Easiest way to flash your X800GTO2 via dvd \ cd

locutus12 · 19 Oct 2005 at 23:45

it is the sapphire GTO2 yes ??

does it confirm a succesful flash ?? if using my boot iso (which is for CD\DVD not floppy) are you selecting option 1 ??

Joe · 20 Oct 2005 at 11:15

yes did it all correct. it was a cdr i used. worked fine

i eventually gave up, and installed the latest graphics card drivers. before i was trying to get 16pipelines before i installed any drivers. after which i tried again and it worked fine. now have 16pipelines.

This is interesting to know why :/

and my card is now clocked up to 565/565

thanks..joe

danza · 22 Oct 2005 at 09:09

Locustus12, Cheers!!!

16 pipelines enabled. I will get clocking soon as!!!

locutus12 · 22 Oct 2005 at 13:36

2 more happy customers... i should keep a tally lol

go get your 3d05 scores up

danza · 22 Oct 2005 at 19:19

Right then:

Fully @ stock:

3DM2K1: 21036
3DM2K3: 9486
3DM2K5: Not tested

Stock Frequencies, 16pp enabled:

3DM2K1: 21413
3DM2K3: 10434
3DM2K5: 5078

Core@470/mem@550 16pp:

3DM2K1: 23115
3DM2K3: 11630
3DM2K5: 5800

Core@500/mem@600 16pp:

3DM2K1: 23575
3DM2K3: 12232
3DM2K5: 6177

That's it so far. ATI tool kept showing artifacts at less than the last set of tests you see when I tested with ATI toolat first, and for some reason later on, it tested fine and ran all benchmarks ok!?!?!?!?

I am however well chuffed with this beast!!!

Rest of machine spec:

A64 3400+ Newcastle @ stock (skt 754)
Gigabyte GA-K8NE
1gb Geil value (2x512mb, cas 2.5)

cheets64 · 22 Oct 2005 at 20:06

nice scores, i just need to overclock this 3800+ but Ai booster borks everytime i try to increas the cpu speed.

my best score is still

540 GPU 610 Mem 6400 3d05

bigmouse64 · 24 Oct 2005 at 00:20

Thanks. I'll be using this thanks to you and Gethy for giving me the heads-up.

Thanks again.

mr umvavooo · 25 Oct 2005 at 02:29

What type of file is this? It will not open with winrar

locutus12 · 25 Oct 2005 at 02:57

its an ISO, winrar picks them up as an archive, just burn it with nero as if you were burning an image file.

Darkwave · 25 Oct 2005 at 20:34

Hi there guys, long time buyer and first time poster here.

I just ordered a GTO² for myself last night, and with any luck it will arrive tomorrow morning. I'm going to use the ISO that locutus12 here has kindly provided, as I've heard nothing but good things about it here and over at the forums on AnandTech.

I'm totally excited about getting hold of one of these cards, and I'll be sure to post some benchmarks as soon as possible.

My current system is as follows: -

Asus K8V-SE Deluxe (Socket 754, AGP)
AMD Athlon64 3400+ Newcastle (no OC)
1024MB generic PC2700 RAM (no OC)
Chaintech 6600GT 128MB AGP (164/1130)

I've not run 3D Mark 05 in ages but I get ~9000 in 3D Mark 03.

I'm switching out my Asus board for the S754/PCI-E Gigabyte board that's still in stock, and I'm going to run the X800 GTO² with the rest of the hardware as-is. Do you guys think I'll still benefit from the performance boost considering I'm still using crap memory?

danza · 25 Oct 2005 at 21:01

Your spec is nigh on identical to mine!!!!

I have the same Gigabyte mobo, processor, gcard but you only have PC2700 memory???

You'll get a big-ass improvement, but you could pick up some Geil Value memory for about £65 for 2x512mb PC3200. Good value stuff indeed. That'd also give a nice increase in performance.

By the way, welcome to the forums!!!

Darkwave · 25 Oct 2005 at 21:10

danza said:
Your spec is nigh on identical to mine!!!!

I have the same Gigabyte mobo, processor, gcard but you only have PC2700 memory???

You'll get a big-ass improvement, but you could pick up some Geil Value memory for about £65 for 2x512mb PC3200. Good value stuff indeed. That'd also give a nice increase in performance.

Hehe, I re-added my post because of the reply. I thought that this thread was dead now so I took it to the active benchmarking thread.

Very relieved to hear that you have practically identical hardware and get a "big ass" improvement.

My memory does suck, but unfortunately, I can't really justify spending the money to upgrade it right now. I could up it to 1.5GB for cheap, but in terms of replacing what's there I'm planning to buy an M2 socket motherboard when they come out and they will require DDR2 or DDR3 to please the memory controller, so upgrading it now would be a waste really.

danza said:
By the way, welcome to the forums!!!

Thanks a lot!

I've been buying from OCuk exclusively for like a year now, I figured it was about time I made a move on the forums.

locutus12 · 26 Oct 2005 at 06:04

asrock 939 mobo here... it may be cheap ass but its got M2 support already

good luck with your flash

mr umvavooo · 26 Oct 2005 at 16:23

locutus12 said:
its an ISO, winrar picks them up as an archive, just burn it with nero as if you were burning an image file.

Thanks, easiest flash I have ever done, great job.

16 pipes all working

stock 16 pipes 03 11212

16 pipes 495-567 - 12836

cheers

locutus12 · 26 Oct 2005 at 21:22

good good

Darkwave · 26 Oct 2005 at 21:40

*Sigh.* And here's me who can't even get his PC to POST, why is it always me?

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 03:12

ok, ok, back up....

tell me exactly what youve done so far, and exactly what happened in as much detail as possible, step by step.

Darkwave · 27 Oct 2005 at 11:32

Hey again locutus, I'm pretty sure my problem is motherboard related and absolutely nothing to do with the card at all. It's doing some pretty random and crazy things, and I've still not gotten it to get much further than POST since last night.

For the sake of not spamming the forums, I'll just post a link to my thread in motherboards.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17488207

mr umvavooo · 27 Oct 2005 at 14:25

I am sure I read that you had found a problem in the iso original bios, and you were fixing it for dl?

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:04

Important. The Initial Flashrom Had An Error When Flashing Back To 12 Pipes, This Has Been Fixed But You Will Need To Redownload The Iso And Make A New Boot Cd. Sorry For The Trouble. the same links are fine as ive swapped the files out.