R350, it´s possible to flash without artifacts ?

[Xoc3]

You have flashed succesfully and without artifacts your 9800Pro-R350 to 9800XT-R360 ?
Please, put your results here.

 

[addiarmadar]

Well flahing it will not change core, it will alwasys be r350. When I flash a r350 to the XT bios, I just get the outlining artifacts in the "Battle of Proxcon" and "Trolls Lair in 3dmark03.

I got less snow in the water in the nature test in 3dmark03 with the XT Bios.

Other than that runs good just make sure you have good cooliong solutions installed.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to XT(463/795)

 

[Xoc3]

My experience:
Sapphire Athlantis 9800Pro modded to 9800XT 420/370
1GB Generic SDRAM PC133
AthlonXP 2400+ @ 2085
MSI K7T Turbo2

Well, in my case, also i obtained artifacts and have had to reflash again. And more, i have not had significant benefits as XT.

 

[addiarmadar]

Did you get artifacts in you gamming or warpage on the desktop?

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to XT(463/795)

 

[jammydodger]

I got less snow in the water in the nature test in 3dmark03 with the XT Bios.

Any snow is an indication of core being too highly overclocked (its either too hot or undervolted).

 

[addiarmadar]

Ok back my concluding report

I got less snow from the nature test with the XT BIOS. The bios pumps more voltage to the core/ram. Since there was less snow, I can accurately determine that the cause of the snow is a lack of voltage being supplied to push the data from the increased demand of it from increasing the core and ram speed.

One could volt-mod and eliminate the snow but of course more juice does truly equal more heat and will be to the point where my conclusion will no longer apply as for heat will become the deciding factor, thank god for peilters.

I can do 467 on the core with water cooling and get no snow in the nature test, of course volt-modding was done. Now Doom3 seems to be a new ingima for I can still do 467 but had to crank the juice, resulting in not only no snow but dangerous level of heat with water cooling. Peilter did the trick but that much voltage and high demand going through the core would either way kill the card very quickly so I just said the hell with it and went back to a lower core and using a vga silencer. I can still do high quality quality with all the trimmins just fine.

<i><font color=red>Only a overclocker can make a machine into a convectional oven.</i></font color=red>

 

[Xoc3]

The snow is for the overheat, replace the sinkheat. Artifacts in the Game2 - Battle of Proxycon are evident, bad lights, shadows...
Which is your model, have core R350 or R360?