Superchicken

Well I installed ATI catalyst 5.6 drivers with the catalyst program instead of the simple 5.6 controll pannel and the memory usage changed from 230mb to 330mb at startup in task maneger. What I'm asking is the catalyst software with it's AI and w.e better in games then the plane controll pannel, if so is it 100mb of memory worth? Thanks in advance

Superchicken

And another question, can I flash my Saphhire X600Pro? And why can't I see any temperature readings off this card? Tnx

SPHERE

maby to a xt but overclocking will give the same result i dont think u wil gety any temp readings though

as for the extra mem never noticed that ill have to look into that if it is true than id say it isnt worth it over the control panel

Superchicken

Thanks, you're repped, oh, by the way, how far do you think I can overclock this card and/or where can I get the stuff to flash it to XT?

SPHERE

thanks

here is how u flash to a xt go to www.techpowerup.com and find a x600xt bios that has the same ram as ur card (notice the last two digets on one of the rows of characters on ur ram chips may say 28/25 ect.) once u find the bios that has the same ram and says its a x600 xt u will then need to make shure that ur core and ram can run at those speeds after u make shure that it can use a program that they have for download at that site called "flashrom.exe" to flash the bios to do that u will need to make a dos bootup disk and put the bios and flashrom.exe on it

once u get it all ready reboot and go into dos and type flashrom.exe -f -p 0 (bios name goes here).(rom/bin which ever kinda file it is)

to save u if the flash goes wrong u will need to have a pci vid card handy

also before u do this backup the origional bios by dumping it with ati tool and puting it on the floppy aswell

btw manufacturer doesnt matter

Superchicken

Thanks again man, as you can see your repped

Strider_2001

I would download ATI tool and let that find your max core and mem settings...Go to google and type ATI tool...It works great...Good luck

Superchicken

I have ATI tool but I can't see my video card temp, so when the heating up phase happens how does it know when to stop?

SPHERE

thx dude

when it becomes unstable (artifacts)

what are ur max clocks? do u know yet?

Superchicken

No, not yet, I was afraid to let it test to the end because I thought it wount recognize the heat since it cant display it so I turned it off, so should I find out the max clocks now?