X800 GTO2 Thread, post your mods and clocks here.

[StixxUK]

I still find it shocking how hot these newer 3D accelerators run. AND how cool the processors are. The last system I used had an Athlon thunderbird (bloody hot) and a Kyro 2 (ice cold). The idea of a chip heating up to 90 degrees is bloody terrifying to me!

I think I'm going to swap my Stock cooler for an Arctic Cooling thingy ASAP. Do you need to buy some sort of thermal compound resin for those or do they clip on (like a cpu cooler)?

 

[Phil99]

The Artic Coolers come with a tube of thermal paste (easily enough for a couple of applications), but for better results you could use AS5 etc.

They screw on so you don't need to "glue" them to the card btw

 

[Aus-bound]

Yea it's really weird how different some cards perform - Mine goes up to 600Mhz memory, but not much higher than 520Mhz core. Some (like yours, you lucky lucky person!) go up to 600Mhz core etc! Luck of the draw I guess, but whatever you get it's always going to be good.

Well being playing around a little more, mainly because i noticed that ati tray tools had a top limit of 600Mhz on the core, when i found how to change that i am now running at 630Mhz core but still limited to 500Mhz ish memory, i will have to try an arctic cooler to see if that will help my memory go a little faster, but at the end of the day im more than happy with the performance as it stands.

 

[fullspizz]

I've managed to get mine to 560 core and 570 mem so far, it's been stable for about 90mins at that

 

[Blackstar_solar]

Old PC:
2005 - 1872
New PC:
(with stock GTO2)
2005 - 4576
New PC:
(with 16 pipes 520 core 590 mem)
6356

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pleased!!!

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ Processor
Power Supply: Antec 480W Silent PSU
Motherboard: Asus A8N-E PCI-E nForce 4
Memory: 1GB DDR PC-3200 at 400MHz - 2 x 512MB
Hard Drive 1: 300 GB Western Digital Serial ATA 7,200 rpm w/ 8MB Cache
Hard Drive 2: 80 GB Matrox ATA 100 7,300 rpm w/ 4MB Cache
Optical Drive 1: 16x DVD±R/W Recorder
Optical Drive 2: 32x DVD-ROM (Slot loading )
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 1024
Network Card: Integrated High Performance nForce Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Wireless Card: Belkin F5D7000 54G Wireless Adapter
Monitor: Viewsonic VX912 8ms 19" TFT

 

[Blackstar_solar]

Old PC:
2005 - 1872
New PC:
(with stock GTO2)
2005 - 4576
New PC:
(with 16 pipes 520 core 590 mem)
6356

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pleased!!!

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ Processor
Power Supply: Antec 480W Silent PSU
Motherboard: Asus A8N-E PCI-E nForce 4
Memory: 1GB DDR PC-3200 at 400MHz - 2 x 512MB
Hard Drive 1: 300 GB Western Digital Serial ATA 7,200 rpm w/ 8MB Cache
Hard Drive 2: 80 GB Matrox ATA 100 7,300 rpm w/ 4MB Cache
Optical Drive 1: 16x DVD±R/W Recorder
Optical Drive 2: 32x DVD-ROM (Slot loading )
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 1024
Network Card: Integrated High Performance nForce Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Wireless Card: Belkin F5D7000 54G Wireless Adapter
Monitor: Viewsonic VX912 8ms 19" TFT

 

[StixxUK]

Using ATItool's max clock speed finder tool, I hit 585 core and 607 memory (not at the same time) before it even started artifacting. This is in an Antec Sonata case with only standard fans, the case fan on low and stock cooling.

That's pretty good, right? I suppose the important thing is not how high I can get the speeds independent of each other but how high I can get them both at the same time and for several hours...

 

[UncleBob]

its 2mb so hotmail should be fine, got to pop to town for an hour, will send it to you with instructions when i get back its fairly easy to do

Hi m8 - could you email that boot iso to me plz?

[ edit ] Nevermind, managed to sort it myself already [ edit ]

 

[UncleBob]

Managed to get it flashed and at the moment its clocked to 540 core and 570 memory and looks as though there could be quite a bit of overhead too - but i'll wait until I've got a better cooler to stick on it first

Managed to get my crusty old XP3000+ from 1863 (6600 LE) to 5868 without any hassle. A bit of fiddling with settings should get me 6K+ in 3dmark05.

 

[Shidojin]

ordered one yesterday, cant wait til xmas when i get the new case to put it in

 

[Crofter]

Firstly I d like to thank everyone who contributed to this thread, your positive posts and comments where the reason I bought this card.

Amd athlon 64 3500 - stock speed.
2 x 512 corsair Pro Series.
Gto2 @ 550 core and 550 memory.

3dmark2005 = 6247 woo hoo.

Well chuffed with that - thanks again.

 

[Flibster]

Opteron 146 @ stock 2ghz
ATI X800GTO2 @ 16pipes - stock cooler - using 0511 drivers
On XP64 Pro

3dMark05 - 5076...

This sound about right?

Got some overclockign to do on both chip and G/C at the moment - runnign ATI tool on the G/C overnight - topped out at 57°C and was still increasing the clock rate of the core this morning - was a 528mhz

Yet to do the memory.

Got to admit a 33% increase in clockspeed of the core is pretty nice tbh.

[edit]
Righty ho...

Got the Core to 531mhz and the memory to 612mhz

Gives me a 3dmark 05 score of 6414 which seems decent to me.
33% on the core and 25% on the memory gives a 25% boost in 3dmark. Nice.

Simon/~Flibster

 

[Jakass202]

Got the Zalman VGA cooler!

TEMPS 35 C
Stable at
550mhz CORE
600mhz MEM

Got core upto 620 b4 artifacts cool huh?

Worth £150 all the way!
Peace

 

[vanandjuanunited]

Opteron 146 @ stock 2ghz
ATI X800GTO2 @ 16pipes - stock cooler - using 0511 drivers
On XP64 Pro

3dMark05 - 5076...

This sound about right?

Got some overclockign to do on both chip and G/C at the moment - runnign ATI tool on the G/C overnight - topped out at 57°C and was still increasing the clock rate of the core this morning - was a 528mhz

Yet to do the memory.

Got to admit a 33% increase in clockspeed of the core is pretty nice tbh.

[edit]
Righty ho...

Got the Core to 531mhz and the memory to 612mhz

Gives me a 3dmark 05 score of 6414 which seems decent to me.
33% on the core and 25% on the memory gives a 25% boost in 3dmark. Nice.

Simon/~Flibster

Im getting 6435 with opty 146 @ 2.7 and x800 gto2 at 540/600.

 

[Phrozen]

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Oh Dear...

They wernt lying when they said these cards were limited stock:|

the listing has been taken off the Overclockers X800 / X850 Catalogue Page. Im glad someone pointed out this card to me, because i was origionally going to go for an HIS Excaliber X800 AGP Card.

Oh well, they had them in stock for a few months, but now thats it, All Gone

 

[asd1301]

ERRR !

Jakass202
u wanna tell me that u had core 550 and cos of that zalman ATI cooler u went from 550 to 600+ !!???
how ?
only cos of cooling ??? u got 70 + core ??

why I can't make this ?
i use a 25' FAN ! (table fan ) directly on my baby ..(gto2) and can't get over 531 core with or without the fan

i'm so annoyed ! my friend got a new gto2 too and get 560 \ 600 !!
and he don't even know what it means !!
he's saying to me ..."games run smooth already so why even o/c. i;ll keep it on 520 \ 540 for best life time of the card ....
i wanna kill that friend !!!!! ...WASTED GTO 2 !!

 

[keyser]

Why don't you see if he wants to swap cards?

 

[Gibbo]

HI there

Sapphire think they can get some more, but the fact is were now selling X850 XT's for the same money so they are clearly a better buy. The GTO2 may re-appear but I believe what is left is such a minimal amount.

 

[luna_s]

Just tested mine in my newish system

3dmark 05

stock 12 pipelines 4458
stock 16 pipelines 5016
stock 16 pipelines - 540/590 overclock 6304 (rock solid)

temperatures around 39c

(then again im watercooling)

winchester xp64 3000 (not overclocked) - 1 gig of giel value, abit an8

very pleased except i need more memory

 

[sunstriker]

Amd athlon 64 3500 - stock speed.

Gto2 @ 527 core and 617 memory. 16 pipes fan - stock at 100

3dmark2005 = 6670 !

Big increase from NGO Cats!!!

Sun