I will see if I can get my hands on one of theseOriginally Posted by Supertim0r
In the meantime I have this (credit to techpowerup).
It's an early R480... same week as my Powercolor X850XT but look at the area circled.
I believe ATI laser cut them, then cover with a square of solder (notice the square looks different to the other solder points in my R480 pics above).
Anyone wanna cover me if kill this card taking off that solder? Please sign here
hehe
Did take a bit of the solder off but stopped as soon as the copper square was exposed... wonder what else can be done
Anyone silly enough to try this themselves, here are pics. The card still works 100% as it shouldso scraping off the solder doesn't kill it, at least we know that.
I just used a razor sharp pocket knife... ghetto.
Anyone have any suggestions for trying to unlock this card? or is it truly impossible?
Here we can see the difference between the GT and XT vivo... all the bright colorful bits show the differences. the extra power circuitry and overall differences are all there.
I referred to Dolf@techpowerup's article on unlocking hardware locked X800 cards, unfortunately the little resistor panel on the back is identical between my x800gt & x850Xt so it is hardware locked through power circuitry it seems.
that sucks, will try to sell my x800gt that is 1week old and get a GTO with 1.6ns ;p
I'm totally confused. Is this an x850xt from gamepc.com? Here is the core of my Club3D X800RX, it looks the same, but i couldn't take a more detailed photo to see what it is indeed in the "red square" area.
It depends on whether you have the additional power circuitry. If you hold the card with the core facing down and the PCI-e slot facing towards you, there should be some voltage regulators on the top right, if you have 8, try flashing it!
My GT has 6, and my X850XT has 8. So far no X800GT's have the Aux PCI-e power connector right? I remember powercolor did on their XL's...
What about a couple of rezistors (it seems to me...)? Such elements we have from the back of our card too. What are they mean?
Last edited by -=DeaTH=-; 09-19-2005 at 07:52 AM.
Notice that the coloration does not change in my overlaid image? Thus it is identical on both cards. Also the resistor panel on the back is identical. The potential part this plays in modding the card was brought up and debunked on the techpowerup forums.What about a couple of rezistors (it seems to me...)? Such elements we have from the back of our card too. What are they mean?
bios flash X800GTO to X850XT possible ?
retired computer enthusiast
The Powercolor X800GTO is R430 and as such most likely won't be unlockable.
EDIT: on second thought perhaps an X800XL bios will unlock the remaining quad, I will see if I can get my hands on one of these...
Last edited by Nephilim; 09-20-2005 at 03:01 PM.
Nice review you made there.. The x800GT is quite a nice card.. But it cant out-perform my oc'ed GF6800LE... Thats 4.5K in 05 and 11k in 03 ^^
Regards
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CPU:Intel core 2 duo E7400 2.8Ghz @ 3.4Ghz
CPU:Intel core 2 duo E6400 Conroe Batch L629A7XX
CPU:Intel core 2 quad Q9400 2.66Ghz @ 3.0Ghz
MOBO:Asus P5Q Pro
RAM:Corssair 2x1 GB PC6400 DDR2-800
RAM:Corssair 2x2 GB PC6400 DDR2-800
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VGA:Asus GTX 560 1GB
HD: Westerdigital 160GB SATA
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give me a week and i will pass your 03 score, im already at 4,4k 05 so ust a fresh install will get my pass 4.5k
Nice scores, but it beats your 05 score oc'd (see graphs in first post) with cpu & ram @ stock (4667points) and if I wacked it in my DFI with my cpu & ram overclocked I'd say your 03 would be toast too
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