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post #201 of 1054
11/4/06 at 7:57pm
Finally downloaded nero to burn image and tried 600c800. Got score of 9163 on first try on 05. Darn properties keep says it's GTX card though. I hope this doesn't give me any problem later. Anyways great find, and tnx for the info. BTW, it's around 5-600 points jump from Jokers rom, I think I was using 6001200. Oh yah, idle temp went up around 3-4 degrees.
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post #202 of 1054
11/4/06 at 8:18pm
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post your scores to publish them and help other use them as comparison!
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So far, i dont know if someone else has noticed this, but every rom, even with same clock values, get flashed differently: I flash my card with the original 600c800.rom and get no artifacts but i make another (2)600c800.rom and that one gets me artifacts.... for some reason even if theyhave the same clcoks some function better that others, that is why i test new clocks using more than 1 rom for the same speeds, to see which one works the best...
I know why this happens, the card wont support more than 2 performance levels, if i use more than 2, the card will give artifacts at same clock speeds. So now i am using VID7 = 1.24 and VID4 = 1V. For some reason VID3 = 1V wont work
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post #203 of 1054
11/4/06 at 9:05pm
I thought it was Vid6=1V ??? Did I miss something?
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post #204 of 1054
11/4/06 at 9:07pm
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Originally Posted by yolda
I know why this happens, the card wont support more than 2 performance levels, if i use more than 2, the card will give artifacts at same clock speeds. So now i am using VID7 = 1.24 and VID4 = 1V. For some reason VID3 = 1V wont work


So in NiBiTor, do we need to change anything in the voltage tables then? Here you say you are using VID7 and VID4, but in NiBiTor you are using VID6 and VID7. I think I am getting confused. What changes do we need to make then?

I ran ATI Tool at 615C815 and got no artifacts, and then following this first post in this thread, changed the voltage tables, and now I get artifacts. Does this have anything to do with it?
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post #205 of 1054
11/4/06 at 9:11pm
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Originally Posted by yolda
post your scores to publish them and help other use them as comparison!


I know why this happens, the card wont support more than 2 performance levels, if i use more than 2, the card will give artifacts at same clock speeds. So now i am using VID7 = 1.24 and VID4 = 1V. For some reason VID3 = 1V wont work

I'm not sure what you mean buy publishing. You are welcome to add me to your score sheets though.
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post #206 of 1054
11/4/06 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by ACHlLLES
I'm not sure what you mean buy publishing. You are welcome to add me to your score sheets though.
Yolda means, tell us your score in the format at the start of this thread so that he can it to the others already there in 2nd post.
Your name will be in lights, fame and fortune wil soon follow
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post #207 of 1054
11/4/06 at 10:31pm
9174 - ACHlLLES - T2600 / 2G 666 / Single / Dell driver (not sure #) / 90W / 600/800 / GTX BIOS
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post #208 of 1054
11/4/06 at 10:40pm
3DMark 2K5
9334 - pieter - T7200 / 2GB 667 / WUXGA / 100GB 5400 / single-pipe / 95.97 / 150W PS @ 650/1200/1.24V

3Dmark 2K6
5320 - pieter - T7200 / 2GB 667 / WUXGA / 100GB 5400 / single-pipe / 95.97 / 150W PS @ 650/1200/1.24V

For the confirm piccies look here

I'll repost my original go7900GS scores here seeing Yolda added the old scores to the 1st post here.
I do believe the highest 2k5 original BIOS score by the smallest of margins.
Did get a little higher @655Mhz but didn't grab the score before my disasterous BIOS flash.
660+Mhz and the card would crash after about a minute of benching.

Not having much luck with a new video card so will need to send this off to Dell to try my luck there.
But I'll be back threatening all your scores once again, am dying to try the higher RAM speeds.
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post #209 of 1054
11/5/06 at 12:31am
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9895 - centi - T7200 / 1GB 533 / WUXGA / Single / LTG 91.52 / 90W / 675/875 / 1.30v / GTX BIOS

Best score for this card (on air), just barely shy of artifacts. 675/875, -25 δ, 28-37-19-9 timing. Just for kicks, we also pulled the palmrest off & did a benchmark on dry ice (11,195). But it's hard to take a score seriously that requires the notebook to be disassembled, with the keyboard leaning against the display. Fun, though.
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post #210 of 1054
11/5/06 at 12:44am
Just did the GTX BIOS mod a few hours ago. Previous 3DMark was ~ 7700 overclocked to 500/1000 at 1V. Orignal 3Dmark05 was somewhere in the mid 6000's. Definitely worth the flash. Can't thank you guys enough for posting all this. My scores:

9073 - Mattk- T7600ES/ 2 GB 533 / WUXGA / Single/ 84.29 / 90W / 600/700 / 1.24V / GTX

Temp during 3dmark05 peaked at 78C from I8Kfangui after adding 8C. I followed the directions and changed the bios rom so it would drop to 1V for 2D work. Idles at around 54C with the fan set to slow. I'm not going much higher though. An ~40-50% increase over the original is good enough for me.

Link to screenshot

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ostgtxbios.jpg

Crap. I gotta rerun it since I didn't read what needed to be in the screenshot. Are there really that many people faking ths stuff at this point? I could see if I was trying to pull some tremendous overclock, but it's way under what other people are doing.
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post #211 of 1054
11/5/06 at 12:58am
Thread Starter 
Pics are needed! if you want them to be posted in the main post.

I also nee dsomeone with a fresh factory GS and GTX bios to send them to me please.
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post #212 of 1054
11/5/06 at 7:53am
I'm back, managed to get my GS flashed from the horrible incident a few days ago.
A UBS stick and a very little useful HP bootable USB driver did the trick.
Phew that was a close one.

1st test

3DMark 2K5
9630 - pieter - T7200 / 2GB 667 / WUXGA / 100GB 5400 / single-pipe / 95.97 / 150W PS @ 650/800/GTX BIOS

That is a 300 point increase over my GS BIOS score (just above) and upping the Mem speed by 25%

More testing to do
LL
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post #213 of 1054
11/5/06 at 9:12am
3DMark 2K5
9738 - pieter - T7200 / 2GB 667 / WUXGA / 100GB 5400 / single-pipe / 95.97 / 150W PS @ 650/875/GTX BIOS

This is as far as she goes for me, any higher mem speed and artifacts, higher core 3DMark crashes.
max temp 81degC.

Next step is to AS5 the go7900GS and see what this does to the Core.
LL
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post #214 of 1054
11/5/06 at 1:54pm
Ok, now I am really confused.
Do I want to leave my 2d at VID3 1.0v or do I want to change it to VID6 at 1.0v?

D.
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post #215 of 1054
11/5/06 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by KManZ
So in NiBiTor, do we need to change anything in the voltage tables then? Here you say you are using VID7 and VID4, but in NiBiTor you are using VID6 and VID7. I think I am getting confused. What changes do we need to make then?

I ran ATI Tool at 615C815 and got no artifacts, and then following this first post in this thread, changed the voltage tables, and now I get artifacts. Does this have anything to do with it?

OK, not to be the party pooper here, but I was about to start a BIOS flash when I re-read Yolda's post on the last page re: VID4 settings.

I want to make this flash happen and keep a respectable overclock (don't need bleeding edge, but close to be stable) but am now confused on the voltage issue. That is my sticking point before doing the flash since there will be times I operate on battery (non-gaming) and want the longest performance possible.

Do we have a verdict on the best way to achieve these results with the proper VID entries to avoid artifacts?
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post #216 of 1054
11/5/06 at 2:59pm
Just base your BIOS mods on the original go7900GTX BIOS.
The whole go79x0 family uses 1v for 2D performance.
I've done my BIOS mods this way and the default voltages are 1v for 2D (VID 03) and 1.24v for 3D (VID 07)
This is all you need.

If anything we should be undervolting VID 03 to gain more battery life.

[UPDATE]
Am happily running @ 0.8v in 2D mode with standard clocks for 2D and 1.24v 625/850(1700) in 3D
I'll probably make this my default setting to have both battery life and kick booty performance (not maximum performance as above)
LL
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post #217 of 1054
11/5/06 at 3:53pm
I'm confused. I thought the intructions said you need to change VID 06. Are you sure it's VID 03?
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post #218 of 1054
11/5/06 at 4:59pm
0.8V is just a label for the voltage value of VID3. It doesn't define what VID3 should be. The only way you're going to get lower voltage is if you move down to a lower VID. It doesn't matter what voltage label you give to any of the VID's, their voltages are predefined.
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post #219 of 1054
11/5/06 at 5:15pm
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and even if it did change the voltage to 0.8v the vid3 wont be used, try using rivatuner to monitor the vid changes. if it says allways vid7, then its not working.
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post #220 of 1054
11/5/06 at 6:49pm
I have a couple questions about his since I am a bit worried about doing it.

1. What are the chances of it totally destryoing the card?
2. Would I just put -4 -5 -6 command in place of the other one in stormlifters guide?
3.What would a good rom to start of with be?
4. DO I need to flash the whole bios to the GTX first or will the rom do that?
5. FOr the bootdisk can I just burn it with ImgBurn?

I wasn't going to overclock until I saw this thread and saw people breaking 8000 in 3DMark relatively easily. So If someone could answer my questions that would be asome.
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