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Catalyst 4.8!!!

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Name: j3r3my_07
Date: August 18, 2004 at 18:37:27 Pacific
OS: XP PRO SP1
CPU/Ram: A64 3000+/1GB PC3500
Comment:

has anyone installed this driver yet??? how's the performance boost?? is there any?? 4.7 wont run 3DMark 03 on my system...:(...

~evans~



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Response Number 1
Name: j3r3my_07
Date: August 18, 2004 at 19:52:52 Pacific
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well...I just benchmarked w/ 3Dmark03..

Cat 4.7 - 95XX
Cat 4.8 - 99XX

There we have it...the 4.8 DOES improve performance for the x800 series!!!...my vid card is not oc'ed...it's used its default setting (475/900)...I believe the score would reach more than 10K w/ a lil oc'ing..^_^

~evans~

MSI K8T-Neo FIS2R
A64 3000+ @2.2GHz
1GB SimpleTech PC3500 Nitro
ATi X800 Pro
RaidMax Case w/320W 'crappy' PSU


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Response Number 2
Name: j3r3my_07
Date: August 18, 2004 at 19:54:35 Pacific
Reply:

*correction...

not 4.7 (since it wouldnt run for some odd reasons..), it was 4.6 :)

~evans~


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Response Number 3
Name: Chunko
Date: August 18, 2004 at 20:19:43 Pacific
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Last night I ran 3DMark 03 on my 4.7 and got 5450.
Today I installed the 4.8 and got a score of 5489.
It seems every time I run the test I always get a different score,even with the same drivers.Is that normal?
Does 5489 sound right to you guys?(First time running 3DMark 03 ).
Via P4Pb400@533
P4@2.4
768/PC2700 DDR
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Antec 430 Watt True Power
XP Pro/SP1


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Response Number 4
Name: furball6390
Date: August 18, 2004 at 20:32:05 Pacific
Reply:

yea thats right, i have 4.7 and i got 5,557...i havent installed 4.8 yet !

Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0
ATI 9800 Pro
AMD Barton 2500+
1024 PC3200 Ram
120gig Maxtor HD
Audigy 2
420 watt psu


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Response Number 5
Name: furball6390
Date: August 18, 2004 at 21:00:28 Pacific
Reply:

okay i just installed and here are the results:

4.7 - 5,557

4.8 - 5,600

Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0
ATI 9800 Pro
AMD Barton 2500+
1024 PC3200 Ram
120gig Maxtor HD
Audigy 2
420 watt psu


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Response Number 6
Name: immigrant
Date: August 18, 2004 at 23:55:43 Pacific
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unless you guyz have a x800, you are not gonna see a big difference in the benchmar... any benchmark... when i chnaged i went from ~30000 to ~31000 in the aquamark3 test
however it fixed doom3 really well! It doesn't crash at all anymore... i had that problem.
P4 2800GHz 800fsb
512Mb 400Hz in dual channel
9600XT 128mb


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Response Number 7
Name: j3r3my_07
Date: August 19, 2004 at 08:34:10 Pacific
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WOW!!...CHECK THIS OUT GUYZ...

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?p=423812#post423812


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Response Number 8
Name: furball6390
Date: August 19, 2004 at 09:05:42 Pacific
Reply:

wow thats crazy

Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0
ATI 9800 Pro
AMD Barton 2500+
1024 PC3200 Ram
120gig Maxtor HD
Audigy 2
420 watt psu


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Response Number 9
Name: Chunko
Date: August 19, 2004 at 20:25:09 Pacific
Reply:

Nice...
So what exactly do the game developers do to make specific gaming cards run better than others for certain games?i.e,UT04 with Nvidia and Half-life2 with ATI.


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Response Number 10
Name: XxxFrancisxxxUSA
Date: August 20, 2004 at 06:18:42 Pacific
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Amazing. Thanks for that. I will certainly be buying the ATI card. Unless of course, NVidia releases some tweaked drivers. I dunno. I think it is more likely that the games manufacturers will need to release patches to make their games more compatible with the NVidia cards.


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