How does a 9800pro differs from the 9800se

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I just curious to know what is the physical difference of a 9800se 256bit to a 9800pro?

 

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SE has 4 pipelines, Pro has 8. The SE can be softmodded to a Pro thuogh.

 

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But is that all are the memory the same, is the 9800 se a 9800pro with less pipelines?

 

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If you get the 256-bit memory SE then it is just a Pro with 4 (of 8) pipelines disabled (I think they just change a resistor around the core to do this).

 

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the 4 pipeline stuff is through a bios setting. so its easy to enable.

read some of the last pages of the softmod faq, there's an explination of the different se models.

in short, the powercolor 98se-c3 is a full speed 9800pro, with the sammy 2.8 ns ram, the only difference is the bios setting that disables the pipes.

 

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i'm jsut curious - is there also a "hard mod" you could attempt after the soft mod fails like there was for the 9500?

 

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I heard there is but it's just as successful as the softmod, if the softmod doesn't work the hardmod will probably not work because it may be that the extra pipes are not working properly.