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9500 Pro vs. 9600 XT? Which is better?

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Thanks for the info and opinions everyone. I decided on the 9600XT. I talked him down to $135 shipped. I doubt it's got the HL-2 coupon (I didn't ask, and he didn't mention it, so I'm assuming no), but it's still a HUGE improvement over my 64MB Radeon 7200 (DX 7, yay!). I took overclocking into consideration, as well as possible support for future features on the driver-side, and decided that if I overclock the XT, it'll probably beat out the 9500 as I've heard from both this thread and other places that it overclocks really nicely.
 
Originally posted by: LeetestUnleet
Referring to softmods, is it possible to enable 8 pipelines in a 9600XT?

And AFAIK, there is no HL-2 coupon 🙁
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No, the 9600 XT only has 4 pipelines (where as the 9800 XT has 8.) Now, if you want to soft-mod a 9500 Pro into a 9700 Pro, you need to get a 9500 Pro with "L" shaped memory. I can't remember why this is, but if you get a card with "I" shaped memory, don't bother trying to soft-mod it, it won't work. Can anyone tell me why you need "L" shaped memory? I forgot. :Q
 
The "L" shaped pcb memory is 256Bit instead of 128bit. The 9500 pro never had the "L" afaik. There were some non-pro's that did. They had the 256bit memory interface. Some of them would softmod to have 8 full working pipelines which would = 9700 NP.



Jason
 
Originally posted by: SirDude
Originally posted by: LeetestUnleet
Referring to softmods, is it possible to enable 8 pipelines in a 9600XT?

And AFAIK, there is no HL-2 coupon 🙁
Click to expand...

No, the 9600 XT only has 4 pipelines (where as the 9800 XT has 8.) Now, if you want to soft-mod a 9500 Pro into a 9700 Pro, you need to get a 9500 Pro with "L" shaped memory. I can't remember why this is, but if you get a card with "I" shaped memory, don't bother trying to soft-mod it, it won't work. Can anyone tell me why you need "L" shaped memory? I forgot. :Q
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NO ,9500 Pros came with L shaped memory that was only the 9500np's.
ALL pro's come with I shaped memory and can not be modified other than enabling them to OC.

I have a Sapphire 9500 pro it rocks. I would reccommend it to anyone looking in that price range.
 
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