Unleash the Gladiator (RV670): 862MHz GPU Clock Limit Fixed

[os008]

What's that duct trick? make a duct from your A/C to the computer?

Anyway, thanks for the info man, now i feel i'm not alone, was going crazy trying to figure out why wasn't i getting any improvement, or nearly any.

[JamesBong420]

yea basiclly. i stick ducting out my window. its colder then 0c outside so i strap a 200cfm fan to it, and bam instant coldness. room gets freezing but hey it works.. i am prolly gonna toss my chiller on the card to see what she can do with -20c temps.

[CrazyHorse]

I m curious,

All the people who reached 900mhz or 885mhz after the bios update. What chipset motherboard do you have, running PCi Express 1.0 or 2.0.

I have the ABiT QuadGT 965 chipset and still can't get over 860mhz.

[os008]

I don't think it's related to the motherboard chip, right?

[purecain]

so theres an OC bios available, cant wait to try it....

[CrazyHorse]

I don't think it's related to the motherboard chip, right?

I don't know if PCi Express 2.0 makes a difference on the OC results. I try to figure that out.

[JamesBong420]

<-- 1.0 pcie

really don't think it will make big difference.

[qballe]

sorry for question

somebody can send me please flash-tool for 3870? ballemail [at] gmail [dot] com


tnx

[os008]

You can use ATiWinFlash, right click on its folder, then open a CMD window, write the following after putting the flash file inside that folder ...

atiwinflash -f -p 0 <filename>

wait for like 1 minute, nothing will happen after you press enter by the way, just wait, then after a long boring time a popup will appear, press ok then restart.

[jimmyz]

http://www.iax-tech.com/video/3800biosmod/03.htm

yeah, that is the one i was refering too but it has the 864 lock. I am trying to find one with the default higher voltage and the unlock since crossfire is still a pain to get the second card above what cat. gives.

[hstuehmeyer2000]

sorry for question

somebody can send me please flash-tool for 3870? ballemail [at] gmail [dot] com


tnx

no need to email it, just d/l it
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...lash_3.49.html

[STaRGaZeR]

So what is the 3870 BIOS that has the higher load vcore and is designed for reference cards? HIS one?

Or what BIOS are you guys using to get around 900Mhz stable.

I can't remember correctly, is there any BIOS with low idle vcore?

[Extera]

I spend 2 night with my 3870's in CF right now... They scale nice, but overclocking in CF with rivatuner is quite a PITA.

I stopped @ 891 / 1332 with gave me 23202 @ '06
Max memspeed was 1366mhz with 800mhz on the core.... not bad at al.

I going to test the cards one by one tonight, i'll keep you guys updated

[saaya]

I spend 2 night with my 3870's in CF right now... They scale nice, but overclocking in CF with rivatuner is quite a PITA.

I stopped @ 891 / 1332 with gave me 23202 @ '06
Max memspeed was 1366mhz with 800mhz on the core.... not bad at al.

I going to test the cards one by one tonight, i'll keep you guys updated

what vgpu and what vmem?

[Extera]

Totally stock Only the TPU bios....

[afireinside]

1366 mem stock, very nice Mine maxes at 1300.

[Supreme(CDW)]

I spend 2 night with my 3870's in CF right now... They scale nice, but overclocking in CF with rivatuner is quite a PITA.

I stopped @ 891 / 1332 with gave me 23202 @ '06
Max memspeed was 1366mhz with 800mhz on the core.... not bad at al.

I going to test the cards one by one tonight, i'll keep you guys updated

You lucker!

Mine can run up to 900mhz core 3D06

Keep up the good work

[Extera]

I can do 901mhz core in CF, but the score is slower.

[saaya]

mine maxes at around 1100 but its a 512mb 3850 with gddr3 ^^
does the gddr4 get warm at all? the gddr3 on my card gets hot!

[Extera]

I don't know saaya, I barley watch temps... just bech till they freeze.

Right now 891 / 1332 appears to be the best, I tried 918 / 1305, but it freezes on firefly.

[afireinside]

mine maxes at around 1100 but its a 512mb 3850 with gddr3 ^^
does the gddr4 get warm at all? the gddr3 on my card gets hot!

It gets mildly warm in my case with no heatsinks and 2 yates on the side panel. not close to scolding hot or anything, but it's noticable.

[s1Lv3r]

is there any unlocked bios for asus ?

[Extera]

is there any unlocked bios for asus ?

I'm benching asus, bios from startpost works fine. Doens't matter what brand your card is.

[jessethebody]

hey boys did some testin last nite and i benched 3dmark 06 with 930/1200 last nite on my 3870(just one run).stock volts just the new bios.i have a mcw60 waterblock on it and a small undervolted fan strapped to the mem heatsink and vreg heatsink.im seeing 22c idle and 31c load in my cold 16c den.gonna push ahead tonite with the core tonite and ill post my top core frequency

[2DIFF]

Can't get much more out of it...both cards running on 860/1366 in CCC.