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    Ati 200m and ze2000 bios question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Nomadsoul, Jan 4, 2006.

  1. Nomadsoul

    Nomadsoul Newbie

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    Hi can anyone tell me if it´s possible to unlock the other 2 pipelines on the 200m or any other soft mod or anything at all to make it run better?

    How do i get ati tray tools to find my bios? it says that it can´t find them... i´d like to lower the latencies on my ram but i don´t have any of those options in my bios i got the latest phoenix bios but still can´t do it.

    I´m used to working with desktops so i don´t know if i can do the same things i used to do...
    Thanx in advance
     
  2. chinna_n

    chinna_n Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    About the memory timings, you can not do it in bios, but you can use A64Tweaker application. But be careful as it could screw up your timings and also bios changes value to some incompatible, safe mode values. If you see weird errors, go to bios and load setup defaults.

    Bios uses memory timings off the memory SPD timings table. so whatever your memory is telling it, it takes it.

    I tried some, but I did not had good luck with Corsair DDR400 for reducing latency or increasing RAM speed, all it could do is 207 from 200. That's it speed wise, and CAS it could not support 2.5.

    One thing you could do is you can change 2T timing to disable making it 1T, effectively increasing memory speed. This also affects the Video performance as it is shared memory.

    As per OCing video card, new beta version ATITool does it fine, I was able be push it fine upto 380 from 300, but when I run 3DMark it was hanging, but was running fine at 330.

    As per unlocking the Pipelines, I have no idea, and have not heard if it is possible at all.

    But the upgrade you can do for video is buying DDR400 CAS 2.5 RAM( OCZ DDR400 CAS 2.5). That itself increase your Video performance by almost 15%.

    BTW DDR400 Memory made more video performance improvement than overclocking ATI 200M core.
     
  3. Nomadsoul

    Nomadsoul Newbie

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    Thanx for the info really helpfull! Gonna try some of them out,
    Thanx again