9550

[Zedicus]

i recently purchased a gecube 9550xt (unfortunatly) anyways does anyone know which 9600 bios will work on this card as i cant find one that is compatible i hav tried 4 and they all give me corrupt screens. also what r sum of yur overclocks with this card so i can get an idea of what to expect.

thanx for the help

 

[wazzledoozle]

425 core/ 215x2 mem

 

[Nobru_rv]

425 core/ 215x2 mem

Thats is powercolor. He bought gecube.

@Zedicus

U have to see if your mem is 4ns and lower (3.3,2.8,even 2.5).
I have a frined that has gecube 9550 extreme with hynix 2.5 ram on it. clocks are 450/350 without problem. 500/400 with heatsinks and silencer rev3

 

[Zedicus]

mine is runnin at 469/264 with the etrontech 3.3 memory and ramsinks on the backside, anyone know of a voltmod for these things? and i still havent found any other bios to work on these cards yet, and i posted my bios to the bios section and its not up yet so i had to radedit my own bios and reflash it to my card but it works. thanx for the help though

 

[wazzledoozle]

Thats is powercolor. He bought gecube.

@Zedicus

U have to see if your mem is 4ns and lower (3.3,2.8,even 2.5).
I have a frined that has gecube 9550 extreme with hynix 2.5 ram on it. clocks are 450/350 without problem. 500/400 with heatsinks and silencer rev3

All 9550 use the RV350, so my core max would be close to most others. But not all video card ram is created equal...

 

[Zedicus]

the gecube shows an r360 core... i dunno if its for realz or not though.

 

[gigolo2004]

I have a HIS Excalibur 9550 128MB with DDR Hynix 5.0 and i overclock at 270 mhz, incredible, but core i can go max 380 mhz if i want finish 3dmark 2003, with 3008 points.

My system is:

AMD XP 1800+ 1530@1930
ASUS A7V8X-X KT400
512 DDR 333 mhz Kingmax
40GB Western Digital 7200 8MB ata100
HIS Excalibur 9550 128MB

 

[wazzledoozle]

the gecube shows an r360 core... i dunno if its for realz or not though.

Flashing the BIOS might have left that data on the GPU, you will need to take off the heatsink and check what is printed on the gpu to know for sure.

 

[Nobru_rv]

the gecube shows an r360 core... i dunno if its for realz or not though.

U mean RV360?
If u have that,that is 9600XT core and it is rated at 500MHZ default.

 

[Nobru_rv]

All 9550 use the RV350, so my core max would be close to most others. But not all video card ram is created equal...

It doesnt have to be that way. Depend on cooling and pcb quality.(voltage etc.)

 

[wazzledoozle]

It doesnt have to be that way. Depend on cooling and pcb quality.(voltage etc.)

I never mentioned cooling..... If you had 5 different cards from the same company with the same cooling, they would all clock about the same.

And i never went into PCB quality... Yes that is a factor on a larger sampling though.

DOnt get too complicated, most cores are created equal (except the very rare special ones)

 

[Nobru_rv]

Man,im talking about RV350core not producers. All are rated to 400 mhz SAFE with active cooling.But: EX.
Your powercolor can go stock 425
My connect3d can go 450 stock (passive)
Gigabyte can go 430 stock (passive)
Now i got sapphire that can go 430 stock (passive) and
1 more sapphire that cannot go more than 410 stock ( passive)
So u see. Cores are same,but pcb's are different. Even 2 sapphires cannot go same speed.I assume second sapphire's pcb is bad quality.Not sure.
Im just telling that it doesnt mean that all rv350 go same speed because i think it depends on pcb quality and even stock cooler quality and size.
Im just writing my experience with 9550. Im not saying that u are completely wrong,man. ;-))))

 

[jmattick]

All Gecube 9550XT's have RV360 cores.

My 9550XT is OC'd to 510core/281mem, watercooled with ramsinks.
Scores a 1360 in 3Dmark05 I'd get a higher score if I wasn't running a 2.2ghz Celeron, and the video card @ 4x... All that will change soon enough tho.

I haven't been able to flash it to anything else either tho.

More info and pictures of the Gecube 9550XT here
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/gecube-1.html

 

[sobatchnick]

I have ran my PowerColor9550 with 5ns mem at 475/550
on AXP2500+,
512ddr DualChannel 400@333
Ive got 3Dmark01 12500,
03 3600 marks
And this quite enough fo me

 

[wazzledoozle]

I have ran my PowerColor9550 with 5ns mem at 475/550
on AXP2500+,
512ddr DualChannel 400@333
Ive got 3Dmark01 12500,
03 3600 marks
And this quite enough fo me

What kind of ram is on your video card, and do you use ramsinks?

 

[Fearf]

I have a Gigabyte 9550D with hynix 4ns and the core with a crystal orb.

460/570

3dmark2001 12874 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8078464
3dmark2003 3899
3dmark2005 1526

http://www.chilehardware.cl/modules.php?op=modload&name=hardware_reviews&file=200407266 that was the first bench.

Eso.

 

[sobatchnick]

ram is hynix and I do not use ramsinks.

 

[wazzledoozle]

I have a Gigabyte 9550D with hynix 4ns and the core with a crystal orb.

460/570

Funny, i have the same CPU, and heatsink. And i am going to get the same mobo. Its a small world after all....

Im gonna get the omega drivers and see what damage they can do. Also, what core do you have?

 

[sobatchnick]

By the way, where I can download omega drivers?

 

[Fearf]

Also I cut the default heatsink to this...

and I got the memory to 590.

A question you have flash your 9550 to 9600, have gained something of overclock or voltage?

Eso.

 

[wazzledoozle]

By the way, where I can download omega drivers?

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

And Fearf, OMG@!! My ramsinks look exactly same, i cut mine up from a 9200SE heatsink

 

[ati.bob]

I have a damaged P3 fansink (smaller type, for the 800MHz FC-PGA model) and I wish to cut it up and stick it to my GPU RAM.. any suggestions?

I'm also thinking on how to stick the heatsink to the V-RAMs since normal thermal paste won't do..

 

[wazzledoozle]

I have a damaged P3 fansink (smaller type, for the 800MHz FC-PGA model) and I wish to cut it up and stick it to my GPU RAM.. any suggestions?

I'm also thinking on how to stick the heatsink to the V-RAMs since normal thermal paste won't do..

You can get some adhesive thermal paste from computer shops. or adhesive thermal pads. The glue is very very hard to get off, do make sure its a final decision! About cutting the heatsinks,i dont know. MY shop teacher did it for me.

 

[amd]

I dont know if you're going to believe me but I have successfully managed to overclock my videocard and modded the bios with the following speed. core clock = 438 mhz , mem speed = 351 mhz (702 mhz) . I benchmarked it with 3dmark 03, giving an average score of 3687.

I believe most of the members here have 512 megabytes of ram that's why they can even reach this score with ease, unfortunately I only have 256 megabytes .

What inspired me to oc at this speed is this card
http://www.meditech.co.kr/product_info/vga/9550_over600.htm

my gecube have a hynix 2.5 ns memory chip

 

[Nobru_rv]

I dont know if you're going to believe me but I have successfully managed to overclock my videocard and modded the bios with the following speed. core clock = 438 mhz , mem speed = 351 mhz (702 mhz) . I benchmarked it with 3dmark 03, giving an average score of 3687.

I believe most of the members here have 512 megabytes of ram that's why they can even reach this score with ease, unfortunately I only have 256 megabytes .

What inspired me to oc at this speed is this card
http://www.meditech.co.kr/product_info/vga/9550_over600.htm

That card can to 480/800. Because it has 2.5 ns chips (400mhz)
480 can go with good cooler