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Some probably old 9800 Pro questions

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Agentbolt

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Well I finally got the 9800 Pro I had been talking about earlier into my computer. Just had a few quick questions about it:

#1. What's the benefit of flashing it to an XT BIOS over, say, just OCing it to 412/355? Is there any? I've already OCed it and it didn't artifact at all at those speeds. Is it worth it to try flashing it? I've flashed Mobo BIOSes before but never video card ones, can anyone give me a quick and dirty description of how to do it? (assuming it's worth it to try)

#2. What are the ballpark 3dMark03 and AquaMark3 scores a 9800 Pro should get? My Aquamark score was 41,200 with a CPU and VPU score both of ~6800. Sounded a little low, I thought an Athlon 3200+ with a 9800 Pro usually scored ~50,000

#3. Does anyone want the 6 year old ATI Rage XL 8 MB video card this new card is basically replacing? It's FREE and it almost kinda-sorta plays Warcraft III!!!!
 
The benefit of flashing to an xt is that if your chip has an r360 core, then flashing will enable the built in temp sensor on the chip, and also enable the overdrive features. Thats all i know of.
 
Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
The benefit of flashing to an xt is that if your chip has an r360 core, then flashing will enable the built in temp sensor on the chip, and also enable the overdrive features. Thats all i know of.
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Thats if your card supports it. You can flash the MSI 9800pro to XT bios but you wont get any of the unlocked features the other 9800pros with r360 cores have.
 
So if I have an R350 core (which ATI Tool says I do) then there's no benefit whatsoever to flashing an XT BIOS over simply OCing the card to XT speeds?
 
ATItool can not properly read the core revision. Since it reads it from the BIOS, it's wrong. You have to actually look at the chip.
 
Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
The benefit of flashing to an xt is that if your chip has an r360 core, then flashing will enable the built in temp sensor on the chip, and also enable the overdrive features. Thats all i know of.
Click to expand...

INcorrect!

This applies ONLY if you have the 256MB version . . . not the regular 128MB Radeon Pro.

There is almost zero benefit to flashing a regular 9800p that o/c'ing cannot achieve

.HERE is EVERYTHING you need to know and more!
 
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
The benefit of flashing to an xt is that if your chip has an r360 core, then flashing will enable the built in temp sensor on the chip, and also enable the overdrive features. Thats all i know of.
Click to expand...

INcorrect!

This applies ONLY if you have the 256MB version . . . not the regular 128MB Radeon Pro.

There is almost zero benefit to flashing a regular 9800p that o/c'ing cannot achieve

.HERE is EVERYTHING you need to know and more!
Click to expand...

:thumbsup: just stick with OCing it.
 
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