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Want to o/c an ATI radeon 9800 pro
Name: Frosty Date: February 13, 2004 at 19:13:34 Pacific OS: Windows xp professional w CPU/Ram: 2.4c/512 ddr
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I read somewhere that a 9800 pro was overclocked to match the speed of an xt but it didnt mention any special cooling. Could this be done with the stock heat sink and fan?
Name: Sabertooth Date: February 13, 2004 at 22:44:13 Pacific
Reply:
Flash your 9800/9800 Pro into a fully functional Radeon 9800XT.
--- The greatest risk is not taking one. ---
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Response Number 2
Name: TXH Date: February 14, 2004 at 07:57:19 Pacific
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Be careful when flash. There are different BIOS available for cards from different builders with different memory chips. Do a google search for the BIOS suitable for your card. Alway back up your old BIOS just in case. When overclocked, a 9800pro is not that much behind a 9800XT in performance. ATI Tool is an excellent tweaking software to do that.
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Response Number 3
Name: Frosty Date: February 14, 2004 at 08:45:03 Pacific
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I don't really want to flash my bios I would like to tweak it like TXH said but can the cooling on the 9800 pro handle it?
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Response Number 4
Name: Frosty Date: February 14, 2004 at 08:46:30 Pacific
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Or are you saying I have to do both :S
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Response Number 5
Name: TXH Date: February 15, 2004 at 06:25:27 Pacific
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The stock cooling on 9800pro probably cannot handle heavy OC. Get a Arctic Cooling VGA silencer here: http://www.xoxide.com/vgacoolers.html You also need to put some ramsinks on the memory chips. I like the silencer better because the hot air exits outside your case through a PCI slot.
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Response Number 6
Name: Frosty Date: February 15, 2004 at 11:38:04 Pacific
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WOW I never knew such a thing existed! Thanks for telling me about this TXH. I'll have to consider buying one of those :P.
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Response Number 7
Name: deity_me Date: February 15, 2004 at 19:27:57 Pacific
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crazy m*f*s risking a $300 card for not much increase in performance
just my 2 cents cant afford much more i spent all my money on a radeon
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Response Number 8
Name: Frosty Date: February 15, 2004 at 21:56:46 Pacific
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:P I need to get the best performance possible! Plus I'm already having slowdown in games. I thought it would be atleast 6 months until that happened :S.
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