Any advantage to flashing 9700tx->9700pro rather than o/c ing it?

[cmv]

I also want to know where you got it! Doom 3 fever has me but not bad enough to pay $300-$400 for a video card .

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: Cawchy87

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
make sure your ram will take pro speeds before you do it though otherwise if it doesn't take I sure hope you have a PCI card laying around as a backup just in case

I'll make sure of the ram before i do it. What if i can't o/c it to pro speeds? i am like 10mhz lower? Is it ok to flash and then underclock the ram a bit? Or mabye with the better mem timings it will be able to run that rate. I have a vga scilencer on the core, ramsinks on 3 of the top 4 ram chips (other one is blocked by the mobo ram... stupid dell) And i have ram sinks coming to fit underneith the vga scilencer. If i back up my vid bios correctly and everything will i still need a pci card if it is unsuccessful?

yes because if your ram won't take pro speeds you won't be able to see anything when you boot up and you'll need a pci card to get to the program to reflash your card

 

[Killrose]

If i'm not mistaken, most 9700tx's had crappy 3.3ns infineon, which without heatsinks craps out at about 297MHz, well below 310MHz that a PRO bios will try by default to run it at. In other words, you will have corruption after the bios flash.

 

[Cawchy87]

i plan to put heatsinks on the ram.

To CMV: I bought it on the fs/ft fourms. After O/C'ing JUST the core (370core 263mem-at stock) I could play doom 3 at medium detail on 1024x768 no problem. The game just got too repetitive for me so i switched back to far cry and max payne 2.

A 9700np with good ram or even a 9700pro would serv you quite well i belive.

 

[Cawchy87]

To the guy who pmed me asking about how i overclocked it:

You have your pm's disabled so i wasnt' able to answer it. So i will here. I used the omega drivers (omegadrivers.net i belive) and used the radlinker tool inside of them. Be sure to run driver cleaner to get rid of your catalyst drivers completely.