Best Mid Range Card?

[Ziggy54354]

you know if i can flash a 9500 to a 9700pro? Ive already done the softmod to make it a 9700 but im assuming with a 9700pro flash ill be able to get some more outta my mem.

[Eva_Unit_0]

Yeah, as long as it's a non-pro with the L-memory configuration you can flash it. Also, you're right...the 9700pro bios gives more voltage to the core/memory because of the higher clock speeds.

[FanATIc205]

i doubt i bios flash will help you get more from your mem. see if you can overclcok it if you cant then do the biosflash. yeah ati quickly changed the 9500 when people started doing the mod to 9700 if the mem is in a str8 row it wont flash to anything

[Eva_Unit_0]

I got a lot more from my 9700np memory when I flashed it. With an unlocked non-pro bios I could only get my memory up to about 600mhz, but now on my pro bios I'm running the memory at 700mhz no problem. (<----that's after the watercooling. With the core being aircooled I could get about 640mhz from the ram. Weird, huh?)

[Ziggy54354]

eh, id do it but A) dont know how B.) dont wanna mess me card up and C) no floppy drive.

[Eva_Unit_0]

You don't have to worry about messing your card up because even if the worst-case scenario happens (completely dead card), you can just use a pci video card to re-flash the card. It's really easy to do...it's like flashing a mobo bios the manual way. You can flash from your hard drive, as long as it's not ntfs.