Eh what the hell...UPDATED WITH CARD IN COMPUTER

[Elfear]

Aonic- What overclocking software are you using?

 

[Rhagz]

great news about the bios issue.. my card just came in, installed it, 16/6 on the pipes.. 325/700 on the clocks.. first thing i did was set the memory to 1100, ran 3d mark, only got a score of 3500 but it ws artifact free.. leads me to believe it isnt a hardware issue at all, the memory is gddr3, it runs at 1100.. ZZF just got some wacked out BIOSes.. im not gonna bother with their new bios, just gonna use the GT one whenever newegg decides to send my floppy drive! (they had a warehouse malfunction this week and my orders were delayed 2 days - but they said I will get a free gift!)

 

[egoadk]

Originally posted by: aonic
higher volt = more OC ability+ shorter life span

i use 1.3 and can goto 430/1170

i wonder what i will get @ 1.5v


i just checked my webstats and ive used 400+ megs bandwidth serving the boot disk kit

so far I have 150 downloads of the evga_bios_kit.exe and 70 for evga_bios_kit.iso
then there were the older disks they used about 100 MB of BW all together

Cool! Great job on the disk and site.

It's a good thing I checked newegg.com but I didn't buy from there. Lucky I read someone's review of the 6800LE. I am curious why an LE has 16 pipelines!

Did a google, and returned forums discussion from Anandtech and

 

[aonic]

Originally posted by: Elfear
Aonic- What overclocking software are you using?

i use rivatuner to enable driver level overclocking and goto the nvidia driver page and it has the page that coolbits unlocks

Originally posted by: Rhagz
great news about the bios issue.. my card just came in, installed it, 16/6 on the pipes.. 325/700 on the clocks.. first thing i did was set the memory to 1100, ran 3d mark, only got a score of 3500 but it ws artifact free.. leads me to believe it isnt a hardware issue at all, the memory is gddr3, it runs at 1100.. ZZF just got some wacked out BIOSes.. im not gonna bother with their new bios, just gonna use the GT one whenever newegg decides to send my floppy drive! (they had a warehouse malfunction this week and my orders were delayed 2 days - but they said I will get a free gift!)

why not just try the ISO?

 

[johnannie]

I just checked the OC Speed on my 5700 Ultra. I have had this thing OC'd at 522 Core and 1Ghz Memory. It's been set like that for about a year and it works great. I'm downloading 3dmark to see what kind of scores I can get. Does that sound normal for that card?

Also, my 6800LE is sitting in a UPS Depot 2 miles from my house. It's been there all day and there is nothing I can do. I might be able to pick it up tonight and if I do, i'll post my speeds. The idiot I bought it from on Ebay told me that he bought all of his LE's from the distributor who supplies NewEgg. If anyone wants one, I think that he still has a bunch. He's selling them for $350 though and he's a moron.

 

[aonic]

why is he a moron

 

[aerasal]

quick question: will the bios updates make the card run any faster at the same clock speeds? I'm happy with my card running at 350/1100 atm, so i don't want to flash the bios if it won't make a difference.

 

[johnannie]

He doesn't know anything he's talking about. He said he'd ship me my card overnight last week and I found out today that UPS didn't even pick it up until yesterday. Also, he still insists that it's a "6800 GT Limited Edition" clocked at 350/1000. We'll find out soon enough.

 

[Wag]

Oh well, Newegg just credited me a refund.

I really wish I hadn't sent it back to them now, but eVGA's policy states I have to go back to my retailer first. Had I known they weren't going to replace it I wouldn't have shipped it back.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: aerasal
quick question: will the bios updates make the card run any faster at the same clock speeds? I'm happy with my card running at 350/1100 atm, so i don't want to flash the bios if it won't make a difference.

yes, the LE-GT bios is faster then the stock bios ~ clock for clock.

the stock LE bios has the same performance as an Ultra bios ~ clock for clock.

 

[Rhagz]

why not just try the ISO?

Because I paid 7 bucks for a floppy and gdi I intend to use it at least once! hahah


p.s. I remember seeing stuff about temps being higher at 325.. mine is 60c after about 20 mins of playing 3D games.. too high?

 

[jrhea]

ZZF is not going to get anymore in. They said eVGA is all out of stock except for a few units they held back for RMA's, and this was intended to be a one time only run. Unfortunately I already sent mine to ZZF, so it looks like I will be getting a refund unless they can manage to find one for me or if an order cancels.

 

[Rhagz]

So I installed 66.81 drivers and added coolbits to the registry, but I don't get an option to auto detect my overclock, I can manually set it, but no auto.. so i dloaded detonater rip and uninstalled drivers, rebooted, the computer cant find a standard driver for my card.. and running rip gives me an error immediately saying application terminated and some error 0x0000135 i think it was. any clues on how to fix those problems?

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Rhagz
I remember seeing stuff about temps being higher at 325.. mine is 60c after about 20 mins of playing 3D games.. too high?

that has nothing todo with the temp bug.

the temp bug is simply "2D mode must be @ 350mhz", no more no less or the IDLE temps go wacko. this is true for every bios on the LE cards, including the stock ones.

in other words, its not a bug we created ~ its a bug we fixed

:beer:

 

[aonic]

so i guess those rumors about the temps being 20C off when the bios modding first began were not true

 

[Rhagz]

OK but that still doesnt answer the question of is 60C too high at 325

OK I got detonator rip to work, just had to reinstall the .NET framework, forgot too after my reformat last week.. but even after a fresh reinstall I cannot get the auto detect to show up in the nvidia menu, I can set it manually, and I don't even get a 2d/3d option.. is this something with the ZZF bios, or am i just doing it wrong?

 

[johnannie]

So what is the verdict.... coolbits or coolbits 2? What is the difference anyway?

 

[aonic]

Rhagz you need the GT or Ultra bios for 2d/3d

 

[Rhagz]

Ah ok.. would that explain why I dont get an auto detect button also?

 

[johnannie]

I have a question before I flash the card.... if I flash from your bootdisk and things go wrong. How do I use the the bootdisk "beeps" to flash back to the deault LE bios. Just curious as having a blank screen would really freak me out. Thank so much!!! You guys have been a huge help.

 

[aonic]

when you start the boot disk, it beeps once when the menu appears
when you hear that beep just press "1" and you will hear 2 beeps that means the flashin is starting

when it done flashing it will beep 3 times
and now you can reboot

this is with the floppy, the CD asks you some booting options first.. since stave made the base cd boot image I dont know why or how to get rid of it (but the options just need you to press enter, so just press enter if you dont hear the beep for some time and press it a few secs later and then you should hear the beep) when you run them the first time (when you can see) you should notice these things so you can flash blindly

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: aonic
so i guess those rumors about the temps being 20C off when the bios modding first began were not true

yes, @ idle.

the real reason for the temp increase is that when you bump the 2d mode off 350mhz it engages 3d mode voltage.... hence the slow temp increase.

having 2d mode @ 350mhz is a must for the voltage to stay in 2d mode.

2d mode = 1.1v
3d mode = 1.4v (or 1.5v)

not having 2d mode @ 350mhz was screwing up dual mode.

:beer:

 

[lupohki]

GT bios makes dual dvi no worky? That's the situation with me.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: lupohki
GT bios makes dual dvi no worky? That's the situation with me.

yep, its a known bug ~ use the LE-Ultra bios for dual DVI, it works.

 

[Killrose]

I'm having a minor pixel problem with the last 3dmark01 test. With either AA of AF enabled, I get 4-7 little square pixels of varying colors that revolve in fixed position as the horse turns. If I dissable AA or AF they are not there.

this is with the stock bios and the LE-GT1.4 bios, and I have tried the 61.34 and the latest Win98/me driver posted on the website. I have not verified the problem with any other apps.