Why flash Radeon 9800 Pro to XT?

[daminator]

Hello there!

I've got the Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro with an Arctic Cooling ATI VGA Silencer 3.
ATI Tool has detected the max Clock at 402 MhZ, i hope this is ok or is more possible?


And i have read that I would get more performance when i flash the BIOS to 9800 XT

I want to know, why this gives more performance?
Does it activate some deactivated features in the card'?


daminator

 

[gR3iF]

no it doesnt it only increase clocks and mem timings but it can be unstable and i dont thin that there is much more on your card even a better cooling could help although u got a good one

 

[wtf8269]

Some cards are able to overclock more when they are flashed to a different bios, but that's a rare occasion.

 

[grisnak]

Are you guys sure? I was almost certain that the r360, when used like and r360 was gave better performance per mhz that the r350?

 

[daminator]

So its okay when I flash the BIOS, it won't make anything worse, it (mayby) only can get better?
If I do all steps like the intructions show of course

 

[INSTG8R]

R360 core uses a different instruction set than the R350 so yes it is a bit different

 

[15th Warlock]

Flashing will make your card perform better than a normal Pro, even at the same clocks, there's a 5-10% performance increase, but if your card cannot OC to XT levels, even with an arctic cooler, I wouldn't recommend flashing it...

 

[wtf8269]

Flashing will make your card perform better than a normal Pro, even at the same clocks, there's a 5-10% performance increase, but if your card cannot OC to XT levels, even with an arctic cooler, I wouldn't recommend flashing it...

Not to mention it'll get you chicks.

Hah, don't we wish...

 

[daminator]

Hm I have loaded my Bios in RaBiT and it says

R350 Hynix DDR BIOS - P/N 113-A07521-104

So I because of the R350 I can't flash it to XT? :/

 

[grisnak]

Check in atitool instead, but if you have r350 there is no point in flashing.

 

[watzup_ken]

Clock for clock, a 9800XT or R360 core is slightly faster. May get a few hundred points boost in 3D Mark 03. The R360 core is a tweaked up version of the older R350. If its a R360 core card, I recommend that you flash it to an XT. But before you do that , do make sure you change the stock cooler and use ATI Tool to ensure that the card can run at 9800XT speed.