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Performance boost for X800 GT cards with R480 GPU

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Glj12 said:
Hi all,
I have a Sapphire X800 GTO 256mb graphics card with, (accroding to ATITool) an R430 chipset. Will this card work with the bios flash? Thanks!

Oh and these:

CONFIG_DIE_FUSSES 0xFFFF7FFF
CONFIG_SUBRATE_FUSSES 0xFFFFFF9E.
This thread is only about X800 GT cards (no X800 GTO's) and isn't about unlocking pipelines at all, so your post is off topic here. The cards that this thread is about are rarely (or likely never) having unlockable pipelines.
 

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OK, I see quite a few differences in your bios, so I will post a modified version for you, yagami.

I think mine is the same as his, is that right?
 

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Is there any problems to change the DEVICEID of this BIOS = Powercolor.X800GT_R480_16P.256.Hynix20_050726 to 554F as the original Powercolor GTO uses it and in MACOSX x86 it worked pretty well?

Now, with the DEVICEID 5D4F (from this bios), I always get a kernel panic screen.

I saw in RABIT that this field is editable.
 

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asapreta said:
Is there any problems to change the DEVICEID of this BIOS = Powercolor.X800GT_R480_16P.256.Hynix20_050726 to 554F as the original Powercolor GTO uses it and in MACOSX x86 it worked pretty well?

Now, with the DEVICEID 5D4F (from this bios), I always get a kernel panic screen.

I saw in RABIT that this field is editable.
You can change it to that device ID, but doing so will make it go back to it's original performance level. BTW, that's the bios you used on your card? Did you check to see what kind of memory chips were on your card before trying that one?
 

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ShadowFlare said:
You can change it to that device ID, but doing so will make it go back to it's original performance level. BTW, that's the bios you used on your card? Did you check to see what kind of memory chips were on your card before trying that one?

Yes I did. They are the Hinyx ones. In Windows it performed fantastic as a R480.
But in MacosX, with that ID, I always got a kernel panic screen.

Now I've changed the IDs to my old powercolor GTO:
DEVICE ID = 554F
SUBSYSTEM ID = 6160
SUBVENDOR ID = 1002

And in MAcosX everything is fine. I'm answering you now from it!

I'll try keeping the original ID from the BIOS in first post (5D4F) and change the SUB* ID's to see if in macosx I get hardware acceleration.

Is there anything I can change to have the R480 performance in Windows and compatibilty in MacOSX ?

I'll keep you posted.
 

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asapreta said:
Yes I did. They are the Hinyx ones. In Windows it performed fantastic as a R480.
But in MacosX, with that ID, I always got a kernel panic screen.

Now I've changed the IDs to my old powercolor GTO:
DEVICE ID = 554F
SUBSYSTEM ID = 6160
SUBVENDOR ID = 1002

And in MAcosX everything is fine. I'm answering you now from it!

I'll try keeping the original ID from the BIOS in first post (5D4F) and change the SUB* ID's to see if in macosx I get hardware acceleration.

Is there anything I can change to have the R480 performance in Windows and compatibilty in MacOSX ?

I'll keep you posted.
Maybe you could try changing it to a different type of X850-class card, like X850 Pro, XT, or XT PE. Look at the stickied "Guide to Radeon X800/X850 bios modding" thread for more information.
 

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I did something like that, without knowing it.

Now the card is recognized as an x800/x850 series in Windows (R480) and fully functional in MACOSX.

Now I'm using these IDS:
DEVICE ID: 5D4F
SUBSYTEM ID: 6160
SUBVENDOR ID: 1002

This also worked in MACOSX but was recognized as R430 in Windows:
DEVICE ID: 554F
SUBSYTEM ID: 6160
SUBVENDOR ID: 1002

This didn't worked:
DEVICE ID: 5D4F
SUBSYTEM ID: 2160
SUBVENDOR ID: 1002

My freind is having the same problem to run MACOSX, but he has an x1300 card that is not compatible. Is there any way to change it's ID to an x1600 that is recognized by MACOSX and Windows?

Thanks for the help and I'see that other thread.
 

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asapreta said:
My freind is having the same problem to run MACOSX, but he has an x1300 card that is not compatible. Is there any way to change it's ID to an x1600 that is recognized by MACOSX and Windows?

Thanks for the help and I'see that other thread.
As far as I know, there isn't a way to do that, since I think they are totally different chip types.
 

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ShadowFlare said:
As far as I know, there isn't a way to do that, since I think they are totally different chip types.

Thanks, I'll give him this "bad" news...

Everything is running fine here!
 

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Hi all,

Right i've got a Powercolor x800gt graphics card with the R480 gpu,

I'm really new to all this so idiot proof please hehe.

I've flushed my card with the Atiflash and your number 1 bios, it didn't work first time and took ages to work out why in the end i had to use this.

atiflash -p -sst 0 *.bin -f

I tried loads other code which kept giving me errors but anyway i got it on there and now atitools reconises the card to be a Gto as said and with the R480 chipset but it is saying i only have 8 pipelines why is this??

Thanks in advance.
 

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jaffaz32 said:
Hi all,

Right i've got a Powercolor x800gt graphics card with the R480 gpu,

I'm really new to all this so idiot proof please hehe.

I've flushed my card with the Atiflash and your number 1 bios, it didn't work first time and took ages to work out why in the end i had to use this.

atiflash -p -sst 0 *.bin -f

I tried loads other code which kept giving me errors but anyway i got it on there and now atitools reconises the card to be a Gto as said and with the R480 chipset but it is saying i only have 8 pipelines why is this??

Thanks in advance.
8 pipelines is all those cards have normally have available. I simply set the bioses here to 16 pipelines just in case anyone did have an unlockable card, nothing was really intended to be implied by saying that they are 16 pipeline bioses.

If you want to know whether your card is capable of more than 8 (which isn't very likely on that card), then follow the instructions on the first post in this thread: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=5367
 

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Hi ShadowFlare, this is for a friend... The card is a HIS x800GT and he said he ckecked and it uses R480 core....

His fuses:
CONFIG DIE FUSES --- 0xFFFF9FFF
CONFIG SUBSTRATE FUSES --- 0xFFFFFF9D
CONFIG ROM FUSES --- 0x862

Can you please mod his bios so the card can be recognized as r480?
 

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Hi, i have a His x800gt iceqII iturbo with r480, i verrified it by looking under the heatsink, i have 2.0ns ddr3,

I tested the modified bios you post in first reply but it don't change anything in atitray tools, the core is now detected like a r480 but still as 8 pipeline, the card is 52° insteed of 47° on windows desktop, is it normal?
This is my original bios dumped with ati tray tools.

a reboot and temperature normal...

thanks a lot for your work.

oh and this:

CONFIG DIE FUSES --- 0xFFFF9FFF
CONFIG SUBSTRATE FUSES --- 0xFFFFFF9D
CONFIG ROM FUSES --- 0x862

i post later with the modified bios
here they are
CONFIG DIE FUSES --- 0xFFFF9FFF
CONFIG SUBSTRATE FUSES --- 0xFFFFFF9D
CONFIG ROM FUSES --- 0x262

but here always 8 pipe actived
 

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hey shadowflare, i flashed my card using flashrom by forcing. atiflash didnt work. the flashrom was successful and i got an x800gto with r480 core. but, the scores are lower in 3dmark05 than my previous bios. i have not tried 3dmark03 yet. I used to get 4022 with my previous bios, but now, i only got 3929. i'm using the hynix bios. can you please help me and take a look at my bios and help me mod it?

my card is a powercolor x800gt with a red hsf. it has hynix memory but i dont know whether is it 2.0 or 1.6. it has 256mb of ddr3 ram. can you please help me? i attached my original bios
 

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shadowflare... where are you? because nobody responded, the thread is now at the back pages of the forum.... shadowflare, can you please take a look and help me? my situation is explained by my post above
 

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after reading further into the forum, i found out that there is such a thing as a modified flashrom utility. is there any difference between the modified flashrom and the modified one? where can i get the modified flashrom? thanks
 

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Need some answers

Well to begin with i'm from Brazil :laugh: and I have a Sapphire x800gt 256mb pci-e well i spend some of my time here looking for stuff and someting... well to get the point i wanna know if i can use the
"Sapphire.X800GTO2[GT_clocks]_R480_16P.256.Samsung16_050823.bin" bios on my card it is an r423 bellow i put the image that i got on atitool and at least i wanna know if this card suports that feature of open some pipes (that lazer cut Thing) i'm asking first to do it right and to not lose a VGA card because i lost one (god just say "i'll burn it" and it burns lol) :banghead::banghead:

well any answer helps.. tkz anyway ^^ :D
 

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ask dolf here on tpu, or wait someone that knows, post here
there's also a thread about x800 pipe unlocking
look for it
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Well to begin with i'm from Brazil :laugh: and I have a Sapphire x800gt 256mb pci-e well i spend some of my time here looking for stuff and someting... well to get the point i wanna know if i can use the
"Sapphire.X800GTO2[GT_clocks]_R480_16P.256.Samsung16_050823.bin" bios on my card it is an r423 bellow i put the image that i got on atitool and at least i wanna know if this card suports that feature of open some pipes (that lazer cut Thing) i'm asking first to do it right and to not lose a VGA card because i lost one (god just say "i'll burn it" and it burns lol) :banghead::banghead:

well any answer helps.. tkz anyway ^^ :D
Unfortunately, your card does not have an R480 gpu, so do not even try using that particular bios on your card.
 
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To be honest we have already tried to flash X850XT BIOS (1xVGA/1xDVI) on X800 (R423) and it is working but not as it should be. Better result can be obtained if the device ID of the R423 (with original BIOS) card be changed to R480 card. (R423 and R480 are very very similar). The only concern should be to use PCI-E BIOSes not AGP.
 

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Ah, I didn't know; I haven't really kept up with this stuff for quite a while. :laugh:
 

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Hi, I'm just wondering if my card would take one of those bios. It is a Sapphire Radeon X800 GT 256MB

CONFIG_DIE_FUSES 0xEFF39FFF
CONFIG_SUBSTRATE_FUSES 0xFFFFF61D

ATItools says i have a R423 chip
 
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