8800gs

[Titus]

That's why i believe in GPU locking
O/C stop suddenly, no artefacts on games ... only freezes.

 

[gR3iF]

Hm what about flashing the card with a 8800gt bios which you mod in a way so that it only have 384mb ram and thinks its a 8800gs bios afterwards?

Or do you think the card is hard locked?

Otherwise i get artifacts in atitool and one tine the driver caused graphics errors in cod4.

 

[Titus]

I've tested with a GT bios edited with NiBitor with my top clocks and tune in with " 8800GS " name ( black screen with 8800GT on OS booting ).
But i can't install drivers. I'll test with beta ones.

I think there's a hardware locking too

 

[Titus]

I've just saw that new : 8800GS will be renamed in 9600 GSO.

 

[gR3iF]

Tpu News also

I test it with an 8800gt bios myself in a few days.

 

[xdreamer]

Atitool is not very good for testing stability with my card, I have to take gpu, shaders and memory each down by about 25mhz (shaders 50mhz) from the atitool-stable clocks to run all games stable. Otherwise some games will freeze with black screen & pixelisation, especially Clive Barker's Jericho seems sensitive for overclocking. The temperature's are good, under 60 deg c at load. The card is Asus en8800gs/htdp/384M. Atitool-stable clocks are 692/1720/2x875ddr and gaming is stable at 668/1670/2x849. I've tried different drivers and 174.74 seems the best. Perhaps this is a locking issue too.

 

[gR3iF]

Iam on a 8800gt Evga Bios right now. I simply flashed it with it and I changed everything from my 88gs bios to let the gt match this one. Afterwards I could not install any driver by default.

 

[Titus]

Did you test with beta drivers ?
You can force their install and before test.
Look at GPU-Z info and make a screenshot

 

[Titus]

...Atitool-stable clocks are 692/1720/2x875ddr and gaming is stable at 668/1670/2x849 ...

You're not a lucky man !!
680 MHz core clock hot spot seems to be a limit for a lot of people !

When i see some core clocks @ 760 MHz, i say me the 8800GS is the greatest lottery i've ever seen.
For your shaders clocks, it'snormal : ref clocks are 1674 and 1728 ( 54MHz range increment ).

 

[gR3iF]

This is my gpuz view. I guess its not really a 88gt thing now. The card doesnt clock better, but for now I changed the thermal paste again and it dropped again.

 

[gR3iF]

Edit running 730/1728/1000 for now and its 25mins stable.

Watch out for more. Vgpu change is supported by Bios flash and hopefully I can get more.

 

[Titus]

Edit running 730/1728/1000 for now and its 25mins stable.

Watch out for more. Vgpu change is supported by Bios flash and hopefully I can get more.

I've tried V-mod in bios, pushing it @ 1.2V and 1.3V ... no change on perf nor stability

Not bad for your 730/1000/1728 clocks
Try them minimum 1 hour to valid stability. Mine was going bad after 45min

 

[gR3iF]

My core is temp sensitive, below 60 it will clock the best. I will do more for my Card today.

For vgpu I noticed the change only trough higher temps.

 

[Titus]

My core is temp sensitive, below 60 it will clock the best. I will do more for my Card today.

For vgpu I noticed the change only trough higher temps.

+1 ... the only one difference.
May be with an hardware v-mod ... I saw inverted memory v-mod too ... strange that memory works better with less voltage.

Changing card for a full effective one as 8800 GTX or 9800 GTX runs in my mind With the low prices : starting 269€ for a 9800GTX in France ( 145€ the 8800GS ) it may be a better way than hardware modding ( big risks without assurance of noticeable perf gain ... and warranty void for a brand new card ) or just a 8800GT 512 ( 169€ in France ).

Hard choice

 

[gR3iF]

Can you play all your games as you want to? If yes then why change something?

This is my last score:

Iam using Nforce 174.82 right now. This card is a bit difficult it strongly reacts on lower temps.
Anything under 60degree gives me around 760core and 1782 for shaders.

 

[Titus]

Can you play all your games as you want to? If yes then why change something?

The most part of my games runs at max details @ 1680 X 1050 but last games are so gready ... i don't want to change my cards on each new game release. That's why i want a good card now. I bought this 8800GS because i took a complete rig, not just an upgrade as i used to do before. The GT or GTS were realy lost expansive 2 monthes ago ... that's not the case today.

Iam using Nforce 174.82 right now. This card is a bit difficult it strongly reacts on lower temps.
Anything under 60degree gives me around 760core and 1782 for shaders.

What's mean ? the 8800GS works better on under 60°C temps ?
On my rig, no difference between my zalman 57°C and my stock 80°C ... same perfs and scores.

If you hit 760/1782 ... respect
So, take a Zalman VF900Cu and powaaaaaaa

 

[Titus]

So sad

I don't know how to edit 174.82 drivers file to valid my GS on ...
I saw some modded.inf files on the web but there's no .inf file in 174.82 XP or Vista versions ( DL on a Gurru 3D website link ).

I need help please

 

[gR3iF]

Maybe this here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2661235#post2661235



Sometimes its hard to finde the drivers.

Yeah my card clocks really better in low temp regions.

 

[Titus]

I pushed my card a little bit more @ 735/1000/1836 clocks.

I shot 12222 3DM06 points

I tried these clocks opening my rig. I don't know if it's the reason of bench succes.
I think if i launch 3DM03 it will freeze ( longest stress bench ).

For 174.82 forceware, that's this thread but not real answer on it for my card ...

 

[xdreamer]

For 174.82 forceware, that's this thread but not real answer on it for my card ...

A reliable source has always the latest 174.xx series drivers with modded inf to support all gf 5-9 cards:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=255831

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/1-vt71167.html

or you can mod the .inf yourself, add these two lines in the relevant places in nv4_disp.inf file:

%NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0606.1% = nv4_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0606

and this line:

NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0606.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS"

 

[Titus]

Thanks

How do you do to open nv4_disp file ??? ... not with wordpad as other files

 

[xdreamer]

Thanks

How do you do to open nv4_disp file ??? ... not with wordpad as other files

Either notepad or notepad++. I think they have a french version of the latter:

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

 

[Titus]

Thanks ... but i let my 174.74 beta ones ...
Impossible opening nv4_disp.dll ... not good format ( in Vista 32 version ) and no nv4_disp.dll file in XP version.
May be i've not DL good versions.

 

[xdreamer]

Thanks ... but i let my 174.74 beta ones ...
Impossible opening nv4_disp.dll ... not good format ( in Vista 32 version ) and no nv4_disp.dll file in XP version.
May be i've not DL good versions.

Yes without proper .inf (not dll) file could be a bad version. But those links i posted have a proper .inf and have all the future "mobile only" versions. Nvidia now supports officially the other betas for all g92 cards, it was a long time they supported only gf 9 series with 174 drivers.

 

[Titus]

The version i've just DL on your link is already OK for 8800GS .

I'll try it booting on my XP32