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Frippy

Frippy

Frippy

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Picked up one of these today for not a lot of money. Put it in the new rig, dual core E2140 @ 2.4 gig and Fatal1ty HD-190 motherboard. 3DMark 2005 with stock settings was just a touch less than 12K on VISTA.



Considering what I paid for it, it's a bargain. Only game I have played so far with it is COD4. 1440x900 4x AA and it ran perfectly smooth. I'll try and run a fraps report and upload some pictures. Cracking card though.

Pictures and a few screenies for you. Games never dropped below 30 FPS, games ran at 1440x900 and set to high detail. Very pleased with the card, the VIVO functionality is good as well. It is quiet as well, never hear it at all, excellent mid range card.










 
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This is giving quite impressive reults, can't overclock at the moment as the card is not recognised in ATI TOOL/TRAY TOOLS and there is no Overdrive option on the drivers on the disc.

Any idea regarding a programme that'll help me overclock the card?

I'll stick frap reports up in a bit.
 
1x6pin connector. Riva tuner is no good at all. I did install the original drivers on the Sapphire CD. So I am going to install the 7.10 suite and see what options I have now. Seriously fast for the money.
 
Indeed it does look the same, I am really tempted to try this Gibbo. If anyone can give me a guide to flashing the card, I'll try it. I don't have a floppy drive though, it would be interesting to find out if this could be flashed.
 
Ok bit of an update. AMD clocker allows clockspeed manipulation, by pushing the gpu up 50 mhz and the ram 100 mhz, I now get this. I'll clock it more later.




Ok, now at 750 core and 900MHZ ram.



Quite possibly I'm cpu limited now.
 
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Final results. 750 core and 1000 memory. E2140 clocked at 2.8 gig.


tadaob2.jpg



Total cost of build, £266.
 
Not sure what that is Willhub?, Scougar I'll give it a go with the core to see what happens. I might increase the ram as well, just to see what it maxes out at. If I can break the 8.5K barrier on 06, I'll be happy!
 
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