*Now get rid of artifacts* Turn Your RADEON 9500 into RADEON 9700 !

[Allen7]

Originally posted by: Syborg1211

Can you make sure your heatsink is in direct contact with the gpu and makes full contact as well? Some guy reported artifacts that wouldn't go away until he actually found out his heatsink wasnt making full contact with the gpu. So then he put a piece of foil between the two and got not more artifacts. He tried underclocking before doing the foil and it didnt solve anything.

I just got my 9500. It has the 3.3 ns infineon ram on it I believe. I dont think I will do the soldering until Tuesday when I can bring it into work under an adjustable soldering iron and a biiig magnifying glass. My comp scores 10150 without the mod so im eager to find out my full potential =D

The 3rd one I mod last night had very good HSF and GPU contact, only a little AC3 was needed. So in my case it wasn't the heat issue. I can run them at 9700PRO core/memory speed without issues.

 

[Imported]

I just got my 9500 128MB.. $157 or so.. has the Infineon chips on it. Will test for OCing, etc soon. What's a good way to make sure there are no traces of my Nvidia drivers? I don't want to do a fresh install of Windows.

Not gonna do the hardware mod, but will wait for the software..

 

[iLoveDivX]

when's the rivatuner coming out?

 

[Allen7]

Originally posted by: Imported
I just got my 9500 128MB.. $157 or so.. has the Infineon chips on it. Will test for OCing, etc soon. What's a good way to make sure there are no traces of my Nvidia drivers? I don't want to do a fresh install of Windows.

Not gonna do the hardware mod, but will wait for the software..

remove all nvidia drivers from registry

 

[Lizardman]

Originally posted by: iLoveDivX
when's the rivatuner coming out?

1 or 2 weeks

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: Allen7

Originally posted by: Imported
I just got my 9500 128MB.. $157 or so.. has the Infineon chips on it. Will test for OCing, etc soon. What's a good way to make sure there are no traces of my Nvidia drivers? I don't want to do a fresh install of Windows.

Not gonna do the hardware mod, but will wait for the software..

remove all nvidia drivers from registry

Done and done. Installed my card, updated the BIOS to the 9500 that allows for overclocking. I have it up to 295/295 stable.. Now to wait for the Riva Tuner thing.. It's pretty much on par with my older Ti4200 so it's all good for now.

 

[Chad]

Anybody else get their cards yet?

 

[ectx]

Check this soft mod made available by Wizzard

 

[Syborg1211]

Soft mod didnt work well for me... i get artifacts and my 3dmark score only went up 900 points..

 

[Imported]

It's worked so far by means of the fill rate. Will be running a complete 3dmark thing soon, then checking for artifacts.

 

[Imported]

Hrm.. I get a weird artifact in each 3dmark test, a checkerboard pattern that appears to be just a strile about 1/5 in from each way all the way down. Also, my 3dmark score only went up around 900 points as well..

 

[jaybee]

Please post your results to my poll.

jaybee

PS Ok, last request Thanks.

 

[Logan8252]

Do you need to use a hacked BIOS in order to OC a 9500 nonpro?

 

[DannyBoy]

Shouldnt this be in "Video" section?

dan

 

[dukdukgoos]

I did the software hack, worked like a charm...3dMark went from 10186 to 11821. I get checkerboard artifacts on Max's sunglasses in the Lobby benchmarks...all other benchmarks/games tested show no artifacts, including the ATI DX9 demos. Weird that the Lobby sunglasses are the only thing corrupted.

 

[bluemax]

I seem to recall the 9500 being a **LOT ** slower than a 9500 Pro.

These marginal increases (less than 10%) are nice, but NOT 9500 Pro scores..... :frown:

 

[Imported]

RivaTuner + Soft9700 Out

 

[Allen7]

Originally posted by: Syborg1211
Soft mod didnt work well for me... i get artifacts and my 3dmark score only went up 900 points..

Have you tried hardware mod and it worked well or just software mod?

If you haven't then don't bother, you got a R300 core with some broken pipelines.

There's only be about 10~15% increase in overall 3dMark score, and check your fill rate result. You should see greater difference there though.

 

[iLoveDivX]

k, i uninstalled all previous drivers and reinstalled the catalyst 7192c drivers and control panel from ati. after that i installed rivatuner and ran the patch and nothing changed. fill rate remained the same. what seems to be the problem? under the main tab on rivatuner under driver settings it says no supported driver detected for this display adapter?

 

[Syborg1211]

I haven't touched the hardware on my card... was planning to but since the software mod came out so much earlier i decided to do that instead.

 

[zephyrprime]

I seem to recall the 9500 being a **LOT ** slower than a 9500 Pro.

If the mod succeeds, you should be getting faster than 9500 pro speeds. Your card will have the same clock rate of a 9500 pro but it will also have a 256bit bus vs. the 128bit bus on the 9500 pro.

 

[Chad]

Just ordered one from newegg.com and I will let you all know how it turns out, will be trying with the software mod.

 

[bluemax]

Is anyone comparing their scores to that of a real 9500 pro? I'd have figured more than ~10% difference.

 

[iLoveDivX]

how can i tell if i flashed my card's bios correctly?

 

[j@cko]

well.. i have no luck.. mine has artifacts in both 2D and 3D...