X800 modding to X800XL?

[SuperDude]

Look at the cores. The only difference looks like a small cut on the bottom left.

[Riverna]

Look at the cores. The only difference looks like a small cut on the bottom left.

What do u mean? The little white point at the bottom the left corner. I think this is a remains of Thermal past. (What is "Wärmeleitpaste" in english?)

[IvanAndreevich]

Wärmeleitpaste => warm-letting-paste. Damn, German is funny Thermal paste in english.

>>An x800 PCIe is not a reference model
Sure looks like an X800XL with 4 disabled pipes to me.

[Riverna]

From where get I can download the x800xl bios?

[ViperJohn]

Wärmeleitpaste => warm-letting-paste. Damn, German is funny Thermal paste in english.

>>An x800 PCIe is not a reference model
Sure looks like an X800XL with 4 disabled pipes to me.

If yours is built on a 109-A47401-xx PCB then it is using an x800XL/X850 reference PCB.

I have two x800 12 pipe Non Vivo PCIe's here now. One is built on a 109-A47401-10 PCB
with an R430 core and the other is built on a 109-A31900-00 PCB (that is the reference
x800Pro/XT PCIe PCB) and is using a cut bridge R423 core. They are both OEM's from the
same maker but from different build lots.

That is what I mean by the x800 PCIe not being a reference model. The card you think
you are ordering may not be the card you get other than the clock speeds, active pipe
count and the bus type being what was advertised. Reference models are like cookie
cutters and built the same with occasional GPU cooler differences on OEM cards.

It is a way to utilize cores that do not meet speed bin spec for use on the higher clocked
models or that can't run 16 pipe instead of scraping them. Completed cards that were
targeted to be higher clocked or 16 pipe models that didn't pass final test as the target
model of the build can also be utilized and sold this way.

You can often get some very good cards at lower prices but it is buyer beware so to
speak.

Viper


Viper

[Riverna]

Gigabyte have release a new x800 bios.

change:

ATi Source BIOS Version: 009.007.001.004
ECLK/MCLK is 400/980MHz
Change pixel pipeline from fixed mode to auto sorting mode

[RaKLeZ]

first: Hi All my first post here

second: check out this thread

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?threadid=129374

Actually this thread was dedicated to collecting statistics of pipeline moddability on X800 series via BIOS editing / laser cut shorting. Unfortunately the most of ATI users don't seem to be interested, opposing to hundreds of postings in similar NV pipeline modding related threads.

Zero input = zero result

X800/X800XL users please run riva tuner with command line
RivaTuner.exe /rr990 /rr994 /rr99c /rr402c

and post your results here

[IvanAndreevich]

Heh Unwinder should make a thread here, he'll get a lot of people in no time. The problem is that there aren't that many X800 vanilla owners yet.

[Riverna]

Everbody have new information?

[mitku]

Is there any new information for tihs mod?

[^don.k's^]

I dont think so...

[TodB]

Yes, there is... for now there's absolutely NOT A SINGLE X800 PCie card with R430 core, that had unlocked successfully... I mean @16 pipes.... not a single card.... all of them have the 4 remaining pipes hard locked into the chip itself...

[metro.cl]

first: Hi All my first post here

second: check out this thread

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?threadid=129374



X800/X800XL users please run riva tuner with command line
RivaTuner.exe /rr990 /rr994 /rr99c /rr402c

and post your results here

could you put a screenshot to show how do i run riva tuner that way please i have a shappire x800 256mb 256bits

[DrJay]

Everbody have new information?

Yes. It appears this is the PCI-e, 12 pipe card you used to submit scores in the 8 pipe, AGP x800se class of the ORB.