hello all,
after lots of tinkering,my build is now finally complete. I've strapped a waterchill block onto my 1800xt and flashed it with the PE bios, and its running happily at 715 / 800 speeds. The temp, after looping 3dmark for 7 hours levelled out at 66 degrees and when coupled with my opty 165 @ 2.6ghz, i'm getting an '05 score of 10215, and a '06 score of 5054.
I'm chuffed, because i was stuck at the 9900 - 9950 '05 score, but now have broke the 10k barrier with quite a bit more too. Happy days..
So yeah, the point of this post is, if youve got a decent cooler for your 1800xt and its the newer card layout with 6 mosfets, then IMO flash away. My temps only went up by 2 degrees by doing it.
Chow
after lots of tinkering,my build is now finally complete. I've strapped a waterchill block onto my 1800xt and flashed it with the PE bios, and its running happily at 715 / 800 speeds. The temp, after looping 3dmark for 7 hours levelled out at 66 degrees and when coupled with my opty 165 @ 2.6ghz, i'm getting an '05 score of 10215, and a '06 score of 5054.
I'm chuffed, because i was stuck at the 9900 - 9950 '05 score, but now have broke the 10k barrier with quite a bit more too. Happy days..
So yeah, the point of this post is, if youve got a decent cooler for your 1800xt and its the newer card layout with 6 mosfets, then IMO flash away. My temps only went up by 2 degrees by doing it.
Chow