HWBOT Cheapaz Chips HD6850

[damric]

Competition started June 1st and goes until July 15th.

 

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Cheapaz Chips Round 1 Radeon HD 6850 @ HWBOT

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Level 1 OC-ESPORTS competition running from 6/1/23, 12:00 PM till 7/15/23, 12:00 PM.

 

I will edit this soon and make pretty but right now I'm benching this card

 

Post your questions, advice, pictures, and results here so that the team captains can inspect and make sure we haven't accidentally broke any rules.

 

Score card:

 

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Edited June 5, 2023 by damric

[Sir Beregond]

Looked fairly clean with the cooler on. I decided to repaste it last night and underneath it sure had a lot of dust gunk.

 

Still need to re-set up my old PC to act as the test bench - i.e. Install a new drive and install W10 on it. Then I guess I need to figure out the driver situation.

 

 

 

[damric]

I don't know if I can wring any more performance out of the Heaven Basic DX9 benchmark:

 

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Luke`s Unigine Heaven - Basic score: 2424.73 DX9 Marks with a Radeon HD 6850

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The Radeon HD 6850 @ 1050/1250MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Unigine Heaven - Basic benchmark. Lukeranks #null worldwide and #12 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

Even 2MHz more on GPU core or VRAM crashes it. There isn't much 3D settings to tweak in the driver from what I saw. I just set texture filtering to performance and surface optimization ON.

 

I used the latest compatible legacy driver and the version of afterburner I already had installed. Voltage was pushed to 1.3v and extended unofficial clocks.

 

I ran the bench about 5 times and saw a lot of score fluctuation as much as like 20 points so I don't know maybe I'll run a few more times. One thing I may try is running from a RAM disk.

[pio]

In!  Wait, I'm not doing that right am I? 

 

I've got a 6850 incoming, I'll be joining soon.   

[Sir Beregond]

So I was looking at the rules, is there a wallpaper I am supposed to use as I can't find it?

[Avacado]

1 minute ago, Sir Beregond said:

So I was looking at the rules, is there a wallpaper I am supposed to use as I can't find it?

Yes, you need the official WP. See below

 

https://i.postimg.cc/fTZncgX4/23003-HWBOT-Cheapaz-d001.jpg

[Avacado]

Can't wait to get this puppy running! 

 

 

 

[damric]

Not that very much of the wallpaper will be showing with all the telemetry screenshots required and these cards seem to max out at 1080p on hdmi so it's very crowded

[damric]

Well I'm in 2nd place with just software voltage tweaking.

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The guy in 1st, I think I saw his hard volt mod in a youtube video. I no longer have the patience of steady hands for that but I'll bet that some of you will and I hope you all blow me out of the water before this is over.

 

While HWBOT forbids sharing hardware, it is possible to sell or give someone something, so this reference card with accellero is up for grabs when I am done with it.

Edited June 5, 2023 by damric

[pio]

10 minutes ago, damric said:

Well I'm in 2nd place with just software voltage tweaking. The guy in 1st, I think I saw his hard volt mod in a youtube video. I no longer have the patience of steady hands for that but I'll bet that some of you will and I hope you all blow me out of the water before this is over.

 

While HWBOT forbids sharing hardware, it is possible to sell or give someone something, so this reference card with accellero is up for grabs when I am done with it.

I saw that, great work so far!  Don't worry, I'm sure @Avacado and @Bastiaan_NL will be around soon enough to blow you out of the water.  My card will just be on software / stock cooler, but hey....points are points! 

[ENTERPRISE]

I always enjoy watching people punish old hardware to squeeze every ounce of performance out of them. Great job guys! 

 

@bonami2can we promote this on the socials please ?

[bonami2]

43 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

I always enjoy watching people punish old hardware to squeeze every ounce of performance out of them. Great job guys! 

 

@bonami2can we promote this on the socials please ?

Yea sure  

[Sir Beregond]

2 hours ago, Avacado said:

Can't wait to get this puppy running! 

 

 

 

Nice, really need to pickup that stuff for mine.

 

So you have two screens? What do each show?

[damric]

Alright I'm done what I can do other than trying a RAM disk.

 

Unigine: I eeked out just a couple more points by disabling SMT and just running the bench over and over. It's very single threaded but it still mostly maxes out the card. Lots of variation between runs so I suggest to run it at least 10x or more. I think a RAM disk might help with the small hiccup it has when it starts.

 

Firestrike: This wasn't hard. The main thing is be sure to carefully read the HWBOT rules for this benchmark and use them to your advantage. If you are still at a loss, PM me and I will show you what to do.

 

Vantage: Same as Firestrike but even less stuff to tweak. Pretty redundant but it is freeware so I see why they included this one.

 

I would let @Avacado and/or @Bastiaan_NL double check your subs and screenshots. These contests always come down to litigation!!!

[Sir Beregond]

12 minutes ago, damric said:

Alright I'm done what I can do other than trying a RAM disk.

 

Unigine: I eeked out just a couple more points by disabling SMT and just running the bench over and over. It's very single threaded but it still mostly maxes out the card. Lots of variation between runs so I suggest to run it at least 10x or more. I think a RAM disk might help with the small hiccup it has when it starts.

 

Firestrike: This wasn't hard. The main thing is be sure to carefully read the HWBOT rules for this benchmark and use them to your advantage. If you are still at a loss, PM me and I will show you what to do.

 

Vantage: Same as Firestrike but even less stuff to tweak. Pretty redundant but it is freeware so I see why they included this one.

 

I would let @Avacado and/or @Bastiaan_NL double check your subs and screenshots. These contests always come down to litigation!!!

Thanks for the tips. I'm just going to be running this on my old 4790k system as I don't have a test bench at the moment or any other modern platforms that aren't locked down under hard tubing in a daily rig right now. 

 

Good advice. I followed the rules, but some of my subs disappeared in the last competition I participated in (and after it ended) and that was disappointing.

[damric]

36 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Thanks for the tips. I'm just going to be running this on my old 4790k system as I don't have a test bench at the moment or any other modern platforms that aren't locked down under hard tubing in a daily rig right now. 

 

Good advice. I followed the rules, but some of my subs disappeared in the last competition I participated in (and after it ended) and that was disappointing.

lol me too and I've been doing hwbot for over a decade. It really helps to have a couple more sets of eyes look at your subs for these comps. Today I had to redo a few of them because something small was missing.

[kaliz]

got this VTX3D HD 6850 from Ebay but it has a HD6850X2 bios on it and I dont know how to flash it to the proper one. 

[damric]

5 minutes ago, kaliz said:

got this VTX3D HD 6850 from Ebay but it has a HD6850X2 bios on it and I dont know how to flash it to the proper one. 

That's weird. Are there physically two GPUs present on the card?

[Avacado]

14 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Nice, really need to pickup that stuff for mine.

 

So you have two screens? What do each show?

Core/mem voltage readouts.

[Avacado]

10 hours ago, kaliz said:

got this VTX3D HD 6850 from Ebay but it has a HD6850X2 bios on it and I dont know how to flash it to the proper one. 

I have flashed many nvidia vbios's, but never ATI. I know that atiflash is a thing, but havent used it. I would use GPUz to save a copy of your current and search tpu for a comparitive one for your card and try it. Hopefully you dont mind bricking your card as its always possible.

[damric]

@kaliz look at the GPU-z in this review

 

VTX3D Radeon HD 6850 X-Edition Graphics Card Review | Page 3 of 16 | eTeknix

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Unless you really do have your ear to the ground, you may be unaware as…

It shows as 6850 x2. It's just factory programmed to be misnomer. I would just bench it as is.

[kaliz]

14 hours ago, damric said:

That's weird. Are there physically two GPUs present on the card?

no it really a single GPU card, very strange. The thing is it works fine, but when uploading to HWbot it says HD6850X2 on GPUZ so that is not valid.

[kaliz]

4 hours ago, Avacado said:

I have flashed many nvidia vbios's, but never ATI. I know that atiflash is a thing, but havent used it. I would use GPUz to save a copy of your current and search tpu for a comparitive one for your card and try it. Hopefully you dont mind bricking your card as its always possible.

i have saved the bios , got the proper bios from techpowerup, got atiflash, but i just cannot get it to run. I have used the program before on HD 6950, Fury, RX5700 but i just cant get it to work with my HD 6850

[kaliz]

1 hour ago, damric said:

@kaliz look at the GPU-z in this review

 

VTX3D Radeon HD 6850 X-Edition Graphics Card Review | Page 3 of 16 | eTeknix

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Unless you really do have your ear to the ground, you may be unaware as…

It shows as 6850 x2. It's just factory programmed to be misnomer. I would just bench it as is.

wow damric thanks for that! Do you think i will need to contact Leeghoofd from HWbot with this?

[Avacado]

5 minutes ago, kaliz said:

wow damric thanks for that! Do you think i will need to contact Leeghoofd from HWbot with this?

You absolutely should. We need all the help we can get this tourney! We also will look forward to your skillz in the teamcup.