Radeon 9800!!!

Compliance20 · Jul 31, 2003

I just got my new radeon 9800. im loving it. but i want to see if i can overclock it to the pro speeds. what do i need and what are some speeds that have been reached? ive heard alot about flashing the bios but i cant find the 9800pro bios and were. HELP PLZ!

taco_fox · Jul 31, 2003

I use Rage3D to overclock my card.

Here's the 9800Pro BIOS. I'd make sure your memory can handle going up to 340MHz before you flash the BIOS, though.

Mustanley · Jul 31, 2003

taco_fox said:
I use Rage3D to overclock my card.

Here's the 9800Pro BIOS. I'd make sure your memory can handle going up to 340MHz before you flash the BIOS, though.

Ditto

DeathONator · Jul 31, 2003

So far I have liked Radeonator the best.
This site has downloads for most tweakersm, it's german though.

Compliance20 · Aug 2, 2003

THNKS GUYS

Hey thanks for the input ill test some stuff out.

Compliance20 · Aug 2, 2003

ummm....

Oh one other thing...is flashing the bios worth it?

Rav · Aug 3, 2003

I dont see why, other than automatically setting the clock. I rather do it manually in case there is a problem. If you can't boot for example, how will you flash it back? Also, if you use the Omega drivers, they come with a good overclocking utility.

-Rav

Mustanley · Aug 3, 2003

With the original bios I was able to get around 350MHz memory speed, but after flashing with the 9800 Pro bios, I can now run at 395MHz (artifact free). Some say the Pro bios causes the card to push more voltage to the memory. I have no idea if that's true or not, I just know it helped my overclock tremendously. It did not allow me to overclock the core any higher than before, though.
In the event something does go wrong with a video card bios flash, you'll need to install a PCI video card in order to flash the AGP video card again.

youngbuck · Aug 3, 2003

Mustanley, what is your core at?

Mustanley · Aug 3, 2003

youngbuck said:
Mustanley, what is your core at?

425 or 430 depending on the ambient temp.

youngbuck · Aug 4, 2003

That is much better than what most others are getting (even before your added cooling contraption

) , at least from what I've gathered.

Compliance20 · Aug 7, 2003

ummmm

well i just did some overclocking, and i can get my memory to 322
and core 375. but then i start getting artifacts...i got a zalman cooler, and modded a ram sink on to the vram so i think that ill be able to get higher now. thanks for input guys

Compliance20 · Aug 7, 2003

well the core goes alot higher 420..but the ram(infineon) 224. i think the ram is done.

Mustanley · Sep 4, 2003

Yeah, that ram is not known to be a very good overclocker.

Compliance20 · Sep 4, 2003

Mustanley

Mustanley..hey what happens with your rig if you want to go to a LAN party?

Mac · Sep 4, 2003

Mustanley said:
I can now run at 395MHz (artifact free).

do you have any benchmark scores from going to 340 to 390 at a constant core clock?

i want to see how big the performance gain is, if any

Mustanley · Sep 4, 2003

Re: Mustanley

Compliance20 said:
Mustanley..hey what happens with your rig if you want to go to a LAN party?

Heh, I don't .
I host small ones occasionally

Mustanley · Sep 4, 2003

Mac said:
do you have any benchmark scores from going to 340 to 390 at a constant core clock?

i want to see how big the performance gain is, if any

I didn't test mem scores alone, but I will if you are really interested.

Since87 · Sep 5, 2003

I would definitely be interested in knowing 3DMark03 scores with constant core and different memory speeds.

I can run my core at 450, but I haven't gotten memory above 328.

Mac · Sep 5, 2003

Mustanley said:
I didn't test mem scores alone, but I will if you are really interested.

well, i meant compare before you flashed the bios (tighter timings) @ 340 to after you flashed the bios (relaxed timings) @ 390

get what im sayin?

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