Recent content by enigmaxp

Regarding the fan questions, I did some research in the past and found out that when overclocked, the voltage sent to the fan to control how fast it is running is sporradic and unstable. I've heard of a couple people have their artic cooling 5 coolers die this way with the mod. The solution...

I had the exact same problem. The bios on the website didnt do anything even after the flash. The only way I could get the card to unlock to 16 pipes was to use the sapphire 16pipe enabled 850xt or 850xt pe bios from the the ati bios collection here at techpowerup...

For the application of Artic Silver, I'm guessing clean up the thermal paste on the gpu and then apply it directly onto the gpu chip.

For some odd reason, I wasn't able to unlock my pipes from 12 to 16 on my Sapphire GTO2 (version 100130SR) using the guide's bios. I was however able to get it to 16 using the 850xt and 850xtpe bioses. I'm happy at least it works. I'm running it with Artic Cooling ATI Cooler 5rev2 but PE...