Uhhggg, I finally pulled the trigger...and no crap from you Colossus!

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11-02-2003, 05:09 PM
marv

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Originally posted by Un4given
... I know the Pro BIOS is supposed to increase the voltages to help with the higher clock speeds, but right now I'm hesitant to do that because the card doesn't seem to come close to Pro speeds as it is, and I don't know that the voltage increase is going to be enough....

My R8500LELE (230/230)would do only about 255/255 using powerstrip. The BIOS flash I used had a option of flashing to various core/mem settings, so I flashed it to 250/250, them with power strip it would do about 280/280. Flashed to the retail 275/275 and it been setting there for 18 + months now. It will OC to about 300/300.

Good Luck
11-02-2003, 07:37 PM
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?
11-03-2003, 07:59 AM
kpxgq

i went from a 9700pro to a 9800pro and thought the difference was noticable
11-03-2003, 10:26 AM
Mr. K

Also bought a 9800 NP from Circuit City late last week so it should be coming in today. Finally get to ditch my Ti200!
11-03-2003, 10:33 AM
mikeysg

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Originally posted by Mr. K
Also bought a 9800 NP from Circuit City late last week so it should be coming in today. Finally get to ditch my Ti200!

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
11-03-2003, 12:55 PM
Un4given

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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?

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.
11-03-2003, 01:11 PM
hwmicre

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Originally posted by kpxgq
i went from a 9700pro to a 9800pro and thought the difference was noticable

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....
11-03-2003, 01:42 PM
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
11-03-2003, 01:48 PM
Mr. K

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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..
11-03-2003, 02:07 PM
Rolandami

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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

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. :(
11-03-2003, 02:27 PM
hwmicre

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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. :(

In a way, that's too bad....on the other hand, BF HAS to be one of the most frustrating days imaginable....
11-03-2003, 06:25 PM
Colossus

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Originally posted by kpxgq
i went from a 9700pro to a 9800pro and thought the difference was noticable

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 :D

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
11-03-2003, 06:48 PM
Un4given

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Originally posted by Colossus
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! :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.
11-03-2003, 06:56 PM
rhettro

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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.

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.
11-03-2003, 07:08 PM
Colossus

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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.

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? :)

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