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X1950 installed.....quite impressed :D

Hey mate, ive been over at my fiancee's house all weekend, it was her parents 25th wedding anniv party so havent had any time to touch pc hehe.

Just looking at your sig, i had exactly the same card until January when i switched to PCI-E, where you get your 6800 from out of curiousity as it has almost identical specs to my old one, not the bay was it???

Ben
 
lol no.. actually was from OcUK :) Its a Leadtek A400LE TDH. I now think (and I will test) that the artifacting on this card is down to the PSU and not the card being pushed to far.

Have been very happy with the card, especially after strapping a 92mm fan to the side which reduced the noise level and the temp of the card by 15 degrees :D

I am waiting for my new PSU (Corsair HX 520W) to turn up on Tuesday, so will let you know my results so we can compare :)

Matthew
 
hehe sweet, identical card to my old AGP one :). had mine running at 405/905 on 12pipes in 5 shaders, was a great little card and totally trounced the 9800 PRO i had before it :)

My 6800 ran like a bag of spanners until i upgraded my psu too, they are hungry lil boogers, as are the X1950's. my GT clocked runs fine on a 380w enermax tho :). so your new corsair should be perfect, im kinda looking at a 600 watt version for when i go crossfire, but been offered a 580 Type-R for a very tasty price :)

Ben
 
phatboy said:
580 Type-R for a very tasty price :)

Ben
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You mean the Hiper's that go boom?

I like my 6800LE has always been real easy to live with, and always just 'worked'.

Matthew
 
I dont know if to take the "they go boom" to heart really, i know loads of people that have had them for years and have worked fine.....may well get an OCZ stealthstream 600w or summin just incase hehe

cheers for the memory reply, just thinking, the card may not be performing at this 100% optimum is the 380w struggles with max OC or summin, intend to hopefully invest in the new PSU if i get enough for my bday cash wise.....My 6800 gained 1.5k in 3dm 03 when i swapped PSU and clocked an extra 20 mhz !
 
yeah found that was the case, where the PSU may have the system up n running, it may still be struggling at full power espec. on overclock to provide the ampage/wattage continuously despite having good rails etc, simply cos it cant muster up the output

i reckon my 380w Enermax is kinda at the most it can safely do with the x1950 lightly clocked, but he higher clocks prove a bit too much.

will try the theory when i get new PSU, but was tru of my 6800
 
phatboy said:
just clocked the cpu to 2.6ghz and have done a 10,027 points run in 3d mark 05

10k!!!! AT LAST
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Wow for a 1950 GT, thats very good, might try to get hold of one myself.

Btw your sig is 50 pixels too wide, better edit it before a don sees it.
 
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Are you using Ati Tray Tools and Catalyst 7.6 drivers as some peeps using drivers like 7.5 or the ones on the CD couldn't overclock either.

Matthew
 
Scougar said:
(It's actually pretty sad that I will be leaving work early for this, especially as I'm 29 and should know better :rolleyes: )

Matthew
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I'm 30 and took the day off to build my new C2D system. You are not alone :D
 
i installed 7.5 from the ATi site soon as i got the card and it overclocked straight off...the non overclocking problems are kinda weird, people say that the sapphires are the worst for it, espec. the Ultimate edition where only the bundled drivers oc the card and give you the 1600mhz mem speed.

I installed 7.6 couple of days back and its seems to clock slightly better and is more stable :). All my OC'ing was done in ATi Tray tools.

My card is a Colorful (Chinese co.) card, and is the X1950 GT (PRO) Ltd Edition. I got mine from a guy im friendly with who is the main uk distributor for them, obiviously cant say much more than that as its breaking forum rules. but i think the card is a non ATi reference design. seems to work a treat as it overclocks like no ones business :)
 
Can't wait till tomorrow night now, with all these results flying round :) Excited to see what it can do overclocking wise with the new power supply. I think I got 5149 with 06 with the 18A Qtec, so hopefully it will yield a better result with the corsair, and allow "safe" overclocking.

I may even work it so the silent 92mm fan is used either blowing air into and over the VRM's for better cooling there, or strapped onto the side above the fan intake. When I did this to my 6800LE, it reduced the temp by 15 degrees and allowed about an extra 50Mhz to be attained on the clock :D

Matthew
 
ive managed to get 10198 in 05 with my setup - cant get any more juice out of it i dont think - running at 672 and 1584 - nay bad

on air that is. :D
 
That is pretty nice score for a 1900xt. I will see how the extra memory speed affects the score (1800-2000Mhz on the x1950xt).

I can only overclock my cpu to 2.6ghz and only have a 4x PCI-E slot due to motherboard limitations, so that will affect the scores somewhat. EDIT: I will also run with 05 as well do try and take some of the CPU bias out of the equation.

Matthew
 
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