2900 Pro Owners Thread

[CrimInalA]

what motherboard are you using? gigabyte ds3 rev 3.3
Are you on stock cooling for the video card? air cooling HR-03
How many fan connectors are on the card, and how many are being used? 0 used
Do you use dual 6 pin cables or one 6 pin and one 8 pin? 2x6 pins
Are you using a seasonic or seasonic built (ex: corsair) psu? no , yesico

i can flash my card no problems at all .

[Martin.v.r]

ned a bios tool like Nibitor to ATI
can not mod timingset in QuantumForce2900BiosEditor

why? timingset look here


SPEED MHZ
CL=11-10 1000
CL=10-11 900
CL=10-12 800
CL=9-14 700
CL=9-16 600
CL=7-20 500

HY5RS573225AFP-1 VDD=2.2V VDDQ=2.2V 1000MHz 2000Mbps/pin

http://www.hynix.com/datasheet/pdf/d...FP(Rev1.7).pdf

2900Pro 512MB SAPPHIRE

[roger_h99.nor]

RaBit is just around the corner, hopefully:

Just a small update and that is that I just received a first beta version of the new RaBIT with some support for the Radeon HD 2x00 series. So we will see how fast it gets to a final stage.

According to MAVKE over at mvktech.net. (Posted yesterday)

It remains to see what it actually will support.

[Martin.v.r]

here er is a XT bios,an the backup is a PRO bios

[nickless]

I'll try to set the same settings like XT but in Pro bios to see what wll be effect.

[Martin.v.r]

ok

[ownage]

Ok so I am not the only one.

I have some questions.

ownage, what motherboard are you using?

Are you on stock cooling for the video card?

How many fan connectors are on the card, and how many are being used?

Do you use dual 6 pin cables or one 6 pin and one 8 pin?

Are you using a seasonic or seasonic built (ex: corsair) psu?

What are the answers to these questions from people who can successfully flash their cards?

-Abit Ab9 Pro
-Dtek Fuzion GFX watercooling on the videocard.
-1 120mm fan blowing on the card.
- 2x6pins
-i use an VGA PSU, Fortron Booster X3 300watt.

[003]

I am thinking that the people who can not flash the cards are having trouble due to having an abit motherboard. That is the only similarity I can link between myself and ownage.

[Martin.v.r]

ok i flash the pro

[CrimInalA]

http://rapidshare.com/files/71500253...IOS_Editor.zip

2900 series 512MB and 1GB BIOS editor.

thanks for sharing , nice tool .
would be awesome to change 2D clocks and voltages too , as well as ram timings

[roger_h99.nor]

[..]Different is now with 7.11 I can run at 954 what was imposible with 7.10 before.[..]

You have a golden pice of silicon

With Vgpu @ 1.35 I mine stops at about 920 core. (Crysis-stable)

btw, have you altered vddq ?

[nickless]

My card is crazy !!!
I've passed Mark06 at 979/2466 14 678 Marks

and ORB http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3891400

[003]

So whats your maximum stable (as in atitool artifact scanner) overclock nickless? You're on water with 1.35v bios mod and 1.45 with atitool right? Want to trade cards with me?

[nickless]

So whats your maximum stable (as in atitool artifact scanner) overclock nickless? You're on water with 1.35v bios mod and 1.45 with atitool right? Want to trade cards with me?

In atitool artifact scanner maximum stable overclock is 900/2100. Yes, I'm on water with 1.35v bios mod and 1.45 with atitool, but my card is cooling by separated water ring together with chipset. The CPU is under vapochill. Thatisway I can keep lower temps under heavy clock(46-48*C) and this combination between crazy card and good cooling give me these results!

[TsvetanVR]

Hey all Here's my result - 13 162 3DMarks Stock Cooling http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3896415
I think its time to flash the bios

[winters]

My 2900pro died last night
I tried to flash it under Windows, but it didn't go well.

Hi mate, this hapened to me last week, then i use ATIflash (from techpowerup, can flashing from windows) in a DFI mobo (because has 2 pci-x ports); with two video card, one in the first pci-x and the HD2900Pro in the second pci-x. for me dont work with a one pci video card.
then use the program and choose the 2nd pci-x video card (where is the card that need to reflash) to flash, its simply and easy (5 seconds), and you can revive the card.
The program is multilanguague:

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads..._Flashing/ATI/

Lucky with the flashing... and sorry for my poor english im from Spain..

[quake6]

@nickless:Can you put here that bios mod with 1.35v? What is max in bios for vcore?Can you set it at 1.45-1.5v?
What is your voltage regulator temp? And is ati tool working fine with voltage change? Sorry for a bunch of question

[Lightman]

My card is crazy !!!
I've passed Mark06 at 979/2466 14 678 Marks

and ORB http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3891400

Great job nickless!!

Those clocks are insane as for water!!

[pcfreak]

nickless
what temps do you get @ vreg? also how do you cool it (vreg)?

[Truckchase!]

Maybe I missed this from earlier, but has anyone flashed an XT with a modded PRO bios? I'd like to give it a try since the memory timings are different. Can someone share their stock (or modded) PRO bios?

[TsvetanVR]

nickless
what temps do you get @ vreg? also how do you cool it?

WC

[Athens[2004]]

i flashed mine too , 2900pro 512 . flashed with 1.35v and gave me only 60mhz boost , plus all my temps hits the sky... [110c mofset , 70c core watercooled@core] switch back to original 1.15 and my card running cool again 55c~ core load & 70~ the vrms.

[roger_h99.nor]

Unzip first.

[Truckchase!]

Unzip first.

Thank you!

Has anyone tried this? There are a ton of differences and I'm a bit nervous to go ahead.

Edit: By "this" I mean flashing an XT to a PRO

[nickless]

@nickless:Can you put here that bios mod with 1.35v? What is max in bios for vcore?Can you set it at 1.45-1.5v?
What is your voltage regulator temp? And is ati tool working fine with voltage change? Sorry for a bunch of question

The max bios Vcore is 1.35v, it can't be set above 1.35v. To be effective voltage control in Ati tool, fyrst you have to set the frequensy and after that voltage, but this is only for Vcore, the other two settings working fine. If you set first Vcore and after that frequensy, Vcore is go back to default. This is some bug in Ati tool and I hope in the next release it will be fixed.
About voltage regulator temps they are 80-85*C under heavy load and 40-43*C idle!

Here are the bioses for HD2900 Pro1GB what @Rick Flair have posted before http://rs104.rapidshare.com/files/69...odded_bios.rar

nickless
what temps do you get @ vreg? also how do you cool it?

By water, a lot of RAM-sinks and 2x120mm fans on the bottom from 1200 to 3100 rpm You can see a pic in my signature.
When I bench my PC sounds like jet-fighter