Hi everyone heres my question I heard that some graphic cards arent using all 16 pipelines on a PCI-EXPRESS slot. I just got a X800XL 256MB from ATI and im curious how do i check to see how many pipelines are working, i heard from a friend that i will need to flash the graphic cards BIOS in order to do so. If anyone knows what im talking about reply plz or if u have the file to flash the card also reply thx
Hi, you could flash it, but before you do I would try rivatuner. If you flash it and the pipes are bad and worst case you can't flash it back, then you have a trashed card. If you use rivatuner and it doesnt work, then worst case, uninstall rivatuner. After you use riva and know if you have good pipes, then you can look into flashing it. Hope it helps. Cheers.
I do have riva tuner but i dont know how to use it since im into radeon just recently, can u tell me where to look for this This is actually my first radeon graphics card
Hi, I can tell you how to do it with an nvidia card, I personally have not done it with a radeon, although a friend of mine has with some success. Open rivatuner and click the arrow pointing diagonally down and to the right. The one after the description of your card. Then click the end tab, looks like a gfx card. Now on mine it says nvstrap driver, yours may be different, but it's the 2nd tab across. Then, where it says graphics processor configuration, tick the box which says..allow enabling hardware masked units. Then click customize next to it. Now at the top you should have all the pixel pipelines and to the right of 1 or 2 it will say yes, meaning its hidden. Click the far left of one of these lines and a tick will appear, then click ok and close riva. Reboot and run some tests, 3dmark,aquamark that sort of thing and look out for artefacts. If it works ok, try enabling another if there was 2 and repeat the tests. If it works ok, then you could think of flashing the bios, this then by default ups the voltage to your card for stability. Hope it works and hope it helps. Cheers.
