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Old July 2nd 03, 07:32 PM
Chris
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Default Newbie Radeon 9700 questions

Hi,

This is my first ATI card, so kindly bear with me.

I bought a PowerColor Radeon 9700 Gold (non-pro) today. I did not install
the disk drivers, but installed the Catalyst 3.5 drivers (and Control Panel)
instead. What seems odd to me is that the card is shown everywhere (Display
Properties, games etc) as a "Radeon 9700 Pro", while it is NOT the Pro
version. According to PowerStrip the card runs at: Clock 275 / Memory 270.
That's the specs of the non-pro. In PowerStrip (v3.30) I could use the
sliders to (seemingly) overclock the card, but it made no framerate
difference in UT2003.

Questions please:
(1) Why is the card identified as a 9700 Pro?
(2) Does adjustment of the sliders in PowerStrip actually overclock the
card? The settings revert to default on a reboot, and as I said, there seems
to be no apparent speed increase.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks a lot
Chris.


 




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