2900 Pro Owners Thread

[WrigleyVillain]

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

Hmm hadn't seen those rumors myself. Certainly hope they're true.

[NickS]

Hmm hadn't seen those rumors myself. Certainly hope they're true.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6843.html

These drivers will introduce more and better antialiasing, but also multiple game fixes along with an overall performance improvement (although 7.9 was suppose to do that as well yet it was more or less the same as 7.8).

[Rattle]

i hope so, I scored a 2 week old 512 2900xt for $287 shipped today

[situman]

FLashed and it works. Can't seem to get 3dmark to open, even when I first installed the Pro.

[NickS]

Seems like a common issue with the Catalyst 7.9's.

Right click the shortcut, and in the Target box, add -nosysteminfo after the stuff thats already in there. It should start, but I don't think you can publish your result after you complete the bench.

[situman]

Seems like a common issue with the Catalyst 7.9's.

Right click the shortcut, and in the Target box, add -nosysteminfo after the stuff thats already in there. It should start, but I don't think you can publish your result after you complete the bench.

elaborate please I'm not software savvy. Nevermind figured it out and it works.

[NickS]

Sweet

[ChaosMinionX]

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 ...

Explanation of that could be that the XT is looser timings to run higher speeds like it should be. If you matched XT speeds it would probably be doing better.

[situman]

Looks like there's still a lot of bugs with ATI tool .27b Clocks would reset above 874 core. Cant increase mem clock too quickly at once. Volts doesn't seem to save.

[bobov]

FLashed and it works. Can't seem to get 3dmark to open, even when I first installed the Pro.

Check faq on futuremark website
http://service.futuremark.com/suppor...id=14&fid=1311

Q: I just bought a new ATI Radeon HD series graphics adapter and 3DMark06 freezes during the splash-screen. What is wrong and how can I fix this?
A: This is a known issue and we have been able to reproduce it in our test lab. The problem lays in an DLL which we use to detect the graphics cards' core and memory speeds. We are working on an update to correct this issue after which all Futuremark benchmarks should run fine with the latest offerings from all IHV's. Until then you can work around this issue either by renaming the "Direcpll.dll" file (found in %WINDIR%\system32\Futuremark\MSC\) to something else, or you can run the benchmark using the -nosysteminfo command line. Please note that if you use the -nosysteminfo command line, you will not be able to publish the result online. Futuremark will inform all its users when the update is available!

[Lightman]

Explanation of that could be that the XT is looser timings to run higher speeds like it should be. If you matched XT speeds it would probably be doing better.

On XT BIOS I noticed more very short look ups and shattering during 3D Mark session and it reacted with even more look ups after PCIe speed increase. On PRO BIOS though 3DMark is much smoother and card likes higher PCIe.

(lock up - 0.5 to 1.5s pause)

PS. My personal 3DMark06 RECORD!

[situman]

Man after flashing to the XT bios, the overclock just doesn't seem all that impressive anymore when the default clocks are so much higher. :P

[nickless]

Hi guys, I have Sapphire HD 2900 pro 1GB. I want to replace Pro with XT BIOS, but in techpowerup bios collection is no BIOS from Sapphire HD 2900 XT 1GB. Can I use the BIOS from HIS or ATI HD 2900 XT 1GB and can I expect any problems with this?!

Thank You in advance!

[FINRamona]

Here is my result:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3254276

[Dark79]

Got my HIS HD2900Pro 512MB in and I've got it working just fine at 800/900 but my temps suck. Actually they suck even without overclocking. I'm IDLING at 60C.... I haven't taken the cooler off and changed the thermal paste yet, but I'm curious to see what temps others are getting with the stock cooler.

[situman]

Is this considered good results?

[Rattle]

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=AT-29PRO51

[situman]

Another

[Rattle]

nice scores !

[situman]

Thanks but really dont know what to compare to.

[ChaosMinionX]

Now the question is.... flashing XT to Pro...wonder how that will go

[Rattle]

do off brand cards work in crossfire?
I have a visiontek 512 xt, was thinking of getting a 2900pro and flashing it to XT for x-fire.

also i wonder if i could flash the visiontek to xt....

[ChaosMinionX]

do off brand cards work in crossfire?
I have a visiontek 512 xt, was thinking of getting a 2900pro and flashing it to XT for x-fire.

also i wonder if i could flash the visiontek to xt....

yes off brand cards will work.

[Rattle]

awesome now we need somone that already has a XT to buy a pro, flash and compare CF results.

[ownage]

SAPPHIRE 2900PRO, still testing.

Looks of the card are amazing, a red devil!