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X800pro Tt Xaser HSF mod

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NIZM0

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Well, I got somewhat inspired today, and noticed my very old Thermaltake Xaser 11 HSF on a shelf. I looked @ it for a few minutes, examining its size and wieght. I remembered back how I did my barton hsf mod on my old 9700 pro. So with that thought in mind, I said what the hell, lets see if I can get this baby on my x800pro. With the x800 base/card design being simple and based on a fairly large hsf concept. I sized up the Tt Xaser hsf and saw that it could indeed fit with the proper installation. I started right away taking the stock hsf off, and giving it a once over for any ideas on how to install the mod. I took my old Xaser hsf and placed masking tape along the base, then sized it up to the x800 card and got it aligned and what not, then made the markings with a narrow pen from the holes. I then started the drilling, so on and so forth.

All in all the mod was a success, and well done if I may say so myself.
I re-lapped the hsf base due to dullness and Tt isn't the best on base finishing. [@least not on the xaser 11 line]

The mod only set me back about $2 bucks for the screws and drill bits.
The fan is nothing great, a simple Antec UV BLUE LED case fan with low cfm. tho I get good cooling off it.
Stock gave me around 44-45c idle, 55-65c load.
My Xaser 11 HSF mod gives me 34-35c idle, 40-45c load.
Keep in mind im using the XT bios with xt clock speeds on my x800pro.

I'm gonna go to my local stores tomorrow and get a better fan, with more CFM/air flow. I'm sure a better fan will drop the temps down a good bit.
I get a max of 605/590 with the XT default vcore and the hsf mod.

I've got a good bit of progress pix, start to finish below.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Enjoy

http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm01.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm02.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm03.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm04.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm05.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm06.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm07.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm08.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm09.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm010.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/x800/hsfmod/x800xhsfm011.jpg
 
Looks excellent, I have a question though -

How the hell did you get the guts up to play with your X800 like that? lol I'd be too scared :(
 
The Donut said:
Looks excellent, I have a question though -

How the hell did you get the guts up to play with your X800 like that? lol I'd be too scared :(
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Hahaha, I concur, after a purchase like that id prolly lock it up in a safe somewhere untill I got over the paranoia of damaging it enough to actually use it. :p
 
I know what you mean. I've got an X800Pro and I took off the heatsink and fan to see about unlocking the other pipelines. That stuff was so tiny I said screw doing that. I'll wait until I get desperate for power or can afford an X800XT if I screw it up.
 
Yeah I was rather gentle removing the heat sink and fan from my X800Pro. All I did was look at everything and see what it would take to do the mod to unlock the other pipelines.
 
well, I just recently did a fresh format.
I do have a 3dmark03 score I did before the format.

http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/14132.gif

that was done with my x800pro -> XT bios flash on 581 sync clock speeds w/ the Xaser mod.
I'll put some benchies up by tomorrow sometime.
 
NIZM0 said:
well, I just recently did a fresh format.
I do have a 3dmark03 score I did before the format.

http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/14132.gif

that was done with my x800pro -> XT bios flash on 581 sync clock speeds w/ the Xaser mod.
I'll put some benchies up by tomorrow sometime.
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So you enabled the extra pipes too or did that performance come from the XT bios? :confused:
 
speeduk said:
So you enabled the extra pipes too or did that performance come from the XT bios? :confused:
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just the xt bios and some overclocking, haven't messed with the pipe mod yet
 
Whoa, where have I been lately... since when do 03 scores break 10k :p

Hope my 9800pro will hold me over for a year or so :p.
 
Damn, big heatsink to put on your video card. I would be afraid of the wieght, but none the less u have to take risk to live life a little, even with a expensive piece of equipment like that.

Caliche
 
Can you possible post a link; as to how one goes about volt modding one's X800Pro?

Thank you
 
I wish I hit the lotto. I would be doing crazy shit like that all the time if I did. :D
 
thats like 1/2 a kg hanging off your vid card! arent u afraid that its going to break off?

still though, mad props 2 you for doing this
 
I always like how everyone is "omg omg! that is SO heavy... blah blah"

You would have to hang about 5lb's or more to do any type of damage AT ALL to a vid card. The AGP retention clips that are on every modern motherboard are for this purpose. If you are THAT concerned about it, take the card out when you transport it.

You thing THAT hsf added a lot of weight? Check out a GF4 Ti4200 I modded a while back:
gf4_after.jpg


I strapped on an Alpha PAL6045, and chopped up a coolermaster HS for ramsinks. Now if you strapped on a SP-97 and chopped up an SLK-900 for ramsinks... you still wouldn't have "too" much weight.

At least the weight would be equally distributed. Its upside down when mounted to the card in most systems. When you clamp a similar HSF onto the cpu... the top wants to tilt away all the time.

The only danger in doing something like this, is if you crunch the core, or break off capacitors or something.

Nice looking mod man! :D
 
over 14k air cooled without the extra pipes? You would get 15k if you enabled the pipes. I dont understand how ur score is 2,000+ higher than mine with same drivers and similar clocks.
 
speeduk said:
over 14k air cooled without the extra pipes? You would get 15k if you enabled the pipes. I dont understand how ur score is 2,000+ higher than mine with same drivers and similar clocks.
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im using the 4.5 officals...
what type of cpu do you have.. speed?
 
Well then wtf is going on. Im using the betas which gave me an extra 1,000 marks over the officials? My cpu is an atlhon 64 @ 2320mhz. X800pro was @ 570/580 and I got just under 12,000. With the official cats I got 10,700.
 
orkan said:
You would have to hang about 5lb's or more to do any type of damage AT ALL to a vid card. The AGP retention clips that are on every modern motherboard are for this purpose. If you are THAT concerned about it, take the card out when you transport it.
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You're right about that, but thing is, I don't think the Asus A7N8X has those retention clips (at least mine doesn't). He's running an A7N8X.
 
Man that is a MAD overclock @14000+ from the X800Pro :eek: Thats only 1000 or so less than the top score that macci has with the X800XT :confused:
Sounds like we need Intel and AMD to get there shit together and make faster CPU"S now we have the GPU from hell :D
Props to you!
 
speeduk said:
Well then wtf is going on. Im using the betas which gave me an extra 1,000 marks over the officials? My cpu is an atlhon 64 @ 2320mhz. X800pro was @ 570/580 and I got just under 12,000. With the official cats I got 10,700.
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Well for one, your A64 isn't using its full power yet..
My xp2700+ is clocked higher than yours.. [maybe] @ 2.45ghz 445FSB [11x222]

cpuid: http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/cpuoc.gif

My x800pro is cooled on air yes, the cpu being watercooled.
When I get the time and some extra money, I'll be getting a good vpu waterblock.
That should raise my cores higher and lower temps.

this is the only thing I could see besides maybe a fluke.
 
Calibur said:
very pretty, lets see some in game screenshots.
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here are some far cry shots @ 1280 max settings with 6x FSAA, 16x Aniso.
don't mind the colt skin, it sux, some skin I was testing, not the defualt.

http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0001.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0003.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0007.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0009.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0015.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0020.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0021.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/fc/FarCry0023.jpg

like I said before, I just did a fresh format. I'll try to get some more screens up later.
 
wat kind of frames are you getting with those settings? it looks beautiful... i need to get me one of these next gen cards..
 
 
aradeath said:
wat kind of frames are you getting with those settings? it looks beautiful... i need to get me one of these next gen cards..
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I get anywhere from 30-150fps @ 1280 max settings with 6x fsaa, 16x aniso in farcry.
It runs very fluid even with the settings above, and the way fc loves to eat power.
I'm sure if I upgraded my heavily o/c'd xp2700+ to say a A64 3400+ or one of the new
a64 3700-3800+ cpus I would get a major increase, since my cpu is indeed a bit of a bottleneck for this card.

Tho the card runs perfectly fine on my system. Even heavily overclocked.
I have an antec lanboy w/ an Tru 360w, everything in my computer is o/c'd along with 3 hard drives and 2 cdroms running.

so, I think its time for a psu upgrade atleast. :eek:
 
NIZM0 said:
I get anywhere from 30-150fps @ 1280 max settings with 6x fsaa, 16x aniso in farcry.
It runs very fluid even with the settings above, and the way fc loves to eat power.
I'm sure if I upgraded my heavily o/c'd xp2700+ to say a A64 3400+ or one of the new
a64 3700-3800+ cpus I would get a major increase, since my cpu is indeed a bit of a bottleneck for this card.

Tho the card runs perfectly fine on my system. Even heavily overclocked.
I have an antec lanboy w/ an Tru 360w, everything in my computer is o/c'd along with 3 hard drives and 2 cdroms running.

so, I think its time for a psu upgrade atleast. :eek:
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thats awesome man.. and its good to see u dont need an uber psu to have such a nice card
 
aradeath said:
thats awesome man.. and its good to see u dont need an uber psu to have such a nice card
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the req. on the x800pro box recommends a 300watt or greater psu.
now for the XT, it may be different, but I doubt it.
 
NIZM0 said:
Well for one, your A64 isn't using its full power yet..
My xp2700+ is clocked higher than yours.. [maybe] @ 2.45ghz 445FSB [11x222]

cpuid: http://home.comcast.net/~inzmo/cpuoc.gif

My x800pro is cooled on air yes, the cpu being watercooled.
When I get the time and some extra money, I'll be getting a good vpu waterblock.
That should raise my cores higher and lower temps.

this is the only thing I could see besides maybe a fluke.
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it may not have quite the same clockspeed as yours, but it should be creaming it performance wise. must be something about his settings.
 
jkr266 said:
it may not have quite the same clockspeed as yours, but it should be creaming it performance wise. must be something about his settings.
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I doubt its his settings. I use all default, he should be as well.
but who knows.
 
Its not my settings because its a fresh install latest mobo drivers etc and I'm scoring in scale to most other people. For example one guy on OcUK gets 13,600 @ 620/590 clocks or so with the 16 pipe mod. You are way over this with lower clocks and 12 pipes! You sure you didnt run in 800x600? lol
 
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