X1800 series experiences / overclock results etc.

[Filip]

So, if load temp is under 70-75 card is safe?!

 

[Easy Rhino]

So, if load temp is under 70-75 card is safe?!

oh yea. ive cranked mine up to 90 for a good hour and it was fine. i think when it hits 93 it shuts it self down.

 

[Nitrogliserin]

yeah my x1800xt is hitting 93-94 at playing test drive unlimited.
I cant imagine the card that moment :S

 

[Aguiar]

Hi all...i want a x1800xtx crossfire edition,does someone know were i can get 1,cause i´ve searching and it seems to vanish from the face of the earth.Thank u for any info.

 

[pt]

http://www.kuantokusta.pt/Placas-Vi...hire-Radeon-X1800-CrossFire-512Mb-(PCI-E).php

too expensive to be worth it

 

[Easy Rhino]

yea way to expensive. i cant see too many people buying those considering the price of good dx10 cards to come soon.

 

[Aguiar]

Theyre very expensive...if you buy from a store,but i´m considering someone witch is doing a upgrade and want to sell is...

 

[Steevo]

76 @ 1.4core running F@H GPU 675Mhz.


No issues.

 

[Ripper3]

ATi factory made X1800GTO, still locked
Max. temp. of 74*c with Accelero X2
VGPU @ 1.4V
MVDDC @ 2.201V
MVDDQ @ 2.001V
Memory timings much much looser than stock

With all of this, I can manage:
GPU @ 695MHz
Mem @ 693MHz (1386MHz)

Any higher voltages, and I reach the point of dimished returns. With 1.425V I can only reach 702 GPU, and 703 Mem, but with some occasional artifacting and higher temps, but I can also reach these speeds with the current voltage, with only a little more artifacting.

 

[yogurt_21]

pretty sweet oc on air cooling, whats the performance improvement over stock speeds, just curious.

 

[Ripper3]

I haven't tested it extensively with benchmarks at this speed, but for reference:
With catalyst 7.2, and stock cooler, no volts added, in 3DM05 and with the system in my specs on teh left;
No OC (500/500): 6690
Small OC (546/500): 7070
Not huge, but a nice little increase, from just a simple 46MHz on the GPU.
When I upped the voltages a little I managed to get: 600/666 (heheheh, twas the max actually), but still with stock cooling and very small voltage increase.
At 600/666: 7763

This GPU really speeds up nicely and does improve alot more than I expected. Even without the extra pipeline quad though, it manages Oblivion at 1280x1024, HDR, 16xAF (cba for AA), and Ultra-High settings with an average of, I'd say, about 35fps. It dips to 25fps when outisde, looking at a large forrest from a high hill.
Definately beats my old 6600 (which could still manage 1280x1024 with 8xAF and Medium settings with 25fps average, dipping to 15, which is still kinda playable to me)

Also, I think I could probably lower my temps with some extra air circulating my case, it's not quite got the air circulation of my old case (two 120mm fans one up front, one at the back, and side vent in front of GPU, and an 80mm in front of my CPU), but will probably improve when I get the other fans I ordered.
I'd love to get watercooling, but I doubt I can get it with £25, heh.

What d'you get with that overclock btw?

 

[Filip]

I haven't tested it extensively with benchmarks at this speed, but for reference:
With catalyst 7.2, and stock cooler, no volts added, in 3DM05 and with the system in my specs on teh left;
No OC (500/500): 6690
Small OC (546/500): 7070
Not huge, but a nice little increase, from just a simple 46MHz on the GPU.
When I upped the voltages a little I managed to get: 600/666 (heheheh, twas the max actually), but still with stock cooling and very small voltage increase.
At 600/666: 7763

This GPU really speeds up nicely and does improve alot more than I expected. Even without the extra pipeline quad though, it manages Oblivion at 1280x1024, HDR, 16xAF (cba for AA), and Ultra-High settings with an average of, I'd say, about 35fps. It dips to 25fps when outisde, looking at a large forrest from a high hill.
Definately beats my old 6600 (which could still manage 1280x1024 with 8xAF and Medium settings with 25fps average, dipping to 15, which is still kinda playable to me)

Also, I think I could probably lower my temps with some extra air circulating my case, it's not quite got the air circulation of my old case (two 120mm fans one up front, one at the back, and side vent in front of GPU, and an 80mm in front of my CPU), but will probably improve when I get the other fans I ordered.
I'd love to get watercooling, but I doubt I can get it with £25, heh.

What d'you get with that overclock btw?

Voltages?

 

[Ripper3]

I think I had it at 1.3V GPU and 1.9V MVDDC and 1.9V MVDDQ for 600/666, or something similar to those voltages. I was trying to be a little conservative with that overclock in terms of temperatures and voltages.
546/500 was on stock voltages I believe, although I wouldnt be surprised if I did end up upping the GPU voltage a bit for that.

 

[Filip]

If anybody have sapphire ati radeon x1800gto with samsung 2.0 memory, please upload your original bios!? What are stock voltages of gpu? Tnx advance

 

[Pandaz3]

In my rig #2, I just replaced my ATI X850 Pro AGP, a 256 card (540, 590), with a ASUS X1800 XT 512 card stock at (594, 693)

(I have a ASRock 939 Dual VSTA motherboard that has both AGP and PCI-E slots)

I really see a difference and it makes me happy, meanwhile the clocked X850 Pro will replace my unclocked 9500 Pro in a Abit UL8 board

I just loaded the 7.5 cats on this and my X1950 XTX the only difference I see is they now package Steam and Earthsim downloads.

 

[Ripper3]

OH God, they now include EarthSim, as well as Steam?
I hate EarthSim, most useless program ever, unless you pay for the upgrade.
I already have Steam, what will it do if you already have Steam, or can you choose not to install the extra programs?

 

[Pandaz3]

You can deselect both of them

 

[Nitrogliserin]

countdown to death for my card :S

1.4vgpu 2.097vdimm 680/780 accelero x2 cooler :S

 

[Nitrogliserin]

dont worry its still alive

 

[Pandaz3]

Glad to hear your card is still plugging away!

I bought a second X1800XT and tried them on a Abit AT8 32X Cossfire board thinking I coud get them to work with the latest Cats in Crossfire.

No I couldn't

and I picked up a X1900XT too.

 

[Easy Rhino]

Glad to hear your card is still plugging away!

I bought a second X1800XT and tried them on a Abit AT8 32X Cossfire board thinking I coud get them to work with the latest Cats in Crossfire.

No I couldn't

and I picked up a X1900XT too.

really?? that is the mobo i use but i only have 1 1800xt. dumb question but did you make sure to get the right crossfire edition card??

 

[Pandaz3]

No I did not have a X1800 Crossfire edition, I have a ASUS and Sapphire 512 editions of ot the X1800 XT, and I looked low and high for an answer as to whether you could use them via software, and the general was NO. but no one knew for sure. I know my setup won't work.

I did know of the hardware stipulation, but that had been around since the X1800's existance, and with the newer Cat drivers using software Crossfire, no one seemed to know for sure if it would or would not work with two X1800 series.

I did get the Abit splash screen which was correctly rendered, and it indicated it would enter setup if (For my Abit motherboard) I pushed the delete key, but it would not actually enter setup, just go to the next screen in the post sequence and Hang.

I should not have mentioned the 1900 XT, as it was just to replace one of the 1800 XT's to free up the 1800 for my Crossfire project.

I have really given up on finding a reasonable 1800 Crossfire edition (It is not worth much more than a 1800 XT to me). Instead I will seek a Crossfire capable 1900 series.

I just want to use the dual GPU folding client, which will only work with ATI based cards.

(I do use the single GPU client on my X1800 XT and it works well, but the X1900 XT is a monster at folding)

At least someone has attempted to use X1800 XT's in software Crossfire and now we know for sure there is a hardware limitation that cannot be overcome without a dedicated X1800 Crossfire card.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Oh great a X1800XT series club - count me in!!!!!!


GeCube X1800XT 512Mb

Ive run it at gpu: 682Mhz Mem: 783

but I think my PSU is holding me back a lot as i literally squeezing every single bit of power out of it as soon as my pc boots up with the amount of hardware i got connected up to it.

will have to get that sorted soon the possibly try o/c again

 

[MadDias]

last few days for my x1800´s

i was just browsing this forum looking for atitool updates and stumbled across this thread.
i´m a proud owner of a x1800 crossfire rig
owning three of them

x1800xt 256mb (350euro in feb2006)
x1800xt 512mb (290euro in dec2006)
x1800crossfire edition (250euro in nov2006)

the 256mb was my first card, followed by the cf-edition card. but a 256mb card and the cf-edition card didn´t really work well together.
oc stopped at 690/790

so i had to get another 512mb card, which was more expensive than the cf card.
and they are running 732/850 in cf since i put them under waterblocks.

if u wanna see some benchmarks check out my overclocking database entry over at diy-street (former dfi-street).

i will get two shiny new hd2900pro´s next week. so if ur from germany (or wanna pay ridicolous high shipping fees) and want to buy one of these cards, send me a pm.

 

[Nitrogliserin]

x1800 is still cool for me
It can play well every game except dx10