Saphhire X800Pro turns up with XT core and 1.6ns RAM

[TodB]

Originally posted by neosho
TodB when i saw "your commandline" i was thinking u were doing it bad way... glad that u had 16 pipe thingie now

Well I was always flashing with flashrom.... but somewhere at the and it always said "Preserve R42x settings"..... with the atiflash it didn't come on..... and now I have 16 pipes.... will try now the ATI Original BIOS (that I was with just before the Gigabyte one)....

[CodeRed]

Originally posted by TodB
Well I was always flashing with flashrom.... but somewhere at the and it always said "Preserve R42x settings"..... with the atiflash it didn't come on..... and now I have 16 pipes.... will try now the ATI Original BIOS (that I was with just before the Gigabyte one)....

So which flash tool and BIOS did u end up using?

[eva2000]

H20 ramsinks ?

[neosho]

TodB tell us your luck with original Ati bios (sapphire?) but i think that old XT PE bios doesnt work with 16 pipes..

[TodB]

Well all come down to using gvf11.exe and the gigabyte BIOS... that utility won't flash with any other BIOS but the Gigabyte's...

A tip from me - if ya want the ATI Original BIOS, then flash it with flashrom - it won't mess with the "pipes" thing.... I've just done it and now I'm back with the ATI Original BIOS, 525/575 clocks and a better ram overclockability...

[neosho]

If 16 pipes work with Ati Bios how did not work before? or the old bios from before was from sapphire and u are using now one from ati??

Well can u tell me the Ati bios download url and what flashrom version and commandline u used?

(i too noticed better overclockability with old bios..)

Greetingsss

[TodB]

Well before I was using flashrom for flashing.... and was getting that "Preserve R42x settings" message.... I think that was the problem...

the GB BIOS i've flashed with the GB tool.... I don't get that message anymore and here we go - 16 pipes....

after that I flashed the ATI Original BIOS with the flashrom - and I got the better ram timings/voltage (I guess) back.... here you go the BIOS:

P.S. Rename the archive file to .ace .....

[tc_overclocker]

Hmm... I'm a little concerned now cos I was trying to remember what code was on my core and where everyone is raving about RAD.... mine says RAA... what does this mean?

[neosho]

Ok ill flash it later...what flashrom command sold i use? and its that bios the old one from sapphire that people say is bad?

Greetings

[Kamerat]

Too bad my Sapphire VIVO died before I got to try it. When i boot it up it just tells me to connect the power cable even if I have done it already.

[Codeman05]

Originally posted by TodB
WE WILL, WE WILL, ROCK YOU!!!!!!!

You're tha man, MAN!!!!!

I guess flashrom didn't do it's job right... you made me use the gigabyte (atiflash) flash program and here we are, AT LAST!!!!!!!

Which GB bios did you use?
I have the same card with the XT core and 1.6ns ddr, and tried the r80x256v bios but that didnt seem to work

Core codes:
215RADCGA11F
GB8843.1
0418AA

DDR codes:
Samsung 413
K4J55323QF-GC16

edit:
Nevermind, looks liek you guys tried the same one I did. SOB!! I always seem to have s*** for luck lol

[Legionar]

Codeman, I saw on Rage3D that you got the lasercut!

Close it and use the new bios.

If it works for you then it might work for 99.999% of ALL X800 Pro Cards, even those with 2.0ns Ram!



Everybody who was unsucessful before with the hardmod should do the hardmod and flash the Gigabyte bios!
Think this should work!

[Codeman05]

Well I closed the cut, and the card started freaking out. So maybe the mod worked and the pipelines are fubared.

I went ahead and tried to join the 2 points with a semicircle of sorts, just to avoid a straight line incase I had scraped to far down into the PCB. Well the card acts normal now but still only 12 friggin pipelines

I'm gonna double check the hardmod one last time, but Im about ready to give up lol.
Atleast till I hear a new method
The card overclocks great, so I feel like I'm pushing my luck screwing with it so much

[Legionar]

@Codeman: maybe you need to lower your o/c a bit!
Think it should work for you too!

[Codeman05]

it boots at stock speeds,
so I don't think thats the problem

[Legionar]

You just get the problems when loading up 3D, don't you?

Try it with 500/500 Mhz or so!

a) the Gigabyte Bios is lowering your voltage,
b) you won't be able to go as high with 16 pipes as you did with 12 pipes

So clock it down and enjoy your 16 pipes!

[Codeman05]

I had it booting at 500/500 actually hehe. Using radlinker, thats what the card was supposed to load at when windows fired up.
And the voltage is regulated by my Vgpu mod, I did check the voltage anyway, and showed the same 1.7v

The problem isn't artifacting either. Its like the refresh rate drops to .5 fps.
The destop loads, screen goes black for 3 seconds, screen comes back but is a little weird, goes blank for 3 sec, comes back normal...and repeats. And during this whole time I can't do anything lol

[Legionar]

Um...strange problems.
I would try removing the VMod, might not be working 100% correctly.

[biohead]

u all talking about the sapphire VIVO version.. should a normal x800pro from sapphire make any differents other than the tuner thingy?
lol I read all the pages 1 to 5 and its getting kinda confusing ;D

[Legionar]

Normal X800 Pros will probably not work.

I already made some guys try this

It didn't work, to make it short. No matter if they had the dots connected or not, still no go.

[Stinger]

thanks gigabyte it worked 16 pipes yeaaa damn its fast and I have a club3d vivo with 1.6ns mem comming tomorrow :-)

[neosho]

Well guys we must be happy with our vivo cards

[Stinger]

Tried 3dmark2k1 yesterday and I had 22700 before nature. When nature started I had before the mod 255-258 fps in the beginning modded to xt I had 286 :-O but I guess my hope was a bit high it didnt go thrue at 600/600 hehe

[TodB]

Well Stinger, no you don't hate us, do you?

Neosho, yeah.... not to mention, that soon they will cut those cards from the market as a Pros and start selling them as a XTs...

[Stinger]

Hehe no TodB I love you all. Damn I wish I had my old benching rig instead of this barebone