well just got my rad 9600 pro
and getting pretty low scores in 3d2001 so downloaded rage sd tweak to look at mem and core speeds to find this -------------
please can someone tell me this programme is lieing or have i bought a dodgy card
there were no clock speeds on the site where i bought the card but surely if they are selling as a pro it should have speeds of 600+400 ?


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Some 9600PRO's are locked but I believe most aren't. As said some gfx cards quote the DDR RAM at the full effective speed (nVidia) while others quote the actual speed minus DDR optimisations (ATI), so 300mhz DDR is 600mhz effectively when you take DDR into account. 9600PRO do o/c VERY well, 400/600 to around 550/700 is not uncommon, nothing guaranteed though so take small steps and test thoroughly at each setting, IMHO RAM first and then core. Ensure Vsync is disabled for benchmarking and that you don't have AA or AF forced on in the drivers ... you may want 1 or more of these forced on when actually gaming though. Finally rem CPU speed and technology plays a big part esp in the faster gfx cards which take leaps in speed with every extra 0.1ghz. You should expect around 10000marks in 3DMARK2001SE depending upon CPU, if you compare gfx cards you will see 9600PRO is actually placed above you but that's just because almost all benchmarks submitted are from o/c'ed systems. What's your spec?
ibmike XP1800+ is still a mighty fine CPU and very capable in todays games, but in benchmarks it will hurt you a little esp if your gfx card can take advantage of the faster CPUs. It is Tbred so runs pretty cool and TbredA should o/c to 1.8ghz XP2200+ while TbredB should o/c to around 2.2ghz XP3000+? Can't find any info on kv7mm+, what chipset does it use? 256MB of PC2100 is more than fine, nice to have the faster RAM for o/c'ing (esp FSB) just as it's nicer to have mroe RAM ... but then isn't it always? Very well balanced system which should game VERY well and yet not cost the Earth. You'd get a bit more by o/c'ing the CPU and gfx card ... even at stock perf should be very good and you should ideally enable 4xAA+4xAF all the time to help soak up some of the gfx card power your CPU can't quite tap.