new to ATI

[grateful gift ermmm]

Just moved over from Nvidia cards and bought an Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800
XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - are these cards
overclockable and is there a software tool to use?

Looking forward to receiving it - whats the latest / best driver?

tia

 

[Pluvious]

|Just moved over from Nvidia cards and bought an Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800
|XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - are these cards
|overclockable and is there a software tool to use?
|
|Looking forward to receiving it - whats the latest / best driver?
|
|tia
|

ATI updates their drivers every month and the driver number relates to the
Year/month. (accept this year they gave us a bonus 5.13!) Next month we should
be seeing 6.1's.

However, there are 3rd party drivers out there that many use and one of the most
popular are Omega's. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ These come bundled with tools
to overclock (ATI TOOL) and enable features that would not normally be available
to you with standard ATI drivers. (Overdrive..etc) Another nice thing is Omega's
don't require you to use .NET (ATI uses CCC which REQUIRES you install M$'s .NET
as well)

Since you had Nvidia before.. it VERY important you clean your system of the old
drivers, or problems with conflicts will crop up and you'll be having "issues"
with your games most likely. I suggest this program to wipe your system of all
the hidden files from Nvidia. http://www.drivercleaner.net/ This program also
cleans out Creative ,ATI, and many more driver sets, so it's a good tool to
have.

Pluvious

 

[Phil]

Just a clarification: ATI Tool can be used standalone, regardless of the
driver and control panel you choose.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Just moved over from Nvidia cards and bought an Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800
XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - are these cards
overclockable and is there a software tool to use?

Looking forward to receiving it - whats the latest / best driver?

tia

Most X1800XT's overclock very well, however, I am one of the few X1800XT
owners that got one that doesn't overclock well. The best tool at the moment
to OC your X1800XT is ATI's overdrive mechanism built into the Catalyst CCC
and or CP. ATI Tool and ATI tray tools do not yet work well with OC'ing the
X1800 series cards. Alternatively, search for a program called OverClocker
(small ATI in-house binary for OC'ing X1800 series) that will allow you to
manipulate vcore and memcore voltages and clocks as well as the fan speed.

If you are feeling daring you might try the X1800XT PE BIOS on your board,
at your own risk of course. See two posts above. Wasn't stable for me but
from what I've read it is stable for *most* users. <--- Would effectively
boost your X1800XT performance to = or > 7800GTX512 performance.

 

[grateful gift ermmm]

Most X1800XT's overclock very well, however, I am one of the few X1800XT
owners that got one that doesn't overclock well. The best tool at the
moment to OC your X1800XT is ATI's overdrive mechanism built into the
Catalyst CCC and or CP. ATI Tool and ATI tray tools do not yet work well
with OC'ing the X1800 series cards. Alternatively, search for a program
called OverClocker (small ATI in-house binary for OC'ing X1800 series)
that will allow you to manipulate vcore and memcore voltages and clocks as
well as the fan speed.

If you are feeling daring you might try the X1800XT PE BIOS on your board,
at your own risk of course. See two posts above. Wasn't stable for me but
from what I've read it is stable for *most* users. <--- Would effectively
boost your X1800XT performance to = or > 7800GTX512 performance.

Thanks for the useful information....where can you dl the PE BIOS and what
is the difference between the X1800XT 512 and the PE edition?

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Thanks for the useful information....where can you dl the PE BIOS and what
is the difference between the X1800XT 512 and the PE edition?

X1800XT = core: 625 mem: 1500 (750 ddr)
X1800XT-PE = core: 700 mem: 1600 (800 ddr)

Only difference is core and memory clocks.

Read through this thread
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=82816&page=5

The BIOS is linked somewhere in there. You can download it off my ftp if you
want ftp://djraid.dyndns.org/Sapphire_X1800_XT_PE_BIOS.zip

It says Sapphire but will work on any X1800XT card.

Tony

 

[grateful gift ermmm]

X1800XT = core: 625 mem: 1500 (750 ddr)
X1800XT-PE = core: 700 mem: 1600 (800 ddr)

Only difference is core and memory clocks.

Read through this thread
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=82816&page=5

The BIOS is linked somewhere in there. You can download it off my ftp if
you want ftp://djraid.dyndns.org/Sapphire_X1800_XT_PE_BIOS.zip

It says Sapphire but will work on any X1800XT card.

Tony

Tony - thanks for info - can you not just overclock using s/w tool - also,
do you flash from windows?

cheers

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Tony - thanks for info - can you not just overclock using s/w tool - also,
do you flash from windows?

cheers

Yes you can flash from windows. The win32 binary is included.

Yes you can change clocks in software, but this BIOS does more than that.
Read the forums at the link I posted.

Tony

 

[grateful gift ermmm]

Yes you can flash from windows. The win32 binary is included.

Yes you can change clocks in software, but this BIOS does more than that.
Read the forums at the link I posted.

Tony

program called OverClocker (small ATI in-house binary for OC'ing
been trying to find above with no joy - do have any ideas?

What is a typical stable overclock for these cards without BIOS / voltage
increases?

Chris

 

[grateful gift ermmm]

Fhased card with PE Bios - can see that it has changed BIOS version but
still need to change settings via overdrive

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Fhased card with PE Bios - can see that it has changed BIOS version but
still need to change settings via overdrive

If the PE BIOS was flashed then your default clocks are now higher. You only
need overdrive if you now want to try to go higher than stock PE clocks.

Tony