maxing out the 9550

[sweeper]

How do you guys get your core up so high? I can only achieve 400 / 270 (540DDR) with a Zalman ZM80-C HP & AS5? I also have ramsinks on the underside of card. Non at the top (at the moment) due to the Zalman HP sits so low to the card.

 

[ati.bob]

Most probably their cards have faster memory chips (lower -ns rating)... mine is only 5ns chips and I was lucky to be able to clock up to 240x2 MHz (245x2 MHz with copper RAM heatsinks) from the 200x2 MHz default..

 

[sweeper]

Look at your core speed though: 442 <-----------

I can only get mine @ 400 maxed!!!!!!!!

 

[ati.bob]

core speed is nothing.. ... I need more speed on the RAMs.. I'm willing to trade 42MHz of GPU speed for extra memory speeds.. The perfect solution would be having a balanced speed of both GPU and memory..

 

[warlock110]

i just got an Abit 9550, it has 3.6ns, so anyone one grab one, it's there, the card is only 65 bucks, it comes with active cooling, the same cooling that abit placed on their 9600 XT, completely crap cooling IMO, but i'm pushing it and i feel that i need some ram sink, right now it's stable @ 420/250

 

[blizzard-cro]

i agree with ati.bob, core doesnt boost performance so much, the most important is ram and how high he can go.
I have recently bought an asus 9550 GE and i put ramsinks, and OC at 400/275 @ 9600 pro bios, it works stable
My memory is Samsung 4.0 ns...

 

[sweeper]

Sorta stuck in a rut becuz mine has Hynix 5.0ns memory

 

[warlock110]

i can confirm that the zalman 80 doesn't fit my 9550 abit, for some reason i can't fit the very first part onto the predrilled hole, so no way it's gonna fit.

 

[sweeper]

That's odd. The boards should be the same as the 9600 series? I had no problems installing it on my card. Fit without any problems at all. Sorry to hear that. The ONLY problem I had was I was unable to attach my other 4 Mosfet BGA Ramsinks due to the height of the HP opposite side of the GPU. I need to have them cut much shorter, then I will probably have to pick up 4 more and cut those then place them 2 per ram module. Other than that I am currently at 400/250 R9600 Bios, 400/290 benchmark<--- only till I get some more ramsinks.

 

[stordoff]

My 9550 will reach 475/220 MHz Stable

 

[MarsI]

asus 9550 ge td with hynix 5.0 and thermaltake Giant III.
513/277.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Hi! I'm new to this forum and my English isn't perfect but maybe someone will help me so here goes:
Generaly speaking I do not like the soft-mod so I wanted to flash bios in my Gigabyte 9550128D Radeon. Unfortunatly FLASHROM does not work. I get a
Error: block protect not disabled, status-0E Error
How to disable this block protect? I used
flashrom -f -p 0 9600ez.bin command

czesc...czy udalo ci sie rozwiazac problem?
mam ten sam komunikat...nie wiem co zrobic.

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