9500pro 128 vs 9600np 128mb

[Blunt]

ok wich is better im getting rd to have both soon as i buy the 9500 pro and get the 9600 from my brother the 9500 i think is the better card but not totally sure

[Pinnacle2k4]

9500 pro is indeed better.

[Yuriman]

The 9600pro does hit some killer clocks, but the 9500pro is faster per clock. Test em both.

[Blunt]

ok just for clarification cause everyone seems to think this way. ITS NOT A 9600 PRo its just a plain ole 9600 cost $150 at best buy.

[Blunt]

I got noticed something. I was reading in the sticky's and a 9500 non pro to mod to a 9700 when you look at you chipset in the advanced it should say 9700 right well my 9600 non pro says 9600 pro so could or maybe flash to a 9600 pro and make this card real kick butt?

[Blunt]

i take that as a no?

[Yuriman]

Probably could. Depends on the ram. Still, I would take a 9500pro over a 9600np any day.

[Captain Hilts]

The memory on the 9600np is usually crappy 5ns stuff, in which case you won't have a chance of hitting the 300MHz that the memory on the 9600 Pro cards hits. The 9500 Pro is a far better card.

[Blunt]

ok i get that that card is better but im gonna have both to paly with. Is there maybe a mem volatage mod i can do so i can get it up to the 300mhz cause it hits 270 as it is and 451 on the core

[E_tron]

The 9500 PRO is the better card hands down at stock speeds. Basically you could say that the 9500 PRO is a 9700 with the memory bus bumped down from 256-bits to 128-bits.

The 9600 is similar to the 9500, however the 9600 only has 4 pixel pipelines. 9500 PRO has 8. It also has many more transistors than the 9600 making it better per clock cycle.

[Blunt]

yeah I understand that the 9500 pro is a better card but i don't have it yet and will still need to use the 9600 on another rig when i do get the 9500 so i was wondering if there was some sort of mod i could do to get the gpu volts higher and the mem volts higher. cause 451/27 is alot higher then what it gets stock clock speeds. I added a P3 stock fan to the gpu heatsink and got 20 mhz more from the core was wondering also if it was worth my time to cool the core with a new hsf and add ram sinks or if i wasn't gonna get a better clock then it won't be worth it.

[cozmo_d]

9500 Pro all the way !!!

[dguy6789]

take the 9500 pro. But 150 bucks for a np? you can get a 9600 pro online for 150 bucks. then overclock it and be a little faster then a 9500 pro.

[Blunt]

i bought the 9600 2-3 months ago and with tax and all it was $150. So i take it there is no mods that can be done to this card at all?

[funko]

no mods.. just overclocking.....

[Blunt]

well damn it i need to get the mem just a little more juice to bump up the speed cause its bone stock and hits 270 it shouyld almopst hit like a 9600pro if i could only give it a lil more juice

[Falcon-K]

you could do a volt mod which should give you a little more "juice"

[Blunt]

where can i find info about this volt mod cause i can't seem to find it anywhere.

[cozmo_d]

Volt mods are here not sure if theres one for your card there tho take a look

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=69518