9800 ATI stock settings

CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
edited March 2006 in Hardware
Hi guys. Finally got my 9800. Was 2nd hand from ebay. On the card it says 'ATI Radeon 9800 Pro' 128Mb. Ran ATI tool once I got it installed and the stock settings are quoted as '324/290.' That's a little lower than I was expecting :(. Anyone know if those specs sound right?
I used ATI Tool to OC it until it runs stable at 380/350. Any way I can get it higher, or is that it?
It has the arctic cooling silencer fitted.

Thanks.

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  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited February 2006
    Anybody?
  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited March 2006
    Hmmm. I know the forums are slow, but......:).
    Anyways, I tried flashing the BIOS on the graphics card based on the information @ http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=11 and here are the results below;

    I booted to DOS and at the prompt entered; atiflash -p 0 9800PRO.bin atiflash and the 9800PRO BIOS being on the floppy.


    Old mem setting: 2240
    New mem setting: 2240
    Old SSID: 0002
    New SSID: 0002
    Old P/N: Radeon 9800 128 MB
    New P/N: 113-A07533-100
    Flash type: M25P05/C
    ROM not erased
    ERROR 0FL01


    Can anyone interpret what went on from the information above?
    Thanks for any help.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2006
    RADEON 9800 PRO - 380 MHz chip, 128 MB 340 MHz (DDR 680) 256 bit local memory

    this is the speed of the 9800 pro 128 meg card

    RADEON 9800 - 325? MHz chip, 128 MB 310? MHz (DDR 620?) 256 bit local memory

    this is the speed of the 9800 128 meg card

    looks like that is just the stock 9800 card and not the pro card

    I would just overclock that sucker instead of flashing the bios

    who knows you might get it to XT speeds

    412 core 365 memory
  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited March 2006
    Thanks :). I had a closer look at the card and found that it has
    Samsung 316
    K40263238E-GC2A     RAM chips and the sticker on the card itself says: ATI Radeon 9800PRO ver:A KS0412002689
    A google shows that the Samsung chips are 2.8ns which are installed on the Pro card??
    Will flashing the BIOS increase the probability that I can reach higher speeds, or will I still have problems once I hit the figures I quoted in my first post? If I will still be stuck there, then there is no point flashing, no?
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2006
    is the RAM situated in a L shape?
  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited March 2006
    Yes.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2006
    a bios flash will do nothing to help overclocking it higher

    so no their is no point flashing it

    now a new GPU cooler and some RAM sinks would help:)
  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited March 2006
    gibbonsl wrote:
    a bios flash will do nothing to help overclocking it higher

    so no their is no point flashing it
    Is what I thought.
    now a new GPU cooler and some RAM sinks would help:)
    You don't think much of the arctic cooling silencer then?
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2006
    I did not read that

    that will be fine, does the RAM have any sinks?
  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited March 2006
    No, there are no sinks on the RAM.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2006
    they would help with the overclock on the RAM
  • CrunchieCrunchie Mandurah. Western Australia. Member
    edited March 2006
    No worries. Something for the future methinks :). Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
  • gibbonslgibbonsl Grand Forks AFB
    edited March 2006
    Np
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