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| DuckWarrior's Personal Quack-Hoe Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Port Townsend, WA (US [of] A).. "America - F--- YEAH!!"
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![]() ![]() | I think I might've just made a breakthrough for this card. After ( yes, foolishly & dangerously durring a windstorm) testing all the 9800SE-Pro BIOS's overnight ( no sleep yet) @ the infamous ATI Bios Collection for stability and performance-improvement, i'm relieved to say i've found the best one for this card! -I'm above stock 9800Pro speeds ( 24/7 now) and couldn't even handle the stock ones for more than a few mins before this, I got a 2000pt increase in Aquamark3 and 300 in 3DMark03. I'm getting no artifacts in any app yet after a few hrs of burning and was even briefly annoyed, unsuccessfully trying to get Doom3 to show those white dots I used to get all over within minutes at my old max stable OC of 360/360. I can now feel safe running the thing at 390/365+ no doubt . The magic BIOS I used was this: Powercolor 9800Pro 378/337MHz Samsung2.8ns Using RaBiT ( Radeon BIOS editor), i've found that the only difference between this and the official ATI 98-8004.BIN is that the tWR timing is set to 2 instead of the default 3. Though the official ATI BIOS netted me much worse clock/bench results than my default 9800SE BIOS, this one is amazingly different in performance. -Enjoy at your own risk!!! ![]() Please note carefully: If you are planning on trying this hardmod, please understand that it will viod your warranty. Niether I, nor PimpRig will accept responsibility for any possible damages or mistakes you may succumb to before attempt of, attempting on, or post of this mod. As I have made my own choices on how safe I'd like to be, I expect you can make yours. As a crucial tip, I strongly urge you to be fully prepared and fool-proof before attempting a BIOS flash, a PCI-Videocard will be required to see ( while reviving the dead card), in the event of a failed BIOS flash. Please refer to the guide pictured below to proceed..
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| DuckWarrior's Personal Quack-Hoe Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Port Townsend, WA (US [of] A).. "America - F--- YEAH!!"
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![]() ![]() | Thx.. I can't think of anything that made this work so well other than a BIOS-contained voltage adjustment. As you can see tho.. I think its time for water soon>> ![]() ![]()
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| Apex Elite Expert Tech | Konai, I have one of the 9800se cards and had a couple questions if you don't mind. Did you try the softmod to bring it up to the 9800 pro before doing a bios flash? The reason being is mine won't softmod without all kinds of video corruption. Does the bios mod do roughly the same thing or am I comparing apples and oranges. I was affraid that I have a chip that the extra pipelines aren't any good and that the bios update will yield the same video corruption as the softmod. My card overclocks well but could always use a little more out of it. Thanks
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