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Gainward bring you a 512MB 7800 GT for AGP!!!!

Right, well I thought I'd try one last time to get this card going in my system. I belive in in Luck, so I tried.

I noticed and already new before 2 of the pins on the 20pin connector from PSU to motherboard are burnt. 1 is serverly Burnt. Anyway, Like I give a damn, I popped my card in, defaulted the BIOS, and BOOM! Everything working fine. No hitch-ups no nothings. PSU hasn't even cut out, everything fine.

Going to try some games now, see if it cuts out then.
 
Vita said:
Right, well I thought I'd try one last time to get this card going in my system. I belive in in Luck, so I tried.

I noticed and already new before 2 of the pins on the 20pin connector from PSU to motherboard are burnt. 1 is serverly Burnt. Anyway, Like I give a damn, I popped my card in, defaulted the BIOS, and BOOM! Everything working fine. No hitch-ups no nothings. PSU hasn't even cut out, everything fine.

Going to try some games now, see if it cuts out then.
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Dude, you're insanse. Burning == RMA it, you don't want to loose your entire system!
 
But the PSU came with a case, and I transferd it over to a new case. So It isn't under warrenty. Anyway, I've put a old GFX card in, and everything looks to be ok tbh. I've had one hell of a week I guess.
 
Vita said:
But the PSU came with a case, and I transferd it over to a new case. So It isn't under warrenty. Anyway, I've put a old GFX card in, and everything looks to be ok tbh. I've had one hell of a week I guess.
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Well, my 3D mark 05 is not as good as yours - my CPU & mobo let me down. I don't think its the Xtreme-G drivers! ;)
My Score was 6325.
 
Just popped this puppy into my PC and I'm about to start benching it.

Initial impressions are good, though you can see that this isn't going to be a mass produced card: The blub on the back talks about PCIE and SLI-ing the card, and the 'stripe' with the card's name on it seems to be a sticker over the top of the printed PCIE box :D

It comes with the power converter, two dongles to covert from DVI to D-SUB, a TV cable which fans out into what seems to be the normal TV connectors and component (going to investigate that later). Also the usual rubbish drivers on a CD thing, random software but also Power DVD (pretty standard these days).

Its basically silent, however its hard for me to tell as my PC has very loud case fans. More once I run in through its paces.
 
Vita said:
But don't let this put you off guys. I clocked it @ 450/1300 and it gave 7250points in 3dmark05.
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Nice Score Vita :)
Got mine to 6897 in 3Dmark 05 clocked @ 500/1400 which is at the highish end for the CPU (P4 3.2Mhz) and G.card (7800Gt) on 3D mark 05 in ORB so happy with that but @ the end of the day will prob throttle it back a bit and just get on and enjoy the improvement in visuals :D
 
Having Trouble :-(

So here's the issue.

I plug the card in boot the computer but when the screen comes on whiles it's booting up through the BIOS stages, blocks are missing here and there and some of the characters are all jumping around the place all funny.

I checked the BIOS is totally up to date. I reset it back to default mode and played around with the agp apeture size and fast writes on and off.

I'm using a Seasonic 600W power supply with the pci-e proper connector.

So I took it out and put my old 9800pro back in there and it worked fine again.

Any ideas guys? Help would be muchly appreciated.
 
The early benches are in:

My system is as follows:

Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2Ghz 800Mhz Bus
2Gb Geil Ultra 3200 (2 x sets of 512Mb matched pairs)
Abit IC7
Antec True Blue 480Watt (version 1)

Here are the results comparing my old 9800XT and the new 7800GS 512Mb. The first number being the old, the second being the new:

3DMark01: 18305 --> 20647
3DMark03: 6755 --> 14661
3DMark05: 3178 --> 6371
3DMark06: 1021 --> 3360

Looks about average compared to other systems of the same spec, apart from 06 where I'm 'in the lead' for my spec. Probably because I'm the only one with a 512Mb card listed.

Two things to do now are to overclock it (how do you do that with an NVidia card, never tried it before), and to rebuild the system a fresh to get rid of all of the gunk, as its been running for quite a while now with a tonne of junk on it.
 
illicit007 said:
So here's the issue.

I plug the card in boot the computer but when the screen comes on whiles it's booting up through the BIOS stages, blocks are missing here and there and some of the characters are all jumping around the place all funny.

I checked the BIOS is totally up to date. I reset it back to default mode and played around with the agp apeture size and fast writes on and off.

I'm using a Seasonic 600W power supply with the pci-e proper connector.

So I took it out and put my old 9800pro back in there and it worked fine again.

Any ideas guys? Help would be muchly appreciated.
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Mmm, this may be a silly question and you may have tried these, but are you trying it on single monitor (input on left of the back of the card at first, and does your bios give an indication of the power supplied to the card, do you have any other PCI cards in slots that may conflict with this card, remove to test for the time being, otherwise try driver remover, reinstal from fresh download from Nvidia
 
illicit007 said:
So here's the issue.

I plug the card in boot the computer but when the screen comes on whiles it's booting up through the BIOS stages, blocks are missing here and there and some of the characters are all jumping around the place all funny.

I checked the BIOS is totally up to date. I reset it back to default mode and played around with the agp apeture size and fast writes on and off.

I'm using a Seasonic 600W power supply with the pci-e proper connector.

So I took it out and put my old 9800pro back in there and it worked fine again.

Any ideas guys? Help would be muchly appreciated.
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Hmm strange. I only got the artifact problem when I overclocked. Anyways, try re-steaing your card. That should help, if not that, try a CMOS clear. (Take battery out from motherboard, while the computer is off and put it back in about a Minute later). Make sure all connections are secure.

But yeah, re-seating your card should help. Take it out, put it back in.
Also, download driver cleaner pro, get rid of all ATi drivers on your HDD.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
The early benches are in:

My system is as follows:

Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2Ghz 800Mhz Bus
2Gb Geil Ultra 3200 (2 x sets of 512Mb matched pairs)
Abit IC7
Antec True Blue 480Watt (version 1)

Here are the results comparing my old 9800XT and the new 7800GS 512Mb. The first number being the old, the second being the new:

3DMark01: 18305 --> 20647
3DMark03: 6755 --> 14661
3DMark05: 3178 --> 6371
3DMark06: 1021 --> 3360

Looks about average compared to other systems of the same spec, apart from 06 where I'm 'in the lead' for my spec. Probably because I'm the only one with a 512Mb card listed.

Two things to do now are to overclock it (how do you do that with an NVidia card, never tried it before), and to rebuild the system a fresh to get rid of all of the gunk, as its been running for quite a while now with a tonne of junk on it.
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Nice one Sid, glad u got it all up and running, we have almost identical rigs (good taste :D )
Scores very similar, I have managed to OC (see above/previous) to 500/1400 which gave me 500 more marks in 05.
If you do want to overclock you wiil need something like coolbits http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=201
which will give you extra options.
Depending on how you are partitioned, you can just stick in your windows XP disk in the drive, set bios to boot from Cd before hard disk and follow the on screen prompts, reformat etc. You must make sure you back up anything you want to keep, like docs and game saves, have all drivers including motherboard ones to hand, this can all take a few hours @ least :)
Have phun ;)
 
Vita said:
Hmm strange. I only got the artifact problem when I overclocked. Anyways, try re-steaing your card. That should help, if not that, try a CMOS clear. (Take battery out from motherboard, while the computer is off and put it back in about a Minute later). Make sure all connections are secure.

But yeah, re-seating your card should help. Take it out, put it back in.
Also, download driver cleaner pro, get rid of all ATi drivers on your HDD.
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Ditto, might also try reinstaling motherboard drivers, phew
 
afraser2k said:
Very happy with the results of adding this card to my machine now. It's doubled the 3dMark I was getting and I can also game at high quality in 1280x1024 for my TFT. :)
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Yup, same for me + high quality is the real benefit of this upgrade :D
 
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