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"What's VIVO??"

And how would it benefit me?

Some X800 Pro's have a VIVO variation that costs more. I don't know what it is though.

Thanks

Presenting the VIVO flash guide ladies and gentlemen:

[URL]http://paddy007uk.freeservers.com/VGAbios/ATI%20RADEON%20x800%20Pro%20VIVO%20FLASH%20GUIDE.htm[/URL]

It worked for me

I agree, I can clock the GPU far higher than the memory, this is why I am hoping the Arctic cooler will help.

I concur with biggles, the memory seems to matter more.

From my experiments, increased memory speed seemed to yield better results than increased core. Both together is nice of course, but I was a bit disappointed I could only get the memory up around 5%, but the core around 30%.

Yes.

By the way, what actually gives the best performance boost, a faster GPU speed or faster Memory speed? I have mine at the moment at 560 and 583 GPU and RAM respectively however I personally feel the memory speed gives better performance.

Will have to wait for the Arctic cooler replacement to see how far I can really push it.

Thanks for that! Looks like it might just be worth stumping up the extra cash for a VIVO then.

On that tutorial, it says to make sure you have '1.6ns Samsung GRam' - is this the RAM on the card?

ßulle†† wrote:
> Hmm, *ponders*
>
> There is software available to do this stuff, right? I'm a bit of a
> plank when it comes to clocking and stuff!

[URL]http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1371898[/URL]

Hmm, *ponders*

There is software available to do this stuff, right? I'm a bit of a plank when it comes to clocking and stuff!

ßulle†† wrote:
> Tyla wrote:
> The X800 VIVO's are worth the investment as they can be
> clocked/unlocked to match X800XT PE's. Bare that in mind before
> opting out.
>
> Well I'm not really planning on clocking the card - unless...
>
> How much difference will it have on heat output? I'm going to be
> putting it in a Shuttle case where there isn't much room anyway. If
> it'll run safely at clocked speed in such a case, I might just put
> the VIVO back into consideration...

I've just ordered an ASUS AX800Pro VIVO. 12 pipelines, 450/450(900) speeds. Flash the bios with the X800 Pro PE you get 16 pipelines and will overclock safely to 530/600(1200) without the need for additional cooling.

I have the VIVO X800 XT PE from Sapphire which can be clocked at high speeds. I have seen someone on the 3DMARK site with my card clocked at 740 820 GPU and memory respectively. Scored around 19,000 on 3DMARK03.