wow tnx for the positive reactions:D

till the next article i supose:D

nice work people :)

but how do you guys clean up all that vasiline mess you made...?
must be a pain in the *** for sure :D

with nailpolish remover without aceton
or methanol or iso propanol ;)

Hmmm,... with regards to the issues experienced with the X800;

This screen here looks familiar to me: http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/In...-jmke-7876.jpg

This kind of screen corruption had happened the first time i'd overclocked my 9600XT to the maximum core frequency. The way i'd fixed it was to disable overdrive.

Apparently, overdrive will attempt to increase your core frequency in increments above your current core clock, so the highest overdrive steps may be beyond the core's tolerance.

The moral of the story? Don't overclock the core using ATI tool while overdrive is enabled. (it should be ok overclocking manually, since overdrive would be operating during regular stress tests and the resulting overclock would have the headroom for overdrive to work without screwing things up.)

Hope this helps.

you clean up vaseline with nailpolish remover?
Never heard of that solution, but i'm gonna try it out tho' :super:

goddamn powerful stuff...

hey sicopath, it wasn't due the overdriver isue.
It was because there was condensation formed onto the agp slot:)

just wash it off in the shower with hot water and place it in the oven to dry quick :) right jort? :D

PS: I'm having probs with the card again :( :

I had stripes in windows - wherever I moved the mouse and also when windows loads you could see discolored stripes in the load bar and the windows xp logo, also serious tearing in games - after the dry ice run so I placed the card in the oven for a couple of hours and everything was fine after that but now yesterday (messing about with my own P4C800 + adapter + dothan) I had installed a new windows and the stripes were back... :grum:

damn that suckes kristos, did you measured the voltage allready?

maybe you sweat on the card because you don't have a case around?j/k

i hope its not dying:s

yeah, it's at 1.45V wich should do the trick, just to be sure, I put it back on 1.5v like it was before.

I haven't sweated since the weather changed so that won't be it :p

I don't mind the card dying, it wasn't a good clocker, but it's the RMA waiting (I don't have a spare vidcard that can handle modern games...) and having to clean the card (solder) and flash it back and all that that I'm not exactly looking forward too :/