Sapphire 9800pro memory voltage mod

[scottchen]

I've been playing around with my Sapphire 9800pro a lot, the ram seems have been maxed out at 790(395x2), I want to get it higher than that, just wandering if anybody here knows how to do a voltage mod on that. I'm aiming for about 840(420x2) if that's possible.

I hate Computers! My P4 2.4C won't go above 3840mhz. My Sapphire 9800pro core/mem speed won't go above 490/790. I really hate computers!

 

[MaxxxRacer]

I knew u wouldnt be able to hold out doing that for long. lol.. I get mine tommorow.

Here are some links for some links to overclocking forums. They might be of some help.

<A HREF="http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=27" target="_new">http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=27</A>
<A HREF="http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=f1f8697541e97b8d3a26f7ea89a527b0&forumid=85" target="_new">http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=f1f8697541e97b8d3a26f7ea89a527b0&forumid=85</A>

Have FUN!

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[MaxxxRacer]

Here is a link about vmodding the core and memory on teh 9800..

<A HREF="http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13679" target="_new">http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13679</A>

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[scottchen]

Thanks man, I think I'm happy with my core frequency just gotta get that memory up, gonna try to get from default 2.9 to 3.1, since I have copper ramsinks and a lot of airflow, I personally think the most important reason my components runs cool is because my case is open.

I hate Computers! My P4 2.4C won't go above 3840mhz. My Sapphire 9800pro core/mem speed won't go above 490/790. I really hate computers!

 

[MaxxxRacer]

no problem. glad to be of help.

u know something. i think we are the only 2 ppl who post in this forum...

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[scottchen]

lol, no there's more than just the 2 of us, i guess we're the biggest graphics cards freaks

I hate Computers! My P4 2.4C won't go above 3840mhz. My Sapphire 9800pro core/mem speed won't go above 490/790. I really hate computers!

 

[scottchen]

After whole night of 3dmark03 in the morning i saw massive image corruption so i had to turn my memory speed down to 780, and gonna test it tonight see if it's fine, now I'm probably going HAVE to voltage mod this card.

Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G Asus P4P800 OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 SB audigy 80G Maxtor Diamond Ultra ATA-133 hdd 450 Enermax PSU

 

[MaxxxRacer]

Hmm, i just got mine today. I installe3d the overclocking utility (radlinker) before i installed the drivers and i flipped out when i saw the clock speeds at 324core and 290mem. At first i thought i got a bad card. Then i turned the clock rates up to 381 and 341, ran artifact tester, 3d01 and 3d03 and it was fine. no artifacts or anything. And the memory, and core are running nice and cool. I wil uninstall the overclocking utility and install powerstip just to make sure that it clocks right (stock) without that other utility installed.

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[MaxxxRacer]

Right now i got it running at 430core and 712 memory. I need to get more out of the memory. Its not much of an overclock at all...

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[scottchen]

u using stock cool right now?

Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G Asus P4P800 OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 SB audigy 80G Maxtor Diamond Ultra ATA-133 hdd 450 Enermax PSU

 

[scottchen]

Yes stable at 780 memory, kept it on whole night running 3dmark03 mother nature still doing same thing in the morning. Man i had trouble going to sleep at night, since 2 tornados are soooo loud and my computer's really hot.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[MaxxxRacer]

Yeah, im running stock cooling. But im gonna lap the heat sink and put some better thermal grease on it to try to help out. But i had to slow down the memory to 700mhz because i was getting artifacts in some of my games after running for a few minutes. Guess what that means. I need ramsinksk. I guess the ram is getting too hot. As far as the core goes, its not that hot actually. The heat sinks is just a little warm. I should get the zalman considering that i have 2 huge fans blowing on the card. It would work really well.

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[scottchen]

Don't forget to remove the shim that's protecting the core because that's higher than the core, and interferes with heat transfer. A lot ppl says ramsinks are a gamble, so give it a try.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[scottchen]

LOL max you're the only 1 replying to this post. Where are the other graphics card freaks?

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[MaxxxRacer]

Yeah i know.

No actually my vid cards cooler has a raised spot where the core is so that it gets ful contact. It actually doesnt even touch the shim at all. Have to hand it to sapphire for this improvement.

System: XP2600 oced to 2.4GHZ, 512mb corsair pc2700 oced to 192mhz x2, 36Gb 10k rpm WD SATA, 80GB Western Digital A7N8X Deluxe, Radeon 9800 pro

 

[scottchen]

Max you've been quiet, how's that 9800pro coming?

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[lhgpoobaa]

HOLY CRAP
395Mhz?

I have a sapphire R9800pro and only got a stable 360Mhz out of mine without artefacts....
But then again its the 128mb version with 2.86ns chips and no ramsinks.

If you check out the graphics card section you can see the mods ive done to mine... namly kickass ramsinks all round.
can now achieve 372Mhz.

Interestingly it seems your level of AA and Ansio limits your ram overclock too.
Higher AA+Ansio = lower max OC without artefacts.


<b>My Car comes with Hyper Threading enabled:
1970 General Motors Holden HT Kingswood Wagon
Regards,
Mr no integrity coward.</b>

 

[scottchen]

I got 395, but after whole night of 3dmark03 it crashed so I turned back down to 385 and worked.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[scottchen]

The Sapphire9800pro core kicks ass, It did 490 for me.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[Willamette_sucks]

Its the same damn core you idiot, there's no inherent advantage to sapphire cards. If anything, I'd say theres more likely to be a disadvantage. In fact, I think both of you are extremely lucky (if not lying). If you've got the 256mb version, then 395 sounds reasonable for the memory, but for the 128 version with no mods? Even with ramsinks, 380 is really about the upper limit, 385 sounds reasonable, a few good samples I suppose. 490 on the core? Once again, you're either lucky or lying (I'm not accusing you of lying, I'm just saying those are the 2 possibilities).
I've got a volcano 10 on mine, and can do about 470 (depending), and tweakmonster ramsinks (copper, rev. 1) and can do about 380 on the memory (depending). Stock cooling and 490? Don't think so...

Neways, I'm also very interested in volt modding, more the memory than the core. I might wait a bit, till its closer to purchasing an r420 time, then if I mess something up (not TOO huge a screw up) theres less time till I get a hot new card.

I usually leave my card at 440/360 for longetivities sake, but really 460 is also 100% stable and artifact free forever basically. 380 to 460... 80 mhz. Thats huge. 380 to 430 "isn't much of an overclock" ??? Even that is 50 mhz, which is alot. Alot of performance that is.

"Mice eat cheese." - Modest Mouse

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd

 

[Willamette_sucks]

Oh, and as for why noone else is responding to this thread, and why there aren't alot of people in the vic-card oc section, It's cause all the REAL graphics gurus are over in the Components-Graphics cards section. I'd hang out here more, but its so dead, its boring.

"Mice eat cheese." - Modest Mouse

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd

 

[scottchen]

I soldered a layer of copper base on the ZM80A-HP, which actually helped me to get 10mhz more on the core stable.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[scottchen]

Actually on the 256meg version, it goes lower than the 128meg version, because DDR2 runs toooo hot.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[Willamette_sucks]

OK, a little easier to believe than stock cooling, I must've been confused. Still very impressive and RARE, I hope you understand that. What u get in 3dmark 2003?

My highest was about 6650.

"Mice eat cheese." - Modest Mouse

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd

 

[scottchen]

Broke the 22000 barrier in 3dmark01, trying to get past 8000 in 3dmark03, almost there in 3dmark03. I need to do some more tuning on my system. And I'm waiting for DDR4200 to become available.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU