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X800XT > X800PE force Flash question

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gwhughs

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I've just soft modded my ASUS VIVO X800XT to an ATI X800XT with 16pipes enabled and it works great. So my question is this:

1) what advantage is there in using the ATI X800PE flash when all it does extra is set the clock and memory timing to a higher value?

2) why shouldn't I be able to flash my card using an ASUS X800PE bios using the same force flash command as I did the the ATI 16pipe bios.

Admittedly, it would be cool to see the properties display an X800PE but If I can enable 16 pipes and set the core and memory frequency manually then what is the point?

I am currently getting approx. 11800 3DMark03 score.
 
An X800XT already has 16 pipes, so you don't even need to pay attention to those.
All you did was set the default frequency (on the cpu and memory) to higher values.

Nothing else is changed (like voltage, pipes, or shaders).
 
What I should have said (typed? ;) ) is that I have an ASUS X800pro that was softmodded to an X800PE.

Sorry about the confusion :D .
 
gwhughs said:
What I should have said (typed? ;) ) is that I have an ASUS X800pro that was softmodded to an X800PE.

Sorry about the confusion :D .
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Ah, no problem.

In theory, you should be able to flash to the ASUS XTPE bios now that you have all the pipes , but only if the boards are similar enough.

I know Asus has a habit of deviating from reference board layouts on the Nvidia side of things.
 
After some final tweaking my final stable score is now 12219 with a setting of 524GPU / 560Mem with no artifact and a HL2 temp of 48deg. C.

I think I'm satisfied now. :D
 
Nope. Any higher and I get psycadelic kaleidoscope flashing images that throws people into seizures.
It was pretty cool though. :cool:
 
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