1600pro 256mb cards arrived - getting ready for crossfire

[saaya]

finally!
took the damn shop one week to get them to my place
and when i opened the boxes i noticed that the cards arent sealed in their antistatic bags, then i felt they both are sticky on the backside and saw that theres something smeared onto the card... glue or something... and both cards have finger prints all over them...

either the shop guys played with those cards with dirty hands or the quality control team of sapphire doesnt wear gloves like they should and doesnt wash their hands after they finish their daily dozen pack of donuts

will post pics in some time, getting ready to set them up now.
the package looks really sweet, nice design, and the card has blue pcb.
the heatsink looks very unefficient though, and noisy too.
the memory is infineon 2.5ns from what i can tell, so they run at the exact same speed they are rated for, 400mhz(800ddr) :/
so there wont be a lot of headroom for ocing... i still hope i can reach 1ghz with a pencilmod though.

[saaya]

im going to post pics and results during the next hours
let me know what benchmarks/games and speeds you want me to run

[perkam]

Hmmm....I think tis been a while since we asked this of saaya

System specs please

Perkam

[sabrewolf732]

weee

[perkam]

sabre i have to say that is by far the most informative post i've seen in a very long time Not to mentin that the megaman doing that dance seems to go very well with the comment

Perkam

[ZX7891]

3d01 3d03 3d05 AQ3 PC04, PC05 3dmark2000 SP Java Mark , pi fast, super pi 512k, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M, 32M, Aquamark2 Aquamark1 3Dmark99 PC03, PC02, Cinebench,

[Welz]

3d01 3d03 3d05 AQ3 PC04, PC05 3dmark2000 SP Java Mark , pi fast, super pi 512k, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M, 32M, Aquamark2 Aquamark1 3Dmark99 PC03, PC02, Cinebench,

lol!

[perkam]

3d01 3d03 3d05 AQ3 PC05 F.E.A.R Quake4 CoD2

That sounds more reasonable

Perkam

[saaya]

i dont have fear i think, but q4 and cod2, ok. and benches.

system specs:
3800+ venice
ati rd480 es board
sapphire x850xtpe
ati x850xt cf edition es

and of course the two sapphire 1600s
pics will be added in a few mins, but my throat still hurts and i feel dizzy and hot, i think i got a lil feever. prolly got too excited from all the hardware
anyways, no benches for tonight i think.

[saaya]

all parts:



a gift from amd



sapphire 1600pro box, nice design!
notice that it still says you need 3 parts, a ccf mobo, a master card and a cf ready card, wich is confusing, because for 1600s and 1300s you dont need a master card...



front of the card:



notice the heatsink covering the upper memory chips. how in the h3ll is any air from the fan supposed to get blown through those fins? from an earodynamical standpoint this is ridiculous...



back of the card:



sticky spots with finger prints on the back of the card




all cards compared, those 1600 pros have a cute lil pcb its even 1cm shorter than a 6600gt



x850s in cf
hope the mastercard isnt claustrophobic
i was scared it would choke with the slave card so close to it...



1600s in cf, much more room

[vapb400]

looking good saaya!

is that motherboard ever being released to public? That is so gorgeous

[saaya]

yeah, thats the sapphire crossfire board you can buy at newegg, but it has a white pcb i think?
the huuuge caps close to the memory look funky

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813154006
hmmm this board doesnt have crossfire though...

lol, ati xpress 200 board for 55$, only 2 ram slots though...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813190002

this ecs board has 2 pciE slots and the sticker on the nb says cross fire... but its with the normal 200 chipset? does this board support crossfire or not?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135211

looks like theres only the dfi, the asus and the ecs crossfire boards, thats all?
only 3 boards and only one of them is a high end board...
kinda weird, whoever wants to go crossfire has a lot of money and wants a high end machine...
anyways, sorry, seems the board is not available yet...

[perkam]

yeah, thats the sapphire crossfire board you can buy at newegg, but it has a white pcb i think?
the huuuge caps close to the memory look funky

The sapphire with white pcb has one pci-e It's like an enthusiast version of the ultra-d more than anything else...

Perkam

[althes]

I wonder when the sapphire xfire board will be ready

[saaya]

me2, i thougt its already out... i recently heard "hey the sapphire board is finally available at newegg" and now it seems thats only the non crossfire board?
why the incredible delay? i held that sapphire non crossfire board in my own hands at cebit in march of this year, and they said it should be out soon...
i hope the xfire version of it will come out soon, its a really nice board so far!

[saaya]

the ecs board supposedly uses the rd480 chipset and supports crossfire, for 115$ its worth a try, who wants to go for it?
lets ask naser first, he reviewed that board last week iirc.

hmmmm
vdimm up to 3v, vcore up to 1.725v
it scored around the same as the dfi cf board and the dfi nf4 ultra-d in 2k1 2k3 2k5 and aq3 and in most games it was the same, in ut2004 even 10% faster than the dfi boards...
has a second bios chip you can plug in in case the bios corrupts...
it has sata2....
no stability issues... only drawback is that videocards might block the sata2 slots.

sounds very nice if you ask me...

[sabrewolf732]

sabre i have to say that is by far the most informative post i've seen in a very long time Not to mentin that the megaman doing that dance seems to go very well with the comment

Perkam

What can I say, I went above and beyond.

[Lightman]

me2, i thougt its already out... i recently heard "hey the sapphire board is finally available at newegg" and now it seems thats only the non crossfire board?
why the incredible delay? i held that sapphire non crossfire board in my own hands at cebit in march of this year, and they said it should be out soon...
i hope the xfire version of it will come out soon, its a really nice board so far!

congrats! at last your cards at home
my x1300 was with same marks on pcb

and if you want sapphire xfire board: http://www.savastore.com/productinfo...07&rstrat=3130
enjoy!

and where you scores? ?

[sabrewolf732]

My bet is the x850's in CF clobber the x1600's hehe

no considering x850's keep up with 7800gts

[biohead]

and if you want sapphire xfire board: http://www.savastore.com/productinfo...07&rstrat=3130
enjoy!

That board is out for a while now. I think saaya means the Sapphire PURE Innovation Crossfire: white pcb, red slots...

coz of off-topic I'll post a link of the pic - http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/S...ages/board.jpg
and the whole article - http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=6568

RX = single card, RD = crossfire

[althes]

I wish that board would come out.

[biohead]

I wish that board would come out.

I very much second that. With RD580 being 'not so far away', I hope Sapphire will keep the beautiful looks. Damn sexeh!

[Willis]

can't wait to see some results i asume it wil be in 6600gt range?

what's that gift by the way?

[saaya]

congrats! at last your cards at home
my x1300 was with same marks on pcb

and if you want sapphire xfire board: http://www.savastore.com/productinfo...07&rstrat=3130
enjoy!

and where you scores? ?

nice!
cheaper than the sapphire nopn crossfire innovation board, lol!

kutteke, only a venice 3800+ unfortunately... but hey, better than nothing!
finally got the system running, i had some problems with the board.
for some reason it booted with the card plugged into the upper slot initially but then it didnt boot anymore. i tried everything and finally found out the board tried to boot from the lower pciE slot wich seems to be the primary slot by default, and for some reason the primary secondary pciE slot setting got back to default...

[althes]

Good to see you going saaya