X850 Pro AGP Performance problem

[whoopyour]

Hey guys, about a week ago me and my buddy flashed my x850 pro AGP to an X850 XT PE so we could get the full 16 pipes out of it. We downclocked the core and mem settings after flashing to X850 PRO speeds(500:500) because the XT PE Speeds (540:590) were putting out too high of temperatures with the stock cooler on it.

So we get evrything set and the card is working perfectly, getting 101 avg fps score in the cs:s stress test with everything maxed and 44.2 fps score on the lost coast stress test with everything maxed. Gaming is fine too, tempes arnt getting very high and the fps is great. Now i leave my computer off for about a week because ive been busy doing other things.

Today i turn on the computer and try to see if i can run the card at X850 XT speeds(520:540) safely and i run the cs:s stress test again and i end up getting an avg fps of 70.4 and an avg fps of 24.3 on the loast coast stress test. So i figure the cards running to hot so i downclock it back to the X850 PRO speeds and try it again, much to my surprise the scores were even less when i set it back to default speeds, 64 fps on cs:s stress test.

My temperatures seem to be getting really high also unless the fan is running at 100% all the time. In Idle the card runs at 50 degrees with the fan maxed and under load it climes up to 70 degrees. It wasent doing this right after i flashed the card, it was running fine for hours as i was gaming. But now ever since i turned on the computer after that week of non gaming the card seems to be running like crap. I checked to see if the fan was working and it is so i have no clue why the computer is now performing like crap.

Does anyone know what the problem could be? Do i need to flash back to X850 PRO Bios?

Heres the specs:
p4 3.0 Ghz
2X512 pc3200
X850 PRO flashed to X850XT PE with 16 pipes and Pro speeds (500:500) stock cooling

thanx guys.

 

[dream431ca]

Hey guys, about a week ago me and my buddy flashed my x850 pro AGP to an X850 XT PE so we could get the full 16 pipes out of it. We downclocked the core and mem settings after flashing to X850 PRO speeds(500:500) because the XT PE Speeds (540:590) were putting out too high of temperatures with the stock cooler on it.

So we get evrything set and the card is working perfectly, getting 101 avg fps score in the cs:s stress test with everything maxed and 44.2 fps score on the lost coast stress test with everything maxed. Gaming is fine too, tempes arnt getting very high and the fps is great. Now i leave my computer off for about a week because ive been busy doing other things.

Today i turn on the computer and try to see if i can run the card at X850 XT speeds(520:540) safely and i run the cs:s stress test again and i end up getting an avg fps of 70.4 and an avg fps of 24.3 on the loast coast stress test. So i figure the cards running to hot so i downclock it back to the X850 PRO speeds and try it again, much to my surprise the scores were even less when i set it back to default speeds, 64 fps on cs:s stress test.

My temperatures seem to be getting really high also unless the fan is running at 100% all the time. In Idle the card runs at 50 degrees with the fan maxed and under load it climes up to 70 degrees. It wasent doing this right after i flashed the card, it was running fine for hours as i was gaming. But now ever since i turned on the computer after that week of non gaming the card seems to be running like crap. I checked to see if the fan was working and it is so i have no clue why the computer is now performing like crap.

Does anyone know what the problem could be? Do i need to flash back to X850 PRO Bios?

Heres the specs:
p4 3.0 Ghz
2X512 pc3200
X850 PRO flashed to X850XT PE with 16 pipes and Pro speeds (500:500) stock cooling

thanx guys.

You flashed it with a more powerful Bios??..you need a new fan on the videocard. If you don't buy new fan, you'll burn out your videocard and destroy it.

 

[StardogChampion]

Why would you do that, as if an X850 isn't fast enough already? All I can say is "haha".

 

[Asus]

Could your CPU by chance be getting some of that heat and downclocking? P4's have been known to do that.

 

[whoopyour]

I do not beleive that temperature is an issue because we opened the case and blew a huge fan onto the computer and the GPU temperature stayed below 50 degrees and it still put out crappy fps. My CPU stayes at around 50-70 degrees , is that normal?

I prolly fried my card, lol

 

[gweedodogg69]

I wish watercooling was really cheap. My Koolance was like $500ish.

 

[whoopyour]

Could it be that my psu isnt putting enough power into the card? Would a damaged psu affect performance even though i have no clue how i could have damaged the power supply.

 

[Dirk Pitt]

Those units were masked off for a reason. . .

 

[nutcrackr]

A damaged PSU would lilkely cause more problems than just low performance, patterns and lockups etc. The GPU may be damaged but I'd also expect it to cause more than just low fps. Maybe a setting was changed and it's running really high AA or something, did you try complete removal and reinstall of catalyst? Can you get another card and see if it's running slower than normal, then you could rule that out.

 

[whoopyour]

Ok guys i think we got the problem mostly solved, turns out that vsync was turned on for all my steam games so the fps wouldent go above 85. I turned it off and ran the cs:s test and i got it back up to 96 fps average with everything maxed. Its still not 101.6 fps like it was before. I ran the cs:s test a 2nd time and this time my average was only 90 fps so im thinking it has somthing to do with the temp getting too high. Lost coast my average was 33 fps everything cranked, and before it was 41 fps. Is this a temperature problem? Under load I my card gets up to 90 degrees c so I ordered a zalman VF-700Cu LED VGA Cooler and some arctic 5 thermal paste last night so hopefully when I get that installed it will bring the temp down. Ps. When i try to run my card at xt speeds or xt pe speeds my fps goes down, would this be another overheating problem?