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*** The Official X1950 Pro Thread ***

Lol - the blu tack mod doesn't work! :D

Push the fan quite hard when the PC is off!!! and if it is like mine, you'll hear a loud snap as the fan seats properly. The sound should now be gone. Worked for me!!

Well sort of :rolleyes: I thought it came back so I opened up my case and it turns out that my sata cable from my hard drive was just touching the fan and causing a noise :rolleyes: However I was chuffed because it saves an RMA and I get to keep the HIS. woohoo!!

best of luck anyway.
 
Got the connect3d 1950 pro card earlier this week from ocuk and i have to say ATI is still the best at anti aliasing and the card gives a good boost over the 6800gt i had .

Not had a ATI card since 9800 pro so what is best to use temporal anti aliasing or adaptive anti aliasing ???
 
a few pages ago i was complaining because my new his 1950 pro 512mb card kept blacking out and freezing if i ran it at standard clock speed. it will run happily if i underclock it to 550mhz all week long but obviously not as quickly as it should do.

It was suggested my jeantech power supply was a bit poo to say te least so i have today installed a new 700w power supply with a total on the 12v line amperage of 68amps that is crossfire and sli approved.

The damn card still blacks out in game and also will not perform a 05 benchmark locking up as soon as the little green fairy thing floats into view.

Is the opinion of the board that this looks like an RMA because it sure isnt the power supply?

Help please :D
 
beast said:
Well sort of :rolleyes: I thought it came back so I opened up my case and it turns out that my sata cable from my hard drive was just touching the fan and causing a noise :rolleyes: However I was chuffed because it saves an RMA and I get to keep the HIS. woohoo!!
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So you've sorted it then, it looks like the fan isn't seated to the board properly. Cool, at least thats one problem sorted then, well done beast. :)
 
Proc said:
So you've sorted it then, it looks like the fan isn't seated to the board properly. Cool, at least thats one problem sorted then, well done beast. :)
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AAAAAAAAaaaaaarrrrggg NOOOOOOOOOOO :(

The rattle returned yesterday. It seems to appear for just an hour or so every 3 days. I mean, WTF?!!
Really annoying me though. It's a cracking card, but this tiny niggle spoils it. I could RMA it but what for? another HIS that may have a myriad of other problems? I seem to be lucky just having a rattly fan! HIS need to sort themselves out.
I could go for the ultimate, but it's £15 more before postage. And if I was to spend £15, I may as well go the whole hog and get an XT for a few quid more :rolleyes: But the I'd have spent £160 on a card when I could have spent £100 more and had a DX10 GTS. I'm stuck!!!
 
But it's £120 more tho! And the whole point of the pro was to tide me over for about 18 months until there is loads of DX10 cards out. I'm still thinking what to do!
 
Hi all, first post!

Just wanted add to this thread about my dissapointment with the 1950 Pro AGP, and to find out if I am doing anything wrong.
I have the HIS x1950 Pro AGP 512Mb, with Asus P4B800S-X. P4 2.8/533 Northwood @ 3.1/589. 1Gb PC3200 (2.5-3-3-7).

Basically, used Asus auto settings for a 10% overclock. Nice and stable.

The HIS is all at stock, and I get 6214 3DMark2005, BUT my previous card, X800XT PE was getting 5541 at stock, which is not much of an increase, especially considering the £187 + del for the card, and the additional £80 for the Corsair HX 520 that I have had to order as the XPower 450watt supply doesn't seem man enough to keep the HIS happy.

It will run 3Dmark2005 as previously stated, but if I run ATI Tool (latest version) after about 30 seconds with the 3D display running, it black-screens, and I have to power cycle the machine. Also get the same when running FEAR. BF2 and COD seem happy. Temps are fine so assuming its power thats the issue.

Also, does 6214 seem like a reasonable score on my current setup to you guys?
One of my mates has exact same motherboard, but P4 Prescott 3.0 HT/800 + 1Gb ram, and he has the lower-clocked Sapphire x1950 pro 512Mb AGP and he is getting 7100ish in 3dMark2005. Is the HT making the difference, or is it the FSB that is causing the gap?

I feel a bit gutted that I have effectively had to pay almost £300 for an extra 650 3dmarks, and I could probably even reduce figure that if I overclocked the 800XT.

Anyway, I feel better for my rant - any comments (as long as they are constructive ;) ) are welcome
 
I have the same card and probably be getting the same corsair 520w psu.

I got 8904 in 3dmark 05.

Tho the amd 64 cpus were better at gaming and probably the benchmarks also due tot he shorter pipes and the onboard memory controller.

Tho you should get 7k or more i would have thought. Make sure speedstep i think its called is off. As i think that can effect performance tho dont hold me to that.

Hmm if your on same card and future psu i was gona get and you still get black screens then damn what the heck is up with these new ati cards? Never heard of such problems with a gfx card before. All nvidia cards i have had have had no bother like this before. Maybe its the overclocks as standard thats messed up. Maybe there not sustainable at these speeds and could be either a design flaw or a bad judgement to sell these at the overclocked settings there sold as.

Oh and erm make sure bios settings is correct such as its actually running in agp 8x mode and also the other stuff for agp settings like apature size of 64/128 and the likes. Run dxdiag in RUN and do the dx gfx tests see if they are all running fine.
 
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Bios all appears to be set ok...

One thing I did forget to mention is that after testing 7.1, and 6.12 drivers, I am now running the latest Omega drivers so I know its not a driver related issue.

But on that note, when I installed the Omega drivers, first question was did I want to set it up with Fast Writes On or Off. I didn't know, and Off was the default so left it at that. Does anyone know the difference with Fast Writes enabled/disabled on the 1950 Pro ?

Cheers
 
**** the benchmark scores. fire up a few of your favourite games and turn up the settings to really see how much your new card spanks the old x800xt pe. :D
 
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Well, half of them seem fine, but half of them cause the black-screen-of-death. Overclockers have sent my confirmation that the new PSU is on it's way.

I'll be able to do some proper testing when that turns up.
I managed about 4 minutes of COD 2 last night with the settings set high, before it bought the big one, lol...

I think I've pretty much decided now that as I shelled out for the card and the PSU, that I'm gonna use my current MB, CPU and X800XT as the HTPC under the TV, and I'm going to get a new MB, core 2 due E6600 etc for the gaming machine.

I've been looking at an ASROCK 775 Dual-VSTA. Its a cheap board (£40) but has AGP + PCI-E(x4) so give me some expansion potential at a later date too.

That, coupled with the HIS, and a E6600 should give me better playability.

Just gotta convince the Mrs that it's a 'good idea' now, lol
 
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Well, half of them seem fine, but half of them cause the black-screen-of-death. Overclockers have sent my confirmation that the new PSU is on it's way.

I'll be able to do some proper testing when that turns up.
I managed about 4 minutes of COD 2 last night with the settings set high, before it bought the big one, lol...

I think I've pretty much decided now that as I shelled out for the card and the PSU, that I'm gonna use my current MB, CPU and X800XT as the HTPC under the TV, and I'm going to get a new MB, core 2 due E6600 etc for the gaming machine.

I've been looking at an ASROCK 775 Dual-VSTA. Its a cheap board (£40) but has AGP + PCI-E(x4) so give me some expansion potential at a later date too.

That, coupled with the HIS, and a E6600 should give me better playability.

Just gotta convince the Mrs that it's a 'good idea' now, lol
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I too have the black screen of death following exactly the same issues as yourself. i went out and bought a new power supply and still gett he problem so it looks like it wasnt the power supply so that is £80 wasted now and i am going to rma the card
 
Is this Black screen problem only occuring with the HIS cards then?

Skeeter might have hit it on the head about not being able to hold a reliable overclock.

Or the PCI-E connector?
 
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I too have the black screen of death following exactly the same issues as yourself. i went out and bought a new power supply and still gett he problem so it looks like it wasnt the power supply so that is £80 wasted now and i am going to rma the card
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Oh, thats not very encouraging...

I did read somewhere about the pci-e connector not making proper contact, and I have already trimmed my plug down so that the contacts are prominent thinking that may have been the issue.

Oh well, if the new PSU does not cure it, then I guess I'll have to RMA too.

Maybe it is starting to look like they don't like the factory overclock, although as previously mentioned, there doesn't seem to be any issues with overheating which is why I assume its power requirements.
 
Something I have just tried/noticed.

If I use ATT, it allows me to underclock the GPU (using low level - driver level makes no difference) so I wound the GPU back to 580mhz as that is what the Sapphire is clocked at, but as soon as I change the memory clock, even by a single Mhz increment, my display changed to a solid green box, and that is that until I power-cycle.

I can understand an issue with overclocking the mem, but underclocking? Why should that cause the card to hang?

:(
 
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