X800 GTO² to X850 XT BIOS Mod

[Ombracol]

ati should be coming out with there new drivers soon with the 35% gain in opengl games i dont want to go thru that hassle again with the omega drivers so i am not sure i mean i am very happy with performance all my games play great and igf i get extra point in 3d mark ai really dont notice a difference cause there is only really 3 games that make use of the cards power doom3 quake 4 fear and some other games but not as much as those and they play great on my card

 

[Dynamic]

XeoNoX,
Those are the temps i'm getting too with my Zalman. Okay one thing i've noticed is that ATI TOOL puts ALOT of pressure on our video cards compared to the games we play. So you notice when you play Q4, Doom 3, or F.E.A.R your temps aren't that high? I was playing Quake 4 or Call of Duty 2 and my temps would be around 55c instead of the 64c i get trying to scan for artifacts with ATI TOOL .24 I can't remember if you were the one that put a 80mm fan right next to your video card or not. An efficient way would be water cooling really, cause with air this is the best it gets i guess.

ATI TOOL "Scan for Artifacts...
GPU:62-64c
GPU ENVIR: 40-42c
Same thing dudes, don't worry my 9800xt use to hit 74c w/o Silencer 3 and when i got it would shoot down around 65 i think.

 

[Dynamic]

ati should be coming out with there new drivers soon with the 35% gain in opengl games i dont want to go thru that hassle again with the omega drivers so i am not sure i mean i am very happy with performance all my games play great and igf i get extra point in 3d mark ai really dont notice a difference cause there is only really 3 games that make use of the cards power doom3 quake 4 fear and some other games but not as much as those and they play great on my card

Damn dude, chipset drivers, hmm... you must of been using your Windows XP for a long time. I usually reformat every 3-4 months, but going back to the Catalyst from Omega i only had to re-install my Sound Blaster Beta drivers, that's it. I thought 5.11 was suppose to implement the opengl fix, so what is this three drivers you're talking about?

 

[mascaras]

What I suggest is:

Find Max Core until you get a PERFECTLY stable clock.

Then, Find Max Mem. Keep your core at the stable clock. Also, change your mem timings like I did before you do either. It works great.





YOU PLAY AA BRO? WHAT UP? Add me to ur AAOTracker: -=DaNiSh+DeViL=-

danish in AA i am the -=[uP]EX_DOOM3D

 

[Trevor]

Alright I fixed my problem, I had ".bin" in the file name

3DMark05
4405 stock
4913 unlocked

I plan to OC it when I get better cooling

xD
so it was .bin.bin? I did the same thign

 

[Trevor]

XeoNoX,
Those are the temps i'm getting too with my Zalman. Okay one thing i've noticed is that ATI TOOL puts ALOT of pressure on our video cards compared to the games we play. So you notice when you play Q4, Doom 3, or F.E.A.R your temps aren't that high? I was playing Quake 4 or Call of Duty 2 and my temps would be around 55c instead of the 64c i get trying to scan for artifacts with ATI TOOL .24 I can't remember if you were the one that put a 80mm fan right next to your video card or not. An efficient way would be water cooling really, cause with air this is the best it gets i guess.

ATI TOOL "Scan for Artifacts...
GPU:62-64c
GPU ENVIR: 40-42c
Same thing dudes, don't worry my 9800xt use to hit 74c w/o Silencer 3 and when i got it would shoot down around 65 i think.

I noticed the EXACT same thing..
Load temps in ATiTool are around 10Cs higher then normal temps when playing games for hours.
But hey, that's good--Means it'll keep stable

 

[Ombracol]

Damn dude, chipset drivers, hmm... you must of been using your Windows XP for a long time. I usually reformat every 3-4 months, but going back to the Catalyst from Omega i only had to re-install my Sound Blaster Beta drivers, that's it. I thought 5.11 was suppose to implement the opengl fix, so what is this three drivers you're talking about?

i was talking about games there only three games that make you of all the performance of the card and asks for more i think there is still a lack of good graphical games out there that make usee of any topend card

 

[Ombracol]

got fan to work with xtpe bios you have to disable vivo with the bios editor for some reason i am not getting as high on my oc with the gto bios so after i edited the bios and disabled the vivo my fan kick on with out atitool

 

[Dynamic]

Ombracol,
I apologize, must of read through it really fast. Which games are you playing anyhow? I got Quake4, F.E.A.R, Doom3 (Not installed yet), Call of Duty 2, and Call of Duty. COD:1600X1200 4AA8AF, COD2:1024X768 High, Q4:1280x1024 High Quility, F.E.A.R:1024x768 @32bits pretty much maximum/medium settings. I'm quite happy with this mod, saved me alot. Thank you everyone and Wizzard.

 

[Dynamic]

Vivo? Encoding/Decoding....?

BTW, is anyone using their Vivo yet? I see two "Ati Vivo" in my sound drivers, but haven't gotten a clue how they work or perform. So what's the yellow connector next to the PCI-E connector? Do we connect anything to it? I know i can just google this and find out, but i want to hear it from you guys and see what you guys know.

 

[Ombracol]

Well Dynamic thanks to bittorrent I am pretty much playing all latest games Doom 3 i can play quake doom 3 at maximum quality but without aa i can but my frame rates are low with aa i play all games at 1280x1024 if you tweak the config file on fear you c also play it at 1280 1024 kept soft shadows off and aa at 2x and af at 8x worked real good but saw some frame drops whenever any parts of the game was out in bright light wich was more towards the end of the game and call of duty 2 i use what ever settings it detects and frames are reall goood at 60 fps and plays real good and then all other game full quality all the way

 

[kohan69]

Well Dynamic thanks to bittorrent I am pretty much playing all latest games Doom 3 i can play quake doom 3 at maximum quality but without aa i can but my frame rates are low with aa i play all games at 1280x1024 if you tweak the config file on fear you c also play it at 1280 1024 kept soft shadows off and aa at 2x and af at 8x worked real good but saw some frame drops whenever any parts of the game was out in bright light wich was more towards the end of the game and call of duty 2 i use what ever settings it detects and frames are reall goood at 60 fps and plays real good and then all other game full quality all the way

whats ur system?

 

[Ombracol]

whats ur system?

3.2 ghzht Sony Vaio Ra 800mhz fsb 1.5 gb pc3200 400mhz ddr mem
400 gig hd Intel 915p chipset wIN xP MEDIA cENTER
rEALTEK aLC880 hd AUDIO 5.1 OPTICAL SOUND
the cpu came with a heat pipe so fan spin real low sow it is real quiet but after i put my gto2 in i cranked the fan real high so the case and cpu run real cool
on a cold morning I can have my cpu at 38C for a couple hours but normal temp is 43 45
never over 50 on max load am i missing any spec.....I wanna get a new motherboard so I can crank up the cpu to 3.6ghz any recomendations it has to be micro atx thats the only down fall i oly have i pci port unoccupied cause I only have 4 slots

 

[DanishDevil]

Lol, on a hot day with my CPU on load for 6 hours I can keep it under 39C And with a little fooling, I got it to 216X11=2376MHz

My suggestion would be to get a whole new system. Upgrading a mobo in a pre-built system can be tough, especially if you don't have a retail or OEM copy of Windows XP (Pro).

 

[Ombracol]

Lol, on a hot day with my CPU on load for 6 hours I can keep it under 39C And with a little fooling, I got it to 216X11=2376MHz

My suggestion would be to get a whole new system. Upgrading a mobo in a pre-built system can be tough, especially if you don't have a retail or OEM copy of Windows XP (Pro).

pentium 4s run hot as ell.....but i spoke with microsoft they said to talk to them when i upgrade the mobo but if i cant use the same copy i will buid my own cause i have alot of good software from sony cause a mob is only 150 tops for a decent one we will see what happens ...before i had my fans up all the way i saw the pentium hit 60 durring the summer under load

 

[DanishDevil]

If you end up building your own, and don't know much about it, send me a PM. I am currently building systems for 4 friends, so I should be able to help you out.

 

[Ombracol]

thanks danish Ican put a pc together but I dont really know what hardware to get so if you can recomend some stuff that would be good....

 

[Muk]

Muk,

I didnt do a bios flash for my card, but im wondering if i do one i could increase the voltage for the GPU and maye it would stop crapping out, but seeing as it is an XL core ( i still have not taken off the heatsink to confirm this but seeing the default clock speeds they do match the XL) i doubt i would still be able to push it as far, it seems i can push my memory now to around 530mhz and i bumped up my core to 465, still smokes my old radeon 9800 pro.

The XL is positioned above the 800 Pro and x850 pro, below the x800XT. If you do have a R430 core, I believe the GTOs are using the same PCB as the XL/XT, so flashing an XL bios might give you some luck. Even the ones for the PCIe cards might work, since Rialtos transtation is supposed to be transparent to the card.

 

[DanishDevil]

thanks danish Ican put a pc together but I dont really know what hardware to get so if you can recomend some stuff that would be good....

Just toss me a PM when you're ready.

 

[DanishDevil]

I'll hopefully be able to sleeve my new PSU soon, and then I can see if using a true 3X12V+3XGnd PEC Power Cable helps vs. the adapter.

I assume it does. The adapter provides the card with one +12V lead and two grounds.
The "normal" one provides THREE +12V leads and THREE grounds. I guess we'll see.

BTW: Does anyone know what PCI-E Frequency actually does? I have mine set to 115MHz vs. the stock 100MHz.

 

[sh0ck]

IF I GOT:

CONFIG_DIE_FUSES 0xFFFFDFFF
CONFIG_SUBSTRATE 0xFFFFFF9E

I can't modd my card ?

why ? whats the 'CONFIG_DIE_FUSES' & 'CONFIG_SUBSTRATE' ??

this values cannot be changed ?

i got Sapphire x800gto 256/256

 

[Vergo]

You should've bought the GTO²..
It doesn't have the 480core

 

[decline]

this is one of six c3d x800 gto unlockables

any idea?...

 

[sh0ck]

On this card i can unlock 4 pipelines ? (i have 12, i want more)

 

[Megatron]

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=5215

Read the "Is my card moddable?" section.