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Hi all. After reading the unlocking histories over the net last month I still was not sure if it was a hoax. But well... I taked my bet and ordered a Connect3D X800GTO, since the time for a rig upgrade was on order.
Straight after unpaking it and even before instaling catalyst on windows, booted in DOS and flashed it with the unlocked bios recomended in the article, and voila. 16 pipelines up and running.
Then started to overcloking. 513/540 was the max stable overclock. It's not a temp limited, since I instaled over it a Artic cooling ati silencer 5 cooler and remain at 31ºC at idle and 51ºC at max load. So perhaps mi specimen it's not a marvelous overclocker, but oh well. Its' in X850XT level.
I tried flashing over it a Ati X850XT bios(with reduced clocks for safety, modified with RaBiT). Unafortunately overclocability was very very bad.
I guess the reason was that this bios is for faster 1.6ns memory. Since the connect3D GTO uses samsung 2.0ns memory. Other posible incompatibility(R480 bios for versus actual R423 on board) could also influenced on stability but who knows.
So with RaBiT modified the unlocked Connect3D.X800GTO_16P.Samsung20.bin to Device ID: 5D4D Subsystem ID: 4B12 Vendor ID: 1002 ,clocked at my prefered level and flashed it.
Now the card is properly recognized as X850 XT PE and everything seems to work fine.
I can't say for sure if the above tags changes has influenced over 3dmark2005 score, but is posible... and seems a harmless operation
6260 is the final score with catalyst 5.11 with everything at default in control panel, at the final clock of 513/540
Have luck anything you try
Straight after unpaking it and even before instaling catalyst on windows, booted in DOS and flashed it with the unlocked bios recomended in the article, and voila. 16 pipelines up and running.
Then started to overcloking. 513/540 was the max stable overclock. It's not a temp limited, since I instaled over it a Artic cooling ati silencer 5 cooler and remain at 31ºC at idle and 51ºC at max load. So perhaps mi specimen it's not a marvelous overclocker, but oh well. Its' in X850XT level.
I tried flashing over it a Ati X850XT bios(with reduced clocks for safety, modified with RaBiT). Unafortunately overclocability was very very bad.
I guess the reason was that this bios is for faster 1.6ns memory. Since the connect3D GTO uses samsung 2.0ns memory. Other posible incompatibility(R480 bios for versus actual R423 on board) could also influenced on stability but who knows.
So with RaBiT modified the unlocked Connect3D.X800GTO_16P.Samsung20.bin to Device ID: 5D4D Subsystem ID: 4B12 Vendor ID: 1002 ,clocked at my prefered level and flashed it.
Now the card is properly recognized as X850 XT PE and everything seems to work fine.
I can't say for sure if the above tags changes has influenced over 3dmark2005 score, but is posible... and seems a harmless operation
6260 is the final score with catalyst 5.11 with everything at default in control panel, at the final clock of 513/540
Have luck anything you try