What can I do to my 9700 Pro...Mod wise ;) ?

[#ball3r]

Just bought a Hercules 9700 Pro Red OEM of ebay and was wondering how I can mod this card? Can I do a 9800 pro bios mod on it, and will that really do anything for performance?

[Tweaked!]

I'm going to move this over to the mod area, you'll probably get a better response over there:cool:

[#ball3r]

wasn't really looking for a voltage mod, just a soft or hard mod :(

[makatee]

Google "9800 pro softmod"...flashing the bios wont work as far as i know but the softmod is great

[xxORBxx]

you can flash the bios with a different 9700P bios. I did it and got 5 mre mhz outta my ram and 3mhz outta the core. Some guy have like 20+ on the mem. Ill try and find the like from futuremark.


EDIT: here we go

BIOS UPDATE (http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=techdisplayadapters&Number=2155953&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=1)

[nick9802]

this month's issue of maximum pc has an excellent program called radeonator. it lets you select any setting you want as far as memory and core speeds. I think the default for 9700 pro is 320 core 310 mem.. I was able to bump them up to 337/337 without any glitches, I tried higher but it started acting up, and heating up! just don't select overclock on startup unless you're positive its stable.

[NinetySix]

you can use these hacked drivers to get a few of the 9800pro functions out of a 9700: http://www.maxdownloads.com/~ian/wizzard/ .... i have heard of some people gaining 25% fps in unreal2, and some who have no gained anything


Also a handy mod is to remove the heatsync, and check if the shim is sitting higher than the GPU core, like by 0.025mm .. if it is, remove it... if the GPU sits about 0.025mm higher than the shim, leave it there... also scrape off the crappy thermal pad, get some really fine sand paper (wet & dry is good) and smooth the base of the heat sync flat, remember to go with the 'grain' of the aluminium and then apply some AS3 or any half decent thermal grease to the core, only a little bit! and make sure it dosnt touch any of the resistors around the edge of the core, 'twould be quite bad... and finally reattach the heat sync nice and tight


some extra fans pointing towards the heatsyncs/ramsyncs can be pretty beneficial, see how you go with that... 333 is pretty good for memory, but the core should be able to go quite a bit higher than that

then you can start to think about vmods

[#ball3r]

could you explain how I do this please? I'm pretty new with modding video cards...