My XFX HD4830 adventures

alexp999 · Apr 9, 2009

So you bought a card with a sexy cooler then ripped it off?

Ketxxx · Apr 9, 2009

The cooler looks sexy yes, but it sucks for keeping the memory cool. VF900 + RAMsinks & HS = awesome though. You shall see

crtecha · Apr 9, 2009

Do you have any pictures of the card with the cooler off. Im curious about the plastic cover for the fan.

alexp999 · Apr 9, 2009

crtecha said:
Do you have any pictures of the card with the cooler off. Im curious about the plastic cover for the fan.

Post 34 on the second page

crtecha · Apr 9, 2009

Thank you alex I think I scrolled past it. I was trying to picture it cause I was wondering if you could mod it to cool the memory better.

Ketxxx · Apr 9, 2009

Heres the pimped out XFX HD4830 :cool:

Ketxxx · Apr 9, 2009

Another pic, this time temps with the VF900, clocks 700/2.05GHz. Even the little VF900 can return great temps at much lower noise levels than the stock cooler. A VF1000 would be the perfect companion methinks.

Next up: 3DM06 and Crysis Warhead results.

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

I received my Zalman VF900's last night and pretty pissed. Supposedly they were never used..I'd believe it if it wasn't for the fact that the fins all around BOTH are bent to hell and smashed together, and I can see the nice little squre left on the base from the GPU's. I did my best to straighten them out so hopefully it was a worthwhile 50 bucks for the two of them.

I also received my other 4830 from mlee and these cards run sweet in crossfire. I had to turn the clocks down, 650 core /1000 mem, a little due to the stock HSF's not handling the heat but I'm pretty happy with my 3dMark06 score

Hopefully I'll be able to get those Zalman's on today, should unless I notice something else very wrong with them.

Also thought I'd throw up why I turned down the clocks on the cards, Furmark 1680x1050 stability test:

gogx · Apr 10, 2009

Be cerful with the VF900! I to had it but my had a broken heat pipe "wich i didnt know" almost fryed my card...."119c max" VF1000 does a very good job on my 4850 Furmark 58c max.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=88703

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

gogx said:
Be cerful with the VF900! I to had it but my had a broken heat pipe "wich i didnt know" almost fryed my card...."119c max" VF1000 does a very good job on my 4850 Furmark 58c max.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=88703

After reading your thread I'm sorry to see you went through all that trouble. I'll definitely be throwing up an update once I get them installed hopefully today but I did check the coolers over to make sure there were no other surprises and so far all I could see was the fins were bent, but I've straightened them out. If I'm not happy with temps I'm going to pick up two of these, http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=283. I can find them on EvilBay but they are not cheap!

DaMulta · Apr 10, 2009

Man I hit 800Mhz with more than one 4830 out of the box....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127420

I wonder why you had to stop at 700...

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

DaMulta said:
Man I hit 800Mhz with more than one 4830 out of the box....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127420

I wonder why you had to stop at 700...

That's the limit of CCC and my temps were crazy. Furmark registered 83 Celcius before I turned it off during a 1680x1050 stability test. That is not acceptable.

MoonPig · Apr 10, 2009

KetXXX, how long do you plan on keeping this card? Is it a test or long time one? I have a mate looking at getting one soon.

Flyordie · Apr 10, 2009

lol, @ 750Mhz on the stock single slot cooler I register 81C Mem IO, 72C Core Temp, 73-74C Disp IO. (750Mhz Core, 1,200Mhz Mem (2.4Ghz DDR) ) This is on my HD4850...
So your cooler mustn't be on very good or airflow sucks. lol.
Who made your PCB btw? Mine was manufactured by InfoTek.

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

Both are Asus and it's the cheap ass Arctic Cooling HSF that is on these Nvidia cards, http://www.techpowerup.com/90548/EC...Cards_with_Arctic_Cooling_L2_Pro_Coolers.html. I think I have some pretty good airflow through my CM690(modded to fit 2x 120 Antec Tricool 120's on max).

Ketxxx · Apr 10, 2009

MoonPig said:
KetXXX, how long do you plan on keeping this card? Is it a test or long time one? I have a mate looking at getting one soon.

That depends. If I can get the core to 750-800MHz it'll be a long-time card, if not, I'll probably add it to the FS thread and net a HD4850. After further testing it seems like cooling wasn't a major issue for my card, which is kinda surprising with the heatsinkless VRMs etc. My suspicions now lead me to the BIOS itself, something about the core stopping dead exactly on 700MHz, and being able to get the exact same clock frequency both with the GPU @ 1.25v and at 1.17v seems far too coincidential to me. I'm going to try a few different 4850 and 4830 BIOSes.

CALL TO ALL!

Can ANYONE with a HD4830 upload their BIOS to this thread? All you have to do is download ATIwinflash, open it, click the "save" button, then upload here

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

Have you tried flashing a 4850 bios to it yet? Kinda interested to see what happens and since I have two of them I might just go ahead and do it today.

Ketxxx · Apr 10, 2009

See my edit. Yes I have tried a few different 4850 BIOS files, one killed my display so had to blind flash, the other flashed fine, but the ATi driver doesn't detect the card.

Ketxxx · Apr 10, 2009

So when are you going to upload that Asus 4830 BIOS?

Ketxxx · Apr 10, 2009

I have just been doing yet more playing and I'm absolutely right in suspecting the BIOS! The best I can get out of the stock XFX BIOS on my memory is 1025MHz, with a ATi BIOS I found my memory now happily does 1075MHz

I tried shooting for 1100MHz but furry doughnut artifacts at 1100

Now if I could find a HD4830 BIOS that gives the GPU 1.25v like the XFX BIOS I bet I could hit 750MHz on the GPU easy. Furmark results with GPU @ 700 memory 2.15GHz to follow shortly.

mlee49 · Apr 10, 2009

Ket, I'm zipping up your bios file now.

There you go.

Ketxxx · Apr 10, 2009

Thanks, I'll be able to see if your BIOS is different to mine

Heres the Furmark results with the ATi BIOS

ED - That XFX BIOS is exactly the same as mine

was hoping it would be slightly newer/older, no such luck.
ED2 - I noticed something else with this ATi BIOS vs. the XFX BIOS, my temps get a lot higher with the ATi BIOS, which is odd, but does point towards that the voltage options on the XFX BIOS may be broken.

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

I tried to this morning before I went to work but I don't have winzip, I use winrar. When I get home tonight I'll get it posted. Right now I'm really pissed. That fucker on Ebay sold me something "new"...MY ASS!!! Missing a thumb screw, missing 9 of the memory heatsinks, and one of the heatsinks has a broken solder point! I'll try to get my money back but don't see that happening.

kenkickr · Apr 10, 2009

Here is both bios images from both of my Asus 4830's

Ketxxx · Apr 10, 2009

Thanks

I feel for ya man, nothing is worse than being duped. Its why I don't use ebay anymore, way too many dishonest people on there. Oh and winrar can do .zip format

System Name	Gaming Rig \| Uni Laptop
Processor	Intel Q6600 G0 (2007) @ 3.6Ghz @ 1.45625v (LLC) / 4 GHz Bench @ 1.63v \| AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 2 GHz
Motherboard	ASUS P5Q Deluxe (Intel P45) \| HP 6715b
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight w/AC MX2 ~ Case Fans: 2 x 180mm + 1 x 120mm Silverstone Fans
Memory	4GB OCZ Platinum PC2-8000 @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 2.1v \| 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 MHz
Video Card(s)	XFX GTX 285 1GB, Modded FTW BIOS @ 725/1512/1350 w/Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 + Scythe sinks\| ATI X1250
Storage	2x WD6400AAKS 1 TB Raid 0, 140GB Raid 1 & 80GB Maxtor Basics External HDD (storage) \| 160GB 2.5"
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster SM2433BW @ 1920 x 1200 via DVI-D \| 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050 resolution)
Case	Silverstone Fortress FT01B-W ~ Logitech G15 R1 / Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000
Audio Device(s)	Soundmax AD2000BX Onboard Sound, via Logitech X-230 2.1 \| ADI SoundMAX HD Audio
Power Supply	Corsair TX650W \| HP 90W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64 \| Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64
Benchmark Scores	3DM06: 19519, Vantage: P16170 ~ Win7: -CPU 7.5 -MEM 7.5 -AERO 7.9 -GFX 6.0 -HDD 6.0

System Name	Ravens Talon
Processor	AMD R7 3700X @ 4.4GHz 1.3v
Motherboard	MSI X570 Tomahawk
Cooling	Modded 240mm Coolermaster Liquidmaster
Memory	2x16GB Klevv BoltX 3600MHz & custom timings
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 6800XT Red Devil
Storage	250GB Asgard SSD, 1TB Integral SSD, 2TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	27" BenQ Mobiuz
Case	NZXT Phantom 530
Audio Device(s)	Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-E
Power Supply	1000w Supernova
Software	Windows 10 x64
Benchmark Scores	Fast. I don't need epeen.

System Name	Coolin Runnings
Processor	AMD X4 Phenom 9950 B.E. @ 3.3ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-MA790x-DS4 BIOS Ver. F6
Cooling	CM Vortex 752
Memory	apacer PC6400 800mhz x 2
Video Card(s)	Two ATI Radeon 4850's in xfire
Storage	Seagate 7200.9 320gig+250gigx2
Display(s)	Acer P191w 19' wide
Case	Antec 900
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	Antec Power trio 550watts
Software	Windows 7 x64 Build 7100

System Name	Gaming Rig \| Uni Laptop
Processor	Intel Q6600 G0 (2007) @ 3.6Ghz @ 1.45625v (LLC) / 4 GHz Bench @ 1.63v \| AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 2 GHz
Motherboard	ASUS P5Q Deluxe (Intel P45) \| HP 6715b
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight w/AC MX2 ~ Case Fans: 2 x 180mm + 1 x 120mm Silverstone Fans
Memory	4GB OCZ Platinum PC2-8000 @ 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 2.1v \| 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 MHz
Video Card(s)	XFX GTX 285 1GB, Modded FTW BIOS @ 725/1512/1350 w/Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 + Scythe sinks\| ATI X1250
Storage	2x WD6400AAKS 1 TB Raid 0, 140GB Raid 1 & 80GB Maxtor Basics External HDD (storage) \| 160GB 2.5"
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster SM2433BW @ 1920 x 1200 via DVI-D \| 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050 resolution)
Case	Silverstone Fortress FT01B-W ~ Logitech G15 R1 / Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000
Audio Device(s)	Soundmax AD2000BX Onboard Sound, via Logitech X-230 2.1 \| ADI SoundMAX HD Audio
Power Supply	Corsair TX650W \| HP 90W
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64 \| Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7100 x64
Benchmark Scores	3DM06: 19519, Vantage: P16170 ~ Win7: -CPU 7.5 -MEM 7.5 -AERO 7.9 -GFX 6.0 -HDD 6.0

System Name	Coolin Runnings
Processor	AMD X4 Phenom 9950 B.E. @ 3.3ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-MA790x-DS4 BIOS Ver. F6
Cooling	CM Vortex 752
Memory	apacer PC6400 800mhz x 2
Video Card(s)	Two ATI Radeon 4850's in xfire
Storage	Seagate 7200.9 320gig+250gigx2
Display(s)	Acer P191w 19' wide
Case	Antec 900
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	Antec Power trio 550watts
Software	Windows 7 x64 Build 7100

System Name	Addison Clark
Processor	Ryzen 9 7950x3D delid
Motherboard	Asus X670E Hero
Cooling	Custom Bykski loop CPU, GPU, 2x 360 rads, and 1x 280 rad with Arctic P12 and P14 ARGB fans
Memory	G.Skill DDR5-6000 64GB CL30
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 4090 Aorus Master
Storage	Kingston Fury 2TB and 4TB NVME
Display(s)	Samsung 57"
Case	Lian Li O11 mini
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Thermaltake 1000w SFX-L
Mouse	Corsair Dark Core RGB SE
Keyboard	Corsair K95 Platnium
Software	Win 11 Pro

System Name	gOGx comp
Processor	q9450 3,2Gh 24/7 Max 3,8Gh
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
Cooling	Zalman 9700LED
Memory	Corsair Dominator 4g 1066mh
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte 6870 OC 1Gb WindForce
Storage	2xWD 500gbAAKS
Display(s)	PHILIPS
Case	Antec 900
Audio Device(s)	ON BORD
Power Supply	Termaltake 750w Modular
Software	W7/UBUNTU

System Name	Work in progress
Processor	AMD 955---4Ghz
Motherboard	MSi GD70
Cooling	OcZ Phase/water
Memory	Crucial2GB kit (1GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-16000
Video Card(s)	CrossfireX 2 X HD 4890 1GB OCed to 1000Mhz
Storage	SSD 64GB
Display(s)	Envision 24'' 1920x1200
Case	Using the desk ATM
Audio Device(s)	Sucky onboard for now :(
Power Supply	1000W TruePower Quattro

System Name	Budget AMD System
Processor	Threadripper 1900X @ 4.1Ghz (100x41 @ 1.3250V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte X399 Aorus Gaming 7
Cooling	EKWB X399 Monoblock
Memory	4x8GB GSkill TridentZ RGB 14-14-14-32 CR1 @ 3266
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon RX Vega₆⁴ Liquid @ 1,800Mhz Core, 1025Mhz HBM2
Storage	1x ADATA SX8200 NVMe, 1x Segate 2.5" FireCuda 2TB SATA, 1x 500GB HGST SATA
Display(s)	Vizio 22" 1080p 60hz TV (Samsung Panel)
Case	Corsair 570X
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic X Series 850W KM3
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	The Dove Box Rev 3.0
Processor	i7 8700k @ 4.7GHz
Motherboard	Asus Maximus X APEX
Cooling	Custom water loop
Memory	16GB 3600 MHz DDR4
Video Card(s)	2x MSI 780 Ti's in SLI
Storage	500GB Samsung 850 PCIe SSD, 4TB
Display(s)	27" Asus 144Hz
Case	Enermax Fulmo GT
Audio Device(s)	ON BOARD FTW
Power Supply	Corsair 1200W
Keyboard	Logitech G510
Software	Win 10 64x

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