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9700 to 9800 softmod??

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[H]ard|Gawd
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Does anyone know any links to info on how to flash a 9700 to a 9800 pro? I know there were softmod drivers for it, I can't seem to find them anymore
 
oh for the love of... just use the CATALYST 4.3 and it will include the rendering optmizations.

Ever since the 9500 -> 9700 sofmod people seem convinced that you can magically transform any POS card into a high-end card :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Killa|3yte
oh for the love of... just use the CATALYST 4.3 and it will include the rendering optmizations.

Ever since the 9500 -> 9700 sofmod people seem convinced that you can magically transform any POS card into a high-end card :rolleyes:
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Hey there....the 9700 is not a POS. :D
 
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/radeon9800pro/index05.htm

Hmmm read this:

Almost Radeon 9800 PRO - SoftR9800
So, why did we put the previous card into a review to do with the Radeon 9800 PRO? The thing is that some potentials of the Radeon 9800 PRO are implemented on the driver level. Alexey Nikolaichuk AKA Unwinder, the author of RivaTuner, released a patch (part of the RinaTuner 2.0 RC 12.4) that allows enabling all these options on the Radeon 9700 PRO. The patch speeds up the card's Device ID on the driver level, detects Radeon 9700 PRO as a Radeon 9800 and enables some optimizations inherent to Radeon 9800 PRO.

We conducted an interesting experiment: we overclocked the Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB up to the mark of Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (380/680MHz), patched the drivers with the SoftR9800 and compared performance of the produced "almost Radeon 9800 PRO" with the fully functional Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB. As they say, if there's no difference, why pay extra?
 
Originally posted by TommyW
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/radeon9800pro/index05.htm

Hmmm read this:

Almost Radeon 9800 PRO - SoftR9800
So, why did we put the previous card into a review to do with the Radeon 9800 PRO? The thing is that some potentials of the Radeon 9800 PRO are implemented on the driver level. Alexey Nikolaichuk AKA Unwinder, the author of RivaTuner, released a patch (part of the RinaTuner 2.0 RC 12.4) that allows enabling all these options on the Radeon 9700 PRO. The patch speeds up the card's Device ID on the driver level, detects Radeon 9700 PRO as a Radeon 9800 and enables some optimizations inherent to Radeon 9800 PRO.

We conducted an interesting experiment: we overclocked the Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB up to the mark of Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (380/680MHz), patched the drivers with the SoftR9800 and compared performance of the produced "almost Radeon 9800 PRO" with the fully functional Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB. As they say, if there's no difference, why pay extra?
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as soon as the 3.3 drivers came out, those 'hacks' were built into the drivers. it is a 100% moot point now.
 
Ok i didnt know that :)

so i dont need it... but with omega drivers i have smothvision 2.1

and with catalyst drivers its only 2 ... :p
 
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