Graphics 9600 Pro problems

I have read that article before it is out of date and not correct anymore. I have tested many different card with many different AGP Aperture sizes.

There is some software (code creatures benchmark for one) that require at least 256 MB AGP Aperture size set in the BIOS.

There is not harm setting the value high, there are computer stability and graphic issues if it is set set to low.

 

As far as matrox goes, the only plus is that the Parhelia has support for an insane number of monitors added together. Other than that their scores pale in comparison to ATI's and Nvidia's.

I have a 9600 Pro 128. The ONLY problems I had were when I used PowerStrip to OC it to a core of 450/398 (i think). I just randomly increased it. I would see artifacts on surfaces in games and had desktop issues. Default settings and its perfect.

I recommend deleting your old drivers first. You havent said whether you've tried that or not. A fresh OS install is going to wipe your hard drive...unless you do a custom reformat. Get a write-zero program and use that. Its cheaper than a new card.

 

Yeah...I've got a 9600 Pro 128. I thought something was wrong when Aquamark3 only gave me 17k....then I realized I had it locked on 16x aniso and 6x anti-a...

I haven't had any problems with this card. Installed ati cat3.9 drivers, no problem...Although at first I had doubts about the tv out...but then it started working fine for no reason. Probably my crappy tv. I've been using RadLinker (RadClocker successor) to oc.

Pistol: check the actual ramchips on your 9600....that should give you what's safe (read: guaranteed, essentially) to run them at.

Mine have Samsung chips, which supposedly will go a lot higher than the Infineon. If you've got Infineon chips, sucks for you. My ram chips say 2A (= 2.8ms) so 1000/2.8 = 357. It runs fine at that. Go much higher, kaput. Green matrix squigglies. I've heard the 3.3 chips oc really well, so it shouldn't matter too much.

I've got core at 500, and it's running fine. I could probably get it higher, but I don't feel like it now. I probably wouldn't get higher than 540, so... This upcoming weekend, I'll fool around with the agp aperature, and post in this thread again. Or a new one. Depends if this one dies.