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Right guys I am a veteran of OCS forums. I have a PC Spec'ed below and I am wanting to OC my 9500 pro for some extra FPS and for the life of me I cannot find a decent bios and overclocking tool for it.
My question has anyone OC'ed these cards before and if so how did u do it and is it relatively safe to do in OC terms?
Radeon 9500pro Overclocking
Rage3d 9500 Pro overclocking sticky
Most 9500 Pro's are locked in the BIOS.
If you have a locked BIOS search for the 1 appropriate for your cards particular RAM.
Flash BIOS.
I use Radclocker & Radlinker.
If you use the Omega Cats. Radlinker is packaged with them.
:D Might as well post my info...
http://home.mindspring.com/~warp11/ (Warp11's page - guy who figured out the BIOS mod)
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDA5 (go down to the updated Conclusion)
http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/powered.html (Latest Ref Drivers)
http://www.3dchipset.com/bios/index.php (flashing stuff)
http://www.radeon2.ru/radedit_eng.html (Rad-Edit BIOS Editor)
http://www.rage3d.com/r3dtweak/ (Rage3D Tweaker)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=15633 (Radeon Tweaker)
http://esprit.campus.luth.se/~humus/ (Raid-On Tweaker)
http://www.rage3d.com/radeon/reg/index5.shtml (Rage3D info on using 1280x960 alongside some tweaking progs)
http://www.maxdownloads.com/~ian/wizzard/ (see bottom for info on the 9800 enhancements not yet used in drivers & applic to 9500PRO)
http://www.tommti-systems.de/go.html...alyst.html</a> (Same as above)
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.p...eadid=33654157 (original Rage3D thread on the matter)
The Floppy has to be the first Bootsource.
Then type
atiflash -s 0 old.bin
to save your old Bios under the name "old.bin"
Then type atiflash -f -p 0 [Name of the Bios you want to flash]
:cool: As for how far you can go, EVERY card is different but as a rough guide you should get from 275/270 (275/540 inc DDR) to between 340/290 and 380/310 which is enough to get you 9700nonPRO perf (within 15% of 9700PRO/9800) ... those 8 pipelines really rock!
Errr cheers guys for all the Help
I think i shall read all this stuff in detail before takeing the plunge !
;) When you save/backup your current gfx BIOS to floppy you can set up the AUTOEXEC.BAT (plain text file, eg notepad or edit) with one line stating "atiflash -f -p 0 ORIG.BIN" (ORIG.BIN being the name you save the original BIOS file as). This way you can boot off the disk and it will autoflash your original BIOS back as an additional backup plan. The risks really aren't big at all though, read up, but it's not scary at all. Absolute worst case you should only need to boot with any PCI gfx card and flash the original BIOS file back. You can try some of the o/c'ing tools first, some have luck with them changing their card's clocks even without a BIOS flash.