powercolour 9600 ez pro

[dave4576]

help.is that right my powercolour 9600 pro ez can not be opened up tp 8 pipelines,so whats a good core and memory settings for me please help,whats the ez for

[Ripsaw]

help.is that right my powercolour 9600 pro ez can not be opened up tp 8 pipelines,so whats a good core and memory settings for me please help,whats the ez for

Download ATITOOL off this site and set out to discover the max core and max memory clocks that your card will tolerate and still operate stable under. Each card is different. No way to tell what a particular card will do.

[wazzledoozle]

expect about 430 for the core, and 215x2 for the ram

[dave4576]

cheers that ati tool is one good progaram it take my core to 452 and mem speed to over 250 with no probs at all +that accustic management tool keeps my hard drive quite,your help is much apprecated

[Ripsaw]

cheers that ati tool is one good progaram it take my core to 452 and mem speed to over 250 with no probs at all +that accustic management tool keeps my hard drive quite,your help is much apprecated

Next step is to thoroughly test the overclocked core and memory settings. The Powercolor cards do seem to have overclockable cores, my PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro R96-HD3 256mb card (now in my son's pc) would run 450mhz rock stable, but the Mira 5ns memory would only go about 220 or 222 max. Sounds like your card has 4ns memory.

Once you're staisfied the card is stable at those speeds, use the option in ATITOOL to 'Dump BIOS' which means it creates a bios.bin file of your factory bios, then download RABit v1.6, load up the bios.bin image, and use RABiT to set the core and memory clocks, then "save as" a new filename maybe something like "optibios", RABiT will then save it with a .rom file extension. Then grab ATIFLASH v1.6 off this site and use it to flash the optmized bios image that RABiT saved into your card so that way you don't have to mess with software tools everytime you boot, with the overclocked settings flaashed into the bios its like the card came that way from the factory. save the original bios.bin file inc ase you ever need to flash the card back to factory default bios.

Here's a step-by-step how to edit your bios and flash it back in:


1. Use ATITool: settings, then miscellaneous, to dump bios image. It will create a filename BIOS.BIN of your card's BIOS.

2. Get RABiT v1.6 here:

http://www.mvktech.net/index.php?op...0&func=fileinfo

3. Install it and run it.

4. From within RABit select the 'open' button and browse to wherever ATItool saved BIOS.BIN from step 1. (usually program files/atitool)

5. Once you've loaded up your bios.bin file, use RABit to set the device clocks (VPU and memory) and also if you want, change the memory timings. The settings will only take immediate effect if you check the "realtime" box, otherwise it just sets them up to be saved. Suggest you use ATITool to thoroughly test for optimum memory timings before you change them in RABiT and save them.

6. Select to Save As and give the file a new name-- don't overwrite your default bios.bin file that atitool dumped, you want to keep that for future reference if you ever need to flash the card back to factory bios. Suggest keeping the filename to 8 characters or less since you'll be working in MSDOS for the flash-in.

7. Make a bootable floppy, you can do this in wi xp by putting a floppy into A: drive, selecting to format it through right clicking its icon in explorer or my computer, then check the box in the format dialog to Create MSDOS Startup Disk.

8. From this website (tech powerup) grab ATIFlash from the BIOS image page (at bottom of page), un pack it onto a the bootable floppy you just made

9. Copy the bios.bin file to the floppy (the dump from atitool) and also copy the new bios file you saved to a different name from RABiT in step 6, to the floppy.

10. Making sure your PC is set to boot from the floppy drive first, put the floppy in and reboot. PC will boot into MSDOS. To see command line options for ATIFLASH.EXE type "Atiflash /?". But the option to flash is "atiflash -p <device number> <filename to be flashed-in>" For mine as example it was "atiflash -p 0 optibios.rom" where 0 is device number for my 9600 pro, and optibios.rom is the optimized bios image. there is a command line tag for atiflash that will make it show what device # your card is in your system, but its almost always zero (0).

11. ATIflash will confirm the byte count, something like 65535 of 65535 bytes confirmed or similar statement then it's done and you can reboot. Suggest reinstalling drivers for the card in windows after flashing.

NOTE: You have to reflash back to the default factory bios image (bios.bin) before you can flash in another modified bios image. if you try to flash another modified version in on top of a modified version, atiflash will report that the EPROM has already been programmed and will quit to command prompt. Just flash in the factory bios dump from atitool, bios.bin, then go back and flash in the newly modified version right after.

DISCLAIMER: Flashing your card voids any warranty and the risk exists of killing the card.

[dave4576]

now that took some doing .your help has made my card way over clock what i expected,hay this is some good card,many many thanks for your help,thanks paul

[Ripsaw]

now that took some doing .your help has made my card way over clock what i expected,hay this is some good card,many many thanks for your help,thanks paul

You're welcome

[C&C Freak 2K]

For comparison purposes, my Transcend Radeon 9600 Pro maxes out at about 465/345.

[dave4576]

i will give it ago,will thi shorten the life of my card,thanks paul

[wazzledoozle]

There is absolutely NO reason to flash your 9600 EZ card. NO pipes to unlock, no vertex shaders.

[dave4576]

just gonna go till it explodes,then will have to get a 9800,is there no way to open any more pipelines,paul