X800GTO or X800GTO2
 

Hey guys, Currently have a Nvidia 6600 which is good but is not that great at OC'ing and can't unlock pipelines. I was thinking of going for an ATi X800 GTO or GTO2 but there seems alot of discrepancies between them and the different manufacturers. I was going to go for an X800 GTO but then saw the GTO2 could be garanteed to do X850XT speeds. Theres a £50 difference so am wanting to make sure I get it right. Could do with some extra help deciding on model and maker :ws:

Sapphire GTO² has 100% modding chance afaik

search the forum a bit (the webnews section) :)

http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/show...ghlight=GTO%2A
http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/show...ghlight=GTO%2A

not worthy of a new thread.. but still:)

bought me a Sapphire X800GTO² (limited edition).. since I've read about unlocking more pipelines.. default should be 12, moddable to 16.

so I used this guide: http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/127

and when I was checking to see if the card was indeed moddable.. my eye fell on the field "Active Pipelines"..

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well.. no unlocking for me, as this card comes shipped UNLOCKED :D

stock speed GPU:400 MEM:490

Got it all the way up to GPU: 540 MEM: 590

:o

that's X850XT PE speed on the GPU, and X850XT speed on the MEM !

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/r480.html

Yeah GTO² is the best bang for teh buck atm.

just a tad more voltage and its flying like hell.

Did this yesterday for a friend;)

extremely nice looking voltmod. seems almost like it's been shipped like that in retail


do you have any data on that?

temps GPU stock vs Zalman
OC GPU/MEM stock vs Zalman

temps GPU before/after voltmod
OC GPU/MEM before/after voltmod

? :)

Detail + detail + detail + detail

Mem + core + voltage rails + resistance change :)

there's a complete voltmod article hidden in that one pic from Jort :o

That is; if he wants to share :D

[g]ATI+Tray+Tools[/g] is great to work with! Easy and much faster than ATI's Control Panel; and more versatile than ATITool.

ATI Tray Tools has a nice benchmark option

I'm running on A64 Opteron 1.8Ghz

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when I start the system with this card; the screen shows

R480 X800XL BIOS

hmmm.. retail card from Sapphire
X800GTO²