Retro Sapphire HD2900 Pro...

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scorpio110367

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Hey fellas, for those that still have these cards, gotta question? I have the Sapphire HD2900 Pro 512-bit, 512MB DDR3 videocard and I just started to oc these bad boys tonight. CCC only got these cards to 800 core/ 900 memory... very stable cuz I got it running loops around '06 benchie. The question is are these good clocks for these cards? What were the XT's running at? CCC can only get me to 900 on the memory, but I think she's screaming for more. I have the oem hsf... and she put out hot air @ the back of my case. I forgot that these cards were R600 cores, meaning hot, hot, hot. The oem hsf can't keep up with the furnace. I'm gonna try to find something to cool these bad boyz down cuz you can really feel the heat from the back of the case. Don't know how to mess with rivatuner yet... lol.:confused:
 
I have the 1gig version of this (in a box of course; 2-3 generations old by this time): do you or are you using a 6 and 8 pin power connection? Because if you use two 6 pin connections, you will not be able to o/c through CCC. You would have to use a combo of ATItools, and riva tuner, and something else that I can't recall (been a while, so maybe I'm wrong).

Best place to get info for o/c comparisons; mods; bios'; and everything else under the sun would be over at extreme. They had some real hardcore afficionado's of this card back in the day. Even if the threads are no longer active; just the wealth of data over there should be of help to you.

Regarding heat: I'd set the fans at the highest level along with whatever additional cooling you could drum up- for the bios' on those cards were fubar'd regarding ramping up fan speed- been so long I can't remember the term for the energy-saving and whatever else that was supposed to be there, but wasn't or wasn't properly implemented. Again: over at extreme I recall some editing the bios'. Plus flashing with an XT bios.

Hope that helps,
Jean-Claude
 
other than the novelty of it, why are you using such an old card?

cards are dirt cheap these days.and those were pretty bad cards, even when they were new.
 
450 said:
Wasn't the 2900 ATi/AMD's answer to the 8800?
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Yep, and it failed. (well, except 3dmark06... if that counts as a game)

Ahh, 8800GTS320/640, 8800GTX/Ultra.

But then ATI came with the 3850 and nvidia with the 8800GT.

Good times :p E6600/Q6600...
 
and then the 4850 and 4870 xD
nvdia answered with a 250 260 275 etc etc ...
the war goes on and will keep going on.
 
Wasn't the HD2900 Pro/XT a rushed out product that was ATi's temp flagship, but was expensive to make and ran hot, then replaced by the HD3870 on a more mature process. But they were about equal in performance right?
 
funkydmunky said:
equal in performance right?
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Nope. The 3850/3870 competed great with the 8800's. Never really "won/topped" the benchmarks, but came at lower price points. I remember people coming from 78/7900's looking for cheap cards... everyone suggested the 3850.
 
Toms charts show the 2900XT to be = to the HD3870 and the 2900pro = to the HD3850. So +1 to my memory!
 
funkydmunky said:
Toms charts show the 2900XT to be = to the HD3870 and the 2900pro = to the HD3850. So +1 to my memory!
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Well rereading reviews when the 3850/3870 came out, the 2900XT seems to be inbetween the performance of the 3850/70 or faster, but these new cards were cheaper, and were cooler, etc. I'd image the pro would be around the 50 or slower.

I swore the 2900's were worse... just guess the 88GT was still keeping me happy (faster then all these cards here, including the GTS320/640).
 
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