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X1800XT PE BIOS on X1800XT
I've read through dozens of pages of forum dialog on the "Topic" and have
only heard success stories. My Sapphire X1800XT, however, will not run stably with the X1800XT PE BIOS. I suspected it wouldn't because of the less than mediocre overclocks I was getting with it running the standard BIOS. (this luck of the draw stuff on silicon that overclocks well never works out in my favor) I could barely hit 760mhz on the memory with the standard BIOS where many people were hitting 800 with absolutely no problem . With the X1800XT PE BIOS it will get through one sequence in 3DMark 05 at PE clocks before either texture corruption occurs or the GPU locks up. Has anyone else tried the X1800XT PE BIOS on their X1800XT? I hope I'm not the *only* one that has a X1800XT that's not stable at PE clocks. -- Tony DiMarzio |
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X1800XT PE BIOS on X1800XT
Start playing with voltage and, more importantly, memory timings for best
performance. To put things in perspective, though, from 760 MHz to 800 MHz is only a 5% increase. Many benchmarks have an error margin of +/- 2%. The psychological improvement is not worth the risk (and hassle), if it were my money. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Tony DiMarzio" wrote in message . .. I've read through dozens of pages of forum dialog on the "Topic" and have only heard success stories. My Sapphire X1800XT, however, will not run stably with the X1800XT PE BIOS. I suspected it wouldn't because of the less than mediocre overclocks I was getting with it running the standard BIOS. (this luck of the draw stuff on silicon that overclocks well never works out in my favor) I could barely hit 760mhz on the memory with the standard BIOS where many people were hitting 800 with absolutely no problem . With the X1800XT PE BIOS it will get through one sequence in 3DMark 05 at PE clocks before either texture corruption occurs or the GPU locks up. Has anyone else tried the X1800XT PE BIOS on their X1800XT? I hope I'm not the *only* one that has a X1800XT that's not stable at PE clocks. -- Tony DiMarzio |
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X1800XT PE BIOS on X1800XT
"First of One" wrote in message
news Start playing with voltage and, more importantly, memory timings for best performance. To put things in perspective, though, from 760 MHz to 800 MHz is only a 5% increase. Many benchmarks have an error margin of +/- 2%. The psychological improvement is not worth the risk (and hassle), if it were my money. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." Actually, I tend to agree with your philosophy on overclocking. In fact, it is not like me at all to even bother with an OverClock attempt any more. When I was younger I'd overclock my friggin sound card if I could; it was all about pushing the hardware as hard as I could with only minimal regard for stability. Now then I'm getting older I'm losing the nerve and patience for overclocking. I'd much rather have the peace of mind that the hardware is 100% stable. That said, on to overclocking! ( I know ... I'm a hypocrite ) I can bump the voltage using OverClocker tool, but this would only serve as a proof of concept. OverClocker will not let you change mem timings. ATI OverDrive won't let you change volts or timings. Really, all I want is 10K in 3dmark05. I'm sooo close! I'll have to reroute power from life support I guess. "Tony DiMarzio" wrote in message . .. I've read through dozens of pages of forum dialog on the "Topic" and have only heard success stories. My Sapphire X1800XT, however, will not run stably with the X1800XT PE BIOS. I suspected it wouldn't because of the less than mediocre overclocks I was getting with it running the standard BIOS. (this luck of the draw stuff on silicon that overclocks well never works out in my favor) I could barely hit 760mhz on the memory with the standard BIOS where many people were hitting 800 with absolutely no problem . With the X1800XT PE BIOS it will get through one sequence in 3DMark 05 at PE clocks before either texture corruption occurs or the GPU locks up. Has anyone else tried the X1800XT PE BIOS on their X1800XT? I hope I'm not the *only* one that has a X1800XT that's not stable at PE clocks. -- Tony DiMarzio |
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