthermore I am usin an old 60GB PATA for testing and it scares me to think what would happen if I used my 74GB Raptor.......

[G-Man]

Nice results Afterburner!

Only wish my board worked properly like yours!

[Bar81]

As mentioned I am tryin to show how high the HTT can go jus like how the DFI RDX200 folks are doin..... Like I mentioned earlier on I will need Tony's advice on running the TCCDs any higher but there's a definite improvement with this Bios as I couldnt go above 305 HTT and 200mhz + on the RAMs. As for real world applications......Doom3 is MUCH smoother and I can feel a boost in FPS and overall system response is so damn freakin fast you wouldnt believe it ! Furthermore I am usin an old 60GB PATA for testing and it scares me to think what would happen if I used my 74GB Raptor.......

You're saying that at the SAME CPU speed, but higher HTT that a game is "MUCH" smoother? I find that not likely.

[Afterburner]

I can feel it thus far so we cant be certain for sure but for a mobo runnin @ 345 HTT and HT @ 1035mhz, system response and speed is insanely fast

[Afterburner]

Nice results Afterburner!

Only wish my board worked properly like yours!

Follow the same settings I recomended but this time increase the voltages for Xpress 200 and HT Link to 1.40v for both and see what you get this time

[dfx]

As mentioned I am tryin to show how high the HTT can go jus like how the DFI RDX200 folks are doin..... Like I mentioned earlier on I will need Tony's advice on running the TCCDs any higher but there's a definite improvement with this Bios as I couldnt go above 305 HTT and 200mhz + on the RAMs. As for real world applications......Doom3 is MUCH smoother and I can feel a boost in FPS and overall system response is so damn freakin fast you wouldnt believe it ! Furthermore I am usin an old 60GB PATA for testing and it scares me to think what would happen if I used my 74GB Raptor.......

Bro had u tried running timedemo in your doom3 console before and after
How much fps increase u see?