Don't use other card's vbios (I found out the hard way), just get the vbios from your 5850 with WinFlash, change the clocks RBE, and reflash it with ATIflash in a bootable DOS enviroment. zFactor has a great guide to make the flash drive bootable.
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I tried going to 925 and it froze, so I tried amp the voltage up to 1.2 (up from 1.1) and my AMD GPU tool stopped working for me.
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man if you can push 925 that would be insane, did you try 900?
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Damn i really wanna try flashing it but after reading about the bricked cards i don't think i have it in me >_<
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someone set me straight here... you guys are talkinn about flashing to set voltages? or stock clocks? vbios? Im not too clear what yall talkign about lol...
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you can set clocks and voltages with flashing. everything you need i linked in the last page. and rep the wiz for his time writing it for me.
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oh ok so i when i find stable "decent clocks" lets just say... 800/1100 run perfectlyt stable.... i flash my 5850m to keep those clocks as stock...so when i reboot, it'll always keep the OC....
And then from there... when im pushing my card to its limits for benching.. i use AMD gpu clock tools to temporarily OC the clocks for the bench/game/wtv....
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yup you got it. geez you learn quick,hahahah
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lol well its nothing too complicated...and i used to friggin OC cpus/gpus back in the day like crazy...
And flashing a gpu can have several meanings lolll
from flashing to diff stock voltages, to flashing voltages to flashing vbios'...
Wasn't sure what everyone was referring to and i wanted to be on the same page
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I pretty much do what you described, only instead of high stable overclocks I was trying to undervolt it further. Once I have a card with my Dell warranty I won't care though (and will overclock it to its limit).
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I just got my first 10k score. P10012. I hit 9615 with a 900/1100 overclock on GPU, but my CPU only scored 11400. :/
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wow impressive, now need screen shot or it didn't happen, hahahahah
yeah now i'm back to full power, 5870 back in. yea!!!! -
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wow looks like these 5850s are keeping up with dem 5870s
.... just purrrfecctt
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When's this being updated again?
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Mandrake im getting my 5850m installed tonight, so if everything goes well, and if i have enough time to play around with Oc'ing it... i might be giving you some more work
Lol
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Sounds good.
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I just hit 5 FPS during the 3DMark06 CPU test. I don't think I've ever seen it do that with any of my notebooks. Not even the G73.
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Here's a benchmark....highest CPU wattage...lol
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Hey guys! Not to repeat post and be annoying or anything, but I'm gonna do just that :O haha. What do you think of my 3D Mark 06 score?
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wow 6500 geez. gave us all a chance why don't cha,lol
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I suppose everyone here knows about the CPU Overclocking? We got it working today!! Check my sig for a link and let's get those benches up
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I donno if you guys read the throttling thread but...
DELL GAVE ME A 5870M BY ACCIDENT!!!
AHAHAHAH!!!!! woooooooo! IM SO HAPPY!
except its supposed to be in a m17x, and right no wits in my m15x, installed with 5850m drivers from the dell site. Mandrake! help! what do i do first! ( i remeber reading it can get bricked somehow if i do sumtin wrong?)
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Mine has the same card in it right now. You can use any driver you want to....install one and enjoy.
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I use a Cryo NZXT which works well.
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which drivers you using mandrake?
The dell guy absolutely had no idea what to do. first time he saw an alienware. He watched me do everything LOL.
I forgot ocz freeze in my car which my brother has! so he use dthe chepa crap dell uses.. but to my surprise.. im idling at 46~47C. BFBC2 maxed out at 70C. Petty good so far? -
I'm using Cat 10.5 right now but I know 10.6 works also.
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Those are great temps... I would not even bother replacing the paste again since there is always the off chance it might get worse.... You have been warned
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The Revelator Notebook Prophet
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I found out something interesting- I installed the ATI Stream program and set the 5850 at 850/1075 then ran 3dMark Vantage. I had to stop the benchmark due to the really low frame rates.
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ok just did that... ran it for 13minutes actually...
temps fluctuated between 80-81 degrees celcius @ stock clocks.
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#1 74
#2 80-81
#3 75
So what's what exactly? I'm new to the 5870m n i havent rlly been following in the past when i had my crappy 260m. Man oh man im loving this card -
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Very nice temps. Don't change a thing.
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*OFFICIAL* M15x Benchmark Thread
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