r350/360 easy way to tell which one

[Fistandantilis]

first i dumped my videocard bios with atitool, then i opened it with rabit from 3d guru. it told me what core i had on my card, without removing my heatsink and fan.

 

[wazzledoozle]

first i dumped my videocard bios with atitool, then i opened it with rabit from 3d guru. it told me what core i had on my card, without removing my heatsink and fan.

It is just reporting what the BIOS tells it.

You have to look at the core to know.

 

[Fistandantilis]

thats just it, i took off the sink and fan and it is a 360, ati tool says 350 and that is a reading from the bios, but the bios says 360 when i open it for editing with RaBit

 

[wazzledoozle]

thats just it, i took off the sink and fan and it is a 360, ati tool says 350 and that is a reading from the bios, but the bios says 360 when i open it for editing with RaBit

Well that is just coincidence, because both ATITool and RaBit are reading form the same bios, dumped or being read from the card. RaBiT might be programmed to show R360 for all 9800 Pro

 

[Fistandantilis]

i just did a test with 3 bios files 2 pro and 1 xt, RaBit read all the bioses correctly, whatcha think

 

[wazzledoozle]

i just did a test with 3 bios files 2 pro and 1 xt, RaBit read all the bioses correctly, whatcha think

I think RaBiT shows R360 despite what the bios says. It is not possible for RaBiT to magically determine that a card has the R360.

Will a mod please confirm this and lock this thread.

 

[ViperJohn]

first i dumped my videocard bios with atitool, then i opened it with rabit from 3d guru. it told me what core i had on my card, without removing my heatsink and fan.

The bios ID string is not fool proof. The early R360 9800Pro's used bios images with R350
in the ID string. If you have the original shipping bios 113- Part Number I can tell from
that but it has to for sure be the card original shipping bios. Aside from that the only for
sure way is to look at the core on a reference 109-A07500-xx PWA card.

Viper

 

[Lateralus14]

It worked for me too. ATiTool and Rivatuner both reported mine as R350, but I used ATiTool's BIOS Dump and opened the output in Notepad and it correctly reported R360.

It has worked for several other people I know, all 100% correct.

 

[ViperJohn]

It worked for me too. ATiTool and Rivatuner both reported mine as R350, but I used ATiTool's BIOS Dump and opened the output in Notepad and it correctly reported R360.

It has worked for several other people I know, all 100% correct.

ATItool and Riva Tuner are reporting an R350 because the ASIC ID for R350/R360 cores
on reference 109-A07500-xx PWA's is the same. It is what keeps the drivers from seeing
the R360 cored 9800Pro from being a 9800XT.

If you have an early R360 cored 9800Pro the bios may indicate R350 in the ID string. It
just depends on when the card was built.

Viper

 

[W1zzard]

the only way to check if you have r350 or r360 is to look at the core with your eyes.. software can not find out which core it is ..

if the bios inits your card as 9800xt, software will report r360 .. if 9800pro/non-pro, r350 ..

 

[ViperJohn]

the only way to check if you have r350 or r360 is to look at the core with your eyes.. software can not find out which core it is ..

if the bios inits your card as 9800xt, software will report r360 .. if 9800pro/non-pro, r350 ..

You can tell from the bios 113- part Number if ya know your numbers. The problem with
that is the bios you are ID'ing the card with has to be it's original shipping bios. With all
the helter skelter flashing going on that is often is not the case. The laser etch on the
core never lies (when it isn't supposed to anyway lol).

Viper