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Originally Posted by JayBee
The x800 XT is expensive, and if I were to get the x800 I could just flash it to x800 XT right?
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It *used* to be easy. Lately X800 manufacturers have been replacing the memory. The first generation used samsung 1.6ns memory. If you would buy an x800 pro Vivo (12 pixel pipelines), you would basically have an x800 XT (16 pipelines) with 4 pipelines disabled. So you could just overclock it, then flash the card and get the extra pipelines. This is what I did on my x800pro ViVo. If you decide to go for it, and you succeed in unlocking the 4 extra pipelines but the core and memory arent getting to XT speeds, you can also do the pencil mod (google --> x800 pencil mod) which will let you get insane clocks.
To put it short : if you want the easy way : buy an x800 pro VIVO edition, hope it has 1.6 ns memory on it and simply overclock it (Arctic Cooling rev.4 is probably a good idea to reach higher clock speeds).
Lately manufacturers are using 2.0 ns memory on the boards, which makes it impossible (for as far as I know, that is) to unlock the 4 extra pipelines since the BIOS'es are written for 1.6 ns memory.
It *is* possible to hardmod an x800 pro to XT, but that would require some reading. And probably some silver paste or something.
If you need further information feel free to PM, or reply here. I'm kind of in a hurry so sorry for the incomprehensible post, it's probably a lot of information for you to process
Kind regards, Moose.