ATI 9800pro Nubbins

[Nullified]

Hello there, I have a 9800Pro and was wondering about overclocking and what have you.

Now i belive its a sapphire 120mb 9800pro but it was bought from ebay, so god only knows. It looks identicle to the pictures i have seen of other sapphires. Is there anyway to check its brand.

Also i read that some fellow here had the 256mb edition of my card and was flashing it to a XT. Does this actually work. As im a total newb i dont even know what im doing.But any advice is appriciated.

I have used ATI tool but it only clocks it 9mhz before finding artifacts..

Thanks

Chris

[Cavia]

Hai, try the Everest program, it will at least provide you a hardware id.

Veld Waarde
Hardware Identificatie PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4E48&SUBSYS_00021002&REV_00

Something like this :)
regards,
Ed

[wtf8269]

You can flash it to XT if it has an R360 core rather than an R350. All 256mb 9800 Pro's come with an R360 core running the 9800 Pro bios. ATI Tool will tell you what core you have, but since it is running 9800 Pro bios it will say you have an R350 regardless of if you really have an R360 or not. So the only way to actually tell is to take off the heatsink and look to see what the chip says on it. Secondly, you need to be able to run stable at XT clock speeds. I would highly recomend you buy some form of aftermarket cooling before flashing to XT or overclocking. A Zalman VF-700Cu, Zalman VF-700AlCu, or ATI Silencer 3 would probably end up being the best. Hope that helps.

By the way, its 128mb not 120mb. ;)