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?


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Might as well post my info...
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!
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.
