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post #1321 of 1404
4/21/08 at 12:02pm

Already unlocked

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Originally Posted by Seven_PRX View Post
And yes, like the poster above me said: you do need to unlock your video card bios 1st.
As you can see by my information provided, the card is unlocked. I stated in there that is has been flashed to be a GTX from GS. In that process, the BIOS was unlocked per the standard instructions yet I can not get the pre-169 drivers to allow overclock. I have overclocked this card before quite easily using nTune. About nine months ago, however, I upgraded from XP to Vista and haven't tried since. Now that I have some time to play some games, I have not been able to get it to overclock anymore. And yes, it is the same flash as when it was being used/overclocked in XP. I have not reverted and re-flashed. PixelFreak
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post #1322 of 1404
4/21/08 at 12:16pm
PixelFreak, this is a known issue. The ability to overclock with a given rom is driver-dependent. Take a look in my signature under "GPU Lock" for more info. Essentially, you can either get different drivers or flash your card back to stock.
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post #1323 of 1404
4/22/08 at 7:10am
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Originally Posted by PixelFreak View Post
I can't figure this out. I know about the 169 and above drivers not allowing an unlocked card to be overclocked BUT: I am running Rev0 ISO modded to GTX (500/600 stock) with one heatpipe. I am running 167.55 drivers (Dell version according to LV2G). Whenever I use nTune or RivaTuner, they will not overclock the card. I can change the core/mem, but when I hit apply, it goes back to 500/600. I have removed, rebooted, used DriverCleaner, rebooted and then installed on Vista x64...but for the life of me I can now no longer overclock and have the changes stick... Ideas? PixelFreak
the 167 series is actually newer than 169.04
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post #1324 of 1404
4/22/08 at 8:01am
guys I have been trying to overclock my newly bought fx2500, so far the highest stable overclocks that I have is 600/800, but thats where I hit the wall, I was trying to get the volts to 1.32 using the bios but I cant do so, any suggestions here? also anyway to flash the 2500 to 7900gtx would that mean any gains? I'm trying to play criysis and I want to push the 2500 a little more.

thx
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post #1325 of 1404
4/22/08 at 1:42pm
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Originally Posted by i_max2k2 View Post
guys I have been trying to overclock my newly bought fx2500, so far the highest stable overclocks that I have is 600/800, but thats where I hit the wall, I was trying to get the volts to 1.32 using the bios but I cant do so, any suggestions here? also anyway to flash the 2500 to 7900gtx would that mean any gains? I'm trying to play criysis and I want to push the 2500 a little more.

thx

Have you flashed the bios to an optimised one? 2500MUO.ROM . Thats a good overclock anyway. I can get my memory just over 800 but my core hits the wall about 580. What are your core temps on that at that speed?
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post #1326 of 1404
4/22/08 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by Doughy View Post
Have you flashed the bios to an optimised one? 2500MUO.ROM . Thats a good overclock anyway. I can get my memory just over 800 but my core hits the wall about 580. What are your core temps on that at that speed?
yes i started with that MUO and then edited it to make this , the only difference is the 3d voltage being 1.32v, this however doesnt work it seems, if you have nibitor, could u check to see if this is right, I did not make another vid just replaced 1.24 with 1.32, my temps are around 70c, they go the highest while on crysis, i read ur thread where you guys were figuring out drivers etc, I noted you mentioned for the volt mod there too, could you eloborate, also can we flash a 7900gtx to this card and even if we can, is there any gains? also is 7950gtx worth its money, the only difference is I guess the 1.32v to vcore right? I really feel nvidia rips us, they should atleast give us true 7900gtx cores that are capable of doing 650mhz stock for a desktop card
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post #1327 of 1404
4/22/08 at 4:55pm
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Originally Posted by i_max2k2 View Post
yes i started with that MUO and then edited it to make this ,
the only difference is the 3d voltage being 1.32v, this however doesnt work it seems, if you have nibitor, could u check to see if this is right, I did not make another vid just replaced 1.24 with 1.32, my temps are around 70c, they go the highest while on crysis,

i read ur thread where you guys were figuring out drivers etc, I noted you mentioned for the volt mod there too, could you eloborate, also can we flash a 7900gtx to this card and even if we can, is there any gains? also is 7950gtx worth its money, the only difference is I guess the 1.32v to vcore right? I really feel nvidia rips us, they should atleast give us true 7900gtx cores that are capable of doing 650mhz stock for a desktop card

Im at work at the moment so i cannot look at anything, mine idles around 50c and maxes out around 94c with fans on full. I know someone here used a 7900gtx bios and said his games looked better but when i tried it i could not get any drivers to install and it said it was a 510 quadro/7900gtx card but the drivers wouldnt let me go above 4 bit colour.
Personally i dont think the 7950 is worth the money compared to what you have now.

Yes it would be nice to have the desktop speeds but then there would be problems with the cooling in a notebook, at stock speeds some of us have trouble keeping them cool.
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post #1328 of 1404
4/22/08 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by Doughy View Post
Im at work at the moment so i cannot look at anything, mine idles around 50c and maxes out around 94c with fans on full. I know someone here used a 7900gtx bios and said his games looked better but when i tried it i could not get any drivers to install and it said it was a 510 quadro/7900gtx card but the drivers wouldnt let me go above 4 bit colour. Personally i dont think the 7950 is worth the money compared to what you have now. Yes it would be nice to have the desktop speeds but then there would be problems with the cooling in a notebook, at stock speeds some of us have trouble keeping them cool.
My 7900gs single heatpipe used to hover around 90's C too, but this has been on the cool end so far except in crysis. Okie , what I heard before was that flashing 2500 with a 7900gtx gave a black screen and/or it cannot be reapaired after that, so I dint give it a try, atleast it opens some more options to check, I will check on this and let u know wat happened, also can we do a volt mod at all on this fx2500? thx
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post #1329 of 1404
4/23/08 at 11:55am

Son of a ....

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Originally Posted by wonnage View Post
the 167 series is actually newer than 169.04
*sigh* Thank you for helping me with this mystery. It doesn't make sense that this series is 'newer' than the 169 series, but that seems to make sense. Let me ask this question: What is the best performing mobile driver set for a Dell e1705 with a iso modded GS-->GTX single heat pipe that will allow software overclocking? (The reason I ask is because I attempted to use LV2G site and ended up putting myself worse off, so now I just ask what has been the best driver set and hope for a response.) TIA, Pixel
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post #1330 of 1404
4/23/08 at 1:20pm
Its all dependent on which rom you have on your card man. You say you have the "unlocked" rom on your card now so if you don't wish to flash your card again then use the 169.04. Its a solid driver.
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post #1331 of 1404
4/23/08 at 1:55pm
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Originally Posted by zzpulp View Post
Its all dependent on which rom you have on your card man. You say you have the "unlocked" rom on your card now so if you don't wish to flash your card again then use the 169.04. Its a solid driver.

I agree the 169.04 is A Rock Solid driver, i have been using it for the last 3 months and its been great with no issues at all.
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post #1332 of 1404
4/23/08 at 3:44pm
AAAAHHHH. yes. i cleaned my fans & heatpipes and now everything works perfect (again). my Overclocked go7900gs 1.24 volt @600/800 runs like hell now

thanks Juanlu (again) your VIDEO-BIOS flash is the best.
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post #1333 of 1404
4/23/08 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by KSMB View Post
AAAAHHHH. yes. i cleaned my fans & heatpipes and now everything works perfect (again). my Overclocked go7900gs 1.24 volt @600/800 runs like hell now

thanks Juanlu (again) your VIDEO-BIOS flash is the best.

Cleaning the fans and heat pipes works wonders, i have put some filters over the vents underneath to help stop the build up of dust that makes the heat pipe fins look like they are covered in a carpet it seems to be doing the trick.
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post #1334 of 1404
4/23/08 at 4:41pm
So I did flash my 2500 with a 7900gtx bios, and all went fine, I had to force flash for obvious reasons , i ran a 3dmark06 after that and it seems I lost about 20marks, but I overclocked the card to 625 which shows artifacts but this was 3dmark 06 stable and scored a healthy 6092points which I think was nice, but anyway the 1.32v trick still doesnt work or I dont know how to find out for sure! any tips doughy??
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post #1335 of 1404
4/23/08 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by i_max2k2 View Post
So I did flash my 2500 with a 7900gtx bios, and all went fine, I had to force flash for obvious reasons , i ran a 3dmark06 after that and it seems I lost about 20marks, but I overclocked the card to 625 which shows artifacts but this was 3dmark 06 stable and scored a healthy 6092points which I think was nice, but anyway the 1.32v trick still doesnt work or I dont know how to find out for sure! any tips doughy??

Sorry i cannot help you there, I have not tried to up the voltage to 1.32 and im not going to either. My temps climb high enough already and the state of the market with so many dead cards going around i would hate to fry it and have to find another.
When i force flashed mine i could not install the drivers at all so i have left it as a quadro card. 625 for the core is high enough IMO i wouldnt think you'll get anymore no matter how much juice you give it.
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post #1336 of 1404
4/23/08 at 5:42pm
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Originally Posted by Doughy View Post
Sorry i cannot help you there, I have not tried to up the voltage to 1.32 and im not going to either. My temps climb high enough already and the state of the market with so many dead cards going around i would hate to fry it and have to find another. When i force flashed mine i could not install the drivers at all so i have left it as a quadro card. 625 for the core is high enough IMO i wouldnt think you'll get anymore no matter how much juice you give it.
ofcourse I do understand that I dont want you to try anything on your card at all, I thought if you knew how to, I would give it a try , and I wont be running 625 24x7 may be 600, but I have kept it on 550/750 so far I know how hard it is to find cards, ebay has almost nothing, havent seen a 7950gtx in some time. But as far as you know has anyone successfully increased the voltage on a fx2500/7900gtx? as yet, I want to know if it is doable at all, cause I have tried several times and I dont think its increasing, cause no matter what I would see artifacts on anything higher than 600mhz on core, I guess this would be a right way to tell right?
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post #1337 of 1404
4/23/08 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by i_max2k2 View Post
ofcourse I do understand that I dont want you to try anything on your card at all, I thought if you knew how to, I would give it a try , and I wont be running 625 24x7 may be 600, but I have kept it on 550/750 so far I know how hard it is to find cards, ebay has almost nothing, havent seen a 7950gtx in some time. But as far as you know has anyone successfully increased the voltage on a fx2500/7900gtx? as yet, I want to know if it is doable at all, cause I have tried several times and I dont think its increasing, cause no matter what I would see artifacts on anything higher than 600mhz on core, I guess this would be a right way to tell right?

Im sure it would be possible , you ought to ask zzpulp he's the man on top of this kind of stuff.
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post #1338 of 1404
4/23/08 at 6:17pm
Idk...I really don't think increasing the voltage is the proper way of testing the idea (of being able to change voltage). I always decrease the voltage to something pretty low and see how the card reacts. Both the 6800 series and 7900 series fail to respond to my heavy decreases in voltage so I conclude that changing voltage beyond what the core was intended just doesn't work.
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post #1339 of 1404
4/23/08 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by Doughy View Post
Im sure it would be possible , you ought to ask zzpulp he's the man on top of this kind of stuff.
thanks got to the right thread! dint read the previous post, oohkie so it probably is not possible to increase the voltage beyond 1.24v?
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post #1340 of 1404
4/23/08 at 6:38pm
go7900gs is still number 1 among overclocking. the voltage boost from 1 volt to 1.24 volt make such a different. (there is no other mobile card (i know) who goes from 3700 to 5500 points with perfect temp and not one single artifact in 3dmark06... long live go79XX chip.. it bloody rules
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