Best 9700 Pro Driver?

[SoCalMixedGuy]

Hello all, whats the best OCing 9700 Pro Driver. I currently run the ATI 6.14.10.6525 driver. I have my current OC 360/338 on air (Arctic Cooler). Im looking tp push it further. Thanks in advance for your help.

Edited May 24, 2005 by SoCalMixedGuy

[guzzidom]

I don't think anyones answering because to the best of my knowledge none of the drivers actually affect how far you can overclock as such, some perform a little better than others with different cards and in various games/applications, it's really just a case of downloading a few and experimenting in whatever benchmarks you are using.

Your overclock is more dependent upon your memory type and rated headroom, GPU core temperature etc. the best way to give your card more go would be to cool it with an aftermarket cooler some heatsinks and paste and (if brave) volt mod it to put a little extra current into your memory chips and hopefully allow them to clock even higher.

Bear in mind doing all this could easily cost you $40.00 and you would be lucky to get your 3dmark '03 score from, say, 5500 to 6200 even if everything goes well (if it doesn't you've got a dead $100 card and a useless pile of cooling kit!).

 

EDIT; sorry I just re-read your post and you've got aftermarket cooling already, Voltmod time methinks!!

Edited May 25, 2005 by guzzidom

[alown]

i agree with him. and if you want to be risky youy could perhaps flash you 9700 pro to a 9800.

[guzzidom]

i agree with him.  and if you want to be risky youy could perhaps flash you 9700 pro to a 9800.

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Sadly that doesn't work (different core altogether), it only works when you have the same gpu core and mem chips, for example a lot of 9800pro's came with r360 cores and samsung memory exactly the same as 9800xt's therefore it was possible, not so with the 9700's.