Any one here use Viper John??

Ok here are a few pics...Ill get better ones soon.....I dont have the card installled, and probably wont be able to install it till next week...Im kinda busy the nest few days :)


Before









After :)













You can see the fan controller in the last pic...he did that for "free" :)

Nice work though, I just sent him a blank 51/4 bay cover and he installed the potentiometer and the Digital readout.....


EDIT: I know my name is visilbe in the pics...and i really dont care :)
 
wow looks nice what are ur 3d mark scores or hl2 stress test. myx800 xt can go above 530/550 i would send it to him if he charged like 30 bucks but 250 dang he must be a big time professional! i wonder how he got started cuz its a very intresting buissness.
 
My 3DM 05 was 5071 before he worked on it, Now its 7051.....
A nice improvement....
 
Yeah, that's an understatement. That's a mighty fine jump right there. :eek:
 
Crosshairs said:
My 3DM 05 was 5071 before he worked on it, Now its 7051.....
A nice improvement....
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what ??only 5000 on a x850 xr pe? my XL got higher .... my XT runs 6000 stock and 6400 o/c im sure you can get some performance boost by runnning driver cleaner.
 
tvdang7 said:
what ??only 5000 on a x850 xr pe? my XL got higher .... my XT runs 6000 stock and 6400 o/c im sure you can get some performance boost by runnning driver cleaner.
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Yeah..My bad..It was 6171.....I must have blacked out for a minute..:).....
I had to look at the "post your benchmark" thread to see what it was....
And its an X800...not an 850...
 
Crosshairs said:
Yeah..My bad..It was 6171.....I must have blacked out for a minute..:).....
I had to look at the "post your benchmark" thread to see what it was....
And its an X800...not an 850...
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You must be a little disapointed spending $250 and only getting a 1000 point boost? : /
 
whoami said:
Atleast he can afford it.
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Regardless. It's not like I was asking if he was pissed off at only getting that much increase, because even if you can afford something, you aren't imune to disapointment. : /
 
Nuzzles said:
Regardless. It's not like I was asking if he was pissed off at only getting that much increase, because even if you can afford something, you aren't imune to disapointment. : /
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Ever thought people do things because they can? Clearly you are jealous because you can't.
 
ViperJohn does some of the best modding work available, if you want the absolute max performance from your video card, you send it to ViperJohn, the guys works miracles :)
 
R1ckCa1n said:
Ever thought people do things because they can? Clearly you are jealous because you can't.
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Of course I've thought of such a thing, it's rediculous to even insinuate I haven't. But even if you do something because you can, doesn't mean there's a 0% chance you're not going to like it. Example: I cut a design into my case, when even though it's just a side panel, which can easily be covered up if I don't like it, I'm disapointed that I couldn't have done a better job. I can afford to replace/remedy it, but I'm still disapointed in the final product.
 
Nuzzles said:
Of course I've thought of such a thing, it's rediculous to even insinuate I haven't. But even if you do something because you can, doesn't mean there's a 0% chance you're not going to like it. Example: I cut a design into my case, when even though it's just a side panel, which can easily be covered up if I don't like it, I'm disapointed that I couldn't have done a better job. I can afford to replace/remedy it, but I'm still disapointed in the final product.
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Think you should just not post anymore.

Save yourself while you're still in shallow waters. hightide coming soon son, run.


Anywho, Nice videocard, and so far I've hard alot about ViperJohn, if he could do something to my 6800Go in my laptop, i'd send it to him!
 
Nuzzles said:
You must be a little disapointed spending $250 and only getting a 1000 point boost? : /
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I dont know if disapointed is the right word......I knew before I got it back what the benchmarks were gonna be.
He test's each card for stability and overclockability.and sends the results to you ahead of time.

My card was not one of the better ones.Just average...its a crap shoot, just like a CPU.

The card is an absolute piece of art, and more stable than it has ever been..
Anyone here that has one of his cards knows what I mean.

He got the most out of this card, and thats good enough for me.

Also, the mods are removable. if I were to send him an XT850 next month, most of the parts are reusable, so I think he quoted me about $85-100 to demod this card, and mod the new one....

Overall, im VERY happy with the results and I doubt that there is another individual that does work anywhere near as good as John.
 
I've had VJ mod 3 or 4 cards for me and he'll probably be doing another in the next few weeks.

He does really great work!
 
whoami said:
Think you should just not post anymore.

Save yourself while you're still in shallow waters. hightide coming soon son, run.


Anywho, Nice videocard, and so far I've hard alot about ViperJohn, if he could do something to my 6800Go in my laptop, i'd send it to him!
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He makes a valid point. All your doing is flaming him.
 
Hey Crosshairs. :)

What were/are your max clocks be4 & after sending the card to John? And what were your temps like?

I'd like to have him volt mod my card only. I don't like his coolers and ramsinks, no offence but they are fugly. But my card could definitely use some more volts. :D
 
Mister E said:
Hey Crosshairs. :)

What were/are your max clocks be4 & after sending the card to John? And what were your temps like?

I'd like to have him volt mod my card only. I don't like his coolers and ramsinks, no offence but they are fugly. But my card could definitely use some more volts. :D
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I bought the card used so before he go the card, it had been modded by what turned out to be a butcher :)

It would not go past 520/560 no matter what I did.....now it clocks at 615/582 with no problems..... His exact words were "Terrible modded memory OC. Softer memory timings did not help indicating the core memory interface is killing the memory OC and not the chips themselves"...

Even though the OC did not go as high as these cards usualy go, The stability I gained is well worth the money I spent.....My card was a little unstable even at stock clocks before..I learned that this was due to the previous "volt mod"...Whoever did it, really butchered up the traces on the board, and it was causing all sorts of problems in games...

My load temps are in the high 40's very low 50's.....Before, I had a Zalmann and they would hover around 60 ish , so his cooling mods really do the job.....
I plan on sending him an X850XT-PE soon, so I hope to get a better OC out of that one..
 
hey i know this is an old thread, but im considering doing a mod like viperjohn does, only to my card, is that heatsink he put on the core basically an old AXP heatsink, with the copper core square on the bottom and the aluminum fins, and a box type mounting thing for a 60mm fan?

Also how does he mount the 40mm fans to those heatsinks.

Again, anyone know where he gets those black sinks he mounts on the memory and power components?
 
the memory heatsinks are held on with a type of "reverse" vise I think... the chips are almost opposit of each other so you are able to do this.

basically two arms with a fulcrum in the middle and a screw that moves them farther away on one end... and together with pressure on the other end.

harder to explain then it is to study the pictures of his cards.
 
My card can do 620/620 with no volt mod, on water though... 600/600 on stock single slot air cooling.
 
i have respect for what viperjohn does...takes little work on his part but huge monetary return...i used to do the same thing with HIDs
 
Mayhs said:
woah this is an old thread...is viper still around?
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You bet he is.....He has done 2 more cards for me since I started this thread.........The man knows his shit :)
 
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