8500/8600/GT/GTS Mod guide...

Solaris17 · Feb 6, 2008

well in this case it is a driver problem when you modded the bios did you remember to put a name to the card in the bios editor? like did you select it from the dropdown list and pick your card? also if you did remove your drivers reflash and boot back up and install....actually wait for wondows to install its own. then install yours.

BrooksyX · Feb 6, 2008

Yeah im pretty sure that I picked the right info for the card. Ill double check when I get home and make sure to uninstall before I flash and reinstall after I flash. I also flashed your risky.rom bios and windows couldn't find drivers for it but it seemed to flash just fine.

If I upload my old and new bios will you check to see if I messed up?

Solaris17 · Feb 6, 2008

ya sure NP ill look at it

BrooksyX · Feb 7, 2008

I was about to go crazy last night because my internet was down :cry:

Anyways here is my original bios and my modded bios.

Solaris17 · Feb 10, 2008

no your bios looks fine you may want to put your thermal critical at 100ºC though the card reaches 80 pretty fast and that may be faster than the fan can spool up to cool it which means your card will shut down regardless...but ya set that at 100 reflash make sure the drivers are deleted in the c drive after you choose to uninstall them...then flash and reinstall drivers then reboot again and you should be good.

BrooksyX · Feb 10, 2008

Oh well I have an Accelero s2 on my card, so there is no fan anyways. I went ahead and just flashed the card with 660 on the core, 1512 on the shader, and 800 on the mem. I didn't change the performance levels or the voltages and it seems to be working fine. I wonder why it won't work if I change the other stuff. Maybe I should try the omega drivers.

cdawall · Feb 29, 2008

i should be getting a XFX 8600GTS XXX and will be custom cooling it will these mods work?

Solaris17 · Mar 1, 2008

yes the GT and GTS pc'bs dont very much if at all and these mods apply to both.

cdawall · Mar 1, 2008

yeah

i wonder if i can out do your old 8600GT

Solaris17 · Mar 1, 2008

hahaha what hubris a mere man taking on a god but amuse me i will accept your challange!

cdawall · Mar 1, 2008

Solaris17 said:
hahaha what hubris a mere man taking on a god but amuse me i will accept your challange!

haha we will see the only advantage you may get is your cpu+ram seeing how mine will be on a DDR1 and single core system

mlee49 · Mar 2, 2008

I like the RivaTuner, good fan controll and clock controll, but how much is too much? Do you just watch the temps? Just by boosting the fan to 100% mine dropped 4 degrees. Any suggestions on clock settings or operational temps?

Solaris17 · Mar 2, 2008

you just watch temps really cut off is about 70ºC if it gets that high your getting to hot...then you move on to other methods of cooling or you lap your heatsink.

cdawall · Mar 2, 2008

@sol what do recommend a custom cool setup which would consist of an old socket A cooler with 60mm fan for gpu and cut up HS for the ram or a zalman VF900cu?

Solaris17 · Mar 2, 2008

if you can set up the old cooler to fis in all the wholes ok and your SURE you can cool the ram that id just go with that...lap it and make sure all the holes line up the pcb tends to flex thats why im concerned...also if you can id reccomend cutting a few small squares and putting them on the fes in the back...those get mighty dangerous hot after a volt mod.

mlee49 · Mar 2, 2008

Awesome, I'll wait till I have some better thermal paste before pushing the limits. I'll post some pics w/ the oc.

Solaris17 · Mar 2, 2008

sweet do it i want to see.

cdawall · Mar 2, 2008

Solaris17 said:
if you can set up the old cooler to fis in all the wholes ok and your SURE you can cool the ram that id just go with that...lap it and make sure all the holes line up the pcb tends to flex thats why im concerned...also if you can id reccomend cutting a few small squares and putting them on the fes in the back...those get mighty dangerous hot after a volt mod.

thats all the gpu cooler will be its about a 3.5"X2.5"X1" and would the little black one be ok thing on the back?

Solaris17 · Mar 2, 2008

ty to cover all the big black chips.

cdawall · Mar 2, 2008

Solaris17 said:
ty to cover all the big black chips.

what all needs to be covered?

Solaris17 · Mar 2, 2008

here

cdawall · Mar 2, 2008

well that should be easy i thought i was going to need to cover like the whole back or something :roll:

Scrizz · Mar 3, 2008

my XFX 8600gt XXX pcb is different, the fan/heatsink only mount w/two screws.

Solaris17 · Mar 3, 2008

here you go scrizz...

orig is your fail safe
modded is a lil better performance
risky really good performance not that risky and if i remember correctly youll need a vmod to go higher....uninstall your drivers b4 flashing. reinstall when flash is complete.

mlee49 · Mar 6, 2008

Hey I cleaned the heatsink and chip and repasted. Also tweaked fan up to 100% and tried to max out settings, but I can only oc like 5-7%. Do you think I need to do the volt mod? Its a OC edition so maybe its already maxed out and Rtuner cant push it any further.

System Name	Venslar
Processor	I9 7980XE
Motherboard	MSI x299 Tomahawk Arctic
Cooling	EK Custom
Memory	32GB Corsair DDR4 3000mhz
Video Card(s)	Nvidia Titan RTX
Storage	1x 250GB 960 EVO \| 1x 500gb Intel 720p \| 32TB SAN
Display(s)	3x AOC Q2577PWQ (2k IPS)
Case	Inwin 303 White (Thermaltake Ring 120mm Purple accent)
Audio Device(s)	Schiit Fulla 3 on Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pros
Power Supply	Seasonic 1050W Snow
Mouse	Roccat Kone Aimo White
Keyboard	Ducky Shine 6 Snow White
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

System Name	Main / Home Media Serever
Processor	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.75ghz / AMD AM3 5200+ x2
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance / Biostar 790GX
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight / XIGMATEK Apache
Memory	12gb of G.Skill Value Series DDR3 / 4x 1gb DDR2
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon 6870 1gb / Asus Radeon 5450 512mb
Storage	2x Samsung 830 64gb SSD Raid 0 & 750gb WD Blue HDD / OCZ Vertex II 80GB & 10TB of HDD Space
Display(s)	2x Acer 24" LED / Samsung 50" LED
Case	Xigmatek Asgard II / APEX PC-389-C
Power Supply	Rosewill 750w / Antec EArthwatts 380w
Software	Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 / Ubuntu 14.04

System Name	Venslar
Processor	I9 7980XE
Motherboard	MSI x299 Tomahawk Arctic
Cooling	EK Custom
Memory	32GB Corsair DDR4 3000mhz
Video Card(s)	Nvidia Titan RTX
Storage	1x 250GB 960 EVO \| 1x 500gb Intel 720p \| 32TB SAN
Display(s)	3x AOC Q2577PWQ (2k IPS)
Case	Inwin 303 White (Thermaltake Ring 120mm Purple accent)
Audio Device(s)	Schiit Fulla 3 on Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pros
Power Supply	Seasonic 1050W Snow
Mouse	Roccat Kone Aimo White
Keyboard	Ducky Shine 6 Snow White
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

System Name	Main / Home Media Serever
Processor	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.75ghz / AMD AM3 5200+ x2
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance / Biostar 790GX
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight / XIGMATEK Apache
Memory	12gb of G.Skill Value Series DDR3 / 4x 1gb DDR2
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon 6870 1gb / Asus Radeon 5450 512mb
Storage	2x Samsung 830 64gb SSD Raid 0 & 750gb WD Blue HDD / OCZ Vertex II 80GB & 10TB of HDD Space
Display(s)	2x Acer 24" LED / Samsung 50" LED
Case	Xigmatek Asgard II / APEX PC-389-C
Power Supply	Rosewill 750w / Antec EArthwatts 380w
Software	Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 / Ubuntu 14.04

System Name	Venslar
Processor	I9 7980XE
Motherboard	MSI x299 Tomahawk Arctic
Cooling	EK Custom
Memory	32GB Corsair DDR4 3000mhz
Video Card(s)	Nvidia Titan RTX
Storage	1x 250GB 960 EVO \| 1x 500gb Intel 720p \| 32TB SAN
Display(s)	3x AOC Q2577PWQ (2k IPS)
Case	Inwin 303 White (Thermaltake Ring 120mm Purple accent)
Audio Device(s)	Schiit Fulla 3 on Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pros
Power Supply	Seasonic 1050W Snow
Mouse	Roccat Kone Aimo White
Keyboard	Ducky Shine 6 Snow White
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

System Name	All the cores \|\| Into the Blue
Processor	2990WX \|\| 5960X
Motherboard	Asrock X399M \|\| Asus X99M WS
Cooling	CPU-XSPC RayStorm Neo, 2x240mm+360mm, D5PWM+140mL, GPU-2x360mm, 2xbyski, D4+D5+100mL \|\| TBD
Memory	4x8GB G.Skill Trident Z 3200 CL16 \|\| EVGA 3200 2x8GB
Video Card(s)	(2) EVGA SC BLACK 1080Ti's \|\| EVGA 1080Ti FE
Storage	2x Samsung SM951 512GB, Samsung PM961 512GB \|\| OCZ Vector 180 480GB
Display(s)	Dell UP2414Q 3840X2160@60hz \|\| TBD
Case	Caselabs Mercury S5+pedestal \|\| Supermicro S5 (GS5A-753K)
Audio Device(s)	Fischer HA-02->Fischer FA-002W High edition/FA-003/Jubilate/FA-011 depending on my mood
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime 1200w \|\| Seasonic Snow Silent 750w
Mouse	Thermaltake Theron, Steam controller \|\| TBD
Keyboard	Thermaltake Poseidon ZX, Steam controller \|\| Corsair K70
Software	W10P \|\| W10P

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Processor	i7 8700k @ 4.7GHz
Motherboard	Asus Maximus X APEX
Cooling	Custom water loop
Memory	16GB 3600 MHz DDR4
Video Card(s)	2x MSI 780 Ti's in SLI
Storage	500GB Samsung 850 PCIe SSD, 4TB
Display(s)	27" Asus 144Hz
Case	Enermax Fulmo GT
Audio Device(s)	ON BOARD FTW
Power Supply	Corsair 1200W
Keyboard	Logitech G510
Software	Win 10 64x

System Name	bits and pieces
Processor	Intel 8086K
Motherboard	Gigabyte z390m
Cooling	Noctua NH-D14
Memory	32GB
Video Card(s)	Zotac RTX 2080 AMP
Storage	280GB Optane 900P U.2 SSD + 4TB PCIe NVMe SSD
Display(s)	BenQ 32" 4K monitor + Nixeus 27" IPS 1440p 144Hz
Case	Silverstone Temjin TJ08B-E
Audio Device(s)	X-Fi Titanium HD --- Presonus Eris E5 w/ 2x JL Audio 10w0v3 Sealed --- JBL 4412
Power Supply	EVGA 850W plat
Mouse	Corsair M65 pro
Keyboard	Gigabyte K83
Software	Win 10 Pro x64

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