maxing out the 9550

[ReconCX]

Hmmm. you do have a point there.

 

[ati.bob]

Well, you can't expect too much for getting a 9550, these cards are designed originally to cater the budget market.. you can count yourself lucky to be able to clock your card to 9600Pro/XT speeds..

 

[ReconCX]

Just removed my heatsink and removed the so called thermal tape then applied some Arctic Silver 5. Now the 200 hour burn-in period begins =) Hopefully, I'll get even better result. I can already overclock to 520 core =) I'm thinking about ramsinks and also, i would like to know you all's opinions on silencer fan/heatsinks?

 

[Tower[pl]]

Hi! I'm new to this forum and my English isn't perfect but maybe someone will help me so here goes:
Generaly speaking I do not like the soft-mod so I wanted to flash bios in my Gigabyte 9550128D Radeon. Unfortunatly FLASHROM does not work. I get a
Error: block protect not disabled, status-0E Error
How to disable this block protect? I used
flashrom -f -p 0 9600ez.bin command

 

[ati.bob]

I've seen many people with Gigabyte cards have these problems.. I'm not sure the actual solution. but try using the BIOS flash utility from Gigabyte instead...

 

[traile_25]

hi I just finished installing the iceberg cooler that wazzledoozle advised me and put ramsink on my powercolor 9550 after testing I was able to max it out to 412 for the core and 460 for the mem and everything seem to be stable.. ramsink surely helps alot to push and get the 460 mark...

 

[Tower[pl]]

I reed lots of OC forums and it looks like Gigabyte cards have locked BIOS -> I'll just try to exchange my card for a Sapphire card. Unfortunatly only Sapphire, HIS and Gigabyte R9550 cards are avalible in Poland and it's hard to get a 4ns Sapphire.

 

[ati.bob]

HIS cards seems to be better (not really sure, but their high end cards are targeted at the overclocking segment).. just find a card with proper RAM chips.. you don't want to end up unable to clock the vRAM much higher.. (like me.. )

 

[Tower[pl]]

hmm Do You have 4ns memory chips? I do not want to risk with HIS ;-) I thought (good spelling?) that Gigabytes card is going to be good (nice hitsink - beter/biger than Sapphire and I had a free FAN for it) but this bios lock thing really sux. I never saw flashed HIS-only Sapphire. My card works OK at 430/500 - I have 3300marks (2003) 1250 (2005) (Athlon2400@Sempron2800) and 44fps Doom3 (medium 800x600) Nice but I cant be 100%happy without this HardMod ;-)

 

[ReconCX]

460(230x2) effective or 460x2?

I always talk in effective terms.. make it seem bigger =)

 

[BobMarley]

Need Sapphire 9550se original 128 meg BIOS!!!!

Bios flash went bad..so did my backup of original.
HELP !!!

BobMarley

 

[ati.bob]

460(230x2) effective or 460x2?

I always talk in effective terms.. make it seem bigger =)

My sig clearly states it.. 230MHz x 2 = 460MHz DDR Speed

BTW, I have 5ns Samsung RAM chips.. that's why I can't budge anything higher than 230 for the RAM.. wazzledozle's even worst (no offence ) only ~210MHz x 2.. get a card with MINIMUM 4ns RAMs if you're planning to overclock..

 

[ReconCX]

My sig clearly states it.. 230MHz x 2 = 460MHz DDR Speed

BTW, I have 5ns Samsung RAM chips.. that's why I can't budge anything higher than 230 for the RAM.. wazzledozle's even worst (no offence ) only ~210MHz x 2.. get a card with MINIMUM 4ns RAMs if you're planning to overclock..

I was referring to traile, not you bob =)

 

[wazzledoozle]

My sig clearly states it.. 230MHz x 2 = 460MHz DDR Speed

BTW, I have 5ns Samsung RAM chips.. that's why I can't budge anything higher than 230 for the RAM.. wazzledozle's even worst (no offence ) only ~210MHz x 2.. get a card with MINIMUM 4ns RAMs if you're planning to overclock..

My memory is 3ns. I dont know what is holding it back. Ill be gettting some ramsinks, as my memory gets quite hot under load. I dont know how much that will help. If it doesnt help much I will try flashing the bios.

And where did you see 210x2? Its 215x2

 

[ati.bob]

Heehee.. sorry my bad..

 

[ReconCX]

hehe, bob's losing it.

 

[ati.bob]

Because some electro-static charge got pass through my brain and causing some electronic malfunction..

 

[ReconCX]

Whoever updated you should have ground themselves properly first to prevent ESD =)!

 

[ati.bob]

Hahaha.. no grounding made.. so, the CPU's damaged..

 

[wazzledoozle]

I think your southbridge chipset might have been fried also

 

[ati.bob]

Replace the whole system..

<System offline>
. .
. . .

<Installing ATI.Bob OS V2004...>
. . .
.


<Performing configuration...>
.. . .

<System online>
..
. .

There.. a new system..

 

[wazzledoozle]

Replace the whole system..

<System offline>
. .
. . .

<Installing ATI.Bob OS V2004...>
. . .
.


<Performing configuration...>
.. . .

<System online>
..
. .

There.. a new system..

-/command
Who will win the world series?
-/command_submit

 

[ati.bob]

>Bad command or file name..

 

[ReconCX]

This thread is getting way off track thanks to bob =) j/k.

Ok, here's a question, anyone try flashing their 9550 to a 9600XT and does it/does it not work?

Also, is it possible to flash to anything more than the 9600 series? e.g. like 9700 or something? I'm guessing hardware changes will prevent that. but just wondering if anyone tried

 

[ReconCX]

Also, i am considering getting a Zalman ZM80 or something like that for VGA cooling. Which is better? the silencers or the zalman?