Tkpenalty's X1950~HD4k Clubhouse

[Wile E]

i seen raptors more for people who what their epeen enlarged or for use in servers that have alot of traffic.

if u want the fastist drives u can get seagate has some 15000 rpm drives that have been around for years, and are still fastist you can buy, warrning,they get very warm tho

Cheetahs. But they're SCSI, and you need to buy a good controller to see the true benefit from them. Tack on another $250+ for that, depending on the options you choose.

 

[eidairaman1]

Yup considering their warranty is the worst out of the major players, If i had option between a WD and Samsung Drive, id take the Samsung over the WD- Despite performance- its the warranty that counts the most on mechanical parts like HDs. Ive seen Drives not even last a few days ya know

best of my understanding on the 1950 PROs, also, is that vmodding doesn't always actually do anything My style PCB is like that (uses capacitors and coils in place of the VRMs). Some are over-volt locked too.

Besides, even cranking the clocks up a ton doesn't really seem to net a major performance boost. This card seems to run it's best around 610/730.




I've always considered Raptors to be the HDDs of the hardcore gamers. WD never really targeted that audience, though.

 

[tkpenalty]

Yup considering their warranty is the worst out of the major players, If i had option between a WD and Samsung Drive, id take the Samsung over the WD- Despite performance- its the warranty that counts the most on mechanical parts like HDs. Ive seen Drives not even last a few days ya know

What? It is possible to get an RMA for WD HDD. As Wile E argued, the Raptors are for PERFORMANCE. NOT, for budget, thus why there is a point of purchasing them. However with samsung, they are aimed at lower cost consumers... I wouldn't mind getting a samsung at all as they are good drives overall. Yes on the frontier of performance they slightly suffer, but its a negligable difference overall.

Tkpenalty's Secondary [2008]

Please Enjoy.

Better images of the X1950PRO in its new habitat, note i had to install those copper heatsinks on the rear of the card. I found out that the VRMs were running WAY too hot... thus why lowering airflow to them usually ended in the GPU crashing/blank screening. I wonder if I should try to push that E2160

 

[thegave]

Even if the 1950s are over-volt locked a hardware voltmod should work right?

think I'll give the pencil mod another go since bios overvolting doesn't seem to have changed anything.

I'm reluctant to upgrade because I'd feel very bad about letting go of my Corsair, bearing in mind I paid like almost $400 for them way back in the day and never really had a chance to use them. Don't need a new PSU, the StealthXStream should be able to handle more or less anything...

Have to put water-cooling on hold now because I got gyped with my motherboard... God damnit. If I can't find a replacement i875p I might just go down the full upgrade route.

 

[imperialreign]

Even if the 1950s are over-volt locked a hardware voltmod should work right?

think I'll give the pencil mod another go since bios overvolting doesn't seem to have changed anything.

I'm reluctant to upgrade because I'd feel very bad about letting go of my Corsair, bearing in mind I paid like almost $400 for them way back in the day and never really had a chance to use them. Don't need a new PSU, the StealthXStream should be able to handle more or less anything...

Have to put water-cooling on hold now because I got gyped with my motherboard... God damnit. If I can't find a replacement i875p I might just go down the full upgrade route.

well, that's what I was getting at earlier - even if you defeat an over-volt lock (if the card has one) so that you can go about a hardware vmod, it won't necessarily work, either.

It's worth a shot, though, but keep in mind that the 1950s will go thermonuclear with a vmod - make sure you've got an adequate cooling solution for the card.

i seen raptors more for people who what their epeen enlarged or for use in servers that have alot of traffic.

if u want the fastist drives u can get seagate has some 15000 rpm drives that have been around for years, and are still fastist you can buy, warrning,they get very warm tho

meh . . . due to the low storage capacity of a Raptor HDD, you'll never see it in server use.

IIRC, most server HDDs are SCSI - and those types from any manufacturer are not cheap.

Anyhow, I've been more than happy with my 7200 WD drives - personally, I prefer the Seagate Barracuda's, but when the wallet is tight, I'll go with WD.

 

[thegave]

seagate

what's the stuff you use for pencil modding called? the stuff you use for car window defoggers?

 

[tkpenalty]

Even if the 1950s are over-volt locked a hardware voltmod should work right?

think I'll give the pencil mod another go since bios overvolting doesn't seem to have changed anything.

I'm reluctant to upgrade because I'd feel very bad about letting go of my Corsair, bearing in mind I paid like almost $400 for them way back in the day and never really had a chance to use them. Don't need a new PSU, the StealthXStream should be able to handle more or less anything...

Have to put water-cooling on hold now because I got gyped with my motherboard... God damnit. If I can't find a replacement i875p I might just go down the full upgrade route.

We meant change stuff like CPU, mobo, RAM, GPU, and thats it. Why would you need to upgrade the PSU?

 

[ShadowFold]

"Better images of the X1950PRO in its new habitat"

Its like watching wild kingdom

 

[thegave]

Someone suggested I buy some new PSU.. =/

um. Don't really want to spend money upgrading. So trying to squeeze everything out of the videocard. And I guess it doesn't make sense to go water. So. yeeah. A(nother) new mobo and I think I'll stop there...

 

[tkpenalty]

Someone suggested I buy some new PSU.. =/

um. Don't really want to spend money upgrading. So trying to squeeze everything out of the videocard. And I guess it doesn't make sense to go water. So. yeeah. A(nother) new mobo and I think I'll stop there...

New mobo new RAM new CPU new GPU.

Something like this:

E6750
2x1GB DDR800 (even generic will do)
GA P35 DS3
ASUS HD3850 512MB (with Company of heroes and non-reference cooler).

The performance given by those parts would burn your current setup.

 

[Dangle]

TKPenalty, don't you think you might as well just change the name to the ATI clubhouse?

 

[tkpenalty]

TKPenalty, don't you think you might as well just change the name to the ATI clubhouse?

This is probably the 10th time someone asked, no. Why can't I call it an ATi Clubhouse? Because I only support X1k~HD3k GPUs. I plan to discontinue support to the X1k~X1800 Series GPUs as nobody cares about them.

New title will be X1950~HD3K Clubhouse

 

[Wile E]

seagate

what's the stuff you use for pencil modding called? the stuff you use for car window defoggers?

No, you literally use a pencil.

 

[tkpenalty]

err wtf is X1950k..................... sorry but may you please change it to X1950....

 

[Wile E]

err wtf is X1950k..................... sorry but may you please change it to X1950....

Ummmm, what?

 

[thegave]

Read somewhere on a forum that using conductive pen is better. Plus it's really hard to get the graphite in the right pace without having it between resistors

 

[Wile E]

Read somewhere on a forum that using conductive pen is better. Plus it's really hard to get the graphite in the right pace without having it between resistors

Conductive pen is not better for penciling a resistor. That's what this entails.

You're thinking of painting traces on the board, to complete a different circut. You don't do that with this particular mod.

 

[thegave]

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/PowerColor_X1950PRO_256MB_With_Arctic_Cooling/4190-7.html

kind of hard to pencil across when they're so close together... =(

 

[ChillyMyst]

not really, i have used pencil mods plenty of times on diffrent products, tip, you dont use a normal wooden pencil, get a .7mm machanical job and proper led and your set, you can even get led with diffrent resistance levels if you take a DMM with you, I once had 5 diffrent leds that each had diffrent levels of resistance, you will injoy the weird looks u will get at an art shop/craft store from ppl who see you using a DMM on pencil led

 

[Urbklr]

 

[3991vhtes]

The rainbowiest of them all!!!!!

 

[Dangle]

This is probably the 10th time someone asked, no. Why can't I call it an ATi Clubhouse? Because I only support X1k~HD3k GPUs. I plan to discontinue support to the X1k~X1800 Series GPUs as nobody cares about them.

New title will be X1950~HD3K Clubhouse

Thanks! understood! I like how you keep up with teh times! WOOT!


Btw, can you add me to your front page for user?
Stock Asus 2900XT
No OC... yet.

 

[imperialreign]

^previous posts past Dangle . . .


:shadedshu

In light of what is 'ere to come - Ima gonna steer clear of this thread for the next page or two

 

[tkpenalty]

Spammers, please I want you to die.

No I dont. But Please end this nonsense.............

 

[3991vhtes]

Wanting people to die becuse they crapped your thread?

ok i see you edited it, it sounds much less offensive