2900 Pro Owners Thread

[ChaosMinionX]

I did 860/999 in 3D06 on stock air, 68f AMB 100% fan speed @ 1.25v, but when it exited CPU test 2 windows said there was a critical error and wanted me to send an error report. I'm guessing it was cause I pushed by poor brisbane to 3.1GHz but, who knows. At 860/999 it didn't hesitate at all, though.

Interesting, currently I use my HD2900XT at 860/1100 (1GB version) for 24/7 at stock volts. Is that a stable 24/7 usage of the card? or just benchable, because I can get mine benchable at 900 on air with voltage increase.

[redphil]

Behind me lays the powercolor card. I'll give it a short try now.

[gundersausage]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-defeat-g92-vs

[Rattle]

linky no goody

I am really thinking of buying a 2900pro after reading this, the gts used is a 640...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...xt-1024mb.html

[gundersausage]

linky no goody

I am really thinking of buying a 2900pro after reading this, the gts used is a 640...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...xt-1024mb.html

Linky now good, wait for RV670

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-defeat-g92-vs

[Rattle]

ya but tis only benchy, freakin 2900xt can match or beat 8800ultra in 05 but doesnt mean its better.

BTW the girl in your av is the sex

[gundersausage]

ya but tis only benchy, freakin 2900xt can match or beat 8800ultra in 05 but doesnt mean its better.

55 nanny low power low price me likey

[Wiggy McShades]

i got 2 sapphires here that via riva tuner clock to 800mhz in windows vista 64bit on the stock heatsink. what i beleive is holding me back is A there are no good vista 64bit overclocking utilities for ati and B my new motherboard isnt exactly stable yet. im doing some crossfire testing now but overclocking in crossfire is even harder

[Rattle]

so I go over 1 month without a gfx card and buy one that may not be as good or as low price as the 2900 pro becuase the girl in your av tells me too?

[gundersausage]

so I go over 1 month without a gfx card and buy one that may not be as good or as low price as the 2900 pro becuase the girl in your av tells me too?

Almost 8800GTX scores for half the price.. and I throw in a suck on my av girls titty

Nobody is knockin that back

[Wiggy McShades]

two odd things before im off to school, crossfire only scores slightly lower than xt and one of my saphires claims its stock clocks are 743 mhz core ehh either way beats the outa my 8800gts although it cant run more than 5 fps in hellgate london in dx10 mode

[Rattle]

Almost 8800GTX scores for half the price.. and I throw in a suck on my av girls titty

Nobody is knockin that back

I want more than the titty

[gundersausage]

I want more than the titty

Sorry but she's only shot from the waist up

[situman]

Yup, just make a bootable floppy (easy) and put ATI Flash & the BIOS files on there. The rest is similar/same.

@ Everyone else, thanks for your praise. I hope this thread gets stickied

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Initial thoughts about the card: It hauls ass, except when AA is enabled, but that should be fixed in the next few Catalyst versions.

How rude of me . I apologize for the rudeness and thanks for the effort and taking the risk for us. I'm pretty eager to try it out, but this thing call work is a real drag .

[gundersausage]

My mate just sent me this, it's a killer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAH2e...related&search

[Rattle]

i dunno what this has to do with 2900 or 2950's but here's the full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNVG1...elated&search=
lmao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioWu7...elated&search=

[CrimInalA]

Guys , please keep it on topic .

This is meant to be a very informative thread about 2900 pro cards .

That said ,
I am still waiting on my 1gb card , it seems sapphire has problems delivering them to the local stores here .

[situman]

Sucker runs hot. Idles at 38c watercooled and the radiator feels a little more than warm to the touch with fans at low. Clocks at 859/1800 using ATI overdrive. So I suppose ATI Tool is the way to go?

[Psitech]

Does anybody know if the HIS 2900Pro 512mb from Newegg is the 9inch card or the 12inch? I'm not seeing this information on any of the retailers that currently the the 2900pro's. A 12 inch card won't fit in my case. I'm wanting to pull the trigger today but I need to make sure it'll fit first.

[NickS]

9.5", they're all 9.5"

[Psitech]

Well I pulled the trigger and ordered the HIS 2900Pro 512. The HIS and Saphire are probably the same but the reviews I saw with great performance was HIS.

This is a little OT, but I'm going to sell my evga 7900gto. I'm thinking about asking $140 for it. Is this an ok asking price?

[WrigleyVillain]

Got my 1GB yesterday. Went for that due to it being GDDR4 and needing to play at 1920X1200 and wanting eye candy, though the 512 would have probably cut it ok. Weak bundle though compared to some of the 512s, I didn't even get Dungeon Seige!

Didn't have much time to play with it yet as I was watching the Cubs lose again last night but my initial impressions are generally positive (coming from an X1950 XT 256) though I had some wierdness. Such as the Cat driver I downloaded wouldn't install claiming it needs admin privs (wtf?) so I used the one off the CD which I havent done since my Voodoo 2, heh. Also, 3Dmark 06 and 05 just hang at the splash screen even after reinstalling 06. Did complete 3dMark 01 (38,900 with my system at stock (2.13Ghz)) and the OpenGL Fur Benchmark and played 90 or so mins of TF2. Averaged 110 FPS at 1920x1200, 4x/8x, Very High Texture quality. It was a blast and looked fabulous! Oh at that point I had my machine back overclocked to 3.4 and the gpu overclocked to 750 as a preliminary test as well.

Think my issues are just software related. My machine overdue for a wipe anyway so think ill do that next this weekend.

[CERO]

hey guys did ATI actually fixed the AA issue? I heared that is a hardware limitation and mostlikely cant be solved by drivers. I can be wrong but any1 knows more about this?

[NickS]

Rumor has it, Catalsy 7.10's and 7.11's are going to help this issue immensely.

[Lightman]

The XT bios may allow for better clocks on the pro, or better performance depending.... They use different timings on the memory, and whatnot.

I did some testing today and:
XT BIOS


PRO BIOS


Looks like PRO BIOS is faster! Reason why I did run XT BIOS @980 memory is because it was slower @1035MHz!

You can also compare it to run with slower CPU on PRO BIOS and same core/mem freq.



So I'm back on PRO for now and looking for recent XT BIOS!

PS. I did try atiflash -p 0 xt.bin -newbios -f and it didn't changed voltages ...