peta01
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Processor | AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (OC 2500 MHz) |
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Motherboard | Abit AN8 Ultra - passive northbridge cooling via heatpipe |
Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 48 (almost 1 kg of copper :) ) |
Memory | 1GB RAM (2x512 DDR, CL2, running at 137 MHz) |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire X800GTO2 (510/585, 16p) AC ATI Silencer |
Storage | 320 GB Seagate, 200 GB Western Digital, 120 GB Seagate |
Display(s) | LG 22" LCD Panel |
Case | Chieftec blue bigtower with additional cooling |
Audio Device(s) | AC97 raiser card on mainboard |
Power Supply | Chieftec 360W |
Software | WinXP SP2, sometimes Vista Ultimate x64 |
Pipes Unlocking
I have been searching the way how to unlock pipes on R430 for a long time. The result is that it is impossible, if your pipes are locked directly on die. And 99% 12 pipes R430 cards have the last quad locked on die.:shadedshu
Overclocking
This is maybe the most sad thing on R430 core. You will not get stable OC higher than 440 MHz. Lot of R430 cant hit even 420 Mhz. My old Sapphire 9600Pro runs at higher core frequency than my new X800np The only way how to push it litle higher is to do Vmod. But this is only for people equiped with multimeter. With the Vmod you can get between 30 and 40 MHz more.
So what can I do?
I am sorry for this pessimistic article. To make you little happy I will tell you how to incease you card speed by flashing the bios. I dont know why, but R430 cards work faster with R480 bios. The difference is about 200 points in 3D Mark 05. Try to find a bios for R480 core that matches your card configuration and flash it. Be careful, this is on your own risk. I do not guarantee that this will work on all R430 card and that it wont damage your card. To be sure prepare PCI gfx before flashing.
If someone will try this, please post here your 3D Mark 05 result before and after flash. I tried it and I'm happy
I have been searching the way how to unlock pipes on R430 for a long time. The result is that it is impossible, if your pipes are locked directly on die. And 99% 12 pipes R430 cards have the last quad locked on die.:shadedshu
Overclocking
This is maybe the most sad thing on R430 core. You will not get stable OC higher than 440 MHz. Lot of R430 cant hit even 420 Mhz. My old Sapphire 9600Pro runs at higher core frequency than my new X800np The only way how to push it litle higher is to do Vmod. But this is only for people equiped with multimeter. With the Vmod you can get between 30 and 40 MHz more.
So what can I do?
I am sorry for this pessimistic article. To make you little happy I will tell you how to incease you card speed by flashing the bios. I dont know why, but R430 cards work faster with R480 bios. The difference is about 200 points in 3D Mark 05. Try to find a bios for R480 core that matches your card configuration and flash it. Be careful, this is on your own risk. I do not guarantee that this will work on all R430 card and that it wont damage your card. To be sure prepare PCI gfx before flashing.
If someone will try this, please post here your 3D Mark 05 result before and after flash. I tried it and I'm happy