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post #41 of 60
12/29/05 at 6:25pm
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SUCCESS!

I'll post details and pics later, but here's how it went. I upgraded the D810 BIOS from A02 (first revision) to A04 and that did the trick, it recognized the 6800Go. Installed the X600 heatsink, fooled around with the card, noticed that it was loading at 90C and getting only ~2600 in 3DMark05. Took the laptop apart again, took the heatsink off the card, and saw that it was making almost NO contact (maybe 1mm square) . Luckily I had some 0.025" copper paneling left over. Cut out a 2cmx2cm square, polished the sucker and smoothed the corners with 600grit paper, and soaked it in 91% isoprophyl alcohol. I then placed it on the (untouched) core and put another thin layer of AS5 on the top of it. Put the heatsink back on and tightened it, booted up, 43C idle, ~70C load. I use I9KFanGUI to control the fans better (conflicts with the BIOS though, can you hook me up spuds?). Anyway, total success. 4300 in 3DMark05 with 1.6GHz->2.13GHz pin-mod. Plays everything insanely well. Will continue testing, pics and more details, and a how-to follow .
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post #42 of 60
12/29/05 at 6:37pm
So did you flash the 6800 to a FX 1400, or just update the D810 BIOS?
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post #43 of 60
12/29/05 at 7:12pm
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Just updated the D810 BIOS to A04, recognizes the card as a 6800Go

Here's some quick pics, I'll post an actual how to thread in the Dell Centrino section to help them out


Here's the X600 heatsink, as you can see, the aluminum fins are much smaller and fewer than on the 6800Go stock heatsink.

This is a picture of the actual core and heatsink. Look closely and you'll see that almost no AS5 actually touched the heatsink after putting it on.


Here's the copper piece on the core before I put AS5 on the top of it


Finally, here it is during testing (didn't want to put the whole thing back together if it didn't work ).

Anyway, there is some major hope for D810 users now
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post #44 of 60
12/29/05 at 7:20pm
congrats!
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post #45 of 60
12/30/05 at 1:51am
Just like I said, huh? Just a regular PCI Express card on a mini PCI Express slot. Any incompatibility comes from the BIOS.
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post #46 of 60
12/30/05 at 2:15am
Good job!
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post #47 of 60
12/30/05 at 4:01am
Wow, great work! You've just made my old 6800 more marketable...
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post #48 of 60
12/30/05 at 2:11pm
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Originally Posted by mikemex
Just like I said, huh? Just a regular PCI Express card on a mini PCI Express slot. Any incompatibility comes from the BIOS.
Spot on my man

Thanks guys! Played 5 hours of serious sam 2 last night and it worked flawlessly . Guide will be up by tonight I hope along with another guide on how to better cool your 7800GTX (working on that now ). Anyway, great couple of days for engineering tweakage

P.S.- Ran 3DMark05 one last time on it before I left and realized that I had "quality" settings on before. Scored 4500 on high performance .
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post #49 of 60
12/30/05 at 4:57pm
4500? Are you overlocking? Wich configuration gives so much?
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post #50 of 60
12/30/05 at 5:46pm
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Tony's XG 81.98's, installed with the enhanced option. Full laptop specs are:

1.6 P-M pin modded to 2.13GHz
6800Go @ 360/760
60GB 5400RPM HDD
1.5GB PC2-4200 RAM

The system was recently defragged, drivers were set to high performance with all optimizations on. Probably could have gotten a few more points if I had shut down unecessary processes and ran the resolution @ 1024x768.

On a side note, the color reproduction and image quality on the 6800Go is so much better than the X600. It brings his POS 1280x800 WXGA+ screen to life, digital vibrance is fantastic .
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post #51 of 60
12/30/05 at 5:48pm
See, I'm not seeing things, I'm actually seeing things.......

the 7800 colors on my sammy are >>>> than my old 6800 go (rev1 card)
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post #52 of 60
12/30/05 at 5:55pm
Awesome work. I'm doing the 6800 -> 7800 mod on Sunday/Monday so I'll have an extra 6800 vanilla real soon.
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post #53 of 60
12/30/05 at 7:28pm
You think the 6800 ultra and 7800 gtx would work if the 130 wats powerbrick was to be plug in?
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post #54 of 60
12/30/05 at 8:13pm
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Originally Posted by snazzy gen2
You think the 6800 ultra and 7800 gtx would work if the 130 wats powerbrick was to be plug in?
The heatpipes wouldn't fit.
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post #55 of 60
12/30/05 at 9:19pm
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The 6800Go heatpipe doesn't fit either, I had to use the dinky POS that comes on the X600 . However, those two cards would be way too much for that laptop thermally, never mind power-wise. Unfortunately, I can only work with the heatsink that fits in there .
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post #56 of 60
12/30/05 at 9:54pm
Great job Mr. K6! I'm looking forward to your guide.
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post #57 of 60
12/31/05 at 12:27am
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And here it is : http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...01#post1545201
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post #58 of 60
12/31/05 at 1:23am
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Originally Posted by Mr. K6
6800Go @ 360/760
I just hope you are not pushing it too far. Default clocks are 275/590 (remember the TDP).
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post #59 of 60
12/31/05 at 1:46am
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Originally Posted by mikemex
I just hope you are not pushing it too far. Default clocks are 275/590 (remember the TDP).
TDP? Default clocks on the 6800Go with DDR1 are 300/600, Dell downclocks its cards to 290/590. I had this card running 370/780 everyday while it was in my laptop, went up to 377/810 in 3DMark05. No worries, she's under her limit
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post #60 of 60
4/10/06 at 7:43pm
good show k6 excellent job on my lappy A++++++++++++
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