-> Mod your 6800GS AGP to Ultra Extreme with coolermod!

[Samuknow]

Originally Posted by Klick

i was wondering since in 2 days im going to be getting a XFX 6800 GS extreme edition agp for $100 if anyone has done unlocking on one or can say what core it is because id love topull down a GT or Ultra for a fraction of what they went for not too long ago

That should work great. Great deal on that card BTW.

Keep us posted and feel free to ask any questions.

[Deadman93723]

I was able to open up my pixel pipes to 16, the only downside is, every once in awhile I will see a little bit of snow in the center of the screen. If I am playing FEAR, or something, with all the action, I never notice the snow, good enough for me.

[Samuknow]

Check your temps. Keeping it cool can help with artifacts.

[Klick]

Well i got the card today and as it turns out it was a PNY verto 6800 GS so yea i was a little disappointed but it didnt end there either it seems i have a 12pp 6vp card as i get artifacts on the desktop pretty hardcore when i enable the masked quad but i was wondering if i got the card to run cooler would that make a difference? and also if i wasnt getting enough juice from my PSU would that make a difference? i currently have a 450W no name PSU that has servered two builds faithfully i had it in a Atlon XP 2800+ and my Athlon 64 3000+ and it runs fine but could it be a weak link possibly?

[Deadman93723]

Originally Posted by Klick

Well i got the card today and as it turns out it was a PNY verto 6800 GS so yea i was a little disappointed but it didnt end there either it seems i have a 12pp 6vp card as i get artifacts on the desktop pretty hardcore when i enable the masked quad but i was wondering if i got the card to run cooler would that make a difference? and also if i wasnt getting enough juice from my PSU would that make a difference? i currently have a 450W no name PSU that has servered two builds faithfully i had it in a Atlon XP 2800+ and my Athlon 64 3000+ and it runs fine but could it be a weak link possibly?

I have a eVGA 6800GS and I get some very minor snow when I open the 4th quad, but only in 3d mode. You are asking the very same questions I was asking. I replaced stock heatsink with a AC NV5 rev.3, I updated my PSU from an Antec TrueBlue 480w, to a OCZ Powerstream 600w and neither one of those helped with the snow in 3d mode. When a quad is bad, it is bad, nothing you can do about it. Yeah, I know, it sucks, but 12pp,6vp is not bad, and my card overclocks like crazy as yours should, too.

Now, about your Athlon 64 3000+ goes, I am an Intel guy, so I don't know if your CPU is a weak link or not, I doubt it, if you are overclocking it, then it should be fine.

[Samuknow]

Originally Posted by Klick

Well i got the card today and as it turns out it was a PNY verto 6800 GS so yea i was a little disappointed but it didnt end there either it seems i have a 12pp 6vp card as i get artifacts on the desktop pretty hardcore when i enable the masked quad but i was wondering if i got the card to run cooler would that make a difference? and also if i wasnt getting enough juice from my PSU would that make a difference? i currently have a 450W no name PSU that has servered two builds faithfully i had it in a Atlon XP 2800+ and my Athlon 64 3000+ and it runs fine but could it be a weak link possibly?

I think your CPU is fine...

As far as your card goes, Deadman said it right....But there is nothing stopping you from OCing it till it screams..

You should still get a decent gain just from a good OC....

[Klick]

well that kinda sucks about the extra quad but life goes on besides for the price i couldnt turn it down

btw are these clocks ok at this temp?
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1...tempmf8.th.jpg

[Samuknow]

Sure, looks fine...What is your peak temp after benching?

[Rondog]

Originally Posted by Klick

well that kinda sucks about the extra quad but life goes on besides for the price i couldnt turn it down

btw are these clocks ok at this temp?
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1...tempmf8.th.jpg

Deus Ex. WHAT A GAME!!!!

Nice selection of games on the desktop mate.

[Samuknow]

I haven't played that in ages...

[Deadman93723]

Originally Posted by Klick

well that kinda sucks about the extra quad but life goes on besides for the price i couldnt turn it down

btw are these clocks ok at this temp?
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1...tempmf8.th.jpg

If your on stock cooling, those temps are very good. But, like Samuknow said watch your load temps.

[Klick]

Is 72 C to around 77 C on the GPU after some hardcore oblivion ok temps? yes im running stock cooling on it but would taking off the HSF lapping it then using some AS5 on show any tangable temp drops?

[dsio]

Originally Posted by Klick

Is 72 C to around 77 C on the GPU after some hardcore oblivion ok temps? yes im running stock cooling on it but would taking off the HSF lapping it then using some AS5 on show any tangable temp drops?

Yea, you could knock a couple of degrees off with a quality AS5 job and a lapping. You can also have your HSF surface polished to a perfect mirror finish by a jewler if you're willing to part with $5-10

[Samuknow]

That is a little higher than I would like...

Do you have good airflow around your card?

[dsio]

Originally Posted by Samuknow

That is a little higher than I would like...

Do you have good airflow around your card?

This is a good point. Moving PCI cards lower down, at best, stacking them one on top of eachother at the absolute bottom would improve things a bit.

[Deadman93723]

Klick, you might want to think about getting an Arctic Cooling NV5 rev.3, they are pretty cheap, and cool quite well. On my 6800GS, I'm getting an idle temp of 48c, and a heavy load temp of 65c. The NV5 is bulky, it is about an inch high, so you will need an open PCI slot under your video card, it also vents out the back, it comes with a bracket to put in the slot under the card, anyways, they the NV5 is pretty cool(no pun intended).

[shady]

Originally Posted by dsio

Yet another very interesting videocard.

Your card is a PCI-E core, running a HSI bridge, on an AGP board. As a result you have an NV42 core, which is made on a 110nm process.

As a result, you have NO unlocking available on that board at all. Don't even try, because doesn't have any unused pipelines on it at all.

The flip side is, your 110nm chip overclocks very, very well. 450Mhz should be very easy.

What are you currently clocking it to? and what drivers are you using?

Bugger! I searched around for a great card and assumed wrongly that I could open the 4 pipes on my new XpertVision GS6800 but I get the same swissarmyknight, the extra pipes do not come up as masked, theres nothing there. I am assuming that I have one another of those rare NV42 core cards..NOT HAPPY JAN!
Do you reckon they'll take it back? I can only try.

[dsio]

You really can't, and shouldn't. There is nothing wrong with NV42s at all. They overclock extremely well, which makes up for the lack of unlockable pipes.

[piele]

Hello. I'm all new in this. I'll try to be short. I have a Palit GF6800GS, 256 MB GDD3 and RivaTuner "says" that I have an N41 chip. The core is 450 and the mems are 1257 Mhz (that 57 is "my work", playing with the sliders).

And Riva also "said" that I don't have that "extra-tricky" bits.

1. Why NV41?

2. Why "no tricky bits"?

Thank you a lot. And pardon me for the bad english.

Catalin

[dsio]

NV41 because Palit is a cheaper brand, thats trying to cut costs by using NV41 chips instead of better NV40/NV42 chips. No tricky bits because that particular core only has 12 pipes at a hardware level.