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Sapphire 9800 Pro, 128mb
Hey everyone.
I've just took the plunge and ordered the Sapphire 9800 Pro 128mb, I've decided to see what all the fuss is about with these new ATI cards! I'm currently running a GeForce 3 Ti200, whilst it has served me extremely well over the years, it's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. So, first question I want to ask is... did I make the right choice of ATI card, is the 9800 Pro 128mb by Sapphire considered a good card?! And what exactly do I have to do to wipe all the Nvidia stuff from my comp, short of re-formatting or manually going through the registry?! What I mean is, is there a utility out there that will do it all for me... I'm lazy like that! Thanks for all your help and I hope to be amazed by this new card very soon! Danny |
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You made the perfect choice. I don't think the XT version of the card is
worth the bucks right now. There is a utility for getting rid of all of Nvidia's drivers. Its called the Detonator Destroyer. Look for it on the net. JK "Danny" wrote in message . .. Hey everyone. I've just took the plunge and ordered the Sapphire 9800 Pro 128mb, I've decided to see what all the fuss is about with these new ATI cards! I'm currently running a GeForce 3 Ti200, whilst it has served me extremely well over the years, it's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. So, first question I want to ask is... did I make the right choice of ATI card, is the 9800 Pro 128mb by Sapphire considered a good card?! And what exactly do I have to do to wipe all the Nvidia stuff from my comp, short of re-formatting or manually going through the registry?! What I mean is, is there a utility out there that will do it all for me... I'm lazy like that! Thanks for all your help and I hope to be amazed by this new card very soon! Danny |
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I upgraded from a Gf3 Ti 200 to a Redeon 9600 Pro and it was a big difference, though i also upgraded my CPu froma celeron 433 to a Athon xp 2000 Might do another upgrade to a Barton 3200 and a 9800 Pro, but maybe ill wait tillthe 64bit cpus and PCI express cards come out. Either way you made a great choice will do you for YONKS. On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:50:51 GMT, "John Hall" wrote: You made the perfect choice. I don't think the XT version of the card is worth the bucks right now. There is a utility for getting rid of all of Nvidia's drivers. Its called the Detonator Destroyer. Look for it on the net. JK "Danny" wrote in message ... Hey everyone. I've just took the plunge and ordered the Sapphire 9800 Pro 128mb, I've decided to see what all the fuss is about with these new ATI cards! I'm currently running a GeForce 3 Ti200, whilst it has served me extremely well over the years, it's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. So, first question I want to ask is... did I make the right choice of ATI card, is the 9800 Pro 128mb by Sapphire considered a good card?! And what exactly do I have to do to wipe all the Nvidia stuff from my comp, short of re-formatting or manually going through the registry?! What I mean is, is there a utility out there that will do it all for me... I'm lazy like that! Thanks for all your help and I hope to be amazed by this new card very soon! Danny |
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Danny wrote:
Hey everyone. I've just took the plunge and ordered the Sapphire 9800 Pro 128mb, I've decided to see what all the fuss is about with these new ATI cards! I'm currently running a GeForce 3 Ti200, whilst it has served me extremely well over the years, it's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. So, first question I want to ask is... did I make the right choice of ATI card, is the 9800 Pro 128mb by Sapphire considered a good card?! Yeah, I got a Crucial (which I beleive to be a re-badged Sapphire) and it flies. What Chipset/CPU you running? I can do 1600x1200 in Splinter Cell, CoD, NFSU:UG, Vice City and Prince of Persia, so I think it could be considered a good card, but you do need a decent Processor (2GHz ish) and fast RAM to fully appreciate it. And what exactly do I have to do to wipe all the Nvidia stuff from my comp, short of re-formatting or manually going through the registry?! What I mean is, is there a utility out there that will do it all for me... I'm lazy like that! There were a list of cleaners mentioned in a thread recently... Det Destroyer (mentioned as DD) is the one I already knew of, but others might be appropriate depending on your OS. If you uninstall the drivers from the control panel you don't usually have problems. Have fun with your new card. Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"Ben Pope" wrote... Hey everyone. I've just took the plunge and ordered the Sapphire 9800 Pro 128mb, I've decided to see what all the fuss is about with these new ATI cards! I'm currently running a GeForce 3 Ti200, whilst it has served me extremely well over the years, it's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. So, first question I want to ask is... did I make the right choice of ATI card, is the 9800 Pro 128mb by Sapphire considered a good card?! Yeah, I got a Crucial (which I beleive to be a re-badged Sapphire) and it flies. What Chipset/CPU you running? I can do 1600x1200 in Splinter Cell, CoD, NFSU:UG, Vice City and Prince of Persia, so I think it could be considered a good card, but you do need a decent Processor (2GHz ish) and fast RAM to fully appreciate it. Thanks alot everyone for there replies, I'm glad I made the right choice! I'm currently running a XP2500+ Barton on an Asus A7N8X - X mobo, with the nForce 2 400 chipset. And 256mb DDR ram, which is soon to be upgraded to 512mb. So hopefully I'll have the system to back up the 9800! And what exactly do I have to do to wipe all the Nvidia stuff from my comp, short of re-formatting or manually going through the registry?! What I mean is, is there a utility out there that will do it all for me... I'm lazy like that! There were a list of cleaners mentioned in a thread recently... Det Destroyer (mentioned as DD) is the one I already knew of, but others might be appropriate depending on your OS. If you uninstall the drivers from the control panel you don't usually have problems. Have fun with your new card. Thanks, I'll do a search for that and see what it's like, I'll do the reg clean as well like somebody else suggested, I wanna be sure I've got rid of all traces of Nvidia... the last thing I need is instability with this new card. Thanks again for all the replies, it's put my mind at ease a great deal.... now I just wish the thing would hurry up and arrive! Danny |
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Danny wrote:
"Ben Pope" wrote... What Chipset/CPU you running? I'm currently running a XP2500+ Barton on an Asus A7N8X - X mobo, with the nForce 2 400 chipset. And 256mb DDR ram, which is soon to be upgraded to 512mb. So hopefully I'll have the system to back up the 9800! Well I got a 2500+ on an A7N8X Deluxe, so pretty much the same, I guess. You'll be impressed with it. Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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I just got this card as well, and it is a very good deal. I'm very
pleased with the performance. However, I'm experiencing some weirdness in games that I * might* associate with an overheating video card. My Antec case is sufficiently ventilated IMO, so I wonder if I've received a marginal card. Is there a video card equivalent to Prime95 that I can test this card with? 3DMark03 and Aquamark won't loop (at least the free versions, correct me if I'm wrong), and the ATI demos run so flawlessly I wonder if they really stress the card. I really want to give this card a workout! Jack Remove your coat for email. |
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AlphaWoolf wrote:
I just got this card as well, and it is a very good deal. I'm very pleased with the performance. However, I'm experiencing some weirdness in games that I * might* associate with an overheating video card. My Antec case is sufficiently ventilated IMO, so I wonder if I've received a marginal card. Is there a video card equivalent to Prime95 that I can test this card with? 3DMark03 and Aquamark won't loop (at least the free versions, correct me if I'm wrong), and the ATI demos run so flawlessly I wonder if they really stress the card. I really want to give this card a workout! Well tell us the problems... Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:41:38 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote: AlphaWoolf wrote: I just got this card as well, and it is a very good deal. I'm very pleased with the performance. However, I'm experiencing some weirdness in games that I * might* associate with an overheating video card. My Antec case is sufficiently ventilated IMO, so I wonder if I've received a marginal card. Is there a video card equivalent to Prime95 that I can test this card with? 3DMark03 and Aquamark won't loop (at least the free versions, correct me if I'm wrong), and the ATI demos run so flawlessly I wonder if they really stress the card. I really want to give this card a workout! Well tell us the problems... Ben First, my system: Antec case with 430W PS and side fan blowing on the video card Asus A7N8X Deluxe/XP 2200+/1 Gb RAM Radeon 9800 Pro/Cat 4.2 Win98SE (and yes, it is properly configured to use my RAM) I just upgraded to the Radeon from a Geforce3. All the NVidia video drivers appear to be gone (Det Destroyer found nothing after I uninstalled them). The problem is a huge loss in fps after playing games a while, an hour or more. No graphics corruption. The problem is I've really only got two games to test this with (or at least that exhibit the problem), Planetside and the PainKiller demo. Now the Painkiller demo is new to me, and it may just be some teething problems with the demo. But I've been playing Planetside for months, and this slowdown is new to that experience. The slowdown can occur at graphically intense times, but continues even after the action has settled down. Is this a symptom of an overheated card (I was under the impression it was)? The other more subtle problem is off and on flicker problems on the desktop, despite having set an 85MHz refresh. I do have a cheap monitor, though (KDS). I'm going to be busy today, but things I've want to try: 1) Increase the side fan speed. 2) Adjust the AGP aperture. It was 64Mb with the Geforce, then I upped it to 128Mb with the Radeon install. The ATI driver still only reports 64Mb of AGP memory? Thanks for any suggestions! Remove your coat for email. |
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"Danny" wrote in message . .. Hey everyone. I've just took the plunge and ordered the Sapphire 9800 Pro 128mb, I've decided to see what all the fuss is about with these new ATI cards! I'm currently running a GeForce 3 Ti200, whilst it has served me extremely well over the years, it's getting a bit long in the tooth these days. So, first question I want to ask is... did I make the right choice of ATI card, is the 9800 Pro 128mb by Sapphire considered a good card?! And what exactly do I have to do to wipe all the Nvidia stuff from my comp, short of re-formatting or manually going through the registry?! What I mean is, is there a utility out there that will do it all for me... I'm lazy like that! Thanks for all your help and I hope to be amazed by this new card very soon! Danny Danny the easiest way to clean out the old drivers is to use add/remove. Then just do a search for nv*.* delete anything that comes up and you'll be good to go. I just bought that same card two weeks ago and I went from a G4 Ti-4200 and let me tell you, your mind will be blown! Make sure you turn on at lest 4x AA and you can crank up the Anisotropic Filtering to what ever you want. I run mine at 4xAA and 4x tri Aniso. You will not believe your eyes when you see your games running with these setting. It makes all the difference in the world. I was so blown away last night I nearly had a seizer! I've played the hell out of NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (I know, everyone thinks it stinks, but I like it) I loaded for the first time last night with my new card. I'm not kidding when I say that I didn't recognize the level I was playing! I total freaked out! The game looks so much better it doesn't even look the same. With my 4200 all the colors where muted and the textures where blurry (Quincunx AA at work) I played the game for over 2 hours trying all the different courses and they all looks 100% better. So yes! You made the right decision! Have fun! Oh and if you really want to see what your card can do go to ATI's site and do a search for "demo" get "Chimp" and "Pipedreams" for sure but I have them all and they all are fantastic to look at! JLC |
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