Gigabyte X800 XL Silentpipe!

grahamstewart · Post by **grahamstewart** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:38 am

Does the card have Video-In capabilities?
If so is it a separate back panel or just an extra port on the card?

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:34 pm

yes it does
it's through a cable.

piotrgurin · Post by **piotrgurin** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:10 am

Does anyone know how I can measure temps with this card?

CX23882-19 · Post by **CX23882-19** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:16 am

The latest beta of ATITool supports the X800XL cards.

piotrgurin · Post by **piotrgurin** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:32 am

Would you be refering to ATITool 0.24 Beta 8 ?

If so i don't see any temperature readings in the program.

piotrgurin · Post by **piotrgurin** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:55 am

Okay nice i got it to work!

Inorder to temp monitoring to work in the x800xl you have to download the very newest atitool which is located in the forums on this website:
http://ww.fourms.techpowerup.com/

I am using atitool 0.24b 9
Thanks to all!
I will have a report on temps with this card soon.

-Pete

preti9cboi · Post by **preti9cboi** » Mon May 02, 2005 1:14 pm

what are the three full games that come with this video card?

rei · Post by **rei** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:39 pm

thief 3
joint operations typhoon rising

and uh...

rei · Post by **rei** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:42 pm

there are only 2 plus the usual cyberlink crap

rei · Post by **rei** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:28 pm

it seems to be 54/56 idle

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:14 pm

gotten it to 46-ish idle (C)

Green Shoes · Post by **Green Shoes** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:08 pm

what about load temps after 3 hours of Doom 3/Half-Life 2?

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:50 pm

dunno, trying to isolate new problem with system

freezing on startup

tbadiuk · Post by **tbadiuk** » Thu May 05, 2005 1:27 am

What are the clock speeds of the silent Gigabyte 800XL? The review linked above to hothardware is for the standard 12 pipe no-XL I believe as well. Is there a review of the XL version anywhere?

Thanks,
Ted

rei · Post by **rei** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:48 pm

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1756

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati ... /page4.asp

http://www.gamepyre.com/reviewsd.html?aid=571&p=1

ddr3 2ns samsung ram @ 1ghz, core at 400mhz

software bundle: joint operations: typhoon rising, thief 3: deadly shadows, powerdirector 3, powerdvd 5

rei · Post by **rei** » Sun May 08, 2005 1:30 am

Played WoW for a bit and it showed 81c after I quit. Ouch.

rei · Post by **rei** » Sun May 08, 2005 1:51 am

crashed consistenly trying to load a specific file trying to play hl2 with 6x fsaa so taking that as hint to get more airflow and bring temps down!

matt120 · Post by **matt120** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:48 am

I know my card is different, its a Gigabyte Geforce 6800, but it as far as I can see it uses exactly the same silent pipe passive cooler as the ati version.

My card has fully unlocked pipelines and vertex shaders and is clocked to 385 core, 925 memory.

I was a little worried at how hot the card after many hours of gaming, but the only ventalation in my case is drawn through the power supply. I decided to place a generic 80mm fan I had lying around on a Zalman bracket and position it so it blew over the heatsinks. The fan is at 5V and is inaudible, well its not louder than my seasonic power supply.

The temps on the card are now 52 idle and have never passed 60 even after heavy half life 2 sessions, the heatsinks feel only slightly warm. I am very happy with my purchase and the card runs cooler than a TI4600 with a zalman passive cooler mod I did a few years back (with the same fan). Considering the price I paid for this card (under £200) and the performance I get, plus it's 'silent' I am extremely happy.

I think the cooler would be perfectly safe to be used complete passive at stock, but as i unlocked and overclocked I felt it was best to utilise the fan...just in case. Hope this offers some insight

rei · Post by **rei** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:26 am

You mean one of these?

http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/vi ... 5&code=016

piotrgurin · Post by **piotrgurin** » Sun May 08, 2005 10:12 am

I'll post alot of info about this card for you guys in like a week after my finals.

So far though, after playing guild wars for mannnnnnnny hours the temps got up to 85 top. The game never crashed and ran great.

Every now and then there are ever so slight hickups where the game sorta freezes for half a mili second and then continues on. But i think this might be normal b/c its happend to me on all the computers i've ever had.

I'm running 2 120mm fans on low.

rei · Post by **rei** » Sun May 08, 2005 10:34 pm

I have this case:

I have a Nexus 92mm fan at the back exhausting, front can't take a fan directly but exploring some methods suggested here on the forums (cable tie, grommet, etc.) to put a Nexus 80mm there for intake.

CPU will be tight fit with Arctic Cooling Silencer 64 Ultra or Freezer 64, which have not yet arrived so I don't know if it will clash with the top of the X800XL Silentpipe.

Currently the X800XL idles at 50C and goes all the way to 80-something C at load. The Nexus 92mm at the back is on 5v, but I think I'll set it back to full 12v since it's quite quiet even at 12v.

The video card is right around where the square grille is on the side of the case and the CPU is nearish to where the circular opening is.

With the front intake being kind of on hold (until at least I can get the mount/holder from Inwin or manage to kludge together something to strap it in) won't putting an 80/92/120 fan mount via a Zalman FB123 trap MORE hot air in?

Or should it be okay? The mounted fan would probably be half-and-half in between the square/circle openings.

Draw air out or blow it in ontop of the X800XL?

Also testing how I can tidy up the PSU wiring. Seeing if I can do w/o the 3.5" bay entirely and put the HD underneath the DVDRW up top. Currently jamming majority of PSU wires underneath optical drive.

rei · Post by **rei** » Mon May 09, 2005 8:24 pm

crap, the fb123 doesn't jut out far enough from the pc cards, it touches the tubes of the heatpipe. guess i can't put this sucker on :/

bobov · Post by **bobov** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:24 pm

You can mount fb123 the other way, which will clear the heatpipe. I have a fb123 on the top of my x800xl silentpipe.

rei · Post by **rei** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:42 pm

SUCCESS! Jury-rigged the bracket a billion ways until I could get the 80mm nexus overtop of the X800XL without contacting it!

hope there's enough clearance between the top of the clip and the silencer 64 ultra that's on order now @_@

so many bullets to dodge.

think it's worth it to use a 120mm nexus instead of 80?

rei · Post by **rei** » Mon May 09, 2005 9:46 pm

based on the height comparison here, it just might barely fit. a freezer 64 won't that's for damn sure :/

http://www.extensivemods.com/modules.ph ... =28&page=2

(using stock amd64 cooler for now)

rei · Post by **rei** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:14 pm

here's a pic of it in-place

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:45 pm

is it bad if the plastic of the fan (the edge, not the spinning part) touches/has contact with the heatpipe?

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:39 pm

got it sorta working, put 12 mobo standoffs (from antec cases) end on end (well 3x4) and put 2 rubber grommets as well to make it not touch the heatpipes ANd had to sling rubber across it to hold it away from the video card.

reduced temps by 10degrees on the video card idle

now i gotta figure out how to get this 80mm nexus undervolted, it won't start going through the seasonic low-fan adapter or the fanmate2 at lowest.

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:07 pm

41-45 degrees idle w/ 80mm fan directly over it vs 51-58 idle previously. no idea yet on load.

PrinceXizor · Post by **PrinceXizor** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:59 am

Another good review of the Gigabyte GV-RX80L256V graphics card....

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/gi ... dex.x?pg=1

P-X