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Originally Posted by SyPh0n
The magazine in which I read the article about this card reckoned the one they softmodded worked out of the box with the mod, and was faster than the Sapphire R9800 Pro they benchmarked as their fastest card. That's some going. Of course, the 9800XT came along...
Remember though - keep it cool! If it was meant to be a R9800 Pro, it would have been boxed has one. It's been locked for a good reason I suppose.
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it should be exactly the same really, the SE has (or should, some are lower) the same clock speeds as the pro, only difference is the 4 disabled pipes and maybe the 128bit mem interface.
unlocking the 4 pipes successfully would yield a straight R9800pro.
as for why they are disabled, ATI (and indeed every other electronics make) would test the gpu core and for what-ever reason it fails a certain test and needs 4 pipes disabled. Now, depending on how bad the fault is, you personally may not be able to reproduce the fault during normal usage, all falls on luck really.