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Lowen B. Holde
I bought a Powercolor Radeon 9700, but in device manager it shows up as a
9700 Pro. I asked this question earlier and one poster thought it was
actually a Pro card. Someone else asked what speed the card was running at.
So I loaded up Powerstrip and here's the answer: in Powerstrip my card also
shows up as a 9700 Pro, but the clock speed is 270 Mhz memory and 276
engine. Those numbers seem to indicate that its a non-pro.
So my question is, what card do I really have? Is it a 9700 Pro that has
somehow been "dumbed down" to a non-pro? And the next logical question is,
can I flash this card or do anything to turn it into a "real" Pro card?
Thanks in advance for your answers. I've pasted Powerstrip's diag report
below in case you want to see it. BTW, I'm running Catalyst 3.5, and I have
a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! MB, Athlon 1700+ oc'd to an 1800+, 512mb Crucial
RAM.
Diagnostic report - generated on 7/9/2003
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PowerStrip build - 388
Windows build - v.5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 1
DirectX build - v.5.3.0000000.900 built by: DIRECTX
OpenGL renderer - (n/a)
System board
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CPU speed - 1542 MHz
Type - VIA VT8366-8233-6A6LVS29C-00
BIOS - Award Bios, 01/28/2003
AGP aperture - 256 MB
AGP transfer mechanism - DMA
AGP non-local memory - 123.5 MB
AGP driving value - EAh (N-ctrl=14, P-ctrl=10)
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - 4x
Sideband addressing - Enabled
Fast write protocol - Enabled
AGP texturing - Enabled
Graphics card #1
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Identity - RADEON 9700 PRO
Memory clock - 270.00 MHz
Engine clock - 276.75 MHz
IRQ - 11, shared
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - 4x
Sideband addressing - Enabled
Display driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360
DirectX driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360
Attached monitor - Dell D1025HTX (Microsoft)
Monitor caps (1) - 1280x1024, 70kHz, 120Hz
Device enumeration
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RADEON 9700 PRO (4E441002h) - using IRQ11
ATI Display controller (4E641002h)
VIA CPU-to-PCI/AGP bridge (30991106h)
VIA PCI-to-PCI/AGP bridge (B0991106h)
RISQ Modular Systems Communication device (044E11C1h) - using IRQ11
Soyo Audio device (011113F6h) - using IRQ11
VIA PCI-to-ISA bridge (30741106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10
VIA Ethernet controller (30651106h) - using IRQ11
9700 Pro. I asked this question earlier and one poster thought it was
actually a Pro card. Someone else asked what speed the card was running at.
So I loaded up Powerstrip and here's the answer: in Powerstrip my card also
shows up as a 9700 Pro, but the clock speed is 270 Mhz memory and 276
engine. Those numbers seem to indicate that its a non-pro.
So my question is, what card do I really have? Is it a 9700 Pro that has
somehow been "dumbed down" to a non-pro? And the next logical question is,
can I flash this card or do anything to turn it into a "real" Pro card?
Thanks in advance for your answers. I've pasted Powerstrip's diag report
below in case you want to see it. BTW, I'm running Catalyst 3.5, and I have
a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! MB, Athlon 1700+ oc'd to an 1800+, 512mb Crucial
RAM.
Diagnostic report - generated on 7/9/2003
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PowerStrip build - 388
Windows build - v.5.1.2600.2.Service Pack 1
DirectX build - v.5.3.0000000.900 built by: DIRECTX
OpenGL renderer - (n/a)
System board
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CPU speed - 1542 MHz
Type - VIA VT8366-8233-6A6LVS29C-00
BIOS - Award Bios, 01/28/2003
AGP aperture - 256 MB
AGP transfer mechanism - DMA
AGP non-local memory - 123.5 MB
AGP driving value - EAh (N-ctrl=14, P-ctrl=10)
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - 4x
Sideband addressing - Enabled
Fast write protocol - Enabled
AGP texturing - Enabled
Graphics card #1
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Identity - RADEON 9700 PRO
Memory clock - 270.00 MHz
Engine clock - 276.75 MHz
IRQ - 11, shared
AGP revision - 2.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x, 4x
Current AGP transfer rate - 4x
Sideband addressing - Enabled
Display driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360
DirectX driver - ati2dvag.dll, v.6.14.10.6360
Attached monitor - Dell D1025HTX (Microsoft)
Monitor caps (1) - 1280x1024, 70kHz, 120Hz
Device enumeration
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RADEON 9700 PRO (4E441002h) - using IRQ11
ATI Display controller (4E641002h)
VIA CPU-to-PCI/AGP bridge (30991106h)
VIA PCI-to-PCI/AGP bridge (B0991106h)
RISQ Modular Systems Communication device (044E11C1h) - using IRQ11
Soyo Audio device (011113F6h) - using IRQ11
VIA PCI-to-ISA bridge (30741106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10
VIA Universal serial bus (USB) (30381106h) - using IRQ10
VIA Ethernet controller (30651106h) - using IRQ11