X800 GTO2 Thread, post your mods and clocks here.

Darkwave · 25 Oct 2005 at 21:20

Its_Me said:
First up.
Welcome to OCUK forums m8

Thanks a lot.

I've been an OCuk customer, almost exclusively, for a year now and so I decided it was time to get my arse here and chat it up.

Its_Me said:
Good choice on board BTW.
You should see a very large leap in performance for sure.
You have to consider that the mainbopards chipset for a start is far better, you will deffinitely now be able to overclock more then you could on that Asus (Around 220mhz max FSB ?).

I'm actually pretty newbish to overclocking in general, but I have had (IMO) great results on a couple of cards now and I figured it was time to try a serious unlock/overclock mod, and let's face it, at the price of the GTO² on this site I just could not argue.

I've heard the same thing about this board being a better overclocker, and I was originally going to choose the 754/PCI-E Asus on OCuk, but a friend convinced to buy the Gigabyte board in the end as I'll probably try overclocking my Newcastle 3400+ at some point, I just have no idea about CPU overclocking though, so I'll probably ask for some advice on it in the overclocking forum.

Thanks again for the warm welcome and reassurance on my purchase, I still have the "spending guilt" from last night. :rolleyes:

Wakinglimb · 26 Oct 2005 at 18:42

locutus12, I've just checked and I am running the CPU benchmarks, but I can't turn them off as I have the free version. Do you guys all buy the full version?

With some bios memory tweaks I got 6267

locutus12 · 26 Oct 2005 at 21:25

i have the free version and i can turn my cpu bench marks off... :/ but either way your scores fine.

mr umvavooo · 26 Oct 2005 at 23:58

locutus12 said:
what can i say....

BF2 @ 1024X748 4 X AA/4 X AF not a jitter...

Fear at Maximum settings with 4X AA forced, not a jitter...

Happy bunny is me....

Notice the pillar and wall behind it, the edges look jagged, I have also noted this on TOCA RD2, the crash barriers also have this type of edge, I am running 6x16, I had a x800xtpe a few weeks ago, and noticed the same thing, is this an ATI trait?

ACESHIGH · 27 Oct 2005 at 08:28

mr umvavooo said:
Notice the pillar and wall behind it, the edges look jagged, I have also noted this on TOCA RD2, the crash barriers also have this type of edge, I am running 6x16, I had a x800xtpe a few weeks ago, and noticed the same thing, is this an ATI trait?

Not at all. You can see this occur on Nvidia cards too.

Try turning up AA to help fix the jaggies.

mr umvavooo · 27 Oct 2005 at 12:26

ACESHIGH said:
Not at all. You can see this occur on Nvidia cards too.

Try turning up AA to help fix the jaggies.

mr umvavooo said:
I am running 6x16

My 6800 never had jaggies on TOCA 8x16, I am wondering if ATI can't run that game properly.

m3csl2004 · 27 Oct 2005 at 13:50

what res was fear at??? - maybe 1024x768 would give jagies

had anyone seen what there card does with more volts??? - maybe you would be more happy with your clock gak?

mr umvavooo · 27 Oct 2005 at 13:53

m3csl2004 said:
what res was fear at??? - maybe 1024x768 would give jagies

Good point, that is what I play at 1024x768 but the 6800 had no problems at that res.

Bonjour · 27 Oct 2005 at 14:23

locutus12 said:
are you running the CPU tests in 3dmark 05 ? they have squat to do with your available graphics power and shouldnt be ran, the only tests you should be running are the 3dmark game tests. maybe i should rephrase what i originally said, a faster CPU over what you originally had has no effect on your available graphics power...

This is not actually true.

Try running a GTX with an AXP and then an A64. You'll see a considerable difference in scores, even if the CPU tests aren't run.

The latest GPU's are bottlenecked by the CPU, which needs to feed it data to render, and would gladly soak up any more CPU horsepower you could throw at them.

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:10

Bonjour said:
This is not actually true.

Try running a GTX with an AXP and then an A64. You'll see a considerable difference in scores, even if the CPU tests aren't run.

The latest GPU's are bottlenecked by the CPU, which needs to feed it data to render, and would gladly soak up any more CPU horsepower you could throw at them.

read what i typed. " a faster CPU over what you originally had"

he already had a good enough 64bit cpu, it wont make a blind bit of difference going from the chip he had to the chip hes got, and in any case thats half a dozen posts back, why bring it up...

mr umvavooo said:
Notice the pillar and wall behind it, the edges look jagged, I have also noted this on TOCA RD2, the crash barriers also have this type of edge, I am running 6x16, I had a x800xtpe a few weeks ago, and noticed the same thing, is this an ATI trait?

this was more down to me ballsing up my radlinker settings as i discovered later that night when i got into Battlefield 2... jagged edge city... the card can run the games without jagged edges and in true time honoured ATI tradition outperforms its Nvidia equivelant most of the time when AA and AF are used.

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:13

EDIT: mistake.

Bonjour · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:19

If he can get an extra 200+Mhz out of an A64/Opteron system, it will make a difference to his 3DMark score. That's the point I'm making.

locutus12 said:
... and in any case thats half a dozen posts back, why bring it up...

...

It may have been a few posts up but I'd only just read it. I don't frequent the forums as often as some.

Running the CPU tests doesn't make any difference to your final (3DMark) score btw. The only reason not to run them would be to save time.

Bonjour · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:21

Sorry, balls up.

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:29

Bonjour said:
If he can get an extra 200+Mhz out of an A64/Opteron system, it will make a difference to his 3DMark score.

Bonjour said:
Running the CPU tests doesn't make any difference to your final (3DMark) score btw. The only reason not to run them would be to save time.

make your mind up...

most people run overclocks in asynchronous so even if he overclocks it wont push his card unless he syncs it up in which case it could become unstabel. ive been told on here many many times already by various people that running the CPU tests wont make a blind bit of difference to your 3dmark score.

as for the guys CPU, he already had a 64bit CPU before he went to the FX chip, again it wont make any difference to his overall available graphics power.

m3csl2004 · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:39

hey - can someone take a screenie of 1 of these in css/hl2 please

- the only game i play atm, and im getting tires fast of my 9200se - it just might push me over the edge

thanks

m3

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 15:45

Here

Darkwave · 27 Oct 2005 at 16:04

OKAY!!! Thanks to locutus12 and his beautiful little ISO, I have unlocked and overclocked my Sapphire X800 GTO² and I am absolutely, jaw-droppingly, amazed. Period. After flashing I had a problem with my monitor going split-personality on me, thinking it was a dual monitor setup, but I fixed it without a single issue and hands down, this is the best computer-related purchase I have ever made!

Okay, now for some benchmark scores. I couldn't be arsed downloading 3D Mark '05, so you'll have to forgive me.

Chaintech Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB AGP: -

At stock (500/900) in 3D Mark '03: 7680
Overclock (564/1158) in 3D Mark '03: 8866

Sapphire ATi Radeon X800 GTO² 256MB PCI-E: -

At stock (400/490) in 3D Mark '03: 9173
Overclock + 16pp (520/600) in 3D Mark '03: 12047

Temperature: 65ºC Steady Under Load!!!

My thanks go out to OCuk, everyone on the forums, and locutus12 for making this possible. *Bow.*

m3csl2004 · 27 Oct 2005 at 18:26

locutus12 - you are a god among men, I thank you greatly

i want i want!

im saving up for 1 now definately

thanks again

m3

vanandjuanunited · 27 Oct 2005 at 19:57

GTO2 3Dmark 05

Heres what I got with my GTO2.

Stock 4297
16 Pipes 4900
16 Pipes 500/540 5802
16 Pipes 520/560 5995
16 pipes 540/580 6176
Can go higher as well so will let u know.

Used the cd iso and mod was a breeze.
Thanks Locutus.

Setup
A64 3200 @ stock Havent tried o/c yet
1 Gig DDR 400
939 Dual SATA
160Gb 133 HDD
Generic PSU (why I havent tried CPU yet)

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2005 at 20:01

im glad the mods worked for so many people... i might start doing these full time for various cards... it mainly came about because the flash system preferes dos and as youl all know windows Neaderthal Technology, Windows 2000BC and Windows XPonme dont have dos

(thank god...) so the ISO just seemed logical

plus i didnt see why modding should only be for the technically minded geeks like me. i dont see why people should be restricted from buying a bargain just because they either wouldnt know how to or were a little frightened of modding it (like i was lol )