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ATi to ATi - Reinstall CATs?
- Thread starter BruceLee
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i went from an X800GTO to X1800XT 512 without a driver reinstall (i have the asrock aswell, good board 
) so you should be fine. i would have thought the only thing to change would be the primary VGA device in the bios. 
what card are you moving to out of curiosity...
) so you should be fine. i would have thought the only thing to change would be the primary VGA device in the bios. what card are you moving to out of curiosity...
locutus12 said:i went from an X800GTO to X1800XT 512 without a driver reinstall (i have the asrock aswell, good board
what card are you moving to out of curiosity...
Thanks for the reply, yeah I like this board, a bit of teething problems when I got it (probs my fault) but its been solid as a rock (excuse the pun) since, only thing i would complain about is the lack of vcore adjustment (cpu wont complete 2 instances of prime etc simultaniously at 2.4ish) but I can live with it.
I was leaning towards a 7600GT but the This Week Only deal on the x800 GTO 256mb from PowerColor was too good to miss so I got that. Obv not as good as the 7600GT but its a good stop gap until I pay for all my holiday flights and snowboarding gear (damn expensive hobby when you first start out!). Also I only have a 350w psu so thought this wont tax it too much.
Looks like a 9500 Pro may be up for sale soon
hmmm, a few q`s for you
the initial problem with the board, was it a cold boot issue per chance ??
the vcore does suck indeed, you can get a bios from OCworkbench that will give you up to 1.55 though. as for unstable clocks... im running my venice 3000 1.8ghz at 2.45Ghz without a problem, i had to drop the HTT to 600 from 1000, and upped the fsb to 273 (running ram at 133) but im benching the same as an opty 150 now and all is well
x800 GTO 256mb you say, was that the one going for £60 quid! ?? good deal youl pull 290 to 320 watts at peak with it, (based on my 301 watts pulled when i had my GTO2, i dread to think what it is with the X1800 
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the only thing stopping me from clocking higher is the software lock on the fsb, 274 or over and its unstable. the OCworkbench bios removes this lock, boards have been recorded as reaching 315.
the initial problem with the board, was it a cold boot issue per chance ??
the vcore does suck indeed, you can get a bios from OCworkbench that will give you up to 1.55 though. as for unstable clocks... im running my venice 3000 1.8ghz at 2.45Ghz without a problem, i had to drop the HTT to 600 from 1000, and upped the fsb to 273 (running ram at 133) but im benching the same as an opty 150 now and all is well
x800 GTO 256mb you say, was that the one going for £60 quid! ?? good deal
youl pull 290 to 320 watts at peak with it, (based on my 301 watts pulled when i had my GTO2, i dread to think what it is with the X1800 )EDIt
the only thing stopping me from clocking higher is the software lock on the fsb, 274 or over and its unstable. the OCworkbench bios removes this lock, boards have been recorded as reaching 315.
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Actually, I installed the board and stuff fine first time round, but then I decided to flash the bios on it as I thought i could nt adjust the FSB (didnt realise you entered numbers, thought it was dif), couldnt flash from floppy for some reason, so tried the windows based one, that seemed to kill it. In the end I sent the BIOS off to a nice guy from on here, but he said it was working, when I got it back it worked first time...odd. Anyway, I am a bit reluctant to flash the BIOS again now, are you sure that there is a bios to give up to 1.55 without any other adjustments? Currently at 1.4v now but thats fine up to 2.3ish.
There are other BIOSs that go over the 274 lock, dunno if you tried them yet. Im happy as is, it runs everything i throw at it, not done too much encoding and things, but for movie playback on the tv for the gf and also me browsing the net and doing PSP work its great.
Thanks for the wattage guideline, eases my mind a bit
There are other BIOSs that go over the 274 lock, dunno if you tried them yet. Im happy as is, it runs everything i throw at it, not done too much encoding and things, but for movie playback on the tv for the gf and also me browsing the net and doing PSP work its great.
Thanks for the wattage guideline, eases my mind a bit
ocworkbench bios simply gives you more voltage options theres a few of them so if you decide to then make sure you read up on each bios. currently running my voltage at stock 1.4 quite incredible given im clocked by +650mhz lol. stable as a rock
theres a few of them so if you decide to then make sure you read up on each bios. currently running my voltage at stock 1.4 quite incredible given im clocked by +650mhz lol. stable as a rockHa, yeah i saw a few of them, but didnt realise that they gave vcore dif too. I have an older binned Toledo core so its probs why it doesnt clock too well on low volts.
Nice overclock there tho, it is an impressive budget board, what temps do you get on that?
Nice overclock there tho, it is an impressive budget board, what temps do you get on that?
currently at 37oC internal cpu temp, 27oC surface temp. drops to 34 internal when my case lids on. 44 undel load, saw 47 recently when i was encoding for 5 hours. im using a special heatsink, Vantech Mach1 dual heatpipe. used the standard grease though, been meaning to slop some as5 on it but havent got around to it.
to be honest, i dont really know what temps a 939 is supposed to run at lol, but hey, its lower than the 55 stock i used to get with my XP 2800 lol.
to be honest, i dont really know what temps a 939 is supposed to run at lol, but hey, its lower than the 55 stock i used to get with my XP 2800 lol.
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Nice, mine idles around 30c and peaks around 38, using an arctic freezer pro, great quiet heatsink.
Also got a couple of amber fans which are quiet too. hoping the x800 wont be too loud
Know what you mean about temps, old xp2200 ran around 40c at idle... such a great improvemnt on that, i thought the temp sensors were faulty!
Also got a couple of amber fans which are quiet too. hoping the x800 wont be too loud
Know what you mean about temps, old xp2200 ran around 40c at idle... such a great improvemnt on that, i thought the temp sensors were faulty!