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Hi there. I have a few questions, and I would be extremely happy if you would answer any one of them (yes, even answering one question should be nice enough of you):
I just bought a Gigabyte Radeon 9550 - the one with the 128 bit. Don't remember the exact model.
I want to mess a bit with overclocking as I read in many places that the 9550 begs for it.
So I will start in cooling solutions:
My first question would be if one of the Arctic coolers is appropriate for it? I didn't see any '9550' listings, only whole hundreds (9600, 9700, 9500 etc..)
If I won't find an arctic cooler model than I consider buying the ZALMAN Heatpipe VGA Cooler ZM80D-HP as I heard it is appropriate for any model and I don't have many other efficient options. Is it any good?
It would also be nice if someone knows of a guide that explains throughoutly how to remove existing cooling solutions (that came with the card) and installing new ones (and by saying throughoutly it should say that I want explanations for many types of cooling ).
How are your experiences with turning the Gigabyte model to 9600 pro? I don't know how to do it, what BIOS to look for, and I have absolutely no idea what is this 4ns you keep talking about... I don't want to mess up my card (when I looked at the Gigabyte part of the BIOS page it gave unknown information about the 9600 pro model). Should I use the flashing tool from Gigabyte?
Do you know any good guide on how to twick/ocerclock/optimize/whatever the Radeon 9550?
And last but not least - it seems that the VTool 2 I downloaded from Gigabyte just get's 'stuck' in it's image after I start it - it means I see all the options and they beg for me to click on them (by changing their color) but when I actually click on them or try to move the slider of the MHZ nothing happens at all.
Here is my system specs:
Biostar U8798 Pro motherboard with VIA P4X400 / VT8235 chipset
P4 2.66GHZ
512 DDR 333 MHZ
Gigabyte Radeon 9550 (I installed the softmod 4.11 drivers. Should this remove the overclocking protection completely?)
100 GB HD
I just bought a Gigabyte Radeon 9550 - the one with the 128 bit. Don't remember the exact model.
I want to mess a bit with overclocking as I read in many places that the 9550 begs for it.
So I will start in cooling solutions:
My first question would be if one of the Arctic coolers is appropriate for it? I didn't see any '9550' listings, only whole hundreds (9600, 9700, 9500 etc..)
If I won't find an arctic cooler model than I consider buying the ZALMAN Heatpipe VGA Cooler ZM80D-HP as I heard it is appropriate for any model and I don't have many other efficient options. Is it any good?
It would also be nice if someone knows of a guide that explains throughoutly how to remove existing cooling solutions (that came with the card) and installing new ones (and by saying throughoutly it should say that I want explanations for many types of cooling ).
How are your experiences with turning the Gigabyte model to 9600 pro? I don't know how to do it, what BIOS to look for, and I have absolutely no idea what is this 4ns you keep talking about... I don't want to mess up my card (when I looked at the Gigabyte part of the BIOS page it gave unknown information about the 9600 pro model). Should I use the flashing tool from Gigabyte?
Do you know any good guide on how to twick/ocerclock/optimize/whatever the Radeon 9550?
And last but not least - it seems that the VTool 2 I downloaded from Gigabyte just get's 'stuck' in it's image after I start it - it means I see all the options and they beg for me to click on them (by changing their color) but when I actually click on them or try to move the slider of the MHZ nothing happens at all.
Here is my system specs:
Biostar U8798 Pro motherboard with VIA P4X400 / VT8235 chipset
P4 2.66GHZ
512 DDR 333 MHZ
Gigabyte Radeon 9550 (I installed the softmod 4.11 drivers. Should this remove the overclocking protection completely?)
100 GB HD