6800NU Mods

[IceMole]

I decided to take back my recent 9800Pro from circuit city because it only came with a R350 core and was much slower then I wanted. When I got there she asked if I wanted to exchange it or get a refund, so I went back to look and saw a eVGA 6800 on the shelf. Decided what the hell, it had a rebate too, so I got it. Got it home threw rivatuner on and it modded 16x6 with no artifacts.

1) Is there anyway to program this into the bios, or must I always use rivatuner?

2) I ran through 3dmark01,03, aquamark a few times. Played some desert combat and not 1 thing wrong with the card. I assume this means everything works?

Anyway I'm just happy w/ this card alone, the fact that it softmods and came w/ a rebate just are icing on the cake. Thanks.

 

[Gagabiji]

How much did the 6800 NU come to?

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: IceMole
I decided to take back my recent 9800Pro from circuit city because it only came with a R350 core and was much slower then I wanted. When I got there she asked if I wanted to exchange it or get a refund, so I went back to look and saw a eVGA 6800 on the shelf. Decided what the hell, it had a rebate too, so I got it. Got it home threw rivatuner on and it modded 16x6 with no artifacts.

1) Is there anyway to program this into the bios, or must I always use rivatuner?

2) I ran through 3dmark01,03, aquamark a few times. Played some desert combat and not 1 thing wrong with the card. I assume this means everything works?

Anyway I'm just happy w/ this card alone, the fact that it softmods and came w/ a rebate just are icing on the cake. Thanks.

AFAIK you must always use Rivatuner. I think the jury is still out on whether mods of this type can damage your card.

 

[THUGSROOK]

at the moment ~ no
but eventually there will be

 

[imported_Bleh]

If you have doom 3 try running that and artifacting will be obvious. You would see messed up colors and textures that are very apparent, if that doesnt happen you should be a ok.

 

[IceMole]

ran doom3....looks amazing Vs. my old Ti 4200. Why would this damage the card? As far as I can see all 16 pipes work perfectly, I have not tried to overclock, I've been mainly looking for artifacts all night. Is an idle temp of 57 ok? The card was $279 w/ $20 rebate.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: IceMole
ran doom3....looks amazing Vs. my old Ti 4200. Why would this damage the card? As far as I can see all 16 pipes work perfectly, I have not tried to overclock, I've been mainly looking for artifacts all night. Is an idle temp of 57 ok? The card was $279 w/ $20 rebate.

I don't think anyone but the manufacturer can answer this. I don't know why they disable them- is it to sell them cheaper? Or a flaw in the silicon? Won't run cool at 325?

Anyway it worked for mine as well, it is a nice performance boost.

 

[IceMole]

I thought it used to deal with flawed chips in the sheet, at least thats how it worked for the old ATI cards. I've ran 3dmark03 in loop for the past 2hrs, max temp was 62, idle is 57 still no artifacts. Everything at stock speeds it got me a bit over 1000 more in '03

 

[SickBeast]

Yeah using the RivaTuner every time you update your drivers is a PITA. You also often have to update the RivaTuner.

Hard mods are much better in that sense, but they're more risky.

 

[jbh129]

I used rivatuner but didnt know that I have to run it everytime i start up my cpu. Is this true?

 

[BlackPear1]

I think that once you've used RivaTuner to install NVStrap and unmask the pixel/vertex units, you don't need to use it again until you want to make changes. It works that way for me.