9700/9500 Pros and Asus Motherboards

[compn00b]

I ended up buying that PowerColor 9700 Pro i posted about yesterday. i'm building a new Pc, and my mobo is a Asus K8V Deluxe. Inside the mobo manual, it says "If installing ATI 9500 or 9700 Pro Series VGA cards, use only the card version PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability." Is there anyway I can check the card version without opening it? Its the Radeon 9700 Pro Evil Commando 2. Now I don't really card about overclocking--not my thing, but will it at least perform how its supposed to?

 

[cleeve]

I don't know the answer to that. But...

Could you please tell me where you got that card in Canada so cheap?

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[compn00b]

Sure, I bought it at a local store in Markham, Ontario, called <A HREF="http:// www.computerlinksystems.com " target="_new">http:// www.computerlinksystems.com </A>. Also, I saw you ask about the EVGA 5900SE for $257 yesterday, and thats one <A HREF="http:// www.tigerdirect.ca " target="_new">http:// www.tigerdirect.ca </A> just search for 5900 and you'll see it.

 

[Ion]

I guess you could tell the store that your motherboard is compatible with a small range of 9700pro and ask them if you could open it in front of them to check, and if the card isnt compatiable maybe you can ask for replacement? :tongue:

 

[over_c]

Crap! I wish I had read this post a couple of days ago. I just received an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro today. I sure hope it is a version -30 or greater.

In the event that your card is less than -30 and you tried it anyway, have you seen any problems?

 

[peterfagg]

I've got a (Powercolor?) 9500 pro PN xxx 00 running fine in my Asus P4P800 Deluxe mobo. Seems to overclock reasonably - had a wobbly 375/310 (with a zalman cooler) but I'm just waiting for a new psu to arrive as I think it was more to do with that (and the 4 hds, 2.8C, zip, cd etc). Wouldn't BSOD but would crash to 640x480 in 16 colours (yuk!) every now and again, even on screensaver. 325/300 is fine though.