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Dell underclocking 9800 pros?

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thevidon

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My roomates mother was buying a dell and he convinced her to get a 9800 pro shipped in the system. He grabbed it out and put in an 8500 replacement. Now on to the problem. Last night we installed the ATI tool we got from here :).....and the clocks were stock for a 9800 non-pro! The card reads as a pro when the information comes up and was sold as a pro by dell. We tried overclocking and the memory got to 345 or so and the core up to about 390 i beleive...... Any thoughts here?
 
Originally posted by thevidon
My roomates mother was buying a dell and he convinced her to get a 9800 pro shipped in the system. He grabbed it out and put in an 8500 replacement. Now on to the problem. Last night we installed the ATI tool we got from here :).....and the clocks were stock for a 9800 non-pro! The card reads as a pro when the information comes up and was sold as a pro by dell. We tried overclocking and the memory got to 345 or so and the core up to about 390 i beleive...... Any thoughts here?
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I have read about dells pros being strangely clocked elsewhere
 
All 9800np read as pro's in windows. Also it overclocked to pro levels and higher so sounds fine to me, be happy it doesn't have the INFINICRAP ram like mine.
 
All 9800np read as pro's in windows. Also it overclocked to pro levels and higher so sounds fine to me, be happy it doesn't have the INFINICRAP ram like mine.
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I have the same card you do, and have about the exact same specs. Right now I have it at 402MHz core and 325MHz memory. I haven't pushed the core until it artifacts, so it may a little more headroom there, but anything more on the memory and artifacts start.
 
Yea Dell does that. The 9800XT's the come with Dell Dimensions and XPSs have OverDrive disabled.
 
I have tried 3 Dell 9800 Pros and they all were running at stock Pro speeds. All three of them run around 410-420/365 with stock cooling and with a bios flash to this bios they all run around 390 memory.

It sounds like they accidentally sent you a non-pro, because I have had two of those also. They are visually identical, so I can see how it would happen, but they don't sell non-pros anymore.
 
Originally posted by Roost426
All 9800np read as pro's in windows.
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actually no, my non-pro read "9800". Only after i flashed it to pro it read as "9800 PRO".
 
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