[HousERaT]

I plan to do with this thread the same thing I did with the X800GTO² thread so gentlemen & ladies start your engines. I'll be gathering links to as much knowledge and testing as I can find concerning these cards so we have a general reference thread. Please support the thread with as much info as you like. Pics, links, benchmarks, stable voltages, overclocking & cooling methods and anything else that will contribute to the advancement of these great cards are welcome. The X1900XTX/XT sticky thread is over 80 pages so let's see if we can beat that.

X1900XT/XTX/CF/AIW List of clocks, cooling, and volts AKA (Wall of Fame)
NAME...............CARD......GPU/MEM.....VCore.......VDD......Cooling
HousERaT ........- 1900XT -- 762/828 - 1.575 GPU, 2.184 VDD - Dynatron BH-610
HousERaT.........- 1900XTX - 751/873 - 1.550 GPU, 2.176 VDD - Kingwin K8CU-8025/80mm Tornado
El<(')>Maxi .....- 1900XTX - 922/900 - 1.575 GPU, 2.275 VDD - Dry Ice
Ross.............- 1900XT -- 800/850 - 1.550 GPU, 2.100 VDD - water
dominick32 ......- 1900XT -- 690/732 - 1.400 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
gjwild ..........- 1900XTX - 776/972 - 1.425 GPU, 2.200 VDD - stock cooling - Relaxed timings
Joe Camel .......- 1900XTX - 860/913 - 1.525 GPU, 2.300 VDD - Phase Change
Joe Camel .......- 1900CF -- 735/864 - 1.525 GPU, 2.351 VDD - super ghetto air
tommcd64.........- 1900XT -- 702/779 - 1.375 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
NinjaWreck.......- 1900XTX - 720/900 - 1.425 GPU, 2.225 VDD - stock cooling
Rattle...........- 1900XT -- 705/850 - 1.425 GPU, 2.127 VDD - stock cooling
proth............- 1900XTX - 783/900 - 1.500 GPU, 2.217 VDD - water
M Diddy..........- 1900XTX - 698/823 - 1.400 GPU, 2.230 VDD - stock cooling
Tat2monsta.......- 1900XT -- 705/805 - 1.450 GPU, 2.086 VDD - water
Mac..............- 1900XT -- 752/801 - 1.475 GPU, 2.102 VDD - water
psoutlaw.........- 1900XTX - 751/900 - 1.425 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
5150 Joker.......- 1900XTX - 751/877 - 1.575 GPU, 2.272 VDD - water
traldan..........- 1900XT -- 660/760 - 1.400 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
S_Wilson.........- 1900XTX - 751/855 - 1.525 GPU, 2.124 VDD - water
MadMaxOC.........- 1900XT -- 691/801 - 1.425 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
Mboy67...........- 1900XT -- 693/801 - 1.445 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
Klimpen..........- 1900XTX - 724/864 - 1.525 GPU, 2.200 VDD - water
OCS911...........- 1900XTX - 702/801 - 1.400 GPU, 2.086 VDD - water
eightballrj......- 1900XTX - 761/891 - 1.525 GPU, 2.217 VDD - water
RangerXLT8.......- 1900XTX - 702/819 - 1.475 GPU, 2.093 VDD - Dynatron BH-610
sandrock.........- 1900XT -- 698/819 - 1.500 GPU, 2.198 VDD - stock cooling
THunDA...........- 1900XTX - 745/837 - 1.575 GPU, 2.192 VDD - water
godM@n...........- 1900XTX - 774/882 - 1.575 GPU, 2.315 VDD - water
SuperFarStucker..- 1900XTX - 772/891 - 1.575 GPU, 2.250 VDD - water
homer77..........- 1900XTX - 720/828 - 1.445 GPU, 2.105 VDD - stock cooling
GáTê©rÀ$Hë®......- 1900XT -- 705/801 - 1.450 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
mgoode...........- 1900XTX - 705/828 - 1.450 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
mursaat..........- 1900XTX - 729/855 - 1.550 GPU, 2.151 VDD - stock cooling
EvoFreak.........- 1900XTX - 733/823 - 1.425 GPU, 2.086 VDD - water
slush............- 1900XTX - 702/810 - 1.425 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling
metloaf..........- 1900XT -- 702/792 - 00000 GPU, 00000 VDD - stock cooling
eva2000..........- 1900XTX - 765/895 - 1.575 GPU, 2.288 VDD - water
Gautam...........- 1900CF -- 751/877 - 1.575 GPU, 2.500 VDD - water
Super Nade.......- 1900XTX - 702/801 - 1.425 GPU, 2.086 VDD - stock cooling


How To Guides & useful goodies for the X1900 Series
Madshrimps X1900 Series Overclocking Guide
OS/Software Tweaks
Techpowerup Bios
How To Flash your Bios
How To disable services (so you can use ATI-TOOL)
ATITool
How To Read ATI-Tool
How To Read ATI-Tool Voltages
Rivatuner
Rivatuner & X1900
Overclocker - let me know if you find a better version
Drivercleaner
hipro5 coldbug solution (beware this is intense hardmodding)
Kingwin CPU Heatsink Cooling
Dynatron CPU Heatsink Cooling
Dynatron CPU Heatsink on the XTX
ViperJohn Cooling
CardKeeper - for heavy cards
Does your PWM need sinks?
Another PWM mod pic
Custom PWM Heatsink Project
Meet Mr. Zippy Big thanks to Proth & Ross
Something many of us suffer from - Thanks Jod

[NinjaWreck]

Nice, been waiting for this.

[Rattle]

Nice, we have alot of info floating around in 3 threads to consoladate..

[HousERaT]

I'm already combing through for the most useful tidbits......

[Rattle]

did you get one yet ?

[Herr Rogers]

I get mine on Friday. (Sapphire x1900xtx)

[HousERaT]

it's in the mail.... either Wednesday or Thursday

anyone have links that should be on the frontpage please post or PM me. Thanks.

[El<(')>Maxi]

I guess I'll go first

Finally managed to get this 170 stable @ 2.9Ghz on air with BH-5. Next trick is to try it out on -60° and see if it can handle it. I have had no problems with ATI Tool at all, but I will say that the key to clocks is voltage. This XTX (maybe all of them) is different, it doesn't like lower memory voltage like the X1800's. In fact it needed a bit of a bump to eliminate artifacts at 855Mhz.

For you XT guys the voltages I used for these clocks are 1.425 GPU, 2.125 VDD , the rest were left stock. Peak temperatures as you can see in ATIT were just over 60°. I suggest some of you XT guys try these voltages and see what happens

Btw, there is no ATI Smart Service with this card/drivers. Only Service to disable is ATI Hotkey Poller. I also did not choose to let ATI Tool disable the services as I did it myself. Hope this helps. Man this Dual core flies in Wings of Fury, it blew away my FX-57 @ 3.7Ghz. The BH-5 is probably helping out a bit.

[Mac]

Got mine in the mail today. Still waiting for my freaking motherboard

[HousERaT]

Maxi added to the Wall of Fame. For those that don't know, Maxi used the proper format for posting pics. For those that want to be added to the Wall of Fame please use the same style when posting clocks and voltages..... Excellent job Maxi. I'm sure you have all kinds of cooling you're gonna try on that card. Thursday can't get here fast enough.

[dominick32]

Mine is in the mail as well. I should be receiving mine by 6pm tonight!!
Results to follow.

Dom

[tommcd64]

For the sapphire x1900xt cards that have the 1.1ns memory, are you having any problems flashing the bios to xtx? My sapphire x1900xt will be here tomorrow!!

[Rattle]

nope easy as pie...just verify your card can run at those speeds and flash away...

[bigredhog]

Alright!! Got mine today, if that UPS guy was a gal Id of kissed her full on the mouth LMAO. Gonna test it out to make sure all is in order, then get my Maze4 water block on it.

[HousERaT]

Hey 1900XT/XTX owners.... don't be afraid to post a pic of your favorite benchmark like Maxi did... your support will help this thread explode into all it should be.

[g0dM@n]

This thread is gonna be HAWT!!! It's funny how the GTO² to X1900XT jump almost DOUBLES 3DMark scores!!

[Ross]

Nice job Maxi! I need to get a Presler again...this 661 isn't cutting it My core will do 730 pretty easily without catching on fire (65C max). I will try your voltages, but nothing really seems to help the mem at all. 775 = VERY easy, 801 = impossible except in Overdrive.

[Tat2monsta]

Originally Posted by bigredhog

Alright!! Got mine today, if that UPS guy was a gal Id of kissed her full on the mouth LMAO. Gonna test it out to make sure all is in order, then get my Maze4 water block on it.

just cheking... so a maze4 fits ok then? i presume it does. but not seen it yet. and i notice 4 bolts yay thats better. i dont like the 2 bolt config on my x800xt.. gotme eye on a x1900xt but need a new mb too. soz to thread jack but is there any point getting a 478 pci-e MB to use with this card..so i can keep my old chip.. or do i need to change everything.?. as im still agp

[g0dM@n]

Originally Posted by Tat2monsta

just cheking... so a maze4 fits ok then? i presume it does. but not seen it yet. and i notice 4 bolts yay thats better. i dont like the 2 bolt config on my x800xt.. gotme eye on a x1900xt but need a new mb too. soz to thread jack but is there any point getting a 478 pci-e MB to use with this card..so i can keep my old chip.. or do i need to change everything.?. as im still agp

DDR2 and PCI-e!! If you can afford it, why not... that way you won't have to buy ANOTHER motherboard again when you wanna do DDR2 or upgrade your chip.

[Herr Rogers]

I get mine in tommorow instead of Friday!

[traldan]

Maxi, just checking, are you using Ati-tool to set clocks or just to show the overclocked speeds?

[Ross]

*EDIT: remove link so everyone isn't clicking on it

ATI x1900 BETA DRIVERS 02/01/06
Go to ati.com, click drivers section, search for "x1900 beta"

I got all kinds of excited when I found this, but they don't seem to work for me Note the "How to install..." text. The INF file that they say to use is not in any folder, so I used the CL_29680.inf. The closest thing to the name that they say to use is an INI, not an INF.

I get a driver error and it loads the default Windows driver. I tried both "updating the driver" with the HIS drivers still installed like they say and with just the beta INF on clean uninstall/catuninstall...neither worked.

You're welcome....and if someone gets it working, I'd better be the first to know HOW

[Rattle]

Originally Posted by Ross

ATI x1900 BETA DRIVERS 02/01/06

I got all kinds of excited when I found this, but they don't seem to work for me Note the "How to install..." text. The INF file that they say to use is not in any folder, so I used the CL_29680.inf. The closest thing to the name that they say to use is an INI, not an INF.

I get a driver error and it loads the default Windows driver. I tried both "updating the driver" with the HIS drivers still installed like they say and with just the beta INF on clean uninstall/catuninstall...neither worked.

You're welcome....and if someone gets it working, I'd better be the first to know HOW

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[El<(')>Maxi]

Originally Posted by traldan

Maxi, just checking, are you using Ati-tool to set clocks or just to show the overclocked speeds?

ATI Tool did everything, no Overclocker here

[Ross]

I guess ATI doesn't like external links?

Hit the the ati.com homepage and search for "x1900 beta" in the driver section.

[traldan]

Originally Posted by El<(')>Maxi

ATI Tool did everything, no Overclocker here

Maybe I'm a total noob and/or you posted it somewhere else, but how exactly are you getting this to work properly? Heh.

[Tat2monsta]

Originally Posted by g0dM@n

DDR2 and PCI-e!! If you can afford it, why not... that way you won't have to buy ANOTHER motherboard again when you wanna do DDR2 or upgrade your chip.

was thinking of keeping my ram for the moe.. only had it about 4 months..and cant afford to get it all at once.so i dont mind upgrading the MB again later.there always easy to sell.. i just need to find a ddr 478 MB that will take this card.and still perform better than what i have now. was hopeing to do chip and ram at a later date..with yet another MB.. :/

[Rattle]

everything brings me back to the driver page and then to 6.1

[Ross]

OH BALLS. I just realized it's Vista anyway At least I know why it doesn't work

[Ross]

Yeah, except the "X" on the end of the name