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Finally got the 9800, but now have some issues...
Hey, just wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave me info/advice when I
posted about wanting to finally switching from nVida to ATI, as well as the people who responded to my post about buying the 9800 and got a TNT2 m64 inside! Anyway, it looks like maybe the opposite has happened now? I was able to get the ATI Radeon 9800 at Circuit City and they gave it to me for the BB sale price of $239. When I installed it and checked out the advanced settings, it says... Adapter Type: RADEON 9800 PRO Chip Type: RADEON 9800 AGP (0x4E48) DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz) Memory Size: 128 MB Adapter String: RADEON 9800 PRO Bios Information: BK-ATI VER008.004.008.18 Is this a PRO card? Sure looks like it, but I definitely bought the non-pro 9800 (at least according to the box). Also, I've noticed two issues so far...first issue is that I played Halo and there is big performance loss compared to the Geforce 3 that I just switched out. All I did was uninstall my Detonator 51.75 drivers, shut down the pc and put in the 9800 and installed the latest catalyst drivers that I downloaded (3.7, I believe?). I have anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering set to the lowest setting. I didn't really mess with the driver settings after installing them. Anyone know how a Geforce 3 would be outperforming the 9800 in Halo? Are there any guides to what you should set the ATI drivers to? I've been used to the Detonators for like the last 4 yrs or so. Second issue, while I was playing Halo, the system shut down HARD. I had to unplug the motherboard power connector and reconnect it to get it to even come back on. Box says I should have a 300 watt PSU and I do. Here's currently what I have in the system... Antec 300 PSU Epox 8KHA+ MB Athlon XP 1.4 512MB PC2100 ram 2 Maxtor 40 gig ATA133 HDs Sony 32X burner LiteOn 16x DVD drive SB Audigy sound card (have the audigy drive but it is not plugged in) PCI ethernet card Hey, thanks again for all the help/info/advice. You guys are awesome! |
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