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ATi to ATi - Reinstall CATs?

BruceLee

BruceLee

BruceLee

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As title, will I need to reinstall the cat drivers or will it be a simple case of plug and pl(r)ay?

If it makes a difference I am going from AGP to PCIE (Asrock Dual board) on the same board.

Cheers :)
 
locutus12 said:
i went from an X800GTO to X1800XT 512 without a driver reinstall (i have the asrock aswell, good board :D ) so you should be fine. i would have thought the only thing to change would be the primary VGA device in the bios. :)

what card are you moving to out of curiosity...
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Thanks for the reply, yeah I like this board, a bit of teething problems when I got it (probs my fault) but its been solid as a rock (excuse the pun) since, only thing i would complain about is the lack of vcore adjustment (cpu wont complete 2 instances of prime etc simultaniously at 2.4ish) but I can live with it.

I was leaning towards a 7600GT but the This Week Only deal on the x800 GTO 256mb from PowerColor was too good to miss so I got that. Obv not as good as the 7600GT but its a good stop gap until I pay for all my holiday flights and snowboarding gear (damn expensive hobby when you first start out!). Also I only have a 350w psu so thought this wont tax it too much.

Looks like a 9500 Pro may be up for sale soon :D
 
Actually, I installed the board and stuff fine first time round, but then I decided to flash the bios on it as I thought i could nt adjust the FSB (didnt realise you entered numbers, thought it was dif), couldnt flash from floppy for some reason, so tried the windows based one, that seemed to kill it. In the end I sent the BIOS off to a nice guy from on here, but he said it was working, when I got it back it worked first time...odd. Anyway, I am a bit reluctant to flash the BIOS again now, are you sure that there is a bios to give up to 1.55 without any other adjustments? Currently at 1.4v now but thats fine up to 2.3ish.

There are other BIOSs that go over the 274 lock, dunno if you tried them yet. Im happy as is, it runs everything i throw at it, not done too much encoding and things, but for movie playback on the tv for the gf and also me browsing the net and doing PSP work its great.

Thanks for the wattage guideline, eases my mind a bit :p
 
Ha, yeah i saw a few of them, but didnt realise that they gave vcore dif too. I have an older binned Toledo core so its probs why it doesnt clock too well on low volts.

Nice overclock there tho, it is an impressive budget board, what temps do you get on that?
 
Nice, mine idles around 30c and peaks around 38, using an arctic freezer pro, great quiet heatsink.

Also got a couple of amber fans which are quiet too. hoping the x800 wont be too loud :p

Know what you mean about temps, old xp2200 ran around 40c at idle... such a great improvemnt on that, i thought the temp sensors were faulty!
 
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