new ati drivers and 9700s OC

[thet2]

do the new ati drivers support overclocking on the 9700 pro too? or not?

[SilentDeath]

www.omegacorner.com - tweaked (better) drivers (based on cat3.7, not 3.8 which were just releleased but arnt noticaly faster, only a few features in em not really needed)

these have radlinker (o/c tool) and artifact tester5 with em...

ive not used the 3.8 and dont intend to till omega tweaks them

[thet2]

i've tried the omega's before but never been too keen on them, i've always used the official ones and been happy with them, was just wondering of the overclocking feature

[BUFF]

Originally posted by |SilentDeath|
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ive not used the 3.8 and dont intend to till omega tweaks them

The Omega 3.8's have been out for days....

[SilentDeath]

hmmm........ i must have slept for a few days

[SilentDeath]

any one know what exactly the softmod 9700 -> 9800 mod option does? not sure if i want to use it ive used it before not noticable perf difference

[Ravens Nest]

Supposedly ATI found a way to increase performance on the 9500-9800 video-cards, but instead of releasing new drivers with this higher performance they made it so the drivers detect what videocard you are using and if it is one of the 9800 videocards it turns on this extra performance increase, if you dont have a 9800 it does not.

Omega (and others) have found that you can make the drivers think you have a 9800 and this turns on the higher performance data path that the 9800 uses, this data path should increase performance when using Anti-aliasing and anistrophic filtering.

It seems that ATI wanted the 9800 to be shown in a better light than it really is, with the data path enabled a 9700 pro can have performance very near to a 9800 np, so i think this would have effected sales of the 9800 if ATI hadn't made it so the drivers detected what videocard you had when installing the drivers.

Well that's my understanding of what i've read on the subject..

[d_fresh1]

or it makes a 9700 pro user, a happy 9800 pro user + bragging rights

i heard ocing was protected on the latest drivers...go guru3d.com/rivatuner and get the patch script that enables ocing, then use rivatuner to oc the card...

[SilentDeath]

sapphire cards are pre-unlocked (9700np pci dev id is 4e44...)

Ravens Nest think ur right, but ive not noticed any differnce...

[Ravens Nest]

Not sure if the 3.8's might be different and there may not be any difference anymore.