flashing x850xt to pe

[Gwyn]

Hi guys
I got the site someone posted where I can find all of the different bios's
but im not sure what make my card is. i think its an ocuk one so its either powercolour, bba or connect3d.
which one should I download.
Also to flash it to a PE do I just down load the PE bios?
thanks

 

[Big.Wayne]

that sounds about right, but have you tested the card using ATI-Tool to see roughly what it can do?

You don't wanna flash your card until you have tested its overclocking abilities. .

 

[Gwyn]

I game with the card at 550/600 with no problems.
I haven't really tryed to push it any further as these settings play any game I want.
The card is water cooled and after a couple of hours of game play at these settings
the temp once reached 35c but useually stays around 31 and idles at 27c.
I have not yet put heat sincs on the memory, would this be a good idea?

 

[Gwyn]

which bios should I use powercolour, bba or connect3d?

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

Flip a coin? (with three sides?)



Seriously, I don't think they'll be any difference, but you really should try and find out what make of card yours is.

I personally wouldn't bother - just run ATITool or ATI Tray Tools.

 

[Street]

Does flashing to PE make any difference other than upping the default clock speeds?

What are the default speeds of the PE out of interest?

Cheers

 

[Zephyrus]

I asked the same question on another thread. Default speeds of the x850xt pe are 540/590. apparently flashing to pe will tighten the memory as well.

Zeph.

 

[Wooly Back]

It makes no difference other than changing the name and raising the stock clocks. My OEM X850XT could overclock with and beyond most XTPEs anyway. When Voltmodded I was able to clock it way beyond 700Mhz on the core.

Just leave it as it is.

 

[Gwyn]

when you say voltmodded what do you mean and how do I do it

 

[juno_first]

I flashed my Saphire x800pro 1.6ns RAM (bought July04) to X800xtpe & it worked fine with water coolong BUT with stock cooling I had to re-flash to X800tx with 500core as got artifacts at 520.

 

[Wooly Back]

when you say voltmodded what do you mean and how do I do it

If you don't know what I mean by voltmodding then it is probably safer that you don't try it.

But if you want to give it a go then you will find out what you need to know here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/voltmods/112

Please note the precautions about voltage/temperature. I ran my card at 1.73vgpu, 2.18vdd/vddq when benching, but I was also using very good water-cooling.

The pencil VID mods work quite well and if you can cool it well enough then there is no harm in running 1.6vgpu 24/7, but it depends on your cooling. 1.55v is definatley the max on the stock cooler with the fan at 100% override!

 

[Gwyn]

thanks for that