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Pete D wrote:
> "dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>> Pete D wrote:
>>> "dvus" <dven1invalid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>>>> Pete D wrote:
>>>>> "Joe Slaney" <jslaney@nf.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>>>>> news:ttNld.178433$Np3.7209165@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>>>
>>>>>> Can I damage my bfg 6800oc using RivaTuner to softmod my bfg from
>>>>>> 12 to 16 pipelines. New to overclocking and modding pipelines.
>>>>
>>>>> Probably not and the extra pipelines will most likely not work.
>>>>
>>>> I turned on the 4 extra pipelines and the 6th vertex on my Asus
>>>> V9999 with no ill effects but I have to say I don't see much
>>>> improvement in gameplay. Actually, even overclocking to 375, 1025
>>>> seems to work ok, but the only difference I see is a few points
>>>> increase in AquaMark3 test scores.
>>>
>>> Probably means that they are not actually working. It is quite
>>> normal for this to happen as they use the "failed" chips to make
>>> the plain 6800 cards, failed means that only 3 of the 4 blocks of
>>> pixel pipelines are operational and therefore does not matter what
>>> you do they are not going to turn on. Mine was the same. I have
>>> been runing 364/777 on my Leadtek card and it is pretty fast anyway
>>> and it runs cool and not likely to die on me..
>>
>> You may be right, RivaTuner reports them as "working" but I don't
>> know if that just means they're detected as "on" but not really
>> doing anything useful. There's likely other benchmarks that might be
>> better suited to determine that than AquaMark3, but I'm not informed
>> enough to know which it might be.
>
> If they are turned on you will seen an immediate improvement at the
> same clock speeds.
My understanding is that my card is not one that has a good success rate as
far as turning on the extra pipes. Perhaps I'll play around a little more to
see if I can verify what's happened (or not) one way or another. Pretty much
everyone seems to know more than I about these cards so I have to go slow in
playing with these things.
dvus