Performance boost for X800 GT cards with R480 GPU

[bourne]

Well i got my Zalman VF700-Cu, and with this new VGA cooler i can already see an improvement as far as how far my Max Core/Mem settings go.

With the stock cooling I used to get Max Core:590 and Max Mem:612.
And now with the new cooler alone my Max Core went to 596 and my Max Mem went to 618.

Now i'm wondering how much more my Max Settings will go up once i flash my card with the modded BIOS. (By the way, i did find out that my core is in fact an R480 and that my Memory is Samsung 2.0ns).

So as soon as i flash my card with the modded BIOS provided by shadow i will post any results.

Cya's

 

[Silver-Arrow]

Interesting......You got to 612mhz on Samsung 2.0 memory?

 

[bourne]

Interesting......You got to 612mhz on Samsung 2.0 memory?

Yes Sir, 618 with the new cooler.

 

[jeanmi75]

voila voila j'ai demonté ma HIS, c'est de la samsung 2ns et pas de trace de laser-cut sur le R480....

Une idée pour les pipes,enfin en janvier il y a la X1900!

 

[ShadowFlare]

voila voila j'ai demonté ma HIS, c'est de la samsung 2ns et pas de trace de laser-cut sur le R480....

Une idée pour les pipes,enfin en janvier il y a la X1900!

Hmm, I don't understand any language other than English, but it looks like you are talking about a HIS X800 GT with a R480 chip and 2 ns memory. Is that correct? If I'm correct in what I thought you were saying and your card is not the one with the large heatsink/fan, then post your bios, please. If it is the HIS X800 GT with the large heatsink/fan, you could use the modded HIS bios I posted.

 

[jeanmi75]

hello,
I have a card effectively with a big radiator.
I have try the modified bios already but I always had only 8 pipes.
On the other hand the card becomes well a X800GTO with a R480
here is my original's copy.
Thank you for your help
jeanmi75

 

[Frank]

I need a Bios for my Club3D X800GT

Hallo Shadowflare, i need a new Bios for my Club3D X800GT with a R480 Chip and Samsung DDR-3 Chips (2.0). The Bios Date is 26 July 2005, Bios-Version and Part-Nummber is the same like the Powercolor X800GT. The Design is equal, but when I upgrade my bios with your file "Powercolor.X800GT_R480....", then I get an Error.

Do you moddify my Bios with with the right subvendor-ID of my Club3d-Card?

Thank you very much an best regards

Frank

 

[ShadowFlare]

hello,
I have a card effectively with a big radiator.
I have try the modified bios already but I always had only 8 pipes.
On the other hand the card becomes well a X800GTO with a R480
here is my original's copy.
Thank you for your help
jeanmi75

Sorry, there doesn't seem to be any X800 GT cards with R480 chips that are unlockable.

So you flashed to the modded HIS X800 GT bios I posted, right? I checked your bios and it is indeed identical to the original that I have in a file. Have you checked yet to see if it gave you a performance boost? (it most likely did)

 

[ShadowFlare]

Hallo Shadowflare, i need a new Bios for my Club3D X800GT with a R480 Chip and Samsung DDR-3 Chips (2.0). The Bios Date is 26 July 2005, Bios-Version and Part-Nummber is the same like the Powercolor X800GT. The Design is equal, but when I upgrade my bios with your file "Powercolor.X800GT_R480....", then I get an Error.

Do you moddify my Bios with with the right subvendor-ID of my Club3d-Card?

Thank you very much an best regards

Frank

OK, I've posted a modded bios for you; go to the first post to find it.

I looked up X800 GTO cards with that subvendor ID in the driver's .inf file and used the device ID and subsystem ID from the R480 one with that subvendor ID. That's what I've been doing for all of these bios mods to R480.

 

[jeanmi75]

Sorry, there doesn't seem to be any X800 GT cards with R480 chips that are unlockable.

So you flashed to the modded HIS X800 GT bios I posted, right? I checked your bios and it is indeed identical to the original that I have in a file. Have you checked yet to see if it gave you a performance boost? (it most likely did)

Thank you for the answer.
In fact I have win a little performance with the modified bios, but I think that it is of the to the fact that the drivers catalyst is more effective when he/it recognizes
a R480 chip.
It is true that the card turns turns well in O/C to 685/685.
No luck for the pipes!
thank you

 

[erictan77]

thankx shadow flare

thank you for your reply. now my card is runing good that before flash firmware. 3d bechmark 2005 result higher that before flash. but 1 thing is the memory chip is very hot. so stick heatsink in my memory chipset. U known i check the internet regarding my saphire x800gto now become gto2.

 

[Matthew]

i have seen in download section bios for sapphire 800gt 256M.... it is added 6 january...
what new features is in this bios?
can this bios give boost performance on my vga?
i have a sapphire x800gt memory samsung 2.0ns and "X800SE" core.

thanks

 

[erictan77]

haloo matthew, my sapphire 800gto 256mb samsung the clock speed and ???? (sorry i can't remember) when i update the firmware i can't get the 16pipeline i only can get is my clock speed and ??? higher that before... only is the memory chip is very easy hot...... i have search in web regarding the clock speed and ??? is gto2..
thank you.

 

[Patrol]

Anyone tried to use this http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/Powercolor.X800GTO.256.Samsung20_050907.bin bios on pcolor x800gt?

 

[gregor1230]

@Shadowflare
Hello. I have question about modding the bios from x800gt 256mb sapphire (AGP, r420) . Could you do anything with my oryginall bios ??? Perhaps some performance gain ??Thank you in advance.

 

[ShadowFlare]

This mod is only for ones that improperly show as R423 chips, not R420. There is still a possibility of unlocking pipelines, though. Post your fuses data on the thread for that, since posts about pipelines unlocking would be off topic in this thread.

 

[rage]

hi shadowflare, my club3d X800RX (gt) was showing as a r423 core in atitool.but when i removed my gpu cooler 4 installing a artic 5 rev2 i readed r480 on it. so what u thougt in the beginning of this thread is tru. i used the club3d 16ppl bios flash and my card is now reconaised as a X800GTO with a 480 core in atitool. but my ppl are still 8 .
and an other strange thing is that atitool won't show me the fuses info
not before and not after the flash. i got the fielin that the performance raised a bit.don't know how must,i ditn't benchmarked it.
any id about the fuses stuff?

 

[ShadowFlare]

hi shadowflare, my club3d X800RX (gt) was showing as a r423 core in atitool.but when i removed my gpu cooler 4 installing a artic 5 rev2 i readed r480 on it. so what u thougt in the beginning of this thread is tru. i used the club3d 16ppl bios flash and my card is now reconaised as a X800GTO with a 480 core in atitool. but my ppl are still 8 .
and an other strange thing is that atitool won't show me the fuses info
not before and not after the flash. i got the fielin that the performance raised a bit.don't know how must,i ditn't benchmarked it.
any id about the fuses stuff?

You need to hold shift when clicking settings. (well, unless you have the newest beta version which doesn't require you to do that)

 

[rage]

damn that easy.thanks!!! only i didn't like what i see
it shows: config_die fuses 0xFFFF3FFF
config_substrate_fuses 0xFFFFFF9D

there suposed too be al F too unlease all 16 pipes right?
can i hardmod this by soldering the cut fuses or is this in the core itself??

thank u 4 tellin me

 

[ShadowFlare]

damn that easy.thanks!!! only i didn't like what i see
it shows: config_die fuses 0xFFFF3FFF
config_substrate_fuses 0xFFFFFF9D

there suposed too be al F too unlease all 16 pipes right?
can i hardmod this by soldering the cut fuses or is this in the core itself??

thank u 4 tellin me

Sorry, there aren't any known hardware mods for unlocking them on R480 chips.

 

[rage]

Sorry, there aren't any known hardware mods for unlocking them on R480 chips.

noooooooooooooooooooo!!!

wel gotta save some money 4 a new graphs card then

thanks

(or i must be the fist one to find it )

 

[stead]

confused

hi, well, i've gone and purchased a gecube x800gt 128mb ddr pci express card (a while ago) and since have stumbled across this forum, and now i'm curious, do these mods actually make a difference? i mean, will it actually help games run slightly better even if its 1% or is it just something that makes things like 3dmark make it look better?

so anywho loaded up ati tool, and i see that my card runs at 500/350, which seems fine, this is the default on the card, i ahven't done anything, i've managed to have the core running at 550 with seemingly no problems. apart from it run hotter...so i let it run at default again of 500(well 499.50 accordig to ati tool..)

what i don't get is i'm sure i've read that the core should be 475? or did i imagine that?

ati tools also shows it as a r423 core, i'm a bit new at all this and also confused! does that mean it can be flashed to work as a r480 core? also, does it unlock the pipelines to 12? or just change it so the driver works with the card as a r480 core instead of a r423, as thats the impression i'm getting..

i've included my bios as in the first post i'm also sure i read if you have the 128mb version upload it! so i did

sorry if this post is just annoying people! but i'm curious

 

[ShadowdogKGB]

do these mods actually make a difference? i mean, will it actually help games run slightly better even if its 1% or is it just something that makes things like 3dmark make it look better?

My 3d'05 scores went from 4400's to a solid 5k. Does it help in games? Yes it does. But it's not huge. I mean, these bios mods won't turn it into a 7800GTX. They just simply allow the card to perform at it's full potential. But even at stock speeds and bios these cards are plenty capable for most.

 

[rage]

what i don't get is i'm sure i've read that the core should be 475? or did i imagine that?

ati tools also shows it as a r423 core, i'm a bit new at all this and also confused! does that mean it can be flashed to work as a r480 core? also, does it unlock the pipelines to 12? or just change it so the driver works with the card as a r480 core instead of a r423, as thats the impression i'm getting..

mine X800GT showed also as a r423 but in fact it was a R480..the only way too know fore sure is to demount the cooler,and look at the core.if you want to overclock it,you can mount a different cooler like a artic cooling 5 rev.2.i use it too,works great.if it's a r480 you can find a optimalisation bios flash fore it here on the forum.but i don't know if it's also in 128
MB version.if you have it overclocked,you might be able to turn on or increase some image enhancing features like AA and AF without losing in framerate.

 

[ShadowFlare]

hi, well, i've gone and purchased a gecube x800gt 128mb ddr pci express card (a while ago) and since have stumbled across this forum, and now i'm curious, do these mods actually make a difference? i mean, will it actually help games run slightly better even if its 1% or is it just something that makes things like 3dmark make it look better?

so anywho loaded up ati tool, and i see that my card runs at 500/350, which seems fine, this is the default on the card, i ahven't done anything, i've managed to have the core running at 550 with seemingly no problems. apart from it run hotter...so i let it run at default again of 500(well 499.50 accordig to ati tool..)

what i don't get is i'm sure i've read that the core should be 475? or did i imagine that?

ati tools also shows it as a r423 core, i'm a bit new at all this and also confused! does that mean it can be flashed to work as a r480 core? also, does it unlock the pipelines to 12? or just change it so the driver works with the card as a r480 core instead of a r423, as thats the impression i'm getting..

i've included my bios as in the first post i'm also sure i read if you have the 128mb version upload it! so i did

sorry if this post is just annoying people! but i'm curious

Post your fuses data from ATITool so I can be sure about what core your card has. Its default clock speed is well beyond what R430 chips can handle, so that eliminates those as a possibility. The only other possibility is that it could be a R423, as it says. From the fuses data, it is possible to distinguish between R423 and R480.