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X1950 installed.....quite impressed :D

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Hi all, picked up a limited edition 1.1ns X1950GT 512mb last week, ended up costing me £64.99 as the place i bought it from took in my old 7600GS as trade in :).

anyway got it all installed and have been playing with the clocks after bedding it in a bit at stock, frequencies a have reached so far are 615mhz core and 1615mhz memory, this was by setting Ati tray tools to find optimums. havent tried these in a benchmark environment yet, but ran ran '03, '05 and '06 this morning at 600/1550mhz and got the following

'03 - 15629
'05 - 9823
'06 - 4448

at these clocks, C&C 3 on ultra settings runs at 35+ fps, TDU at 32+ fps with HDR and 6xAA and 16xAF on High settings and DIRT demo on mid settings runs at around 30+ fps (inside view) outside ranges from 23-28fps .

System is 3200+ A64 @2.5ghz, 1gb DDR400 Geil on an RDX200

considering this whole system stands me at less than £200 cash value still......Im laughin :D
 
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phatboy said:
Hi all, picked up a limited edition 1.1ns X1950GT 512mb last week, ended up costing me £64.99 as the place i bought it from took in my old 7600GS as trade in :).

anyway got it all installed and have been playing with the clocks after bedding it in a bit at stock, frequencies a have reached so far are 615mhz core and 1615mhz memory, this was by setting Ati tray tools to find optimums. havent tried these in a benchmark environment yet, but ran ran '03, '05 and '06 this morning at 600/1550mhz and got the following

'03 - 15629
'05 - 9823
'06 - 4448

at these clocks, C&C 3 on ultra settings runs at 35+ fps, TDU at 32+ fps with HDR and 6xAA and 16xAF on High settings and DIRT demo on mid settings runs at around 30+ fps .

System is 3200+ A64 @2.5ghz, 1gb DDR400 Geil on an RDX200

considering this whole system stands me at less than £200 cash value still......Im laughin :D
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What did you use to overclock your X1950 ?

Mine won't overclock even 1mhz with screen corruption, that's in the CCC overdrive.
 
That is rather impressive there, pretty good scores, presume thats a single core AMD there too.

Well done for overclocking too, as per the previous post, i get a flashing screen if i go up 1MHZ using CCC, and ATi Tool isnt compatible with my card.
 
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That is rather impressive there, pretty good scores, presume thats a single core AMD there too.

Well done for overclocking too, as per the previous post, i get a flashing screen if i go up 1MHZ using CCC, and ATi Tool isnt compatible with my card.
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Yep...that's what i get.
 
Looking at these myself, and I'm interested in the noise levels and whether 512MB versions have much an advantage over the 256MBs?
 
Cheers for the replies, on the C&C front i was just goin from what FRAPS says....that inaccurate sometimes?, ive just double checked and should apologise, as the settings were set to a combo of high/ultra, shading/shadows were not on ultra which seems to have a huge impact :( 18-22 fps

CPU is a single Venice core yeah.

and the ram should be rated up to 1.8ghz or so im told, i have just installed some Coolermaster ramsinks on the card so gonna see if they help at all as stock the card didnt have any cooling on the rear memory modules.

Card is pretty damn quiet, the cooler is a zalman style affair and is pretty beasty, works very well from what i can tell, and its dropped the temp of my northbridge next to it by 4 degrees too lol

Boogle- I should mention im running in an XP Pro environment, and the 2900 series is well known to have issues with AA and AF, Willhub on here was playing TDU at the same time and getting around 45-50+ on the same settings with his OC'd 8800GTS, so im dont think im exaggerating :). would have thought you would be running as quick as his 8800 :(

Overclocking wise, im just using ATi Tray Tools. ATi Tool seemed to crash if i change any frequencies, i have heard it does have some issues with the X1950 tho.
 
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Getting real excited about getting my x1950xt this afternoon :D (It's actually pretty sad that I will be leaving work early for this, especially as I'm 29 and should know better :rolleyes: )

Will run a few tests then let the overclocking commence :) I have some spare artic silver in case the cooler needs reseating as well.

I hope to get it safely to 'at least' xtx speeds. Hope I don't have to do a reinstall of windows as that proved to be a pain in the arse last time trying to get SP 2 to install without saying it couldn't find files grr...

621 on a GT is very good as well. They start of at 500mhz right?

Matthew
 
yep indeedy 500mhz stock :)

The XT is a rocket ship even compared to the GT/PRO you will not be disapointed :). Im gonna make the most of my RDX200 asap and buy a second intentical card for Crossfire, can get hold of one for £79 from a friend of mine :)

Tbf mate, im nearly 25 and get the same way when new stuff turns up, gonna be bouncing off the walls when i order second card, x2 cpu and new PSU lol
 
lol, glad I'm not the only one. Now I'm married I have to cut my 'habit' down or at least plan it better rather than my implusive years of just buying the best kit. However, I haven't got this excited about kit in a long time, as there didn't 'really' seem anything truly sensational about.

It has been the introduction of the 8800/2900 and the core2duo that actually got me all motivated about computing again. Up until now, it just seems to have been a slow grind, these bring something new and exciting to the table, because they are quite a leap forwards in performance.

So then I got to deciding what I could afford to spend etc and ended up with the xt. If I can find another for x-fire I may even do that a little down the line, although with HDR the newer cards seem a much better proposition.

You know what... I'm just glad I'm actually excited about it all again. I suppose when I go Water Cooling then that will keep me interested for a fair bit longer :D

Keep us posted on what you can achieve with the GT as I have always loved the underdog :) (Perhaps I will disable pixel thingies 48 down to 36 and see what you can achieve against me).

Matthew
 
lolol. im getting married next December so im saving hard for that now which means im curbing my plans for a uber pc and going with a budget beast and deposit on a house of my own. My whole rig stands at less than £200 atm the moment. Where my better half loves that i have a hobby and it interests me so much " im gonna spend £250 on a CPU hun" most likely wouldn't go down too well me thinks lol. the cpu, gfx card and psu look to set me back £150 quid tops so that aint gonna be too bad :) and will produce quite a beasty machine for a £350 budget.

Reckon i can squeeze some extra out of the card with a bit of additional cooling, so gonna see what i can rig up hehe. Will make sure i keep you posted.

Ben
 
Nice :) Mine hasn't turned up yet (Citylink :( ) and it's 4:55pm now... hope I don't have to drive 19 miles to pick it up, then 19 miles back grrr. Soon as it's here I can plug and play with 06 :D

Matthew
 
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