Radeon 9500 Pro- Successful overclocking?

[CyberBard]

I ordered a an ATI 9500 Pro Retail and I was wondering if the various cards made by different manufacturers have different success rates using the the softmod to clock up to 9700 performance. Those of you that have 9500 Pro's and have attepted overclocking them, post the brand of card you have and the success (or lack thereof) you have had overclocking it.....

 

[AnAndAustin]

Please please please don't tell me you're using a Rad9500PRO on a 733mhz PC. The 9500PRO cards can use anything from 3.6ns to 3.0ns BGA RAM, regardless they ALL seem to o/c very well. You should get about 350 from the core and 330 from the RAM, that yields perf of a Rad9700 nonPRO running 275/275 on it's expensive 256bit DDR! Very nice for the money, don't forget even at stock the Rad9500PRO gives the GF4TI4600/4800 a run for its money and blows it away with FULL AA & AF.

 

[Viper96720]

The soft mod is for the 9500 non-pro from sapphire and any board based on the 9700 board. Which so far is the oem sapphire 9500. Don't know how much performance you'll get with a 9500 pro since all the pipelines are already enabled. The mod supposedly enables the disabled pipelines of the 9500. If you just want to overclock it use the warp11 bios and powerstrip or any radeon tweaker that supports the 9500's. If you don't flash the bios you can't overclock.