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Sapphire 7850 2gb and I know that these aren't meant to be able to overvolt but through gpu tweak it allows it that's why I want to get this to work. 11:56 AM #8 lenehan. Sapphire TriXX 6.4.0 Customize the NITRO Glow RGB LEDs, poke around the Fan Check system, set up the custom fan profiles, overclock and further boost your card’s performance. September 24, 2018. Hello, I recently got a Sapphire 5850 Xtreme, one of the reasons I got it over the 6850 was because it supported voltage control over sapphire trixx. Well, I got the card, downloaded the latest drivers, download the latest version of trixx but despite this, it won't let me change the voltage. A fast and easy tool that provides users with an abundant collection of subtle settings for professional tweaking such as FAN speed, core clocks, memory frequency and so on. Core / Memory Voltage Tweak. Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX570 8G OC. Core Clock/Memory OC Mode: 1331 MHz / 7028 MHz Default Mode: 1280 MHz / 7000 MHz Silent Mode: 1228 MHz.
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I've ordered a package including G10 and Asetek AIO cooler. I want to put it to use with my current 6850, although I intend to use this setup with a R290x or refresh.
I have set it to 850/1100 with stock cooler without any problem. I think that with this new cooling setup I should have a higher GPU voltage (even though I know the card is memory bound).
I would have been ok with using 3rd party apps like Afterburner plus Asus Smart Doctor, but its not possible because SD has no support and GPU tweak doesn't support 6850 voltage change. There are google results about while using BF3 + Smart Doctor game crashes between round, which is what I experienced.
I've tried Asus GPUtweak (Smartdoctor), MSI afterburner(while doing the unofficial overclocking ini tweak) to get a soft volt mod but not Sapphire Trixx or any other tool.
So I need another way of bumping the GPU voltage. I've not got to the limit of CCC so I'll cross that bridge when I reach it.
I've read a few posts here and there about Racer-x(http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/push-overdrive-limits-over-the-top.141858/) and that if you mod the 6850 bios it will BSOD on windows boot.
However I'm a bit late to the party and I don't see a large thread of users all using the same method.
So atm bearing in mind I can't soft mod the voltage and the problem with modding the 6850 bios, it would be the best bet to flash a 6870 bios. I think it might be possible to mod the 6850 bios voltage registers but it would take nerves of steal to do this, rather than just use a manufacturer's pre made bios.
This is the bios I'm using currently:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/129472/asus-hd6850-1024-110616-2.html
and this is the bios I'm thinking of flashing:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/109702/asus-hd6870-1024-110719.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/how-to-use-atiflash.57750/
Has anyone tried this already or am a missing a better way. Note: My card has 2 power connectors (as I was reading another topic where someone said it wouldn't have enough power)
Edit:
I tried this bios:
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/100395/asus-hd6870-1024-101228.html
and it was incompatible, so save yourself the bother. I got my card working again following the bad flash guide sticky which I hope has been updated to reflect that the default display adapter must be selected in the motherboard bios and that if you want to use integrated graphics a cmos bios reset sets PCI-E as default. I only tested the reset with the PCI-E slot occupied so it may default to intergrated if no PCI-E adapter is found after a CMOS reset.

Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 Pro

Company: Sapphire
Product: Atlantis Radeon 9600 Pro
Street Price: ~$165
Date Reviewed: June 17, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey Chao

Bundle and Features:

The rest of the bundle is very well put together. Included in the bundle are the necessary cables and connectors like the DVI-to-VGA converter, S-VHS lead, S-VHS-to-composite converter, and composite lead. All the cables are important for using the DVI or TV-out functions provided by the video card.

The software bundle with the Sapphire 9600 Pro is very interesting. Of course you get the drivers CD but you also get Cyberlink's Power DVD which some of you may recognize from other video card bundles and/or motherboards. Another great software utility provided with the package is the Redline Overclocking/Tweak utility. This software makes is easy to overclock and tweak the video card. It is very similar to Rage3D Tweaker if you are familiar with that program.

Sapphire Red Line Voltage Tweaker Tool Download

Soldier of Fortune II is the main, attractive software that comes with the 9600 Pro. It is a first person shooter game that most people are familiar with. It is the full version and not just a demo. The game is very popular and can cost around ~$30USD. For a full review of the game, you can follow this link and see what TechTV had to say.

Sapphire Red Line Voltage Tweaker Tool Kit

Overall the bundle is good. All the connectors are provided and the software is great. The enthusiast will be really happy to have the Redline tweak/overclocking software while the gamers will love having the full version of Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. There is not really anything we could see adding to the bundle that would still keep the card in the mainstream price range.

Overclocking:

Voltage

For the overclocking segment of our review, we decided we would go ahead and use the Redline software to overclock the card. As we said earlier, it is very similar to Rage3D Tweaker for those that are familiar with that program. We are used to using Rage3D, so overclocking the card was simple. First we started out overclocking the core, as always, we went in small increments to check for stability in-between speeds. We were able to get the core up to 506MHz. This is about a 27% overclock and to put it simply it's a good overclock.

The memory was a different story though. We expected to be able to reach around 340MHz on the memory and the box even says that the memory can do at least 330MHz. We were only able to get 324MHz. Interesting thing is that we were not getting artifacts but hard lockups, which would normally sound like the core giving us problems but we were only overclocking the memory at the time. Perhaps it was just our particular card or the overclocking software not functioning properly. Even still at 506/324 the card performed much better than at stock speeds. 3DMarks 2001 SE build 330 showed a 1730 point increase which comes up to a 14% increase in performance.

Line Voltage Definition

Even though the memory did not overclock as well as we expected, we are still impressed with the overclocking ability of the Sapphire 9600 Pro. We did not run more benchmarks to show how much more performance was gained from the overclocked card but you can bet at 506/324 the performance is much better than at the stock speeds of 400/300. Apparently the 9600 Pro card, not just Sapphire's version, are all good overclockers and can do the high 400's on the core speed. Nice job by ATi and Sapphire.