X800 GTO² to X850 XT BIOS Mod

[cLy_eVo]

Sapphire x800 gto HYBRID

CONFIG DIE FUSES 0XFFFFDFFF
CONFIG SUBSTRATE FUSES 0XFFFFFF9E
CONFIG ROM FUSES 0X261
GB PIPE SELECT 0XAD46

mine is a gto. its an r480 chip. the chip look exactly like in the manual with the samsung gc16 ram. can the quad be unlocked.

if it cannot be done by softmod/bios flash. is there any other way. hardmod? connect the fuses w/ pencil?

 

[RatusNatus]

No you cannot. The Connect3D X800GTO has a different core than the X850XTPE (R480 on the X850XTPE). If you try, you will fry your card or render it useless.

I don't think so.


He is water cooled and he said: The card suport the 850 clock. So, take care with your memorys! Have a heatsink?


cheers

 

[DanishDevil]

John, you need to bend the end of the backplate slightly so that the ramsink will fit under the bracket.

 

[john57]

DanishDevil

I looked at the Connect3D X800 card closely and did find the heat sink had too much play and sagging under the weight of the cooler. I solved this issue by replacing the rubber O rings under the standoffs to fiber washers to give it more stability and the heat sink maintain good contact. Remember that the card heat sink is usually upside down in a typical tower case.

 

[DanishDevil]

Gotcha. I thought you were talking about the Zalman VF700-CU and the X800GTO2. My bad.

How are the temps now?

 

[hagen]

Got the Sapphire GTO2 last weekend. Flashing's piece of cake, 16p, on you go.

3DMark03, running on an Athlon 3700 San Diego, 1G Kingston Value Ram:
- Standard clock: ~10700
- OC, core ~460, mem ~560: ~11900

The OC settings turned out to run stable for approx. 1 hour, then the system crashes while running full load, I guess it's caused by too much heat.

What is the max. temp. the core should get to?

 

[ShinyG]

Just got the all-famous Connect 3d X800 GTO. What a beauty!
Here are my results in 3dmark05 so far:
Stock: 12pipes, 400 core/ 980 mem ~4400
Flashed: 16pipes, 400 core/ 980 mem ~5000
Cloked: 16pipes, 500 core/ 1100 mem ~6000

The rest of my config is under my system specs!

 

[blsnelling]

Don't stop there. Mine does 567/567. Have you tried any higher?

 

[ShinyG]

Nope, tried that and then hurried up to post here!
I'll buy a Silencer soon and try harder...

 

[blsnelling]

Use ATITool and set your fan to 100%. The max mine saw was 69C. That won't hurt anything. With the Silencer I am down to a high of 53C.

 

[Sasqui]

Connect3D X800 GTO - The BOX?

Weird question - Has anyone seen the Connect3D X800 GTO in a box with a picture on it other than the lady with the funky blue tech suit? I saw two versions on Tomshardware article about the GTOs.

I got lucky with a Newegg Connect3D X800 GTO card, 16 pipes 553/540! ATITool reached a core of 596 multiple times, no artifacts before crashing. Benchmarks @553/540: 3DMark05 = ~6500 3DMark03 = ~13800, no visible artifacts. This is in an ABIT AG8 i630 CPU @ 250 FSB ~3.8 Ghz, mem 1:1.

The card I got had the "blue lady" on the box. I'm just wondering if there is some correlation in manufacture/supplier. Probably a stupid thought, but who knows?

 

[Sasqui]

Duh

Nix that last question - I went back to tomshardware.com and realised it wasn't a picture of the box I was looking at! If you are interested in the article, here it is:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20051125/index.html

Even without 16pipes, it's a darn respectable card at a great price. A/R I paid $149.

 

[VTwedge]

ati silencer5 rev2 installed on connect3d gto temp dropped from 44c idle to 32c idle and at load the temp dropped from 82c in ati tool to 54C. running 520/520 3d05= 6170 score. not bad heh?

 

[Dynamic]

Just look at the latest update on the failed cards not modding, 68? That is some messed up crap. I was happy with my purchase from Monarchcomputers.com on my C3D GTO that i modded to 16pp 550/565, but need something faster now. Don't have money, but need to save cause i want to shoot for Nvidia GT/GTX not sure, maybe even the GTX 512.

Note: So as Wizzards says buying from Newegg.com is a risk dudes, as always, MONARCH is the place to be!

 

[VTwedge]

lol dynamic u switch cards every 2 months?

 

[Dynamic]

I wish i could dude, i get tired of components really fast, hehe. I'll have to work like an animal for the next couple of weeks to save up for the GTX 512. That's what i'm going to shoot for even though i got a nice X850XTPE steel with the GTO.

 

[VTwedge]

how about u save slowly not get the gtx512 yet and wait and see in a couple of months what the r580 brings to the market? u dont want a 24 pipline nvidia card now only to find out that one month later ati has a 24 pipeline card out too do ya?

 

[ShadowFlare]

geez i hate it when people slug the c3gto. whoput the fire blade above the gto as better? guys wake up i moded my gto when this article had like wot 9 pages long? and it worked as for the whose better thats completely objective! clock for clock the r423 is BETTER than the r480 u have on the saphire gto2 im running a sempron 3100 1.8 overclocked to 2.25ghz and my c3gto unlocked at 520/520 at stock cooling and i get 6166 at 3dmark 05. now someone get an athlon 3200 at 2.2 put their gto2 at 520/520 run the benchmark and come back at post their scores, currently waiting for my arctic cooling silencer 5 to overclock more..any takers on the bet that at the same frequency the gto2 is gonna score lower?when all else is the same?

As you mentioned, I tried setting my Athlon 64 3200+ to 2.2 GHz, then set my GTO2 to 520/520. Here are the results:



A full 200 points lower than what you mentioned. I did notice that the Connect3d GTO's bios shows different memory timings in RaBiT. Could you please post the memory timings as shown in ATITool so I don't have to change the timings in the bios to test them?

 

[hagen]

Latest News...

GTO2 doesn't seem to work stable after flashing. GPU 460 / Mem 560 with fan@100% gives approx. 20 minutes lifetime, then the system will definitiy crash. Temperature near 55°C. I've logged temperature with ATITool, GPU ist at 44-45°C max. with standard settings 400/490. Without overclocking the GTO2 crashes after ~1 hour, maybe one and a half (constant 100% 3d load)

Just tried to overclock with the TRIXX-Tool provided by Sapphire, automode... overclocked up to 570mem, 470 GPU -> crash.

CPU at 100% near 44°C...

It seems there is a WIDE range in quality of the used r480-GPUs. By now, I can not recommend this card.

 

[matrlx]

Heh, too slow ?

I dont get it man, why would you need anything faster, except for the sake of getting high 3mdark score?

I've oc'ed my card C3D x800 GTO to 570/570, and also unlocked the 4 pipelines, which gives me 6800 in 3dmark 05. Furthermore, every single game I've tried I can max out to 1280*1024, which is my TFT 19" max resolution.

Games I've played includes.
Quake 4
Fable Lost Chapters
FEAR
Need For Speed Most Wanted (man this game looks good!
GUN etc.
Half Life 2 (max antialiasing, max anistrophic as set as default by the game )

The only game that weren't perfect was Starship Troopers, but who cares anyways. The game sux, and is badly programmed.

Nah, can't see why u'd wanna upgrade now There aren't even that many great games out now either, not new anyway (which sux cause I wanna game with mah good stuff?!?! )

Just look at the latest update on the failed cards not modding, 68? That is some messed up crap. I was happy with my purchase from Monarchcomputers.com on my C3D GTO that i modded to 16pp 550/565, but need something faster now. Don't have money, but need to save cause i want to shoot for Nvidia GT/GTX not sure, maybe even the GTX 512.

Note: So as Wizzards says buying from Newegg.com is a risk dudes, as always, MONARCH is the place to be!

 

[RatusNatus]

I got lucky with a Newegg Connect3D X800 GTO card, 16 pipes 553/540! ATITool reached a core of 596 multiple times, no artifacts before crashing. Benchmarks @553/540: 3DMark05 = ~6500 3DMark03 = ~13800, no visible artifacts. This is in an ABIT AG8 i630 CPU @ 250 FSB ~3.8 Ghz, mem 1:1.

The card I got had the "blue lady" on the box. I'm just wondering if there is some correlation in manufacture/supplier. Probably a stupid thought, but who knows?

Glad to know... when did you boght this one?

 

[DanishDevil]

Use ATITool and set your fan to 100%. The max mine saw was 69C. That won't hurt anything. With the Silencer I am down to a high of 53C.

That is TOO HOT. You really don't want your card going over 65C.

ati silencer5 rev2 installed on connect3d gto temp dropped from 44c idle to 32c idle and at load the temp dropped from 82c in ati tool to 54C. running 520/520 3d05= 6170 score. not bad heh?

Thank Jesus VTWedge. 82C will run that card for about a week, then it'll fry itself like an egg in the goddamn Sahara.

Latest News...

GTO2 doesn't seem to work stable after flashing. GPU 460 / Mem 560 with fan@100% gives approx. 20 minutes lifetime, then the system will definitiy crash. Temperature near 55°C. I've logged temperature with ATITool, GPU ist at 44-45°C max. with standard settings 400/490. Without overclocking the GTO2 crashes after ~1 hour, maybe one and a half (constant 100% 3d load)

Just tried to overclock with the TRIXX-Tool provided by Sapphire, automode... overclocked up to 570mem, 470 GPU -> crash.

CPU at 100% near 44°C...

It seems there is a WIDE range in quality of the used r480-GPUs. By now, I can not recommend this card.

I bet you got a bad card. I would RMA if I were you.

 

[blsnelling]

That is TOO HOT. You really don't want your card going over 65C.

Thank Jesus VTWedge. 82C will run that card for about a week, then it'll fry itself like an egg in the goddamn Sahara.

Where did you get this information? 69C is not too hot. Of course cooler is better but 69 is not going to hurt your card. In fact, ATI's specs are as follows:

Thermal Parameter Value temperature
Maximum recommended ASIC case (or center of die backside for flip chip) 105°C
Absolute maximum rated junction temperature: 125°C
Minimum ambient operating temperature 0°C

Please don't post misinformation. No info is better than bad info. This happens all too often on the forums here.

 

[DanishDevil]

I'm saying that if your card is going over 65C, you are baking the card. The card will not last as long, and if overclocking, you want to watch your temps. 125C is where the card gets so hot, it can't perform at stock frequencies.

I just don't want people new to the flashing and overclocking scene frying their cards. I am encouraging them to get some aftermarket cooling (which every person in this topic that is OCing should get) which will make them even more knowledgable of the subject of overclocking.

And also, "No info is better than bad info."? I think you mean that no info is worse than bad info.

 

[blsnelling]

69C isn't any where close to max temps. It's not going to fry your card. Yes, I meant that no info is better than bad info.