3850 AGP OC'ing, Vmods, experiences, suggestions, where to buy

[eidairaman1]

woop's i missed it bro

i also remember back in the day some card's had artifacting problem's because the HSF's were fastened to tightly, just a thought

you mean warping the board

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Anyone experiencing any BSODs with the 8.6's when you OC? I can't seem to get anywhere near my previous OC. Sucks donkey dog balls.

 

[Widjaja]

May as well stick with the previous drivers then.
I still use 7.12 with my X1950pro.

 

[LoWRiDeR82]

I was getting non stop BSODS when i launched games with the 8.6 Beta,but the 8.6 agp fix released later didn't give me those problems

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I've had to go back to the 8.5's as the 8.6's set just kept screwing me over. Massive fucking shame as the 35% increase in CoD 4 I was really looking forward to.

 

[LoWRiDeR82]

Innocent this is strange 'cause i've looked online and noone has had problems with the 8.6 drivers.Are you using the 8.6 normal version,or the hotfixed for agp?If you are using the normal 8.6
go here and download the 8.6 agp hotfixed..

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=31542

the normal 8.6 gave bsod's to me as well

 

[intel igent]

i'm still running the driver's off of the CD without any problem's

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Innocent this is strange 'cause i've looked online and noone has had problems with the 8.6 drivers.Are you using the 8.6 normal version,or the hotfixed for agp?If you are using the normal 8.6
go here and download the 8.6 agp hotfixed..it says 8.5 but they are actually the 8.6

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=31542

the normal 8.6 gave bsod's to me as well

Hotfix as the normal drivers don't work with AGP cards.

 

[LoWRiDeR82]

Ok then why don't you give it a shot "force" installing the 8.6 normal drivers?Maybe those will work for you

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I doubt it, but it's worth a shot in the mouth. How would I go about Force installing these bad boys then?

 

[LoWRiDeR82]

You uninstall what you have and drivercleaner and all that shit
then you launch the 8.6 normal installer,it will unpack files in some directory (C:/ATI or smthing)
then when it says "unable to detect driver blabla" you raise your middle finger towards your monitor, go to your device manager,right click the VGA adapter,update driver,select specific location,look for the INF folder in that C:/ATI directory if I remember correctly and hit ok.If it's not that folder try them all from the ATI dir,it's either driver,or inf dir.Make sure you uninstall the previous drivers totally otherwise it doesn't work Hope it helps

 

[InnocentCriminal]

You uninstall what you have and drivercleaner and all that shit
then you launch the 8.6 normal installer,it will unpack files in some directory (C:/ATI or smthing)
then when it says "unable to detect driver blabla" you raise your middle finger towards your monitor, go to your device manager,right click the VGA adapter,update driver,select specific location,look for the INF folder in that C:/ATI directory if I remember correctly and hit ok.If it's not that folder try them all from the ATI dir,it's either driver,or inf dir.Make sure you uninstall the previous drivers totally otherwise it doesn't work Hope it helps

You know me so well.

Arrh you mean a manual install. Might as well give that a shot in the mouth when I can actually be bothered. So far the 8.5's are working flawlessly. I'm going to push my GFX OC again now and see if I can beat my last 3DMark06 score. Which was 9320 or something.

 

[Widjaja]

The stuttering you are getting in COD4 may be related to the 3850 and 3870 x2 possibly at high res.
I have all eye candy on at 1024 X 768 on the X1950pro AGP with 7.12cat and have only had minimal stutter.
Worse time was heading back to the helicopter on the first mission.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Well messin' with my RAM timings didn't help.

I'm going to have to drive a different driver set for the Audigy as well, haven't had much luck with Beta drivers recently.

Any news Low?

 

[LoWRiDeR82]

Still waiting for the adaptor

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Arrrh fair enough.

 

[Widjaja]

Different driver for the Audigy?
I only know of two.
I have the version which came with the ZS, which has all these extra enhancements compared to the driver you get on the Creative website but since I don't use them I just used the ones of the site since they are newer.
Didn't notice any difference though.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Yeah, I was using the latest beta from their site I think. I get weird crackling and hissing sounds. I also get audio looping when I blue screen, which should be happening at all.

 

[intel igent]

my audio driver's workin' fine over here original one's off of the driver disc as well

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Yeah see I didn't have the original drivers so I tried the very latest which were beta drivers. I'll be trying the last non-beta set tonight to see if that makes any difference.

2.74GHz is the highest I can get, don't really want to loosen timings anymore than they already are.

3-4-4-10 (2T) will be the best I can get.

 

[Widjaja]

I wasn't even aware there was BETA drivers out for the ZS.
Since when wer'e there BETAs?

I don't ever trust BETA drivers anyway.

Those RAM timings are loose alright.
My ABIT AV8 motherboard has issues with running my PARTIOT LLK RAM at it's standard timings without system issues.
I have to change the CL to 2.5 to make it run flawless and can only go up to 2.6Ghz at 2.5-3-2-5 1T.

 

[intel igent]

innocent your RAM should hold 3/4/4/8 1t up to 250MHz........

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Not 1T... Not stable at 1T with any settings. Craptastic.

 

[intel igent]

have you tried the RAM in another board?

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Yeah, fuckin' owned in my Shuttle SN95G5. Got to 2.7GHz on stock voltage, RAM and CPU and the timings were 3-3-3-8 (2T).

I miss my Shuttle.

Hopefully I get my friend's Opteron 170 tomorrow. That should make a difference in my score and shit.