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NT posted this article over in our Readers News section but I think it's well worth a mention on the Frontpage! Try at Your Own Risk?

3DMAXX has tested out the recently found 128MB Radeon 9800XT BIOS with Radeon 9800NP/Pro based cards with great sucess. You may remember their article awhile back, well this is the conclusion. Everything is going sucessful and smothly. Several people have sucessfully flashed with the new 128MB BIOS and transformed their 9800NP/Pro into a full XT. This is also showing upto 10% performance gains clock for clock.

gshapiro Unregistered

#50665 Posted on: 01/15/2004 12:26 AM I realize that on the 'Geek' scale this probably rates on the upper end, but is 'up to a 10%' gain really something to wet your pants over? My guess is the 10% in a real world situation, like a game, would go unnoticed. Just my 2 cents.

Hanners Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: 2004-06-04

#50666 Posted on: 01/15/2004 12:55 AM If 'successful' means living with the artifacts that everyone who uses an XT BIOS on a 9800 Pro/Non-Pro, then good luck to them. Personally, I'd rather have a card that displays the correct image.

BetrayerX Unregistered

#50667 Posted on: 01/15/2004 04:04 AM The only difference (that I know of) is the thermal probe. It wont be enabled in that flash simply because it doesn't exist. Besides that it's the same card anywat. I'd recomend to get a decent cooling solution and test first how stable those speeds will be in a 24/7 basis. It's not the same to overclock your card to get a nice 3dmark score, than overclocking for everything, all the time...too much stress can be a killer. The way ATI handles memory is a mystery to many. People say the BIOS affects latency, others voltage, others both. Latency has been proven to do a difference in overall memory max overclock, but voltage is still a queston mark. The core will hold with proper cooling ...most of the time.

Jollemi Unregistered

#50670 Posted on: 01/15/2004 07:55 AM Well atleast it was too much for my NP. It turns to Pro with ease but with the XT BIOS it works good only in 2D. Damn big artifacts all over 3D.

sak500 Unregistered

#50671 Posted on: 01/15/2004 09:24 AM I think core is no problem, the issue is with the mem. What about the 9600Pro - XT bios? I hv a 9600pro easily o/c from 400/300 to 491/352 with air cooling. So how much difference is with the XT's clock speed at this point?

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