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Posted by Dark|Killer on Sun Jan 16th at 9:02am 2005

Ok thanks dude, ill gat the X800 pro thing in like a week lol, and i have AGP...so ill buy the AGP card... and after 1 year in like 2006, ill think of buying this 3D-Labs card, but not now lol...cuzz i have a good one now, and ill add 100 extra GB to my PC soon..so itll be 180 GB in total [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Sun Jan 16th at 9:40am 2005

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You could as I have said, get a X800 Pro ViVo and mod it to an XT PE, but the mod isn't always successful and when it fails your card is ruined.


If your talking about a softmod then no, the card won't be ruined as he is just opening up extra pipelines, all he has to do is uninstall the software he is using and install the correct ati drivers.

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and ill add 100 extra GB to my PC soon


Is that all?
 [addsig]



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Posted by m0p on Sun Jan 16th at 9:51am 2005

No, the softmod isn't always succesful on newer cards. Instead of changing the device ID to 40, it goes to 38, which makes it unusuable. The pro default is 39. and XT PE is 40. The card will still work, but the mod wont work and it will decrease performance quite a bit. A few people at XtremeSystems have has this happen to them when softmodding the X800 Pro ViVo.




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Posted by $loth on Sun Jan 16th at 9:56am 2005

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Instead of changing the device ID to 40, it goes to 38, which makes it unusuable.


Can't it be fixed though with the original drivers installed?
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Posted by m0p on Sun Jan 16th at 10:21am 2005

It's a BIOS thing when it screws up like that. If you flash the BIOS back to original, the deviceid still remains 38.





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