X-850 XT issues

[Zardnok]

A buddy just replaced his old ATI 9600XT card with an ATI X-850 XT from BestBuy. He dropped it in his A64 rig and reloaded the latest ATI drivers.

ATI Tool shows him as only having 8 pipelines active and the card should be 16 pipelines. His 3DMark03 score was a mere 7427.

Any ideas on what he needs to do to get all 16 pipelines up and running and get the performance he paid for?

 

[Chode Messiah]

call ati and bestbuy. The wrong card is in the box or the card is refurbished crap trying to be pawned off as new. Either way ur friend should return it and get a new one off of newegg

 

[bjc112]

Ya that's definitely wrong..

is it a 2 slot card?

What about the sticker on the card? Reading x850xt anywhere?

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

make sure it says x850 on it! also make sure it looks similar to this, and has the fan on it.

 

[holycpu]

which version of ATI tool is ur friend using?

So what does Best-Buy say?

 

[JBT]

sounds like the wrong card.

 

[busbarr]

I'm the "buddy" in question. The card has the thick fan, says x850xt on the ati box and the card. I am using ATITool 2.3, it reads as 8, I dled rivatuner to look what it said.

$ffffffffff ATI specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0900000000 Graphics core : R481 (16x1)
$0900000002 Memory bus : 256-bit
$0900000001 Memory type : unknown
$0900000003 Memory amount : 256MB
$0900000004 Core clock : 519.750MHz
$0900000005 Memory clock : 540.000MHz (1080.000MHz effecti...
$0900000006 Reference clock : 27.000MHz

Is the (16x1) on the graphics core the active or open pipelines? Never used Rivatuner before, always an ATI Fanboy.
Thanks for your help.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: busbarr
I'm the "buddy" in question. The card has the thick fan, says x850xt on the ati box and the card. I am using ATITool 2.3, it reads as 8, I dled rivatuner to look what it said.

$ffffffffff ATI specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0900000000 Graphics core : R481 (16x1)
$0900000002 Memory bus : 256-bit
$0900000001 Memory type : unknown
$0900000003 Memory amount : 256MB
$0900000004 Core clock : 519.750MHz
$0900000005 Memory clock : 540.000MHz (1080.000MHz effecti...
$0900000006 Reference clock : 27.000MHz

Is the (16x1) on the graphics core the active or open pipelines? Never used Rivatuner before, always an ATI Fanboy.
Thanks for your help.

well that looks right. What are the specs of the rest of your system?

 

[busbarr]

AMD 64 3000+ Newcastle
Chaintech NV3-250
450 true rated watts ps
Maxtor 40 gig
2x515 Mushkin PC3200 ddr

Tried Omega and ATI Cats, games great on either set of drivers. No crashes, no issues, just getting some crappy Benchmarks on it.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: busbarr
AMD 64 3000+ Newcastle
Chaintech NV3-250
450 true rated watts ps
Maxtor 40 gig
2x515 Mushkin PC3200 ddr

Tried Omega and ATI Cats, games great on either set of drivers. No crashes, no issues, just getting some crappy Benchmarks on it.

Did you have a different video card installed prior to this? Before the 9600xt?

What were you scoring with the 9600?

 

[busbarr]

Only ran a 9600xt on this system, scored in the 5k range if I remember.
Does this card need more than 1.6vlts. to make it happy>?<
And does anyone know what timings in the bios this card runs best on 66-72?

Using ati tool 2.4 beta now and see the pipes. now to get things right.

 

[lavaheadache]

Originally posted by: busbarr
Only ran a 9600xt on this system, scored in the 5k range if I remember.
Does this card need more than 1.6vlts. to make it happy>?<
And does anyone know what timings in the bios this card runs best on 66-72?

Using ati tool 2.4 beta now and see the pipes. now to get things right.

that 5k score is about 1000= points higher than I think it should have been, I wouldn't rush to return the card because your problem is most likely user error. Did you Uninstall your original drivers correctly?

 

[ddogg]

definetely wrong card....!!

 

[Creig]

Run drivercleaner, reinstall the drivers and then check ATI Tool again.

 

[busbarr]

No user error involved in removing drivers, Im rather retentive about doing things such as drivers the right way. Looking back at my Mark5 scores for the 9600xt, 5109 was the highest, and that was reached only once when it was overclocked and almost hot enough to fry eggs on.

The card IS an ATI X850XT, when benchmarking using mark3, I am comprable (sp?) to other systems simular to mine using the same card. Seems that my scores with the mark5 benchmark are low though, gets to the cpu test and boggs down.

While gaming the card smokes, its nice to have people accuse you of cheating in a FPS because you can see them at a distance .

I wonder if the AGP overclock in Mhz in the system bios needs to be adjusted. Default is 66, the 9600xt previously ran great at 72. Anyone know what the X850XT likes in this timing range?

Thanks in advance

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: busbarr
No user error involved in removing drivers, Im rather retentive about doing things such as drivers the right way. Looking back at my Mark5 scores for the 9600xt, 5109 was the highest, and that was reached only once when it was overclocked and almost hot enough to fry eggs on.

The card IS an ATI X850XT, when benchmarking using mark3, I am comprable (sp?) to other systems simular to mine using the same card. Seems that my scores with the mark5 benchmark are low though, gets to the cpu test and boggs down.

While gaming the card smokes, its nice to have people accuse you of cheating in a FPS because you can see them at a distance .

I wonder if the AGP overclock in Mhz in the system bios needs to be adjusted. Default is 66, the 9600xt previously ran great at 72. Anyone know what the X850XT likes in this timing range?

Thanks in advance

72 is out of spec.. 75on the AGP means your PCI is also running into dangerous corruption territory..

No PCI/AGP lock on the board?

66/33?