LIGHTNING competitor - Gigabyte SOC2 5870 [Archive]

Hondacity

03-17-2010, 06:14 AM

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22657

gigabyte ...also has something similar to msi afterburner ......not sure if its like the afterburner extreme edition...

it has pwm for voltage control too :)

with the binning they're doing..these might be good :)

and gigabyte competitions on hwbot....they might be opening some competitions for these cards....

Assassin48

03-17-2010, 06:18 AM

I think Fugger and Mike benched this card a few days ago if i'm not mistaken

Hondacity

03-17-2010, 06:27 AM

yep its the one they clocked really good on vantage...

Jor-El

04-16-2010, 05:01 AM

Got mine today with the Lightning money, let's see how it clocks under Ln2! :thumbsup: (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125323&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-GIGABYTE-_-14125323)

Now I only need Asus to send me a Rampage III Extreme...

Edit: Not bad on the hands of Andre: http://hwbot.org/community/submission/988590_

FACE

04-16-2010, 05:46 AM

Just short of 1.5ghz.. nothing to sneeze at for sure!

Witchdoctor

04-16-2010, 07:26 AM

Man I want one, but still delaying as I will not be back in action until June

The Matrix may change the ladscape ....

Gunslinger

04-16-2010, 09:42 AM

4 please :D

ReverendMaynard

04-16-2010, 09:43 AM

14 please :D

fixed ;)

Splave

04-16-2010, 09:51 AM

lol, I would be happy with 2

Gunslinger

04-16-2010, 10:08 AM

fixed ;)

If it takes 14 to bin 4 good ones, these will be no better than the lightnings :blink:

Dentlord

04-16-2010, 12:49 PM

480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)

Hondacity

04-16-2010, 01:16 PM

480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)

+100000000000000000000

MaadDaawg

04-17-2010, 03:08 PM

I wish Amazon would ship my dammed preorder so I could find out :morpheus:

Jor-El

04-17-2010, 03:13 PM

480s will rule the bot soon though people, be careful investing in a 5xxx right now ;)

+100000000000000000000

I only recommend this card for people that hate nvidia and without any 3d scores (like me). It's a great start and if it hits 1400/1400 it's easy to sell. :thumbsup:

Neuromancer

04-17-2010, 04:28 PM

I only recommend this card for people that hate nvidia and without any 3d scores (like me). It's a great start and if it hits 1400/1400 it's easy to sell. :thumbsup:

You are telling me to buy a 480?:ohcrap:

Jor-El

04-20-2010, 06:06 AM

ReverendMaynard

04-20-2010, 06:13 AM

If it takes 14 to bin 4 good ones, these will be no better than the lightnings :blink:

I'll say that it takes 40 to get 4 cherry examples.

FACE

04-20-2010, 06:14 AM

^^ Yes!

Another big disappointment on the retail OC ed. 5870 department:

- Gigabyte choose to lock the SOC Tuner for retail version (no IC support), in other words you will get the 5870 SOC retail edition with a bundled software called SOC Tuner that will not work!!!!

No voltage tunning on the retail cards.

Only hardmods. The good news is the hardmod is easy and the Hynix memory runs 1420Mhz on air with stock volts.

Wouldn't a bios flash rectify that?

Jor-El

04-20-2010, 06:22 AM

Wouldn't a bios flash rectify that?

It's still very odd why Gigabyte choose not to unlock the SOC Tuner for retail, I mean the card ships with the software but it doesn't work.

I posted on Hwbot and would like you guys to chime in that this is a deal breaker and if Gigabyte doesn't review the software these will go back to RMA as 'defective' item.

Where I came from this is false advertisement. :thumbdown:

Splave

04-20-2010, 06:32 AM

jesus christ, what are these companies doing

ReverendMaynard

04-20-2010, 06:36 AM

jesus christ, what are these companies doing

Shitting where they eat?

FACE

04-20-2010, 06:39 AM

Shitting where they eat?

More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves... :ohcrap:

Splave

04-20-2010, 06:57 AM

More like trying to shit where WE eat, missing, and end up eating it themselves... :ohcrap:

seriously, where is my toothbrush

Hondacity

04-20-2010, 07:04 AM

this is bad....

the pre-release...like andreyangs card seem to have an unlocked bios...

i think even the pre-released lightnings have an unlocked bios....

lucky prerelease card owners....doing lots of advertising..:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:

Patch

04-20-2010, 07:10 AM

Advertising gimmicry. They know we're a drop in the bucket and they'll never make any money off us. Especially since what we buy will likely get killed and need replacing over and over.

Give a few guys cherry picked unlocked stuff with data sheets and mod suggestions, grab some headlines, then sell all the gamers a bunch of cards with software and BIOS intentionally crippled to prevent mass RMA's.

Kal-EL

04-20-2010, 07:12 AM

Advertising gimmicry. They know we're a drop in the bucket and they'll never make any money off us. Especially since what we buy will likely get killed and need replacing over and over.

Give a few guys cherry picked unlocked stuff, grab some headlines, then sell all the gamers a bunch of cards intentionally crippled to prevent mass RMA's.

Sounds feasible and fixable if its just a matter of getting the bios from the "Pros". :ohcrap:

Hondacity

04-20-2010, 07:26 AM

msi and gigabyte has been tight lipped about special stuff...unless given to their posterboys hicookie and some.

:ohcrap:they're partners with hwbot!!!

2chesapeakes

04-20-2010, 12:20 PM

Jor-El

04-20-2010, 12:38 PM

BenchZowner:
"I'm 98% sure that it's a change from the engineers that made the "old" software not to function properly.
The Vddci, Vpci-express & Vmem work just fine, so unless I'm mistaken and my info is bad about Gigabyte fixing this, this shall be fixed soon with a new version of the utility by Gigabyte".

Hopefully!

Jor-El

04-22-2010, 05:52 PM

Scratch that ^^

Tested my retail today and OC Guru software works fine, you can tune vgpu and vmem there, it's very good.

Did some air testing 1100/1400 today.

FACE

04-23-2010, 03:18 AM

sweet!

Witchdoctor

04-23-2010, 10:02 AM

Scratch that ^^

Tested my retail today and OC Guru software works fine, you can tune vgpu and vmem there, it's very good.

Did some air testing 1100/1400 today.

Nice results on air Jor ............ :thumbsup:

In for the clod results bro :cool3:

Splave

04-23-2010, 10:48 AM

whats max voltage in the software?

Jor-El

04-23-2010, 06:34 PM

whats max voltage in the software?

1.30vgpu and 1.70vmem :thumbsup:

I will mod it next week and then you will be able to tune vgpu from 1.40 to 1.65v thru software.

Witchdoctor

04-23-2010, 07:12 PM

Sick man... wish I had those modin skills

Can't wait to see how it does ....

I am still up in the air on my next global card

Patch

04-23-2010, 08:58 PM

Hey Jor,

How does it handle voltage memory?

My lightning artifacts hard at 1.72v.

Hondacity

04-23-2010, 10:16 PM

1.72? damn that sounds high...what was stock voltage on those?

Patch

04-23-2010, 10:23 PM

I don't remember. :blush:

Modded, I'm sitting at 1.67v minimum and that only gets me another 20-30 Mhz.....

Splave

04-24-2010, 03:41 AM

the mem on SOC is epic, 1400+ probably wont net much gain but damn thats sick

Jor-El

04-24-2010, 06:37 AM

Hey Jor,

How does it handle voltage memory?

My lightning artifacts hard at 1.72v.

the mem on SOC is epic, 1400+ probably wont net much gain but damn thats sick

Yeah these Hynix are great...

It does take voltage really well I used 1.70 just to see how it goes and it's really smooth, for 1400Mhz you don't need to raise volts it does that stock.

I well test a little more today on air for PCM5 2x core and then it's time to mod and ln2. :thumbsup:

RomDominance

04-24-2010, 05:45 PM

Can't wait to see that beauty in action bud...keep me informed!

Hondacity

05-01-2010, 01:38 PM

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5/hondacity25/xxxxx.jpg

gigabyte had a chip for controlling vgpu......on the ES cards that andre and some guys used

retail gpus don't have it...

i suggest not buying these cards....as you won't touch andre's es card numbers...

Gunslinger

05-01-2010, 01:58 PM

Anyone else sick of the "bait and switch" MSI and Gigabite have been pulling with these non-reference cards?

GFDuke

05-01-2010, 02:09 PM

Anyone else sick of the "bait and switch" MSI and Gigabite have been pulling with these non-reference cards?

yea its absolutley total bs. I am totally pissed off about it. Nvidia is taking the same turn. Seriously. Guys like us go and spend a grand or more every time a new gpu comes out thinkin we're gonna get screamin hardware and we get totally screwed.

Splave

05-01-2010, 02:28 PM

holy shit good detective work lol

Im sick of it too, should you be able to participate when you have access to "unreleased" modified hardware.

Chuchnit

05-01-2010, 03:03 PM

These manufacturers are ruining the very thing they are trying to promote. It's like they think we are completely retarded. Shame shame on Gigabyte and MSI (for their fm comp). This discourages the non sponsered guys from wanting to play the game.

Kal-EL

05-01-2010, 03:19 PM

Some of us are retarded :P

But yah, I been sick of the bullshit reviews from teh bullshitter reviewers without a mention or word that the retail won't be anywhere near as good.

FACE

05-01-2010, 03:24 PM

Somebody needs to link a gigabyte rep to this thread...

I for one am not going to buy in to the gigabyte and msi bs. Those rat bastard companies will not get any of my money... Or my customers anymore.

Jackasses

Chuchnit

05-01-2010, 03:27 PM

Gigabyte is on probation with me right now. When I price up builds for family and such, they usually include a gigabyte mobo. Not any more; not for a while. MSI is very very close to being on that list too.

Splave

05-01-2010, 03:29 PM

I never usually buy either lightning excluded. Im an eVGA/ASUS boy most of the time.

Patch

05-01-2010, 08:23 PM

Remember guys, they don't care if they sell us cards or not.

In fact, they probably don't want us to buy cards. We're a drop in the bucket and 100 times more likely to send it back dead for a replacement.

They just want some big numbers to go along with an advertising campaign to sell a boat load of cards to gamers. Most of whom won't even put em under water.

GFDuke

05-02-2010, 12:46 AM

Honestly, Retail should be the only hardware allowed at the bot. That would make things fair.

Jor-El

05-13-2010, 05:17 PM

Got bored today and finally listened to Bren and gave 3D a try:

First Ln2 test today this card has potential:

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/8652/snaphsot0006.jpg (http://img38.imageshack.us/i/snaphsot0006.jpg/)

I only did the VID 1.40vgpu mod and it will probably do more on AQ3 and Vantage...

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2856/img0322y.th.jpg (http://img237.imageshack.us/i/img0322y.jpg/)...http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2301/img0320zr.th.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/img0320zr.jpg/)...http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/895/img0316qn.th.jpg (http://img195.imageshack.us/i/img0316qn.jpg/)...http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9567/img0315wt.th.jpg (http://img62.imageshack.us/i/img0315wt.jpg/)...http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/2103/img0314i.th.jpg (http://img686.imageshack.us/i/img0314i.jpg/)...http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4033/img0323en.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/i/img0323en.jpg/)

Patch

05-13-2010, 06:19 PM

Oh my.

Thanks for the pics Jor.

HITandRUN

05-13-2010, 06:29 PM

Oh my.

Thanks for the pics Jor.

Agreed! Sweet numbers and pics! :thumbsup:

Hondacity

05-13-2010, 06:33 PM

421k is awesome!!! :D

Jor-El

05-13-2010, 06:50 PM

Thanks guys I guess I got lucky! My very first ever Ln2 vga run...

I didn't even insulate properly because everybody at XS was saying the retail cards where dogs so I was hoping to just hit 1200/1300 and call the night but the card kept going lol... I'm sure with some proper volts and more testing it will hit 1500mhz :ohcrap:

All I did was the 1.4vgpu mod:
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5366/5870socmod.th.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/i/5870socmod.jpg/)