Tkpenalty's X1950~HD4k Clubhouse

[mitsirfishi]

550watt should do the job aslong as you have strong 12v+ rails

 

[tkpenalty]

This is another random question but have ATI fixed the drivers yet for AGP X1950?

Yes... 7.9s fixed it up.

 

[grunt_408]

Oh o.k I will give it a go.... I have heard of someone getting a blank screen after re-start with 7.9 drivers..with the HIS X1950 pro AGP Card.

 

[DaMulta]

OK guys what would happen if I ran the GDDR4 naked?

 

[BlackDevilOR]

That PSU would be sufficient. Honestly, I would instead grab a "Generic" PSU that is manufactured by seasonic, due to the fact that they are built under the same quality. However, I wouldnt cheap out on the PSU... if you can save up, hold off the X1950PRO and PSU for now, until you have enough funds for the VX450.

BlackDevilOR, add your system specs, go to your control panel, I just dont really like scrolling up and down continuosly to check for your system specifications.

Well the card has already been bought by a friend of mine in Germany. He'll bring it from there when he comes back home this Saturday...
I think i'll have a look around the city tomorrow and visit a couple of stores to see what PSU's they have in stock.

I added my system specs

btw ... what problems were there with the previous drivers for the agp x1950 ?

 

[mandelore]

OK guys what would happen if I ran the GDDR4 naked?

severe severe artifacting and ultimatley death.


please dont be mean to your new card

 

[AphexDreamer]

severe severe artifacting and ultimatley death.


please dont be mean to your new card

So does GDDR 4 run hotter then GDDR3 or are they practicly the same?

 

[DaMulta]

severe severe artifacting and ultimatley death.


please dont be mean to your new card

They run GDDR3 naked


I wish the new cards were like this

 

[mandelore]

They run GDDR3 naked


I wish the new cards were like this

huh? on a 2900?? no.. there is a plate that goes over the ram chips....with that soft ram shit they always stick between em

 

[mandelore]

well just to say, even if you dont kill it, you wont be overclocking it anytime soon, better cooling allowed a much higher oc for me, so i imagine even without the stock cooling stock speeds or slightly above may be an issue..

 

[DaMulta]

I wish they did what they did with the X1950xtx. Have sep heatsinks for the ram.

 

[mandelore]

what appears to be the problem mate? are you moving to a non-stock cooler? or watercooling the gpu?

what about trying low profile ramsinks like zalman ones?

 

[DaMulta]

The block I have is just for the GPU. I hate the Zalman heatsinks...so I have spend more $$$$.

 

[tkpenalty]

Um DaMulta, the HD2900 doesnt require the ram plate to be removed... you can install the water block without removing the ram cooling. You only need to remove the plastic shield as well as the copper block. Nothing else.

 

[DaMulta]

Have any pics of that...I don't have the cards yet.

First one will be here tomorrow most likely.

 

[DOM]

Have any pics of that...I don't have the cards yet.

First one will be here tomorrow most likely.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a154/eastcoasthandle/HD2900/2900_Maze4.jpg


http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=31121

 

[DaMulta]

Sweet

 

[DaMulta]

Hell yea my block is going to work

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[Widjaja]

Oh o.k I will give it a go.... I have heard of someone getting a blank screen after re-start with 7.9 drivers..with the HIS X1950 pro AGP Card.

I think I read the thread at tech powerup too.
Then someone else said it has problems with AGP/Vista but not AGP/XP.

I installed 7.9cat about an hour ago and ran through NFSMW, NFSC, V8 Supercars 3, Dark Messiah and 3dmark06.
Appears even smoother in the Need for speed series, no noticable differences in the other two games.
3dmark06 went up from 5002 to 5004 with my rig at 2.45Ghz. . . . .yay.

Not an impressive improvement but an improvement none the less.

 

[tkpenalty]

Haha... Oh well. And Da multa, if you remove that plate, consider that you will have to buy heaps of heatsinks for EVERY VRM chip... the Memory can run naked however. But honestly, its not worth removing it. I'd love to see some results though.

 

[DaMulta]

One of my friends forgot to put heat sinks on the VR(X1950Master) and it spit out a 1in flame and welded the card LOL

 

[tkpenalty]

One of my friends forgot to put heat sinks on the VR(X1950Master) and it spit out a 1in flame and welded the card LOL

 

[DaMulta]

I have just learned that the PROS have an aluminum heat sink instead of the copper one.

 

[tkpenalty]

they do? I doubt it, unless you got the card.

 

[Widjaja]

I have just learned that the PROS have an aluminum heat sink instead of the copper one.

I hope AMD/ATi aint going to start cheaping out after this hard year for them.
Last thing we all need is for AMD/ATi to call it quits.

There needs to be that competiton between Intel/nVidia and AMD/ATi to keep technology progressing.