Gigabyte MAYA II Radeon 9700 Review

[Ian]

By now, almost all of you would have heard of the Radeon 9700 Pro and are pretty familar with it's comparitive results. Today, RadiativeNZ will be taking a look at Gigabyte's Radeon 9700 (Non-Pro), which is based on the same chipset but with slightly lower clocked core & memory:

The Radeon 9700 can best be described as a cut back 9700 Pro as they are based on the same chipset with the different clock frequencies being one of the few things separating the two. One thing that has not been widely publicised is the fact that the majority of 9700 (and 9500 Pro's for that matter) are BIOS locked, which prevents any overclocking (which we will go into later).

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