I've got a 9500 PRO but am not sure if it supports all/some the DX9 stuff ?
I've also got a plain vanilla 9600 but I'm guessing this will be slower, no?
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I've got a 9500 PRO but am not sure if it supports all/some the DX9 stuff ?
I've also got a plain vanilla 9600 but I'm guessing this will be slower, no?
i would guess that the 9600 is faster but i'm not sure
The 9600 is slower. I think the idea was that the 9500 was expensive to produce, whereas the 9600 is much cheaper to produce, although slower than 9500s.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Mzc0 -> answers 9500pro and DX9
And yes the 9600 is slower than 9500pro.
9500 pro is DX9.0 yes and its better than the 9600 series.
Isnt a 9500 a 9700 but with parts turned off? Ive seen mods on the net where you can turn a 9500(whatever) into a 9700? The 9500 was quite an advanced mid range card wasnt it?
Basically a 9700 with lower clock-speed, same 8 pipes.
Cracking little card, and fully Dx.9 ;)
Thanks for the info folks. :bowdown:
Another (stoopid?) question?
I'm sure I once read that this card is locked so you can't overclock it?
If that ain't so, what's the best prog to clock it with?
With the 9600 I tried Omega drivers/Radlinker and ATItool but the card always seemed to reset to stock clocks and I couldn't figure out how to actually clock the card 'cos even though the progs said the clock was changed I didn't see any results - and eg PCmark04 said the clock hadn't changed.
Don't bother trying to overclock with ATI drivers - you need Omega drivers which are 'tweaked' and best for overclockingQuote:
Originally Posted by shredisn@tdead
www.omegacorner.com
It is only possible to covert 9500 (non pro's) into 9700's iirc. Then overclock them to pro's.
The 9500pros are 8 pipeline, 128-bit memory cards. No way to change that. Some of the 9500 non-pros can be modded (sofware or hardware) to enable the full 8-piplines becoming 9700s.
Woohoo! Omegas are the dogs dangly bits!
Went from 275/270 to 350/315 :rockon: Using standard cooling :shocked2:
Should I expect more? What do you guys get?
Thats very very good with standard cooling
get an Arctic VGA Cooler and you'll reach 400 ;)
The difference between a 9500 Pro and a 9700 is that a 9500Pro has a 128bit memory bus and a 9700 has a 256bit memory bus. Now some 9500 non-Pros (like mine:D) were built on cards with a 256bit memory bus. That makes them as fast as a 9700 if they softmod properly. Tere are no 9500Pros with a 256bit memory bus though; if they had a 256bit bus they'd automatically be a 9700 since they already have all 8 pipes running.
Could we not have a sticky on this as it's a question I seem to answer all the time?
Rich :¬)