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'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.
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Mzc0 -> answers 9500pro and DX9
And yes the 9600 is slower than 9500pro.
| XP1600-m | ASUS AN78X Deluxe | r9700 pro | 2x512mb pc37000 |
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.![]()
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 overclockingOriginally 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.
| XP1600-m | ASUS AN78X Deluxe | r9700 pro | 2x512mb pc37000 |
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 350/315Using standard cooling
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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) 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 :¬)
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