How's everybody going with their 8500's then? Doesn't seem like there've been enough driver problems. I would have expected a barrage of "screw ATI" posts by now.
Just put a Crystal Orb and TweakMonster tin-coated copper RAMsinks on mine.
Took off the original heatsink (which incidentally was affixed with a mixture of horse shit and ear wax) using the ol' screwdriver and credit card method...
Lapped the core using 1200 wet 'n' dry until I could just about see copper coming through (ooh!). Applied a thin layer of Arctic Silver adhesive and left it overnight with the COrb and a weight on top...
Masked off the memory pins, lapped the bases of the RAM and whopped them on too...
I did the mod mainly because with the pencil trick, everything was getting pretty toasty. Additional MHz weren't my priority so I was pleasantly suprised when the memory hit 640MHz. The core wouldn't go any further than the 310MHz I had it at already. I'm probably going to up the voltages a bit more now as they are still at a fairly conservative 1.8/3.82V. My balls say "2/4V" but my head says "ARE YOU CRAZY???!!!!".
Not bad for an LE, huh?
MuFu.
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[This message has been edited by Mutha Funker (edited 03-15-2002).]
