Austin - you might be able to help with this m8
I'm sure it must be me and not the new card, but I've just installed my 9500Pro and benchmarked with the Catalyst 3.7 drivers, about 10500 in 3dMark 2001 - not brilliant.
(2200XP. 1Gb 2700 RAM)
Anyway, when I try to install any type ov overclocking utility my PC throws up a serious error and goes into safe mode
Can anyone tell me a)what drivers I should be using b) how to install them and c) how to overclock this card
cheers
Skii


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I'd suggest using the Omega based CAT3.7 (I haven't used the newer ones yet) which among other things also have a built in o/c'ing tool. Before you go ahead you should patch the drivers which are located automatically unzipped when you run the EXE, usually to C:\ATI\blah blah. This enables you to o/c without the drivers trying to screw things up or secretly RESET your clock back to default when you game/benchmark. You can flash the gfx BIOS to never require any patch but it was more than I was willing to risk. If you do want a BIOS that's known to be 100% compatible with Connect3D Rad9500PRO let me know.
Just to quote my 3Dmark results with a Barton at 2.0ghz 400FSB. Again I simply installed the o/c patched Omega CAT3.7 drivers and left things at default (ie all high quality) except when using AA+AF which I enabled again at QUALITY rather than perf from within the drivers.
