radeon 9800 pro -> XT

to preverim tud z ARTIFACT TESTERJEM. Ko pa poženem kkašen špil se mi pa takoj pojavjo artifacti??

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This isn't exactly news, since it's been out for a month or so, but for those who don't know about it, it might be useful. AFAIK, it's more recent than Adrian's Rojak Pot and other guides.
Credits: I've collated/rewritten this info mainly based on this thread at Rage3D: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread....

After the MSI 9800 XXL, it appears Sapphire and Gecube are following suit, and releasing 128MB 9800 'XT' cards:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800-xt...
http://www.gecube.com/productCategory.p...
These cards have R360s, are built with the 9800XT PWA, have Hynix 2.8ns RAM and come with a 9800 XT BIOS.

But these is good news for 9800 Pro owners who bought their cards recently (or who are planning to buy them). Many of the new 9800 Pros came with R360 GPUs and 9800XT PWA. This means they are actually 128MB 9800XTs labelled as 9800Pros. I.e. they have optimised shaders, temperature monitoring and overdrive, all you need is the right BIOS to activate these. And since those newly released cards came out with proper XT BIOSes, you can just used their BIOSes rather than hacked XTised versions (e.g. Club3d).

BIOSes available:
Gecube 128MB 9800 XT Hynix (398/350 clocks, not XT clocks)
http://www.mmj.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bio...
As above, but with XT clocks (412/365)
http://www.mmj.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bio...
Sapphire 128MB 9800 XT Hynix BIOS
http://mbnet.fi/elixir/Radeon/XT/R3...128MB.Hynix.bin

I have tried both Gecube (XT clocked) and Sapphire on my Gecube 9800 Pro (bought in May, R360 with 9800XT board), and both seem to work fine, though I haven't bothered benchmarking them. Both have temperature monitoring; the Gecube BIOS has overdrive capability, and you can see your GPU temp in your Advanced Display properties, whereas the Sapphire requires another tool for temp monitoring (e.g. ATITool).

Any of you who have 9800 Pros with R360s and 9800 XT PWA might as well flash your cards with one of these BIOSes, since what you really have is just a 128MB 9800 XT, just the BIOS isn't right (STANDARD DISCLAIMER ABOUT FLASHING APPLIES). Of course, if you still have stock cooling, keep an eye on your temps, since they might get too high if you go to XT clocks (412/365), might be prudent to use the lower clocked Gecube BIOS (first one above), and then overclock up to XT speed while monitoring your GPU temp. Of course, keep in mind that this mod isn't going to give you much improvement in performance, but I myself feel more satisfied having a 'proper' BIOS for my card, and having temperature monitoring is useful .

How to identify if you have an R360 and 9800XT PWA?
XT boards labelled: 109-A18800-xx
Pro boards labeled: 109-A07500-xx
My card was "109-A18800-10" (this was near the top, on the GPU side of the card).
I'm guessing that if you have an XT board you probably have an R360. I'm not sure about this, but it seems to make sense to me. Other than that, the only real way to be sure is to take off the heatsink and look at the writing on the GPU.
Also, the BIOSes are designed for Hynix RAM so better make sure your card has the right RAM.

Again, credit goes to others on the Rage3d forum. And remember flashing your card is at your own risk.

ps. If you have an MSI 9800 XXL, don't bother with this since your card should already have an XT BIOS.
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