X1800 Xl = Wow!

[mR Yellow]

Nice
These babes want to be cooled. Plz post voltages used!
BTW
Hows ur HIS going...better than ur sapphire?

[spajdr]

1.35V/2.064V/1.922V
Thinking on putting RAMs higher, i want that damn bloody 10K then i will be happy, so f00king close!
And if its better then sapphire, well it doesnt show any artifacts, but so far, its unstable in WOW at 600/1300 ... but i didnt got more voltage on RAMs, maybe because of it is. But bluescreen with lower voltage on RAMS with infinite loop error is kinda weird, why it dont snow artifacts?

[Lightman]

Ok I got to ask this question. When testing does anyone know what tests seem to crash or do VPU recovery more then the others?

I know that 01 for me seems to be the pickest and I mean REALLY picky. If 03, 05 and rthdribl show no articats/crash during any of the tests mean something?

Anyways just ran a some new tests all done with 1 reboot and done one after anohter in the order shown.

1.25/2.0/2.0
(05) 8,599 & 8,542
(03) 16,002 & 15,988 & 16,012
(01) VPU Recover! Again and again, im really not starting to like anything that 01 gives off as a test anymore.

This time the testing seems to be closer togeather point wise, then my other test I posted earlier. Also I'm trying to keep memory out as being a factor in the tests so I just left it at the 750 speed I had previously. Just now I'm really starting to question the ligitamacy of 01 benches though. Maybe its other hardware interfering with it, maybe it happens to be some things im running in the background or something but its really getting to me, and at this rate, I'll just stop using 01 as a benching and us 03, 05 and rthdribl as my main ones for testing.

On my X1300 01 is most sensitive test for GPU crash! when on 03 & 05 i can clock gpu 579 "stable", 01 is able to pass only on 567!!

[cantankerous]

same here with my x1800. I can loop 03 and 05 for hours on end at 575/550 stock volts. 01 however will crash in about an hour and a half max if I don't raise volts up by 0.025. After that it too will loop for hours on end without a crash.

[spajdr]

ok, watercooling for gpu and chipset coming on friday! cant wait :-)

[Astennu]

My Yellow and spajdr what brand XL are u running ? I'm getting my new XL tomorrow. I hope hat i have no 1.25v bug on this one. The last one maxed out @ 1.2

[danikd]

My Yellow and spajdr what brand XL are u running ? I'm getting my new XL tomorrow. I hope hat i have no 1.25v bug on this one. The last one maxed out @ 1.2

PLS what exactly is 1.25V bug? THX

[Astennu]

PLS what exactly is 1.25V bug? THX

I don't know yet. Some cards ( must say cores ) Have it. If you go above 1.25 u get artifacts or lockups. below 1.25 everything is fine.

I don't know why this is. Not all XL seem to have it. I think its because these cores where not good enough for the XT boards. ( They could not run 625 core with 1.33 v So > XL. )

So you might be lukky by getting one that like voltage and u can have bad luck.

[spajdr]

actually i can have 1.35V on core and 700, but temperature is way high .. over 70C as i said before, but its stable, but when i raise memory to 650Mhz, gpu gets even more hot and then bluescreen or vpu error. For sure overclocking is more stable for me over ati overclocker, with 700/1560 for example, though score is little lower compared to ati tool, but i dont need to have 2V on mems.
And i can run 625 with 1.2V only and 600 with 1.175V.
Sapphire was different, at 600Mhz it got black pixels errors in fear, so i must bumped gpu voltage to 1.275V! to be without errors.
I will get soon Atrix 600W (17+19A on 12V) just for sure.

[Astennu]

actually i can have 1.35V on core and 700, but temperature is way high .. over 70C as i said before, but its stable, but when i raise memory to 650Mhz, gpu gets even more hot and then bluescreen or vpu error. For sure overclocking is more stable for me over ati overclocker, with 700/1560 for example, though score is little lower compared to ati tool, but i dont need to have 2V on mems.
And i can run 625 with 1.2V only and 600 with 1.175V.
Sapphire was different, at 600Mhz it got black pixels errors in fear, so i must bumped gpu voltage to 1.275V! to be without errors.
I will get soon Atrix 600W (17+19A on 12V) just for sure.

Are you running a sapphire now ? or a other brand ? I got the same thing those black pixel. Only i got them @ stock voltages. So it whent RMA .I hope i can get 1.3v with my new card.

[spajdr]

nope, sapphire go RMA too because of that black pixels, its ok with HIS now :-)

[Astennu]

nope, sapphire go RMA too because of that black pixels, its ok with HIS now :-)

Domm damm i hope that i won't have the same problems then. Because i had the same shid that you had. OWh well i'll test it tomorrow and if i sux again i'll ask for a HiS.

But nice OC with that 700 core. VF700 @ 100% speed cant handel that 1.3v and 700 core ?

Offtopic:

You care lucky with your 144 opteron most cant handle 2.5+. then tey will need like 1.6v or so. What are u running on it ? and air cooled ? i have got a 165 max 2.650 with 1.6v going back to the venice that can do 2.850 prime stable 8 hr @ 1.6. Waiting for the new ref ADV cores with lower TDP. Hopefully i will have enough power then for a 31k 01 score: P

[spajdr]

yeh opty 144 is aircooled as you see in my signature :-)
I dont find 70C+ good with 700Mhz on GPU, it just too much for me.
Your sapphire will be ok, friend got sapphire, its respin 14 already and got same results as me, though RAMs he only got to 1500 with overclocker, i can get it on 1600, but with ati tool i need more voltage to get it without artifacts in games. Im really sure that on sapphire there was written samsung too, but numbers next to it looked different, both are 1.4ns.

Besides Sapphire makes HIS and Asus cards also, so basically all new XL cards should have same RAMs and core.

[mR Yellow]

My Yellow and spajdr what brand XL are u running ? I'm getting my new XL tomorrow. I hope hat i have no 1.25v bug on this one. The last one maxed out @ 1.2

I have a GeCube

[Astennu]

yeh opty 144 is aircooled as you see in my signature :-)
I dont find 70C+ good with 700Mhz on GPU, it just too much for me.
Your sapphire will be ok, friend got sapphire, its respin 14 already and got same results as me, though RAMs he only got to 1500 with overclocker, i can get it on 1600, but with ati tool i need more voltage to get it without artifacts in games. Im really sure that on sapphire there was written samsung too, but numbers next to it looked different, both are 1.4ns.

Besides Sapphire makes HIS and Asus cards also, so basically all new XL cards should have same RAMs and core.

I realy hope so don't whant a voltage bugged card again . I realy whant that 675 MHz core speed. Then its like A XT PE :P. And i needed the voltage for the memory last time to hit the 800 mhz. But i could not runt that because it locked op or started artifacting.

So i have good hopes for this one. I'm realy hoping for some luck this time

[danikd]

Any functional flash tool to save and flash bios to X1800Xl ? I want try BIOS from another brand than Sapphire ... Thx

[Astennu]

Any functional flash tool to save and flash bios to X1800Xl ? I want try BIOS from another brand than Sapphire ... Thx

Jep the latest version of ATiFlash works just fine. You an find it @ techpowerup.com. I flashed a gecube bion in my last Sapphire. It was no problem.

[mR Yellow]

Jep the latest version of ATiFlash works just fine. You an find it @ techpowerup.com. I flashed a gecube bion in my last Sapphire. It was no problem.

Was their an improvement with the GeCube bios?

[Astennu]

Was their an improvement with the GeCube bios?

Not much. Ram did go higher but i was exploring the capebility's of the card. Wave not tested the sapphire bios again. The best clock i could geet with the gecube where 650-800. But i needed 1.275 for that so i had artifacts. But that was because my core did not like 1.275v. But the memory needed that. Or i hthink the MC needed that.

[danikd]

Not much. Ram did go higher but i was exploring the capebility's of the card. Wave not tested the sapphire bios again. The best clock i could geet with the gecube where 650-800. But i needed 1.275 for that so i had artifacts. But that was because my core did not like 1.275v. But the memory needed that. Or i hthink the MC needed that.

Astennu, pls, can you send me link to GeCube BIOS ? Or another BIOS ? Thx

[Astennu]

Astennu, pls, can you send me link to GeCube BIOS ? Or another BIOS ? Thx

Don't have a link. Someone in this topic mailed it to me. Maybe Techpowerup has one ?

[spajdr]

Ok guys, just for info, if you want to know how speed decrease when you put gfx into second PCIE slot on my mobo (you need to switch jumpers to SLI mode, which then will be 8x PCIE .. not 2x) then i run 3D Mark 03 with default clocks and results is 14300 in higher PCIE slot and 14180 in lower PCIE slot :-)

[mR Yellow]

Not much. Ram did go higher but i was exploring the capebility's of the card. Wave not tested the sapphire bios again. The best clock i could geet with the gecube where 650-800. But i needed 1.275 for that so i had artifacts. But that was because my core did not like 1.275v. But the memory needed that. Or i hthink the MC needed that.

Yup, these babes are quite tricky to OC...alot of guess work.

[deathman20]

Yup, these babes are quite tricky to OC...alot of guess work.

Trickey is for sure All depends on what OC program you use anymore it can go all over the board.

[mR Yellow]

Ok guys, just for info, if you want to know how speed decrease when you put gfx into second PCIE slot on my mobo (you need to switch jumpers to SLI mode, which then will be 8x PCIE .. not 2x) then i run 3D Mark 03 with default clocks and results is 14300 in higher PCIE slot and 14180 in lower PCIE slot :-)

200 points isn't that much.