Oh hell yes. 3DMark is just more of a make sure the old drivers got removed, and o/c stability test. I cranked up the AF to 16x and AA to 2x and played some BF1942, DC, SOFII, CS, and some time this week I'm going to load Unreal II up again.Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
Have you played any real games yet instead of benchmarking? Did you up the quality from your standard GF4 settings? Such as a higher res or enabled AA/AF, etc?
How do you like the Radeon over the nVidia?
Did you really?? I'm considering checking the madness at BestBuy on Black Friday to see what kind of 9800(Pro) deal I can get....Quote:
Originally posted by kpxgq
i went from a 9700pro to a 9800pro and thought the difference was noticable
What is Black Friday? I was at Best Buy last week and they were selling the 9800 Pro for $350. That was after a $50 instant rebate. I'm going back today to see if they have anything I can't live without. :D
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Originally posted by mikeysg
BBA? PBA? What's the brand? I would like to know as I wanna know what brand OCs best. ;) When you've tried an ATI 9500Pro and above card, you won't even miss your Ti200.;) Have fun with the card!:D
The brand is ATI. Circuit City only sells ATI for this type of card..
The Friday after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, and Best Buy is famous for the Video card sells on that day. I live in a hick town without a Best Buy. :(Quote:
Originally posted by Mike00
What is Black Friday? I was at Best Buy last week and they were selling the 9800 Pro for $350. That was after a $50 instant rebate. I'm going back today to see if they have anything I can't live without. :D
In a way, that's too bad....on the other hand, BF HAS to be one of the most frustrating days imaginable....Quote:
Originally posted by Rolandami
The Friday after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, and Best Buy is famous for the Video card sells on that day. I live in a hick town without a Best Buy. :(
I went from a 9700Pro to a 9800Pro as well.. There was a difference :D My system would run with the 9800Pro and not the 9700Pro :DQuote:
Originally posted by kpxgq
i went from a 9700pro to a 9800pro and thought the difference was noticable
Back in the day of the first release of the Canterwood boards, my 9700Pro wouldnt work.. So I bought a 9800Pro :D
Un4given:
I am glad you are happy.. So now that your oven has a 9800NP ;), whats next? :D
Another job part time to pay for these toys! :DQuote:
Originally posted by Colossus
Un4given:
I am glad you are happy.. So now that your oven has a 9800NP ;), whats next? :D
No, the thing is that my SBLive! went south on me last week, so I had to replace my SC on top of the VC that I bought. If it wasn't for the fact that the 9800np were disappearing fast, the SE isn't even close in performance, and the 9800 Pro hasn't started any massive downward pricing trends, I still would have held off the purchase. Hell, even the Circuit City where I bought my card was out of stock not more than 3 hours after I reserved mine for in store pickup.
Same as me. The bad news is that the Samsung 3.3ns RAM will overclock higher than the Infineon 3ns. Currently, I'm running the RAM at 317 and the Core at 392. This is my 24/7 setup, the core will go higher, I'm just not sure I want to run it that high.Quote:
Originally posted by Un4given
Okay, 3DMark 01 at VC default 16,427.
Got some good news and bad news.
Bad news: RAM=Infineon
Good nes: RAM=3.0ns
More to come tomorrow. I don't have time to o/c tonight.
Trunks, I will get to you on that, thanks.
Well that is how the market goes :) Intel were suppose to drop the 2.4c at the end of OCT. (I dont know if they did or didnt)... But the market is always changing, maybe if you didnt get that model now and held off until 2004.. You might of bought a different model...Quote:
Originally posted by Un4given
Another job part time to pay for these toys! :D
No, the thing is that my SBLive! went south on me last week, so I had to replace my SC on top of the VC that I bought. If it wasn't for the fact that the 9800np were disappearing fast, the SE isn't even close in performance, and the 9800 Pro hasn't started any massive downward pricing trends, I still would have held off the purchase. Hell, even the Circuit City where I bought my card was out of stock not more than 3 hours after I reserved mine for in store pickup.
So what sound card did you get a nice new A2? :)
True, by x-mas time the 9800 Pro may be down to what I paid for this one, but I just could justify that chance, so I did it.Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
Well that is how the market goes :) Intel were suppose to drop the 2.4c at the end of OCT. (I dont know if they did or didnt)... But the market is always changing, maybe if you didnt get that model now and held off until 2004.. You might of bought a different model...
So what sound card did you get a nice new A2? :)
No, I'm actually not that impressed with the Creative cards any more. Their drivers are buggy, and I always had hissing problems with them. I got a Hercules Fortissimo III. Sounds great and the hissing I had with the CL card is gone too.
Well that is cool :)Quote:
Originally posted by Un4given
True, by x-mas time the 9800 Pro may be down to what I paid for this one, but I just could justify that chance, so I did it.
No, I'm actually not that impressed with the Creative cards any more. Their drivers are buggy, and I always had hissing problems with them. I got a Hercules Fortissimo III. Sounds great and the hissing I had with the CL card is gone too.
I have to admit I am nothing but a Creative Labs nut.. I never owned a different sound card (other then onboard) other then a SB...
I never had a hissing problem nor a buggy driver problem with it.
I have heard a lot of good things about the Fortissimo III so its all good :)
You know with an upgraded sound card and video card.. A new monitor and speakers are nice too :D
Damn it UN4, now I want one..... :mad: :cool:
My monitor isn't that old (few months) and while I would like some nice speakers, I don't ever use the ones I have now (cheapos) because I always end up having to use the headset.Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
Well that is cool :)
I have to admit I am nothing but a Creative Labs nut.. I never owned a different sound card (other then onboard) other then a SB...
I never had a hissing problem nor a buggy driver problem with it.
I have heard a lot of good things about the Fortissimo III so its all good :)
You know with an upgraded sound card and video card.. A new monitor and speakers are nice too :D
I'm a Creative Lab nut myself, I did dabble with the Philips Seismic Edge card for awhile but decided that it wasn't up to my expectations - couldn't enable EAX in alot of games (the box did look good though:o ) See sig, I've upgrade my sound card to the new Audigy2 ZS and Logitech Z-640 - also got a Logitech multi-media KB and MX310 mouse.;) The A2 ZS is excellent! The Z-640 was the best investment I've made so far - it's cheap and sound so damn good! :D CL all the way for me as of now.:)