Sapphire X800's

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yoni45

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alright, i'm a bit new to the whole video card arena, as is, where does sapphire stand as a manufacturer?

also, i have a few of them lined up and priced, now consider this is from Toronto and in canadian dollars, and its been tough finding a head-to-head price comparison because apparently not everyone carries these cards and theres like 600 different ones under the same name... anyway, are these prices high? competetive? low? worth it?

SAPPHIRE PCI-E X800 (256M) DDR3 VDT Video Card (RF) $290.52

SAPPHIRE PCI-E X800 PRO (256M) DDR3 VDT Video Card (RF) $375.84

SAPPHIRE PCI-E X800 XL (512M) DDR3 2xDVI VIVO Video Card (RF) $483.84
 
X800GTO2 all the way... Cheap as fuck and has the ability to be flashed/oc'd to an X850XT PE.

No better deal if you ask me.
 
ok, now from what i've seen the X800 Pro is supposed to be ahead of the X800 GTO2 (well, according to pricing anyways heh), first off, this is running at stock of course, how serious of a gain can be expected from the pro vs the gto2? also what is so exclusive to the GTO2 that it is so overclockable to an X850 XT, whats stopping the X800 Pro from doing better if its supposedly a superior vid card?
 
name='yoni45' said:
ok, now from what i've seen the X800 Pro is supposed to be ahead of the X800 GTO2 (well, according to pricing anyways heh), first off, this is running at stock of course, how serious of a gain can be expected from the pro vs the gto2? also what is so exclusive to the GTO2 that it is so overclockable to an X850 XT, whats stopping the X800 Pro from doing better if its supposedly a superior vid card?
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no its not ahead of the X800gto, the x800gto2 is the best in that line of cards, with an x800gto2 you can flash the cards bios which would make it an x850xt pe which is one of the fastest cards, the x800pro is not superior from my knowledge :)

for example i can get an x800 pro, in sydney for $200, an x800gt, for $233, and an x800gto2 for $280 :)
 
name='yoni45' said:
ok, now from what i've seen the X800 Pro is supposed to be ahead of the X800 GTO2 (well, according to pricing anyways heh), first off, this is running at stock of course, how serious of a gain can be expected from the pro vs the gto2? also what is so exclusive to the GTO2 that it is so overclockable to an X850 XT, whats stopping the X800 Pro from doing better if its supposedly a superior vid card?
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A SERIOUS gain can be expected from the GTO2. It's literally flashable too an X850XT PE with the same clocks, sometimes higher. So think of the GTO2 as the price of an X850XT PE rather than a plain old GTO2. :)
 
Well i had a Sapphire X800 Pro 256mb which i popped about a month ago :flamed:

Wasnt to happy but rang Sapphire and they pointed me towards a RMA Service as my card was a OEM there was no manufactures warranty but i could pay £25 for a RMA Service. This is basicly you pay £25 and get another card of a similar spec or better.

Anyway my X800 Pro was AGP so i thought i might aswell take this opertunity to change to PCI-E so i rang them and they sent me a X800 XL.

I was thinking great, 16 pipe lines etc but was greatly disapointed when doing a 3dmark03 test.

My X800 Pro got 11500 clocked at 500mhz core and 550mhz memory and this X800 XL got 10500 with 16 pipe lines not clocked at 400mhz core and 500mhz memory. My X800 Pro was only 12 pipe lines but had 100mhz extra on core and 50mhz on memory which added 1000 points on 3dmark03.

So i am looking at selling this X800 XL and i certanly dont reccomend it.

Go for the X800 GTO2 as its great value for money and its the one i will be going for.

Sam
 
Sam,

You can't overclock the new card past the speeds of the Pro you had? You should be able to own the benchies after throwing a good size overclock on it!
 
Nope, It dont like it but has a tiny tiny cooler on it, Like this:

X800XL.jpg


What cooler do you recomend for this as this Sapphire one is crap.

It gets to 410mhz before hitting temp's of 80C when scanning for artifacts.

My X800 Pro was much quiter and much cooler.

Sam
 
name='yoni45' said:
ok, now from what i've seen the X800 Pro is supposed to be ahead of the X800 GTO2 (well, according to pricing anyways heh), first off, this is running at stock of course, how serious of a gain can be expected from the pro vs the gto2? also what is so exclusive to the GTO2 that it is so overclockable to an X850 XT, whats stopping the X800 Pro from doing better if its supposedly a superior vid card?
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Yoni45, I have a GTO2 which has been flashed to unlock the 4 extra pipes, the card is currently running at core 501Mhz & mem 540Mhz.

My understanding of what Sapphire did is; they brought the remaining x850 cores from ATI put them on a 850 PCB but used a x800 GTO firmware.

To flash the firmware your just need to download and burn the image file here to a cd, then boot from it https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/fmohamed/s...800GTO2MoD.iso

step 1 boot from CD\DVD by changing the bios boot order to boot the optical drive of your choice.

step 2 Select the menu option of your choice, it will confirm a succesful flash once done.

step 3 Enjoy!

Recovering from a bad flash....

step 1, install a pci graphics card,

step 2, boot from DVD\CD

step 3, select option 2 from the boot menu

Step 4 Reboot and Retry the flash.

The above steps are taken from Locutus12 (the maker of the CD image) posts in several other OC forums.

Now use ATItool to clock the card. If you don't want the card to run maxed out all the time then use Radlinker to create profiles for the apps that need the extra GPU power.
 
He doesn't have a GTO mate :)

I suggest the Arctic Silencer for you hyper, this should lower the temps significantly and let you far surpoass your old cards speeds.
 
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