X800 GTO² to X850 XT BIOS Mod

[Reefa_Madness]

They have the full retail boxed GTO2 at Newegg now for $219! I should have waited to buy my second one so I could save $15 on it. That's the cheapest that card has been for a long time. They even have free shipping on it right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102634

BTW, I'm using one on those ones right now and it was unlockable.

One guy posted over in the newegg "customer reviews" that based on information that he had gotten here at TPU, some of these SR models did not unlock. You've stated that yours does, which is great news because I ordered one yesterday. I can't help but wonder if he is confusing the GTO2 with the 3D GTO.

Does your retail "SR" have the same 1.6ns DDR3 memory as the OEM? I'm just curious about whether or not the memory is the same (and I have no reason to believe otherwise, but would love to get confirmation from someone holding an SR model GTO2.

Thanks in advance.

Never mind, just saw an earlier post (page #131) where the reference was made to the fact that this SR clocks as well as any of the others.

 

[ShadowFlare]

One guy posted over in the newegg "customer reviews" that based on information that he had gotten here at TPU, some of these SR models did not unlock. You've stated that yours does, which is great news because I ordered one yesterday. I can't help but wonder if he is confusing the GTO2 with the 3D GTO.

Does your retail "SR" have the same 1.6ns DDR3 memory as the OEM? I'm just curious about whether or not the memory is the same (and I have no reason to believe otherwise, but would love to get confirmation from someone holding an SR model GTO2.

Thanks in advance.

Never mind, just saw an earlier post (page #131) where the reference was made to the fact that this SR clocks as well as any of the others.

That person probably was confusing it with the Connect3d card, as you and others have said.

Because of the clock speeds, I am expecting that I will see 1.6 ns chips when I change the cooling later (probably within the next month or two).

 

[Reefa_Madness]

Thanks for the quick reply.

It could hardly be anything but the 1.6s, based on the clocks that you've been getting.

 

[giloman]

Hello

Hello
I got yesterday my C3D X800GTO from Monarch (ordered in Dec 1 )
My card thankfully is modable to 16P
Best score with Stock colling - 6423 : 100% stable !

 

[Shadowkull]

yeah.. im not gonna read all 100 odd pages of this thing so can someone jsu tell me which gto's are clockable
and can u plz get me a link to wh ere i can buy them =)


thnks

 

[ShadowFlare]

yeah.. im not gonna read all 100 odd pages of this thing so can someone jsu tell me which gto's are clockable
and can u plz get me a link to wh ere i can buy them =)


thnks

Well, there's the full retail version of the X800 GTO2 at Newegg.com right now for $219 - only $20 more than the OEM version originally cost and you get two games with it, probably the closest it will ever get to its original price. I have one of those and it is unlockable. So far I haven't heard of any of the full retail ones that aren't.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102634

 

[Shadowkull]

Thnks Flare


i you now =)

 

[DanishDevil]

Hey Hey Hey. Let's keep it PG-13 here kiddies

 

[DanishDevil]

Sapphire X800GTO2 down to $209 now guys. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102595

 

[XeoNoX]

Connect3D GTO with 16 pipes @ 600/540 with max at 618/552

3Dmark05 score of 7055 running at 600/540 C3D GTO rox!

 

[DanishDevil]

Great OC XeoNoX!

 

[Ombracol]

Connect3D GTO with 16 pipes @ 600/540 with max at 618/552

3Dmark05 score of 7055 running at 600/540 C3D GTO rox!

Whhat temps you running

 

[XeoNoX]

Connect 3D Gto @ 600/540 although i can get 618/552 out of it, why run that high if i dont have to eh? hehe 600/540 is good enough, and i just turn it on when i play games.

Im using zalman fan/heatsink and it never goes past 67 on the ATI stress test, but i also have a coolmaster 80mm case fan blowing onto the zalman to cool it down even more. After a playing a "normal" game like Counterstrike source, it runs no higher than 56. I noticed without the 80mm case fan it would go up still to like 74 on ati stress test even though i was using zalman fan. pretty weird cooling eh?

Anyone up for a game of counterstrike source?? (a west coast usa server PM me!)

 

[Peter949]

Sapphire GTO2

Okay guys...I bought a Sapphire GTO2 from Newegg. Anyone want to show me how to mod it to a xtpe? and to oc it further after that. Also if you are reading this and know how to oc a 3200+ xp venice. Help there would also be apprieciated. I also got the SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 Socket 939 ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 ATX AMD Motherboard.


Thank You!

 

[XeoNoX]

you gotta do some reading there buddy. http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/127
thats how u mod the video card. GL

overclocking your CPU is a whole other story, i hope you bought good system memor if you plan to go far on your CPU overclock.

 

[DanishDevil]

NICE mobo peter. Mind taking some pics for us? I was thinking of getting the Sapphire CrossFire Pure Innovation when it comes out, as long as it has the ULi SB.

 

[Peter949]

Sorry don't have a camera available. I was going to buy a Crossfire board but none out are any decent. Newport Beach? Irvine here

 

[seatiger]

theres a new revision of the gto2 out in the market.. ones with vivo and dual dvi..

these cards are also from sapphire and use the same chip from the old gto2.

has anyone succesfully modded this card? which bios do we use for it?

anyone know?

here is the linkhttp://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17166&vpn=102-A47466-11-AT%20(21067-01-20)&manufacture=SAPPHIRE

 

[Falco_Bird]

I have a x800 gto vivo from c3d, and it says on the box that it is supposed to have 16 pipes enabled, but i only have 12. i checked the fuses and they are not modable from the looks of it. should i email c3d and tell them my card is missing 4 pipes?\

the really sad part is that the x800 gto non moded gets about as good performance in games as my x700...

 

[DanishDevil]

anyone know?

here is the linkhttp://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=17166&vpn=102-A47466-11-AT%20(21067-01-20)&manufacture=SAPPHIRE

I'm not sure. I bet it's a misprint.

I have a x800 gto vivo from c3d, and it says on the box that it is supposed to have 16 pipes enabled, but i only have 12. i checked the fuses and they are not modable from the looks of it. should i email c3d and tell them my card is missing 4 pipes?\

the really sad part is that the x800 gto non moded gets about as good performance in games as my x700...

As for you my friend, it shouldn't say that it has 16 pipes on the box. Pics maybe?

 

[elhh]

I'm not sure. I bet it's a misprint.

it isn't a misprint.. sapphire has shipped these cards to many retailers.. but so far, i can't find any links to their moddability yet.

 

[ShinyG]

I have a x800 gto vivo from c3d, and it says on the box that it is supposed to have 16 pipes enabled, but i only have 12. i checked the fuses and they are not modable from the looks of it. should i email c3d and tell them my card is missing 4 pipes?\

the really sad part is that the x800 gto non moded gets about as good performance in games as my x700...

As far as I know, the C3D X800 GTO mod does not involve any fuses! You only have to hange the BIOS to unlock the aditional pipes...
As for the 16 pipes box, I think it's a mistake, but mine says the same thing....

As for the performance part, what's the score that you get on that X700 in 3dmark05? More than the 4500 i got on the stock X800 GTO?

 

[shreaker]

elhh, don't forget to let everyone know if the new version gto2's have r480 and 1.6ns under the hood I might even get another one

 

[Falco_Bird]

well, the exact wording is "The RADEON X800 series features SMARTSHADER HD, the most advanced pixel shader engine with up to 16 paralel pixel pipelines capible of over 8 gigapixels/second fill rate in full precision!"

there is no star or anything indicating to the contrary of having 16 ppl...if they did indeed perminantly cripple the card to only 12 ppl, that would be very shady business IMO. I appologise that i cant provide an image as my scanner is very grumpy.


again i appologise, i do not have benchmark scores for my x700 pro, but indeed when i was playing the opening chapters of HL2, there was only a slight performance increace that i noticed. i dont know, maybe i just had high expectations of the card, and got let down, but w/e.

 

[VTwedge]

it says it has up to 16 parallel pixel pipelines.....it doesn't say that it HAS 16 pipelines. they are right the x800 can have up to 16 but those are the general specs. taken from connect3d's website "World's Most Advanced 3D Architecture
The RADEON X800 GTO features SMARTSHADER™ HD, the most advanced pixel shader engine with 12 parallel pixel pipelines capable of over 8 gigapixels/second fill rate in full precision! With six programmable vertex
shader pipelines, capable of over 750 million vertices per second and an overall capability of over 200 billion floating point operations per second (GigaFLOPS), the RADEON X800 series delivers the most beautifully rendered high-definition 3D animation for the ultimate in intense, interactive game play."

what u read on the box was the abilities of the x800 series in general not on the gto specifically. your box says gto so u should have done your homework on the gto better my friend i got a connect3d gto and mine was moddable...i modded it when this article was like 5 pages long and it was one of the first non gto2 cards to be modded i took a risk modding it anyways hope that solved your questions