As I stated above, it was mainly attempt to get my AGP working - finally. It sadly failed, but with the 100% good and recapped with very high quality caps R9100 I'm now confident, that the problem must be on the mainboard, with the voltage regulating mosfets. That make sense, because it works, till it heat up and crash. 4h gaming from cold state, about 45min when heated up to the crash.
Therefore the main and only one purpose of this recap was the testing of the MSI mainboard and these cursed Nikos mosfets!

I recapped the mainboard completely long time ago ( http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thr...-PM8M3-V-recap ) and recently around the AGP, I even exchanged the good Nichicon 1000uF 6.3V electrolyte caps for polymers (except for the two that are for 5V) - 2x2200uF 2.5V and 2x 1200uF 4V. Still absolutely NO help. Absolutely NO improve. Therefore it cannot be in the graphic card (it fact, it last longer during gaming that with the PNY 6800GT) or in the caps - so the next one in the line are the mosfets. And after the crash, the card is back to PCI mode, grrrrr!



Then there is NO PERFORMANCE to speak off. It absolutely and completely SUXX. (from my measuring, it give about half the performance it should do, so no 7850 3DMark01 marks, but about 14k it should yield: http://hwbot.org/submission/2455634_...100_7855_marks )

Also it is sad, that the rams are crappy (witch is why Sapphire run them at 200MHz, witch is deviation from the standard 250/250MHz clocks for GPU/RAMs for R9100:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/i...id=1002-514d--
So the card is somewhat disadvantaged speed-wise from the start.

Normal are 250/250MHz, just like the Radeon 8500:
ATI Radeon 8500 | techPowerUp GPU Database
...it should be just 250/250MHz...
(XT version was 300/300MHz, tough: ATI Radeon 8500 XT | techPowerUp GPU Database )

And surprisingly, look, the same PCB are used on Radeon 8500 cards - just with all the caps!!!



...damn them (but it give me ideas, where to add another caps... but that is probably not worth it, as the A-Data rams are slow and the card is not intended for overclocking, but for stability testing.