bios flash from 9600pr to 9600XT?

[DerwenArtos12]

As some of you may knwo I have a personal goal of breaking 4000 on my sapphire 9600pro wtih passive cooling on both gpu and ram. I have been able to get very very close of late. Would flashing my cards bios the that of a similarly equiped 9600xt do my any good?

 

[Marsumane]

It is the same archetecture, just different clock speeds (pro and xt). Basically you can flash it if you can oc to the speed of an exactly the same archetecturally designed pcb/gpu. The thing is, lets say u do get it oced to xt speeds. If you can get it there on the clocks by ocing it, then its exactly the same as flashing it. Basically in that case, flashing would only make your default clocks higher and yield no performance gain sense its just a default clock speed change. (it also enables overdrive in the driver but thats useless if you are already at your card's limit)
My advice: oc your cpu and ram higher if you have room, oc your card up to its max, set the best ram timings and maybe even consider additional cooling if you arent cheap like i am

 

[rbV5]

As some of you may knwo I have a personal goal of breaking 4000 on my sapphire 9600pro

drop your resolution down to 800x600...should put you over the top:beer:

 

[MDE]

The 9600XT is a different core (RV350 vs RV360), I highly doubt it'll work at all.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: MDE
The 9600XT is a different core (RV350 vs RV360), I highly doubt it'll work at all.

I agree. Not only does the R350 core not have a temp monitor but it doesn't have overdrive features. Youll probably screw your card up if you do that.

-Kevin

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: MDE
The 9600XT is a different core (RV350 vs RV360), I highly doubt it'll work at all.

I agree. Not only does the R350 core not have a temp monitor but it doesn't have overdrive features. Youll probably screw your card up if you do that.

-Kevin

But people flash their 9800pro's to XTs and get better performance.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: MDE
The 9600XT is a different core (RV350 vs RV360), I highly doubt it'll work at all.

I agree. Not only does the R350 core not have a temp monitor but it doesn't have overdrive features. Youll probably screw your card up if you do that.

-Kevin

But people flash their 9800pro's to XTs and get better performance.

People flash their 9800 Pros to XTs because they see it can reach the speeds and don't want to mess with MHz sliders all the time. Effectively there's no difference between OCing it and flashing it, and you're better off not flashing it. Anyway, you'll need to get around 530/350 (700 DDR) to make your 4k.

 

[Marsumane]

They are all right. Its a different core and thus wont flash. Just oc it to the same speed and it will be within a couple % points of the actual xt (minus any modifications to the core to make it the RV360 core)

 

[DerwenArtos12]

I have ti at 485 and 350 and am withing 80 pts, other than water cooling or volt modding is there really nothign to be done?