Sapphire HD2900 Pro

[dolf]

Guys obviously it will be needed a tool for automatic flash of those new "best" 2900PRO cards. I am going to create automatic flash utility for 2900PRO to XT (512MB and 1GB) and will need your help. Flashing different BIOSes if you find that one of them is better then another (like have I discovered for my X850XT - the best BIOS was HIS one), please let me know to include it in to the utility.

After that I will host it someware and also I will send a copy to w1zzard in order to uploade it in the download section of TPU.

 

[JC316]

Guys obviously it will be needed a tool for automatic flash of those new "best" 2900PRO cards. I am going to create automatic flash utility for 2900PRO to XT (512MB and 1GB) and will need your help. Flashing different BIOSes if you find that one of them is better then another (like have I discovered for my X850XT - the best BIOS was HIS one), please let me know to include it in to the utility.

After that I will host it someware and also I will send a copy to w1zzard in order to uploade it in the download section of TPU.

Damn Dolf, long time no see, not since the X850 days. Good to have you working on this . I just plopped the HIS BIOS on my HIS 2900 pro and it's working great. Everything that I could ask for.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Guys obviously it will be needed a tool for automatic flash of those new "best" 2900PRO cards. I am going to create automatic flash utility for 2900PRO to XT (512MB and 1GB) and will need your help. Flashing different BIOSes if you find that one of them is better then another (like have I discovered for my X850XT - the best BIOS was HIS one), please let me know to include it in to the utility.

After that I will host it someware and also I will send a copy to w1zzard in order to uploade it in the download section of TPU.

Lol can you do a windows one also based on Winflash?

 

[dolf]

Damn Dolf, long time no see, not since the X850 days. Good to have you working on this . I just plopped the HIS BIOS on my HIS 2900 pro and it's working great. Everything that I could ask for.

JC316 can you tell me whether your HIS 2900PRO can overclock to XT speeds and more?

Lol can you do a windows one also based on Winflash?.

It will be bootable utility in DOS. For windows you don't need such a tool and also atiflash doesn't work in windows. Winflash and especially the newest versions don't have force flash which is stupid.

 

[JC316]

JC316 can you tell me whether your HIS 2900PRO can overclock to XT speeds and more?



It will be bootable utility in DOS. For windows you don't need such a tool and also atiflash doesn't work in windows. Winflash and especially the newest versions don't have force flash which is stupid.

Yeah, they all can. Mine is at XT speeds of 740/825. I flashed it via atiflash.

 

[dolf]

Yeah, they all can. Mine is at XT speeds of 740/825. I flashed it via atiflash.

Is it true that HIS has 3 heat pipes? On the pictures I can see that and thats why I am going to buy HIS even that Sapphire is with 30-35EUR less. What about the max. temp under full load with HIS?

 

[DaMulta]

I have the Sapphire GDDR4 cards and it only has two.


This HIS seem to have the 3 pipes.

 

[JC316]

Is it true that HIS has 3 heat pipes? On the pictures I can see that and thats why I am going to buy HIS even that Sapphire is with 30-35EUR less. What about the max. temp under full load with HIS?

Yep, my HIS has 3 pipes.

 

[Tatty_Two]

I have the Sapphire GDDR4 cards and it only has two.


This HIS seem to have the 3 pipes.

And I can confirm the Powercolor and Club 3D also have 3

 

[DaMulta]

1280x1024


Normal Crossfire CCC settings

Super AA 16x, and AF 16x turn on in CCC

 

[Sasqui]

1280x1024
Normal Crossfire CCC settings
Super AA 16x, and AF 16x turn on in CCC

Sweet. I haven't even tried FEAR yet.

 

[X800]

So i got my Ati Radeon HD 2900PRO 1024MB DDR4 today and joined the HD family and next is to flash it to an XT

 

[DaMulta]

Congrats

Let us know how it goes on your system.

 

[ownage]

So i got my Ati Radeon HD 2900PRO 1024MB DDR4 today and joined the HD family and next is to flash it to an XT

SO finally got rid of the X800
Change ur nickname to HD2900

 

[X800]

SO finally got rid of the X800
Change ur nickname to HD2900

LOL No i did have an x1950pro.
But clock on the new card is somehow messed up it preforms vorse than x1950
And a did uninstal drivers the clocks are like 500 and 500 something like that and they are not changing when going to 3d app. I got 625 points on ozone bech

 

[DaMulta]

What drivers?

I thought I had that problem to....are you using rvatuner to look at your clocks? If so go into advaned and switch the 3d/ap to 0. Then it will read right.....at least it did for me.

on somethings it's going to run faster on and others maybe not. The drivers are still being worked on. YEA I know....

You should hit around 10k in 06.


If ATi tool was working right on both of my cards I would kill 2/d clocks on startup.

 

[X800]

Ok here it is i uninstalled atitool 27b2 now the clock show on amd gpu clock tool both 2d and 3d .What do you use to clock the card.

 

[DaMulta]

Ccc

and I flashed it to an XT

 

[Sasqui]

So i got my Ati Radeon HD 2900PRO 1024MB DDR4 today and joined the HD family and next is to flash it to an XT

Just do it! Make sure it's happy at 800 core before you flash it. The flash was like "uh, ok..." DOS flash was very quick, gave a confirmation (kind of anti-climactic, I expected something to go wrong). I restarted, loaded Cat 7.10 and wow... everything is like.. like better than perfect.

 

[X800]

I flashed it to an XT With a usb key and i found here how to do it My pro is now xt

 

[heapcleaner]

I have just finished reading this thread and decided to register to this awesome forum

anyway, i am also tempted to flash my pro to an xt, i plan to buy an HR-03 / R600 today and i hope it will help to cool the temp down. I can clock my pro to XT speed with no problem at all, i can get to 850 / 980 but decided to get it down since the temp reads 81c (by infinitely rotating the view in World In Conflict and leave it for 40 minutes)

i didn't take any notes while reading this thread, but i guess this list below is all i need to get my HIS HD2900 pro flashed to XT :

1. AMD GPU clock tool
2. AtiFlash 343
3. HIS 2900 XT bios

and the steps are :

1. get 3dmark06 score
2. backup current bios
3. create a boot disk and put atiflash + xt bios in the disk
4. boot using the disk and run :

atiflash -p 0 -newbios <xt bios file> -f

5. get the 3dmark06 score, and compare

is that it ? did i miss anything ?

btw, i can't use CCC overdrive since my PSU only have 3x6pin PCIE connector, i am not going to cut 2 ground wires in the mobo 4-pin connector just to get the overdrive working (i might want to sell the PSU in the future ). And i can't buy the adapter at frozencpu even if i wanted to -sob-

i see that this thread hasn't active for days, but i do hope someone would reply to my post .And i also see that tatty_one still sticks to his 88 GTS, after seeing the gaming performance in many reviews i would also stick to 88 GTS if i were Tatty_one , i hope the next 7.11 driver will get better to make 2900 pro on par with 88 GT in gaming (CMIIW but 88GT is a tad better than 2900 pro). But still, HD2900pro is my first high-end video card and i am very glad to have it for an affordable price 2 months ago

 

[Mediocre]

Great first post

And welcome LOL

FYI - Make sure you have room for the HR-03 cooler. It takes 4 PCI slots (one slot is for airflow) You can get it to take 3, but the fan rests against the back of the card in slot 4.


Your steps seem good enough, have at it and report back

As for the 2 ground pins, over-rated, but using CCC is nice....see if you can find an adapter like:

I used one of these, cut the motherboard 4-pin header out (the one in black) and used the bare pins into my card...

If you know enough people, someone is bound to have one of these that got supplied with their motherboard or PSU....we have a whole box at work here, probably over 200 that could be cut-up and used for the 2 ground pins...

 

[dolf]

For those who want automatic flash of 2900PRO (512 and 1024MB) here the link to my post with Flash Utility included: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=43702&highlight=2900pro

 

[heapcleaner]

uh oh, HR-03 out of stock , i don't want to flash my card before i get this HSF, which temperature at full load (stock speed) > 70c

FYI - Make sure you have room for the HR-03 cooler. It takes 4 PCI slots (one slot is for airflow) You can get it to take 3, but the fan rests against the back of the card in slot 4.

hmm, eventhough i'm using a mid-tower, i have a big room under my video card, it should be enough (i guess)

I used one of these, cut the motherboard 4-pin header out (the one in black) and used the bare pins into my card...

is that 2 molex -> 8-pin mobo adapter ? i've seen those adapter sold at low price tag, thx i'll give it a try as soon as i get HR-03

@dolf: thanks for the ISO

 

[DaMulta]

heapcleaner those are normal temps

The XT has the same cooler on it.