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Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/17 03:41 Okay after reading a lot of threads in different forums about this question so forth but here my plan to flash and unlock the pipelines for the Sapphire X800 SE GDDR3 256-bit graphics card.

Diagnosis
1. No lasercut on the GPU
2. R420 GPU
3. 256MB DDR2 Memory
4. Voltage not too sure (I think the AGP is 0.8v)

Proposed Plan
1. Use ATITool to determine the max core/mem frequencies
2. Use RaBiT to alter existing max core/mem frequencies
3. Flash the BIOS to a X800 XT with those altered frequencies
4. Check with ATITool that it has been flashed correctly and monitor

This is just the generally outline of it. The only problems I have is that I am confused with voltage increasing (pencil mod?) and how to actually unlock the pipelines. By me flashing the X800 SE BIOS that should unlock the pipes right?!? Also apparently this can be done with RivaTuner but I cannot find enough information about this.

Also any recommendations on any good coolers would be awesome. I'm already thinking of heatsinks for the ram but I need a decent VGA cooler on it to get it to the core speeds of the the X800 XT. Can anyone point out any flaws that they might be able to see.

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/17 09:14 Well this procedure looks good but I would not immediatly carry it out just like that. Cause you want to go from a X800 SE to a X800 XT. As you might know or not the GPU's are more different then going from a X800 PRO to a X800 XT.

GPU Specifications
- X800 SE - 8 pipe/6 vertex units
- X800 GT - 8 pipe/6 vertex units
- X800 - 12 pipe/6 vertex units
- X800 PRO - 12 pipe/6 vertex units
- X800 XL - 16 pipe/6 vertex units
- X800 XT - 16 pipe/6 vertex units

So as you can see you want to go from 8 pipes to 16 pipes which would be doubling it... Without any testing of this with RivaTuner I wouldn't even dare to do that...

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/18 04:49 That's true. I really don't need to goto an X800 XT though. I'm happy to get it to work and stable at X800 PRO with 12 pipes. Unlocking 4 pipes (4 good pipes) would be great.

I have no illusions about getting it to 16 pipes unless a miracle happens and the video gods start to favour ATI overnight.

I'm getting a new cooler for the card anyways and when I do I'll post a shot of the GPU serials. Also if I provide a GPU BIOS dump can you tell me more about the card?

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/18 08:07 optix wrote:
I'm getting a new cooler for the card anyways and when I do I'll post a shot of the GPU serials. Also if I provide a GPU BIOS dump can you tell me more about the card?
Yeps that would great to have, the images and the BIOS. Then I can check it a but. Also make sure to take a good shot of the memory chips as those are also important.

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/18 13:11 Okay I haven't got the pictures yet cause I'm waitign for my flatmate and his digital camera. But here is the display information from Omega.

General
Display adapter : Unknown 4A4A
Core Name : R420
SubVendor : ATI (1002)
SubDevice : 0002
BUS : 1
Device : 0
Function : 0
Base Address 0 : E8000008
Base Address 1 : 00009001
Base Address 2 : F9000000
Base Address 3 : 00000000

Clock Information
BIOS VPU : 425.00
Current VPU : 425.25
BIOS MEM : 400.00
Current MEM : 398.25

Hardware Information
Installed memory : 256 MB
Memory Type : GDDR3
Memory Width : 256 bit
Active Rendering Pipelines : 8

ASIC details
Family : 56
Emulated Revision : 1
Gfx Engine ID : 0

Video BIOS Information
Version : 009.004.001.017
Part Number : 113-A26126-100
Date : 2004/08/10 14:33

Radeon Registers
RADEON_BIOS_0_SCRATCH : 00000002
RADEON_BIOS_1_SCRATCH : 0100C000
RADEON_X_MPLL_REF_FB_DIV : 013F3B04
RADEON_XCLK_CNTL : 00007FFA
RADEON_MCLK_CNTL : 00031212
RADEON_XDLL_CNTL : 0400A430
RADEON_XPLL_CNTL : 48001200
GB_TILE_CONFIG : 00010017
MC_TIMING_CNTL : 69668234
MC_SDRAM_MODE_REG : 10430000
MC_REFRESH_CNTL : 00007030

I hope this helps...
BTW, how do I send the ".bin" of the BIOS to you?

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/18 13:20 Well you may attach the ".bin" file on this thread or if you want you can just email it to me...
mavke@mvktech.net

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/18 13:57 Alright just ran some core test and got up to about 506MHz on the core and I stopped it without artifacts. I haven't ran test on the memory yet. Here's the BIOS dump.

Edit...
I send it to you via email as it failed attaching...

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/18 15:41 optix wrote:
Alright just ran some core test and got up to about 506MHz on the core and I stopped it without artifacts. I haven't ran test on the memory yet. Here's the BIOS dump.
I received it but can't check right now... As soon as I get home I will see what I can find out for you. Can you also provide how high the memory will go? And then combine both just to make sure. That way I have that feedback as well.

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/19 01:20 Thanks Mavke.

I will try with the memory but I don't want to do any testing on it until I get some heatsinks on it. But I'll see how it goes.

Kinda worried about the heat that it's generating at the moment. It's around about 50-51 degrees celsius while playing games. I put some thermal paste on there but the temp is high. Is this suppose to be right?

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Re:Radeon X800 SE and the plan... - 2005/08/19 13:39 Well the 50-51°C is okay, it is not to much, does it have an active cooler or a passive? Cause I think the SE has passive, if you are worried change that with an active one, but normally temps may go up to around 60-70°C...

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