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

data mhh not realy, the owner of this card doens't know what he scored with the pencilmod....

i do know its very fast.

you can find some info here.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=83849

he is benching @ 672 mhz and 1.75V today.

I don't know the rest.;)

i didn't find the mod:D i just did the mod

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...voltmods/112/1 ;)

I know you didnt find the mod ;)

oke:)

pm me if i need to mod your card:p

I've voltmodded videocards & motherboards when you were still in your diapers :p
but thanks for the offer;)

won't be doing anything so extreme as voltmodding the videocard; it going to used for testing & comparison; nothing more (for now).

uhm www.forcom.be delivers at your doorstep, that's how I got mine:)

Should have asked john, and I would have gotten one for you..

no worries; shipping was not expensive

yeah thats normal, flash the bios and its gone :)

there's no reason to flash.

oke then:)

The two new chips that ATI is putting on cards today are the R480 and R430. The R480 is the higher end part in this case. There is absolutely no architectural difference between these new chips and the original R423 on which they are based. That being said, they are both, in fact, different chips than their predecessor.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2290