Radeon 9200

[SneakyStuff]

Hey guys, my friend just got a Radeon 9200 for his new comp that he got (Athlon XP 2200+, 512MB) And he knows I overclock my video card, so he wanted to know if I could do it for him. I got the ATI tool, and tried it, but according to the ATI tool the Radeon 9200 does not overclock? Could an ATI owner help me out here? Thanks a bunch

 

[Schadenfroh]

might have a locked bios, might have to flash it to a hacked version, but why bother? 9200 is going to be slow in modern games even if overclocked, hope he did not pay more than $50 for it

 

[SickBeast]

You can easily get a hacked BIOS over at the rage3d.com forums. Just make sure that you get the right BIOS and confirm that others have used it and it works.

 

[SneakyStuff]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
might have a locked bios, might have to flash it to a hacked version, but why bother? 9200 is going to be slow in modern games even if overclocked, hope he did not pay more than $50 for it

He spent $70 on it, BestBuy had it on sale, I told him to do Newegg, but he wanted it "now" so that $70 9200 was the best deal going in stores. So you're telling me that unless I flash the BIOS it won't overclock?

 

[pirred908]

Be VERY CAREFUL flashing the BIOS. If you have a power outage as your doing it. your f**ked.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: pirred908
Be VERY CAREFUL flashing the BIOS. If you have a power outage as your doing it. your f**ked.

yes, be sure you have a UPS on this machine

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
might have a locked bios, might have to flash it to a hacked version, but why bother? 9200 is going to be slow in modern games even if overclocked, hope he did not pay more than $50 for it

I had a 9200 AIW Radeon and it played BF: Vietnam quite well IMO, for it's price it's not a bad card

 

[dguy6789]

The 9200 non se is a very capable card with full dx8.1 functionallity. If you can over clock it to 275/500 or so, it would play just about any game on mid details.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Get the hacked Cats from ocfaq.com, then you can overclock with ATITool. The stock drivers are locked against changes to the freq settings on the card. Also, if "VPU recover" ever kicks in, even while running the hacked drivers, the card gets both reset back to stock timings, and locked-out again. You need to power-cycle and reboot to be able to OC again.

My FIC Radeon 9200 64MB AGP 8x doesn't OC worth squat. The memory is 4ns, which should be good for 2 x 250Mhz, but when I bump it even to 2 x 210Mhz, I get artifacts. I probably need to add some ramsinks and a fan to the card, and/or voltmod it. I'm not sure how to do that on a Radeon 9200 though, and I don't think I've seen any guides for it. I suspect that my problem is power moreso than heat, since I've also had a few minor issues with display-corruption on a warm or cold boot.

PS. Sorry to say, but your friend overpaid a bit for the card. I wouldn't pay more than $40-50 for a 9200. For $80, you could get a nice 128MB Ti4200 AGP 8x card with much faster memory, that would stomp it in games. Btw, WalMart also has the "built by ATI" Radeon 9200 cards on clearance for $50, I just saw a few more today in a different store.

 

[raippi]

You should download omega drivers for ati radeon 9200. Ati's official drivers won't allow you to overclock your video driver, but the omega drivers will. I have overclocked my ati radeon 9200 very much...Remember to not to overclock too much, though. You can get the omega drivers from http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Good luck overclocking!:clock:

 

[Auric]

Check out ocfaq.com. They have BIOS' aplenty and driver hacks etc.

A 9200 128 bit 64MB refurb is $40 shipped from newegg. $70 is a travesty when 9500's go for $75.

 

[SneakyStuff]

He doesn't care, lol, he's actually playin doom 3 on it now, at 800 x 600! :Q It actually runs pretty nice!

 

[SneakyStuff]

OK, what are the other options for overclocking besides the omega drivers, and the ATI tool

 

[heartsurgeon]

i have a couple of 9200 cards, and they are passively cooled (no fans)

i'm not a overclocking guru, but i wonder how safe it would be to increase the heat output of a video card, that does not incorporate a fan?

 

[SneakyStuff]

I've got an overclocked geforce 2 mx here at my place, with no heatsink on the core! and its fine

 

[Pilsnerpete]

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
I've got an overclocked geforce 2 mx here at my place, with no heatsink on the core! and its fine

No heatsink!? Just imagine if you had a heatsink on that baby! OC paradise.

 

[SneakyStuff]

It's in a Dell case to boot! you're right, I should mod it in my free time.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow, glad to hear that D3 actually plays on a 9200, I guess maybe I will considering buying the game to play on my rig. (64MB Radeon 9200, XP2000 CPU, can push XP2200 speeds, although stability is possibly not 100%, 768MB of PC2700 DDR.) Mine has just a heatsink on the GPU, guess I'll finally have to bust out a fan and cobble up some ramsinks and give OC'ing the card another shot.