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Is this a 9700 or a 9700 Pro?



 
 
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Old July 9th 03, 11:40 AM
Lowen B. Holde
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Default 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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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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Old July 9th 03, 04:56 PM
Mangyrat
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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
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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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Old July 9th 03, 11:55 PM
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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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