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Is this a 9700 or a 9700 Pro?
I bought a Powercolor Radeon 9700, but in device manager it shows up as a
9700 Pro. I asked this question earlier and one poster thought it was actually a Pro card. Someone else asked what speed the card was running at. So I loaded up Powerstrip and here's the answer: in Powerstrip my card also shows up as a 9700 Pro, but the clock speed is 270 Mhz memory and 276 engine. Those numbers seem to indicate that its a non-pro. So my question is, what card do I really have? Is it a 9700 Pro that has somehow been "dumbed down" to a non-pro? And the next logical question is, can I flash this card or do anything to turn it into a "real" Pro card? Thanks in advance for your answers. I've pasted Powerstrip's diag report below in case you want to see it. BTW, I'm running Catalyst 3.5, and I have a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! MB, Athlon 1700+ oc'd to an 1800+, 512mb Crucial RAM. Diagnostic report - generated on 7/9/2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PowerStrip build - 388 Windows build - v.5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 1 DirectX build - v.5.3.0000000.900 built by: DIRECTX OpenGL renderer - (n/a) System board ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CPU speed - 1542 MHz Type - VIA VT8366-8233-6A6LVS29C-00 BIOS - Award Bios, 01/28/2003 AGP aperture - 256 MB AGP transfer mechanism - DMA AGP non-local memory - 123.5 MB AGP driving value - EAh (N-ctrl=14, P-ctrl=10) AGP revision - 2.00 AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x Current AGP transfer rate - 4x Sideband addressing - Enabled Fast write protocol - Enabled AGP texturing - Enabled Graphics card #1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Identity - RADEON 9700 PRO Memory clock - 270.00 MHz Engine clock - 276.75 MHz IRQ - 11, shared AGP revision - 2.00 AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x Current AGP transfer rate - 4x Sideband addressing - Enabled Display driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360 DirectX driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360 Attached monitor - Dell D1025HTX (Microsoft) Monitor caps (1) - 1280x1024, 70kHz, 120Hz Device enumeration ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RADEON 9700 PRO (4E441002h) - using IRQ11 ATI Display controller (4E641002h) VIA CPU-to-PCI/AGP bridge (30991106h) VIA PCI-to-PCI/AGP bridge (B0991106h) RISQ Modular Systems Communication device (044E11C1h) - using IRQ11 Soyo Audio device (011113F6h) - using IRQ11 VIA PCI-to-ISA bridge (30741106h) VIA IDE controller (05711106h) VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10 VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10 VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10 VIA Ethernet controller (30651106h) - using IRQ11 |
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its a non pro card. leave it as it is dont over clock it to pro speed.
the card is plenty fast for todays games so no reason to toast it clocking it "Lowen B. Holde" wrote in message news:IiSOa.13242$GL4.4024@rwcrnsc53... I bought a Powercolor Radeon 9700, but in device manager it shows up as a 9700 Pro. I asked this question earlier and one poster thought it was actually a Pro card. Someone else asked what speed the card was running at. So I loaded up Powerstrip and here's the answer: in Powerstrip my card also shows up as a 9700 Pro, but the clock speed is 270 Mhz memory and 276 engine. Those numbers seem to indicate that its a non-pro. So my question is, what card do I really have? Is it a 9700 Pro that has somehow been "dumbed down" to a non-pro? And the next logical question is, can I flash this card or do anything to turn it into a "real" Pro card? Thanks in advance for your answers. I've pasted Powerstrip's diag report below in case you want to see it. BTW, I'm running Catalyst 3.5, and I have a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! MB, Athlon 1700+ oc'd to an 1800+, 512mb Crucial RAM. Diagnostic report - generated on 7/9/2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- PowerStrip build - 388 Windows build - v.5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 1 DirectX build - v.5.3.0000000.900 built by: DIRECTX OpenGL renderer - (n/a) System board -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- CPU speed - 1542 MHz Type - VIA VT8366-8233-6A6LVS29C-00 BIOS - Award Bios, 01/28/2003 AGP aperture - 256 MB AGP transfer mechanism - DMA AGP non-local memory - 123.5 MB AGP driving value - EAh (N-ctrl=14, P-ctrl=10) AGP revision - 2.00 AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x Current AGP transfer rate - 4x Sideband addressing - Enabled Fast write protocol - Enabled AGP texturing - Enabled Graphics card #1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Identity - RADEON 9700 PRO Memory clock - 270.00 MHz Engine clock - 276.75 MHz IRQ - 11, shared AGP revision - 2.00 AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x Current AGP transfer rate - 4x Sideband addressing - Enabled Display driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360 DirectX driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360 Attached monitor - Dell D1025HTX (Microsoft) Monitor caps (1) - 1280x1024, 70kHz, 120Hz Device enumeration -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- RADEON 9700 PRO (4E441002h) - using IRQ11 ATI Display controller (4E641002h) VIA CPU-to-PCI/AGP bridge (30991106h) VIA PCI-to-PCI/AGP bridge (B0991106h) RISQ Modular Systems Communication device (044E11C1h) - using IRQ11 Soyo Audio device (011113F6h) - using IRQ11 VIA PCI-to-ISA bridge (30741106h) VIA IDE controller (05711106h) VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10 VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10 VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10 VIA Ethernet controller (30651106h) - using IRQ11 |
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Graphics card #1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Identity - RADEON 9700 PRO Memory clock - 270.00 MHz Engine clock - 276.75 MHz My non-pro showed up as a Pro, but you can tell by the clock speeds that it's a non-pro. Bill |
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