does omega driver make my 9800np a pro?

joecool · Oct 3, 2003, 09:28 AM

per the title, i've got an ati radeon 9800np. i want to oc it to see if i can get to pro level performance as it seems many folks can. i've read all about flashing to the 9800pro bios, but i'm wondering if i need to since i'm using the latest omega drivers. in the display control panel it reports my board as a 9800pro and i can overclock nicely, tho seemingly not quite to tru pro levels (but i'm not done testing yet).

so, in short, my question is, if i'm using the omega drivers to i still need to flash the bios of my 9800np card to reach 9800pro performance?

thanks in advance,

joe

PoopyTheJ · Oct 3, 2003, 11:47 AM

Dunno if it's necassary I could O/C my non-Pro 9800 to 420/325 before I flashed it to the Pro BIOS. It's only got the 3.3ns RAM. However after flashing to the Pro BIOS, the modified one which clocks your card default at 380/317 I can actually overclock my memory higher than I could prior to the flash. Now I can get it up to 344. Perhaps increased RAM voltage on the pro core. Overall I'd reccomend the flash to the Pro.

joecool · Oct 3, 2003, 02:14 PM

thanks, did it, now running at 378/320 (only have infineon ram so i grabbed a hacked version of the bios that slightly unclocks the ram). sweet!

PoopyTheJ · Oct 4, 2003, 12:03 AM

Great glad that worked out for you. How high can you get your core/mem? Have you found your limit yet? Mine is 432/344 depending on the game really I start to get some artifacts at those speeds after palying for a while so I usually go to 425/337. Of course Halo is the only game which I HAVE to overclock for.

steehead · Oct 13, 2003, 02:27 PM

hey joecool. where did ya get that bios. i just bought a 9800np w/ infineon
3.0ns. thanks for the help.

joecool · Oct 14, 2003, 08:17 AM

http://www.digitalsynapses.com/articles/9800npflash/