I STRONGLY recomend using the SUPPORTED DRIVERS for best all round performance,stability.
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MY ATI RADEON PAGEATI Radeon 32MB DDR
OverClocking The Radeon(Of Course) Personnally I never had much luck overclocking my Radeon but I think it was due to the poor 6ns 166Mhz DDR ram that is on it. The core and DDR are to be run SYNCRONOUS,(The Same MHZ),on this card because of the design of its memory controller. Some people have had these cards running at 183/183Mhz and ABOVE without a hitch. I assume that they had better ram on theirs. I had no luck above 177/177 Mhz although the CORE would run 190Mhz the memory choked out at 178Mhz.
RADEON 7500 OVERCLOCKINGI just recently upgraded to a 64MB 7500,OEM again,running at 230/183Mhz. It seems that because its not made by ATI directly but by its partner,Saphire Technologies,no application would overclock it. SO.. After a few months of what seemed like a HOPELESS quest.. I finally got a tweaker to work..I Emailed Sapphire Tech and after explaining my plight..the sent me Ati's actuall IN HOUSE TWEAKER..amazing eh?! Well it was all good from there cause a dood over at Rage3D forums directed me in the correct path of making these Sapphire cards go.. so.. I want to share it with EVERYBODY!! First you need to grab The Radeon Bios Editor and The Radeon Bios Flasher and if you have the Sapphire OEM 7500 get this Retail 7500 Bios to Flash the card with. Below are the exact instructions on how to do this.. so read..and have fun. BOOT INTO DOS MODE,Go into your folder that you dumped flashrom.exe and flashrom.rom into run this command... flashrom -s 0 my_bios.rom That command gives you the bios that you have on your card right now, and saves it as my_bios.rom in the same directory as the program. Now go back to windows open up my_bios.rom with radedit and change your clock speeds If your gonna use your cards origonal sapphire bios and not the retail bios here that you can download. Also make sure you know how high your card will run stable!!The retail bios sets your core to 290Mhz and the mem to 230mhz.(ALL CARDS SHOULD RUN AT THIS SPEED) Now Reboot into dos again....from a boot disk or whatever and run this line flashrom -p 0 my_bios.rom r ...yes that is a zero,and that should flash your new bios to the card. What is cool is you can edit/change the bioses and flash the card as much as needed to make it 100% right. You may want to keep a PCI vid card around in the unlikely event that the power goes out whie you are flashing your Radeon.. that way you can put the PCI card in and boot to DOS and reflash the Radeon. Now you will never have to install an overclocker again!!
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