Dear god the questions lol. If I miss anything ask again
Heres the story as it stands;
I spent all of today modifying memory timings and testing, while 3dmark05\06 ran absolutely fine @ 640\1.5GHz, oblivion artifacted and crashed within seconds of loading.. at a guess as I haven't found volt mods or reading points for non reference 1950 Pro PCBs (nor have I attempted anything with my card yet for vmods) its probably at a pathetic 1.8v vmem.. That said after timing tweaks I did get 3dmark passing with the memory @ 1.5GHz vs 1.44GHz, but oblivion was no go, major artifacting and crash. I'm going to install FEAR and max it out to see if that completely black screens like oblivion, if it does, damn card is going back for a replacement. Really dont want it to be the card, pain in the arse having to send stuff back.
I got a response from bethesda today as well, their going to look into the black screening with oblivion in detail and get back to me.
Now about the BIOS I mod. None of them promise to increase VGPU voltage, as it stands from what I can figure out and see, some 1950Pros can make use of the voltage table, and others cant. It depends on the manufacturer, Simple as that. Thats why I added some vmod pics.
Does anyone own a Jetway \ Xpertvision X1950Pro? If so post a few high quality shots of the card front and back please
otherwise I'll upload a few pics of my card tomorrow at some stage.
As a general note; pretty much any X1950Pro BIOS will work on a X1950Pro card regardless of manufacturer, however you will have to watch out for clock differences and be sure your card can handle the clocks in the alternate BIOS. Also be aware that different manufacturers use different ID strings, so ATIwinflash WONT work if the BIOS you want to use is from a different manufacturer, however using atiflash from dos using the -f command to force the flash WILL work.
I'll do 2 last BIOS', one for 256MB cards and one for 512MB cards, I havent forgotten about your BIOS either random, I just lost the BIOS I was gonna use atm
Oh and also, if there is one thing the X1950Pro isnt its bandwidth limited, the card has more than enough available bandwidth even @ stock really, but as soon as you hit 1.5-1.6GHz, any minimal bandwidth bottleneck is completely gone, this card loves and needs VGPU clocks.