Easiest way to flash your X800GTO2 via dvd \ cd

danceMB · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:29

Is that after you have flashed the card, or before?

locutus12 · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:44

after its flashed and clocked, some of them actually broke the 7K barrier

danceMB · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:49

Its just that I have got a Gainward (Golden Sample) 6800GT @ Ultra, and am looking for a better card than this, and if there is a cheap solution im all ears

locutus12 · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:52

danceMB said:
Its just that I have got a Gainward (Golden Sample) 6800GT @ Ultra, and am looking for a better card than this, and if there is a cheap solution im all ears

oooo i see

how much ram and what 3d mark scores do you get ?

danceMB · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:23

Its got 256mb ram, as for the benches I did a re-format last weekend so will need to bench it again and see what scores I get as I havnt done a test for a while now but will tonight.

locutus12 · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:35

danceMB said:
Its got 256mb ram, as for the benches I did a re-format last weekend so will need to bench it again and see what scores I get as I havnt done a test for a while now but will tonight.

well i would have thought the clocked 6800GT would pull pretty much what an X850 could pull, i would suggest that the only real alternative is an X1800 XT 256mb, you should hit 9.5 3D05 marks with that beastie.

danceMB · 27 Apr 2006 at 08:53

Trouble is though is that im limited to AGP cards, and there are not many of those around anymore, and there is no way that im giving up my mobo either. I will just wait until next year before I go for a big upgrade, maybe even a new machine completly, who knows

Assimilator1 · 27 Apr 2006 at 19:32

A 7800GS no good to you?

danceMB · 28 Apr 2006 at 00:26

Well at the moment I have a Gainward 6800GT @ Ultra, and not sure if its worth going to the 7800 range of cards as AGP is fast approaching its shelf life, ATI have stopped making any fast AGP cards, only Nvidia is still catering for those not yet wanting to go PCI-e

creakindoor · 28 May 2006 at 20:07

I have a Powercolor x800GTO, 256mb, AGP. Could I flash this card? and if so what differance would it make.
Cheers, Stephen.

locutus12 · 1 Jun 2006 at 00:12

creakindoor said:
I have a Powercolor x800GTO, 256mb, AGP. Could I flash this card? and if so what differance would it make.
Cheers, Stephen.

some have flashed GTO`s with success, if it worked youd have a full 16 pipes at your disposal which would give you a good performance boost, if it didnt then you would need to flash back to your original bios.

just bare in mind that i built and tested this for and on the Sapphire GTO2 only and as a result i wont speculate on whether or not it will work. but if you try it i wish you luck

just have a pci graphics card handy in case you need to flash the bios back.

daveydave · 3 Jun 2006 at 13:31

is this the driver i need to make my x800gto go like an x850? sorry if im being stupid

locutus12 · 3 Jun 2006 at 15:27

david.n.c said:
is this the driver i need to make my x800gto go like an x850? sorry if im being stupid

it was built to open a 12 pixel pipe GTO2 to 16 pipes, people would then overclock the GTO2 to X850XTPE speeds. many have had success with the GTO as well.

Eggenberg4Ever · 11 Jul 2006 at 15:25

Hi locutus,
BTW, sterling work on this. That's some amount of work to be putting in on this.
My problem (if it is a problem) is that my GTO2 came with 16 pipes unlocked from Dabs.com & I did as instructed - burned ISO to CD, booted, flashed, no problem - however, my GOT2 is still showing as being an X800 GTO2 not an X850 PE (clocks remain as they were).
Have I done something wrong or have Sapphire put some kind of limiter on the GPU's? It's only about 5 weeks old.
:confused:

locutus12 · 12 Jul 2006 at 01:43

Eggenberg4Ever said:
Hi locutus,
BTW, sterling work on this. That's some amount of work to be putting in on this.
My problem (if it is a problem) is that my GTO2 came with 16 pipes unlocked from Dabs.com & I did as instructed - burned ISO to CD, booted, flashed, no problem - however, my GOT2 is still showing as being an X800 GTO2 not an X850 PE (clocks remain as they were).
Have I done something wrong or have Sapphire put some kind of limiter on the GPU's? It's only about 5 weeks old.

if its a modern GTO2 then its possible it has an R430 core and not an R480 (usually indicated by the GTO2 being a blue circuit instead of the original red circuit the R480 cores came on). as for the clocks, the flash doesnt increase your clock speed, you have to do that yourself

the flash was intended simply to open up the original batch of GTO2`s from 12 pipes to 16 pipes

any clocking is done after by yourself as its safer that way, not all GTO2`s could do X850XTPE speeds but most will hit X850XT speeds at least.

Eggenberg4Ever · 12 Jul 2006 at 13:01

Thanks for replying.
The circuit board is one of the red ones & it's showing as an R480 (using Everest utils).
I can up the speeds using the Trixx clocking util that came bundled with the GPU & currently I'm running:
Memory: 570
Core: 490
Maybe I'm being greedy or could it be Trixx that sucks? I've never read any good/bad opinions on it TBH.

locutus12 · 12 Jul 2006 at 17:16

Eggenberg4Ever said:
Thanks for replying.
The circuit board is one of the red ones & it's showing as an R480 (using Everest utils).
I can up the speeds using the Trixx clocking util that came bundled with the GPU & currently I'm running:
Memory: 570
Core: 490
Maybe I'm being greedy or could it be Trixx that sucks? I've never read any good/bad opinions on it TBH.

trixx sucks. ATI tool my friend.

Eggenberg4Ever · 12 Jul 2006 at 17:59

Just uninstalled it

Am I right in thinking that the Sapphire X800 GTO2 is flashable to X800 PE specs (is this what your modded BIOS does?).
When I did the BIOS flash the other night, ATT bench gave the following results:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g188/Eggenberg4Ever/ATTBenchmarkResults.jpg

But any benches done since then have been between the unmodded X800 Pro & the PE marks.
Currently running at Core 500 Mem 570 but if there's higher speeds possible then obviously I want to get them unlocked.

locutus12 · 12 Jul 2006 at 18:16

Eggenberg4Ever said:
Just uninstalled it
Am I right in thinking that the Sapphire X800 GTO2 is flashable to X800 PE specs (is this what your modded BIOS does?).
When I did the BIOS flash the other night, ATT bench gave the following results:
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g188/Eggenberg4Ever/ATTBenchmarkResults.jpg

But any benches done since then have been between the unmodded X800 Pro & the PE marks.
Currently running at Core 500 Mem 570 but if there's higher speeds possible then obviously I want to get them unlocked.

i dont know anything about ATT bench marks, most common and best one to use is 3D mark 05, you can get a free copy from www.futuremark.com i believe. should score around the 6000 mark when clocked which is fine.

my bios was designed only to unlock the 12 pipe GTO`s to 16 pipes. any clocking in my opinion should always be done after as you simply dont know what the tollerence of your card will be, thus flashing it to a bios with higher clocks built in could kill your card if it cant take those pre set clocks.

Eggenberg4Ever · 12 Jul 2006 at 19:40

Using 3D Mark 05 I get a score of 5699