Saphhire X800Pro turns up with XT core and 1.6ns RAM

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Originally posted by StormPC
If the card in the picture is the card you actually received it's not VIVO, but TVO.

Be careful RMA'ing to Newegg. They are ba$tards!

It says that it is VIVO in the description

[LilGator]

anyone done benchies at same speeds comparing a "real" XT versus these flashed Pro's to see if they perform exactly the same ?

[StormPC]

Does it have a yellow connector and a chip on the back? If not then it is a TVO like the picture shows. If so it's a VIVO.

LilGator

Paddy did some benches and his results are on a par with the real XT. They may not be perfect but they are damn close.

[LilGator]

like that eh ?

BTW, does it have to have VIVO, or does the yellow power-connector make it an "XT" ?

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WTF, neweggs description lied

[Shroomalistic]

Im not sure if this question has been answerd yet.

Has anyone got better clocks by flashing back the x800pro bios after this. From what I read, the pipes are still unlocked when you flash back.

[StormPC]

Originally posted by Shroomalistic
Im not sure if this question has been answerd yet.

Has anyone got better clocks by flashing back the x800pro bios after this. From what I read, the pipes are still unlocked when you flash back.

No they are not better. With 16 pipes enabled they don't overclock quite as well. Guess the GPU has to work harder to handle the extra work coming from the 4 new pipes. As long as the pipes are enabled overclocking is not as good.

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I'm thinking of starting a thread about Newegg horror stories. They are really sucking recently.

[Mongoose420]

powercolor x800pro vivo sucess.

16 pipes enabled but overclocking completely sucks, not that it was great before at 517/571. Still going to play with it some but we'll see how it goes.

anyone smarter than i got a the original powercolor bios on hand?

[StormPC]

Originally posted by Mongoose420
powercolor x800pro vivo sucess.

16 pipes enabled but overclocking completely sucks, not that it was great before at 517/571. Still going to play with it some but we'll see how it goes.

anyone smarter than i got a the original powercolor bios on hand?

Just pencil mod up to 1.4v and you'll be fine. That's what I did with one of my crappy overclockers. If you get more than 1.4v erase a little. Or better yet, do a real vmod.

[Shroomalistic]

So far, i flashed back to the ati x800pro bios, 16 pipelines still enabled. Flashed to a different x800xt bios. Now can push my card even higher. 550/620 and passed aquamark no prob.

[Mongoose420]

could you e-mail your backed up bios plz shroom? also what xt bios allowed you to gain overclock?


mongoose@mechwarrior.tv

[TodB]

Yeah, to me also, please... the better overclocking BIOS... mollov@mail.bg

Or you can attach it here for d/l....

[Shroomalistic]

heres the x800 pro bios i used
http://www.ocfaq.com/softmod/bios/AT....Samsung20.bin

[TurricanM3]

your x800xt file is 296byte large, there is only the readme.txt in it.

BTW:
Connect3D vivo success here...

[Shroomalistic]

oops i cut it out of the zip instead of copying it.

Heres the right one with the bios in the zip, sorry for the mis-hap

[KoGeR|Max]

I have a non-VIVO card. ( Coonect3D X800Pro with CG20 2.0 ns ram ) can i mod this one ?, and with which bios ?

[Ralfi78]

hi again,
let me ask my question (or two) once more, as my previous one remained unanswered...
1. My fan on sapphire x800 vivo spins always at the same speed, regardless of what temp GPU is. Same at you? After i flashed bios (1. gigabyte xt 2. x800 pro), and oc`d 520/570, my screen freezed in 3dmark and farcry. However, since i connected fan on x800 to external PSU (cellphone charger @9v), everything is ok. Shouldn`t it spin faster when connected to PCB as it provides stability?

2. Did u marked tiny little switch on the rear side of PCB? (nearly the single screw) what is it for?

greetings
Rafal

[Shroomalistic]

Here is a little step by step to make it easy

1. Flash the Gigabyte bios with the utility in this file (bios and utility included). This will unlock your 16 pipelines but it seems to lower everyones max overclock. Gigabytes flash utility seems to be the only one that effects the pipelines.
( Use this command: GVF11 -P -F R80X256V.F1 )

2. Next flash the X800 Pro Bios with Flashrom v2.37. This will give you your Original overclock back most likely. It worked for many and you still get 16 pipelines enabled. (Use this command: FLASHROM -P -F 0 (bios name))

3. Finally, Flash the X800 XT Bios to make your card a full fledge X800XT.
(Use this command: FLASHROM -P -F 0 (bios name))

[Shroomalistic]

Originally posted by Ralfi78
hi again,
let me ask my question (or two) once more, as my previous one remained unanswered...
1. My fan on sapphire x800 vivo spins always at the same speed, regardless of what temp GPU is. Same at you? After i flashed bios (1. gigabyte xt 2. x800 pro), and oc`d 520/570, my screen freezed in 3dmark and farcry. However, since i connected fan on x800 to external PSU (cellphone charger @9v), everything is ok. Shouldn`t it spin faster when connected to PCB as it provides stability?

2. Did u marked tiny little switch on the rear side of PCB? (nearly the single screw) what is it for?

greetings
Rafal

I cant tell if my fan spins faster or not, maybe someone else knows. the other little switch might be the switch for pal/ntsc but not sure.

[KoGeR|Max]

yes it is..

[Ralfi78]

aye, the first one (with a sign "ON") is responsible for PAL/NTSC system, but another one? it has two letters "KE", on PCB there is ViFRONT and ViBACK label...

[Mongoose420]

Originally posted by Shroomalistic
Here is a little step by step to make it easy

1. Flash the Gigabyte bios with the utility in this file (bios and utility included). This will unlock your 16 pipelines but it seems to lower everyones max overclock. Gigabytes flash utility seems to be the only one that effects the pipelines.
( Use this command: GVF11 -P -F R80X256V.F1 )

2. Next flash the X800 Pro Bios with Flashrom v2.37. This will give you your Original overclock back most likely. It worked for many and you still get 16 pipelines enabled. (Use this command: FLASHROM -P -F 0 (bios name))

3. Finally, Flash the X800 XT Bios to make your card a full fledge X800XT.
(Use this command: FLASHROM -P -F 0 (bios name))

okay, bear with me as i hate floppy's and dos

Just make a dos62 bootdisk, place flashrom and all its goodies plus the bios on the disk, i'll rename the bios to atix800pro and atix800xt to make it easy.

just flash by a:\flashrom -p -f 0 a:\atix800pro.rom
and a:\flashrom -p -f 0 a:\atix800xt.rom
?

[Shroomalistic]

exactly, i renamed them too to make it easy. x8xt or x8pro

[Shroomalistic]

did you flash the gigabyte bios yet?



Remeber that the x800 pro bios linked is a bin while the x800xt bios is a rom.

[Mongoose420]

yea. im allready on 16 pipes but im down from a bad overclock of 517/571 to a horrid overclock of 500/500. Im going to see what this bios does then im pop'n off the hsf and give'n the as5 treatment. Hopefully i can get it clocking right.