Got my first radeon: 9600xt. lots of questions.

Mad · August 9th, 2006

I just got this card here for testing, as a friend requests.
It had no fan, the original one died, so i putted a fan from a old K7 cooler i had lying around.

After 5 hours of 3d testing, the card seemed to be ok, no artifacts nor it was hot.

So i decided to keep it to myself, he sold me really cheap, R$100 Reais, around 35 U$ Dollar. The card is a gecube radeon 9600xt 256MB 128-bits. I really think this card is way better than my current GF FX 5200 128MB 64-bit.

Since i never had a radeon before, i got the latest catalyst 6.7, but for tweaking the driver, rivatuner still doesnt support this driver. So any tips on programs and settings about will be much appreciated.

PS: when i get a camera here, ill post some pics of my "fan-mod"...

morgoth86 · August 9th, 2006

Try some optimizied drivers, such as Omega's or NGO Optimizied Driver with ATI Tray Tools. I use them for a long time and they're the best configuration I've ever tested.

Oh, and yes, Your Radeon is WAY better than the crappy GeForce : ).

Mad · August 10th, 2006

Forgot to ask. Should i uninstall the forceware drivers first?
Tomorrow im gonna put the card in my pc, wish me luck!

firyace · August 10th, 2006

Of course you should remove forceware first, Catalyst might screw up your whole OS if you don't. If you can, try to remove it completely from the system before installing catalyst.

Mad · August 10th, 2006

K thx, gonna remove them.

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Mad AKA snkmad Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Brazil, Fortaleza-Ceará Posts: 2,957	Got my first radeon: 9600xt. lots of questions. I just got this card here for testing, as a friend requests. It had no fan, the original one died, so i putted a fan from a old K7 cooler i had lying around. After 5 hours of 3d testing, the card seemed to be ok, no artifacts nor it was hot. So i decided to keep it to myself, he sold me really cheap, R$100 Reais, around 35 U$ Dollar. The card is a gecube radeon 9600xt 256MB 128-bits. I really think this card is way better than my current GF FX 5200 128MB 64-bit. Since i never had a radeon before, i got the latest catalyst 6.7, but for tweaking the driver, rivatuner still doesnt support this driver. So any tips on programs and settings about will be much appreciated. PS: when i get a camera here, ill post some pics of my "fan-mod"... __________________ [WinXP SP3] [Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2] [Athlon64 X2 3800+ @2.00Ghz] [XFX Geforce 8600GT XxX 256MB DDR3] [17" SyncMaster 753v] [Samsung SATA II HD250HJ 250GB] [Kingston 2x1GB DDR2 6400@800MHz CL6] [Samsung CDDVDW SH-S203B] [NVIDIA nForce Networking] [Realtek HD Audio ALC883] Baldurs Gate Dumps

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Mad AKA snkmad Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Brazil, Fortaleza-Ceará Posts: 2,957	Forgot to ask. Should i uninstall the forceware drivers first? Tomorrow im gonna put the card in my pc, wish me luck! __________________ [WinXP SP3] [Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2] [Athlon64 X2 3800+ @2.00Ghz] [XFX Geforce 8600GT XxX 256MB DDR3] [17" SyncMaster 753v] [Samsung SATA II HD250HJ 250GB] [Kingston 2x1GB DDR2 6400@800MHz CL6] [Samsung CDDVDW SH-S203B] [NVIDIA nForce Networking] [Realtek HD Audio ALC883] Baldurs Gate Dumps

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firyace Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: fater Posts: 798	Of course you should remove forceware first, Catalyst might screw up your whole OS if you don't. If you can, try to remove it completely from the system before installing catalyst. __________________ Free Gundam Model Kits\|Free Real Estate Listing\|My Biomed Engineering Projects \|Gundam Seed Destiny\|Gmecha Blog\|Babes of Gmecha Proud biomedical simulation programmer at the UofC My Gaming computer spec : Pentium Core2Duo 6420 with 4mb cache\|4x1Ghz Corsair PC5400\|XCube rev2.0 uATX case\|HIS 1950pro Turbo \|Tiger 3in1 Controller port\|1x500GB Maxtor Sata2 hard drive\|1x80Gb WD Sata\|19inch Samsung LCD

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Mad AKA snkmad Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Brazil, Fortaleza-Ceará Posts: 2,957	K thx, gonna remove them. __________________ [WinXP SP3] [Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2] [Athlon64 X2 3800+ @2.00Ghz] [XFX Geforce 8600GT XxX 256MB DDR3] [17" SyncMaster 753v] [Samsung SATA II HD250HJ 250GB] [Kingston 2x1GB DDR2 6400@800MHz CL6] [Samsung CDDVDW SH-S203B] [NVIDIA nForce Networking] [Realtek HD Audio ALC883] Baldurs Gate Dumps

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August 9th, 2006	#2 (permalink)
morgoth86 Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Poland Posts: 33	Try some optimizied drivers, such as Omega's or NGO Optimizied Driver with ATI Tray Tools. I use them for a long time and they're the best configuration I've ever tested. Oh, and yes, Your Radeon is WAY better than the crappy GeForce : ).