Aquamark gave me artifacts at lower clocks than 3dmark. So the OC isn't as radical. Good news is I was able to run tighter timings. 267 FSB seems to be the sweet spot.
2.4c @ 3.2Ghz (267fsb)+ Arkua Heatpipe & AS3
2x256 OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Gold (1:1) 2.5-4-4-7
Sapphire Radeon 9800NP Flashed Pro + Vantec IceberQ4= 434/355
CPU & AGP at stock voltages, RAM at 2.85v
MAM Enabled, Performance at Turbo
Maxtor 6E040L0 40gig UDMA-5 NTFS
Western Digital WD400JB UDMA-5 NTFS
1010.006 Bios
Before I got my Intel machine the inside of mine was VERY clean... but the IDE connectors on the mobo I have are layed down instead of standing straight up :\ Oh well
To really be honest with you... The image quality without AA or AF isn't THAT great... ATi definately beats the FX series in image quality with or without AA or AF on.
I run all my games with 2x AA and 2x AF usually and it makes it smooth, but otherwise it's kinda "jaggy"
It does run fast though! Especially after I flashed it to a 5950 Ultra
To really be honest with you... The image quality without AA or AF isn't THAT great... ATi definately beats the FX series in image quality with or without AA or AF on.
I run all my games with 2x AA and 2x AF usually and it makes it smooth, but otherwise it's kinda "jaggy"
It does run fast though! Especially after I flashed it to a 5950 Ultra
Do you play FFXI at all? I do and for some reason AA and AF doesn't work on ati cards ..... hrm.
Yeah its seriously fast tho ... that GPU score on AM3 totally kills mine. 7k > 6.4k. You can kinda see with our scores how the 2 benchmarks (3dmark01se / AM3) are different. I get a 21k in 3dmark to your 17k, where in AM3 you get a 52k to my 50k. Looks like 3dmark is more cpu dependant? *shrug* cause our 3dmark03 scores are pretty close.
After I flashed my card to the 5950U my 3dMk03 score went DOWN about 100 points... I have no idea why, people on the Guru3d forums were getting increases of over 1000 points after the flash I wonder what happened! Maybe my card didn't like the speeds and clocked down? I'll have to try again, hehe.
I had like 6600ish before the flash though so I don't know what made it go down...
Wow... those are just a HAIR lower than mine, lol. Few more MHz and you'll eat me up :P
I went back to stock speeds and ran this test... Got a 37k with the SS 53.03x drivers and a 38k with the 56.55 beta drivers. I need to get my Albatron 5950UV bios soon so I can get back OC'in.
Fresh install win2k (HT disabled). Same O/C as before. CPU score dropped some (I think aquamark utilizes HT) but the GPU score increased. Overall increased a bit. ALMOST 52K. *waits for VR's and multimeter to come in the mail*
My first time running
Asus a7n8xDL v1.4 bios 1004uber
ATI 9500 bro with hacked bios. At defaults speeds for the bench for now
2500m @ 2400mhz 12x200
1gig pc 3500 at 400 2337 (I think thats right)
2raptors in raid 0
Well with some over clocking on the video card I think I can push it up to 35,000 but I think thats going to be the max I reach. I'll push it later and see what it can do.
Not to shabby
pushed up the overclock on the cpu and over clocked the video card for a 20% increase in score.
Asus a7n8xDL v1.4 bios 1004uber
ATI 9500 bro with hacked bios. 351/315
2500m @ 2500mhz 12.5x200
1gig pc 3500 at 400 2337 (I think thats right)
2raptors in raid 0
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2.4c @ 3.2Ghz (267fsb)+ Arkua Heatpipe & AS3
2x256 OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Gold (1:1) 2.5-4-4-7
Sapphire Radeon 9800NP Flashed Pro + Vantec IceberQ4= 434/355
CPU & AGP at stock voltages, RAM at 2.85v
MAM Enabled, Performance at Turbo
Maxtor 6E040L0 40gig UDMA-5 NTFS
Western Digital WD400JB UDMA-5 NTFS
1010.006 Bios
This means that i have to get back to benching again. 55k next target?
Here is my score, first time I have run this benchmark!
Pic is big so I'll post a link hehe.
http://ap.zero-6.com/Images/Dec27AQUAMK3.jpg
Abit NF7-S v2.0 (bios D10), 2500+@246x11=2706MHz, 2x256MB TwinMOS w/Winbond CH5 (11-2-2-2.0), 9800P@545/390, more here
Before I got my Intel machine the inside of mine was VERY clean... but the IDE connectors on the mobo I have are layed down instead of standing straight up :\ Oh well
I knew you would jump in sooner or later lsevald
I wonder what 2K would give. Aqua MUST have DX9 though. Great clock anyway
This 9800 NP is maxed at these speed. It's just before artifacts starts. This vpu need a vcore mod. 500+ isn't bad for a 9800NP though.
damn 9800pro holding me back, It wont o/c very well.
Thats a nice score 55k... Don't think I can pull that with this poor stock cooling!
I run all my games with 2x AA and 2x AF usually and it makes it smooth, but otherwise it's kinda "jaggy"
It does run fast though! Especially after I flashed it to a 5950 Ultra
Do you play FFXI at all? I do and for some reason AA and AF doesn't work on ati cards ..... hrm.
Yeah its seriously fast tho ... that GPU score on AM3 totally kills mine. 7k > 6.4k. You can kinda see with our scores how the 2 benchmarks (3dmark01se / AM3) are different. I get a 21k in 3dmark to your 17k, where in AM3 you get a 52k to my 50k. Looks like 3dmark is more cpu dependant? *shrug* cause our 3dmark03 scores are pretty close.
After I flashed my card to the 5950U my 3dMk03 score went DOWN about 100 points... I have no idea why, people on the Guru3d forums were getting increases of over 1000 points after the flash I wonder what happened! Maybe my card didn't like the speeds and clocked down? I'll have to try again, hehe.
I had like 6600ish before the flash though so I don't know what made it go down...
btw- I redid the 3dMark03 test and my scores went back up.. lol, dunno what was wrong before!??
yay....
Speeds are in my sig.
That is one FREAKIN fast 9800p/2500+.
Makes me wanna build a watercooling setup ..... and if I had the money, I probably would.
Wow... those are just a HAIR lower than mine, lol. Few more MHz and you'll eat me up :P
I went back to stock speeds and ran this test... Got a 37k with the SS 53.03x drivers and a 38k with the 56.55 beta drivers. I need to get my Albatron 5950UV bios soon so I can get back OC'in.
Asus a7n8xDL v1.4 bios 1004uber
ATI 9500 bro with hacked bios. At defaults speeds for the bench for now
2500m @ 2400mhz 12x200
1gig pc 3500 at 400 2337 (I think thats right)
2raptors in raid 0
Well with some over clocking on the video card I think I can push it up to 35,000 but I think thats going to be the max I reach. I'll push it later and see what it can do.
9800 pro stock
512 apacer 3200
pushed up the overclock on the cpu and over clocked the video card for a 20% increase in score.
Asus a7n8xDL v1.4 bios 1004uber
ATI 9500 bro with hacked bios. 351/315
2500m @ 2500mhz 12.5x200
1gig pc 3500 at 400 2337 (I think thats right)
2raptors in raid 0