How many pixel pipelines?

[Antti]

How can I find out if I have 4 or 8 pixel pipelines? I have a HIS
Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb flashed with XT BIOS so I should have 8
pipelines, right? Is there a software that would somehow find it out?

Are there any other big differences between pro and xt on a non-xt
board? Or is that bios just made to show the card as XT with higher
clock frequencies?

Antti, Finland

 

[Avid Gamer]

Yep thats it.

 

[Antti]

Yep thats it.

Is what? Only a different name? My card has a R360 core though..

 

[Conor]

How can I find out if I have 4 or 8 pixel pipelines? I have a HIS
Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb flashed with XT BIOS so I should have 8
pipelines, right? Is there a software that would somehow find it out?

ATITool

 

[Augustus]

How can I find out if I have 4 or 8 pixel pipelines? I have a HIS
Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb flashed with XT BIOS so I should have 8
pipelines, right? Is there a software that would somehow find it out?

Are there any other big differences between pro and xt on a non-xt board?
Or is that bios just made to show the card as XT with higher clock
frequencies?

You had 8 pipelines before you flashed it too. But now your default core/mem
speeds are at XT spec. Everest home edition (free) will give you all GPU
specs along with a ton of other info.

 

[Antti]

You had 8 pipelines before you flashed it too. But now your default
core/mem speeds are at XT spec. Everest home edition (free) will give
you all GPU specs along with a ton of other info.

Yes, I know. I don't have any idea why I thought pro had only 4.

But basically I could also just modify the normal pro bios so that it
has the higher clocks and it would be just the same? No other advantages
with xt bios?

 

[Ice D]

How can I find out if I have 4 or 8 pixel pipelines? I have a HIS
Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb flashed with XT BIOS so I should have 8
pipelines, right? Is there a software that would somehow find it out?

Are there any other big differences between pro and xt on a non-xt board?
Or is that bios just made to show the card as XT with higher clock
frequencies?

Have a peek at this overview:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2195&p=2

Ice D

 

[Augustus]

But basically I could also just modify the normal pro bios so that it has

the higher clocks and it would be just the same? No other advantages with
xt bios?

Is your card a R350 or R360 core? If the latter, the end product will be
better. R360 cores have a thermal diode for monitoring temps, built in
overclocking ability, and the core has additional shaders making a little
faster than an R350 at the same speeds. Before you flash anything, make sure
the card is capable of running at or above 9800XT spec.

 

[Antti]

Is your card a R350 or R360 core? If the latter, the end product will
be
better. R360 cores have a thermal diode for monitoring temps, built in
overclocking ability, and the core has additional shaders making a
little
faster than an R350 at the same speeds. Before you flash anything,
make sure
the card is capable of running at or above 9800XT spec.

This one has R360 but not an XT pcb. I read somewhere that only the ones
with XT boards have the temperature reading chips. And a supporting fact
is that ATiTool doesn't show any temperature readings as it would if
temp chip would be available. Or..?

Don't know about the oc ability either since it's not available in
Display Settings. This one's oc'd by the bios and way over XT clocks.

Any info on the temp reading or oc ability?