Radeon 9600pro OC = Awesome!

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

Just thought I'd share my experience with my new 9600pro. My current system is: Athlon XP 1800+, 768MB PC2100, Shuttle AK31 motherboard. I picked up a retail 9600pro today at Best Buy ($199 - $20MIR) to replace my 8500.

Stock speeds on this board are 400/300. Running at stock speeds w/ Cat 3.5 my 3dmark2003 score was: 3162

After trying a bunch of different settings using just radclocker and stock cooling I finally settled on 515/340 with a 3dmark2003 score of: 3779

I pushed it up to 550/350, but I was getting some minor artifacts, so I backed off. With better cooling though, who knows??? Regardless, a 20% increase with simply stock cooling = not too shabby

 

[Tab]

What card was ths! Is it a retail ATI card? I want to buy it now! The 9600's might actually be worth it!

 

[Corporate Thug]

525/365 with my 9600 pro

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

Yep, it's a retail-boxed built by ATI card.

 

[LeeTJ]

9500np modded and oc'd to 300/325 = 3dmark2003 score of 4800.

 

[xSauronx]

your case cool enough? that adds to the overall temp of gpu and cpu. i played with the crappy cooling in my case and the cpu temp went down 10c and i could oc my 8500le that i had

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
your case cool enough? that adds to the overall temp of gpu and cpu. i played with the crappy cooling in my case and the cpu temp went down 10c and i could oc my 8500le that i had

Probably not. I'm gonna get some rounded cables and rearrange my drive layout to hopefully get some better airflow. When I opened up the case to put the new card in I noticed that I had an IDE cable laying right acrross by CPU fan. Reeeeeal nice... No wonder it's been running at 53ºC :Q

 

[faziwazi]

How would I be able to tell my CPU temp and other temps? Progs?

 

[Corporate Thug]

you can use motherboard monitor 5 or just the BIOS

 

[faziwazi]

MBM 5 doesnt work with my **** Dell mobo, so how would I see it using my BIOS?

 

[Wag]

I just got my refurb FIC 9700np from newegg for $170 shipped.

I flashed it with the FIC 9700Pro bios, and overclock to 392/338.

My system is comparable to yours- 8RDA+, Athlon 1900+ (1600+@150bus, PC2100).

3DMark2k3: 5402