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pmrdij
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some information about this product for those of whom visit this forum and are considering this card:
i've been able to get my card (from Newegg) to 650/700 with 1.325v/2.225v using W1zzards ATI Tool. ATi CCC only provides 575/550 as the max OC's if i remember correctly. at any rate i looped through FEAR, Doom3 and 3DMark03 "Nature" tests and never saw a temp higher than 58C last night (it was cold indoors to begin with - maybe 23C).
***cooling information/rant***
i've got a Zalman VF900-CU on the GPU with some trusty old Tweakmonster Copper Nickel plated BGA sinks on the Memory. used the TM's because for the life of me blue Ramsinks DO NOT look nice on red PCB (wish Zalman considered this when putting such with the VF900-CU - i would have been a lot happier with aluminum sinks painted to look, and poorly, like copper) and on that same note, aesthetically speaking, the Ramsinks from both Vantec and Thermaltake have a goofy looking design and while i'm at it none of them can hold a candle to the Swiftech BGA Ramsinks but those are to tall to fit under the VF900-CU fins.
***end cooling information/rant***
so far my results are pleasing as i've seen about a doubling of my FPS with every title at the same AA/AF settings from my old X850 XT running at 580/594. i run 1280x1024@32 with 4xAA w/AAA Quality and 16xAF w/HQ AF.
i can confirm issues with flashing this card as i encountered the same problem where after flashing to the XT PE i could not install either the 6.7 or 6.8 Catalyst drivers due to an INF not found error. about the sametime i ran into this another person in the Techpowerup.com forums posted of the same issue. another note for everyone out there --> after i flashed successfully to the XT PE and finding out that not a driver out there knew what to do with it going backwards to the XT BIOS or back to the GTO2 BIOS resulted in screen corruption after successful flashing (i flashed in DOS using the current ATIFLASH). scared the @#%! out of me
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- Robert (PmR)DeathInJune
i've been able to get my card (from Newegg) to 650/700 with 1.325v/2.225v using W1zzards ATI Tool. ATi CCC only provides 575/550 as the max OC's if i remember correctly. at any rate i looped through FEAR, Doom3 and 3DMark03 "Nature" tests and never saw a temp higher than 58C last night (it was cold indoors to begin with - maybe 23C).
***cooling information/rant***
i've got a Zalman VF900-CU on the GPU with some trusty old Tweakmonster Copper Nickel plated BGA sinks on the Memory. used the TM's because for the life of me blue Ramsinks DO NOT look nice on red PCB (wish Zalman considered this when putting such with the VF900-CU - i would have been a lot happier with aluminum sinks painted to look, and poorly, like copper) and on that same note, aesthetically speaking, the Ramsinks from both Vantec and Thermaltake have a goofy looking design and while i'm at it none of them can hold a candle to the Swiftech BGA Ramsinks but those are to tall to fit under the VF900-CU fins.
***end cooling information/rant***
so far my results are pleasing as i've seen about a doubling of my FPS with every title at the same AA/AF settings from my old X850 XT running at 580/594. i run 1280x1024@32 with 4xAA w/AAA Quality and 16xAF w/HQ AF.
i can confirm issues with flashing this card as i encountered the same problem where after flashing to the XT PE i could not install either the 6.7 or 6.8 Catalyst drivers due to an INF not found error. about the sametime i ran into this another person in the Techpowerup.com forums posted of the same issue. another note for everyone out there --> after i flashed successfully to the XT PE and finding out that not a driver out there knew what to do with it going backwards to the XT BIOS or back to the GTO2 BIOS resulted in screen corruption after successful flashing (i flashed in DOS using the current ATIFLASH). scared the @#%! out of me
.- Robert (PmR)DeathInJune