no more voltmods and no extreme cooling (pelts) should make this card last a long while. :)

Can you make a list of the cards who can be softmodded??

pls :super:

If so: RB = :king:

sure , if you provide him with all the R9500 cards :D

hmmm....
A list of the things you know for sure...
-> connect3D

if you know someone with another brand who did the softmod (and it worked)...ask the brand...

that's my idea

saphire r9500 works too :)

Any brand which uses the 9700 pcb design should work.

If you want to know if you have got the 9700 alike board...
1. Look at the pictures of the 9700 and compare
2. If there are 2 memory chips next to and 2 chips above (like L shape then it probably will be possible...)

Mine arrives tommorrow installing is saturday...

You mention this in your 9500 article
I have the same card as you ( Connect3D from Loveno ) and after the 9500softmod I can easily overclock the card without any bios flash. However I did use Radeonator 2.0 for overclocking. Maybe flashing the bios isn't necessary for overclocking. I have check the results of each oc and it works :

core/mem Game4 Nature/Point Sprites
270/270 82.2/33.1
310/310 96.6/38.4
324/324 98.7/40.0
330/330 101.5/40.9
337/337 runs but too much artifacts
351/351 runs but too much artifacts
364/330 106.2/42.5
371/330 106.8/42.7
378/330 runs but too much artifacts
398/330 runs but too much artifacts

note I have run this batch with just the stock cooler/fan and no ramsink. When I got my WC and some ramsink, I will try to push it even up.

update for the Softhack
http://www.maxdownloads.com/~ian/wizzard/

for peeps using the new ATI 3.1 Catalyst drivers

thanks, i'm just a few points away from surpassing calantak's score (ssssshh... don't tell ;) ), maybe this will do it. :D

I have used the newest 3.1 drivers and I got no performance gain.

Catalyst 3.0 : 13749, 13723, 13747, 13763 3DMarks2001se
Catalyst 3.1 : 13776, 13736, 13727, 13772

small difference :)
maybe enough for RichyB to pass mr C. :D

Hello,
I got myseft a ATI Connect 3D radeon 9500 too some time ago, but I had to wait for my Asus P4G8X deluxe mobo. Now it is finally here, and I tried the softmod instantly. I was pretty disappointed when I saw the 2 first tests in 3DMark 2001 SE (the one with the truck and the dragon thing): I had some problems with the pixel thing. (have exactly the same card as RB)
Now I've tried c&c generals, and it works like a charm, no dead pixels...and I didn't have to put the z-buffer lower...
3Dmark score at first was about 10100 points (with the 9500), and now I have +/-12400 points. I didn't oc anything. (P4 2.53, 2*256mb corsair pc3500 in dual, connect 3d 9500->9700)

Thank you RB for writing the article, it helped a lot.

btw, the guy where you got the drivers from is making a file to do a 9500->9800. Now that makes me ****ing horny.:mad:

Vraagje aan RB: als je nu in een 3D actie spel (zoals UT2003) tegen een muur gaat staan, heb je dan last van 'dode pixels'? Hier is dat dus wel t geval, niet dat ik vaak tegen de muur ga staan...t was ook maar toevallig dat ik het merkte

hangt van kaart tot kaart af waar die dode pixels zijn. Het kaartje dat ik voor mezelf en een maat (cmdr god) had gekocht, hebben er beide last van, maar in heel beperkte mate (altijd weg te toveren met sommige opties) en op verscheidene plaatsen/games.

Are there any tricks with the Connect-3D Radeon 9500 Pro(8x) ? softmod? of anything else to turn them into 9700(pro)?

You can only make the overclocking option available on the pro version. So there is no softmod available to make a 9700 from it.

Btw, for the non pro owners, check out the site with the drivers. The guy released also a 9500 ->9800 mod.:mad:

yo de manne ik heb me ook da kaartje aangeschaft maar als ik diene hacked sys file install werkt enkel nog maar mijne fill rate test in 3d mark , wel met de 2000+ score maaar thats it , alle games , ... crashen vlak voordat ze normaal beginne te renderen , same for alle andere 3d mark tests , ik vind dit dus raar omdat de fillrate test dus wel werkt en succesvol is ;p is er geen hoop voor mijn kaart of doe ik iets mis ?

http://www.overclocking.be/forum/sho...3559#post53559

ist geen ik al allemol geprobeerd heb