9700Pro Registering as a 9800SE?

[viceless]

i bought a video card on ebay and it said it was a 9700Pro, but when i installed it, windows registered and installed it as a 9800SE. after downloading atitool it told me to softmod it to unlock the missing 4 pipelines so i could run as a 9800NP.

i decided to look on the internet and i found that other people are having the same problem, except their chipset is listed as r300 and mine is listed as r350, which is what the 9800Pro chipset is, isnt it? so whats going on, what card do i have!?

thanks for your help guys, heres a readout of my cards specs:



Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter ATI Radeon 9800 SE (R350)
GPU Code Name R350
PCI Device 1002 / 4148
Transistors 117 million
Process Technology 0.15u
Bus Type AGP 8x
Memory Size 128 MB
GPU Clock 324 MHz (original: 325 MHz)
RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz
Pixel Pipelines 8
TMU Per Pipeline 1
Vertex Shaders 4 (v2.0)
Pixel Shaders 1 (v2.0)
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v9.0
Pixel Fillrate 2592 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 2592 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties:
Bus Type DDR
Bus Width 256-bit
Real Clock 290 MHz (DDR) (original: 290 MHz)
Effective Clock 580 MHz
Bandwidth 18560 MB/s

Graphics Processor Manufacturer:
Company Name ATI Technologies Inc.
Product Information http://www.ati.com/products/gamer.html
Driver Download http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

 

[wazzledoozle]

Well you have a 9800SE, which uses the R350 core. If the pipes unlock without causing artifacts in games then it will perform better than a 9700 Pro.

 

[gnemelf]

yup