you're right man, these things get DAMN hot. I have a stock AMD athlon xp HSF on mine and it gets so warm, almost hot to the touch.
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you're right man, these things get DAMN hot. I have a stock AMD athlon xp HSF on mine and it gets so warm, almost hot to the touch.
Yeah I got this Aeroflow cleaned out and put back together, ready for the XT...it should cool pretty well considering it was meant for CPU's. I would be shooting for 500/400 without volt mods...we'll see.
Oh man....My packages from the egg are in the local distribution point!!!
But aren't scheduled to be delivered for 2 days!!!!! :eek:
I know where I'm heading in the morning... ;)
Wood, watching the fedex tracking page is so suspenseful when you got a present from newegg on the way
Soul, if that thing is copper, those clocks should be no problem man. As long as you have ram sinks and decent airflow over the ram, 400 should be very do-able
my stock 9800np (stock cooler) does 440 core, is that good?
Yeah its a got a nice copper slug through the middle, its a very good CPU cooler for its low price.
The fan turns at 5700rpm and moves some decent air. The main thing about it is, there is no motor (magnet driven), so there is almost no "dead spot" in the middle and it can push air straight down the middle onto the copper slug that is contacting the core.
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Originally posted by Hollywood
Oh man....My packages from the egg are in the local distribution point!!!
But aren't scheduled to be delivered for 2 days!!!!! :eek:
I know where I'm heading in the morning... ;)
Hope you have better luck than me, last time that happened to me they said Express saver was a palletized shipment and they couldn't help me as the pallet would not be available until delivery day. Was dissapointed as by the time scheduled delivery made it around it was 5 days after the package actually made it locally. :rolleyes:
Damn...I don't know if I should get one or not.... more positive comments and results please :D
Yesterday I bought a Gigabyte 9800pro 256MB. Opened up the box and found out that the card has the new layout, like the one shown in the pics.
Gigabyte's site shows the card having the original 9800pro pcb with 16x16 mem, but mine was exactly the same like the Xt, same pcb same 8x32 mem.
Removing the hsf, made me a happier man: R360 core.
Of course there's no way to tell from the box which card it is, but there's a sticker on the back of the card saying it's a rev. 2.0.
I'm curious to see your gigabyte cards results.
Come on RootX...clock the hell out of it :D
Guys Im sorry but O dont have time to read this thread fully atm but can someone sum it up: Are these really 900Xt's and do they clock as high as the 9800Xt's ... lets say 500 w/ water?
Semper Fi has had the best results so far with really good air cooling. Some people have reported flaky core voltages on their cards. They ARE xt cores, but a volt mod might be needed to get the most out of them.
Looks like they might have been underperforming as XT's in a couple of cases, but for the most part they are acting like they are in fact underclocked XT's, soooo.....
Yes.
HA HA kosmic u and i posted responses the same minute...:p:
We don't have enough results yet but i'll have some for you in a day or two.Quote:
Originally posted by Phyrox
Guys Im sorry but O dont have time to read this thread fully atm but can someone sum it up: Are these really 900Xt's and do they clock as high as the 9800Xt's ... lets say 500 w/ water?
i will hopefully have results from 2 cards very soon, one will be arriving thursday
Sounds good Ill patiently wait. Still deciding between FX-51 and 3400+ so I got time :)
Phyrox: wait for socket 939 A64s another couple months...
semper fi, do you think burning your card in did the trick? i'm gonna get another one within a week or so (i hope) and i guess i'll try burning it in, so to speak :D
I got my Sapphire 9800Pro256.....aka 9800XT.
I've got a serious problem...I try to flash my card and it says it's "locked" when I run ( flashrom -i 0 )
It doesn't look too good unless someone knows how to unlock the BIOS in these vid-cards...
I've flashed before as well...but have never encountered a "locked" BIOS in a card....
:(
Someone HELP!!!!
dont u have to do a forced flash?
check back a few pages on this thread u should see the exact commands u have to enter
I forced...my commands look EXACTLY like this...
FLASHROM -f -p 0 ATI.9800XT.256.Hynix25.BIN
or
FLASHROM -f -p 0 ATI980~1.BIN
I get:
File open error
ERROR 0FL01 : press "1" to continue
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?!?!?!
Better yet....what should I EXACTLY type....as I think for some damn reason my syntax is wrong...
Did you get this figured out yet?
I hope mine is at my door tomorrow. I'll run it stock, then flashed, and note any differences.
Then, i'll rig up my custom cooling and give it hell...
http://images10.newegg.com/productim...121-505-03.JPG
ASUS 9800 Pro 256MB - $333.99
http://images10.newegg.com/productim...121-500-04.JPG
ASUS 9800 XT 256MB - $464.99
And the stock ATi 9800XT:
http://images10.newegg.com/productim...102-317-04.JPG
....and Sapphire, $309....
yes, the ASUS is more expensive due to the fancy HSF, and it has VIVO as well...